The Obligatory "What I Got for My Birthday" Post

[queerbychoice]

Books:

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie (author recommended by eve_l_incarnata)
The Wild Silence by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (I previously read her book Working Parts)
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (recommended by somebody or other around here, I forget who)
Americana by Don DeLillo (recommended by inkstained, plus I've read other books by him before)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (recommended by allyscully and others, plus I've read and adore all his other books)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (I previously read her book Memoirs of a Survivor)
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (recommended by transientdyke and others)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (recommended by chisparoja and about half the population of my friends list, plus I previously read his book News of a Kidnapping)
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (recommended by allyscully)
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer (I previously read his play Equus)

CDs:

The House of Tomorrow by the Magnetic Fields (band recommended by deadinmotion)
Get Ready by New Order (album recommended by deadinmotion, plus I already owned most of their previous ones)
Black Market Music by Placebo (easily one of my favorite bands, so it's shocking I didn't get around to buying this sooner than I did.)

Comments

[transientdyke.livejournal.com]

Excellent presents.

Megan listens to the Magnetic Fields and they have a song called "Abigail, Belle of Kilronan" and it always makes me laugh. I've never heard my name in a song before.

[dancing-mage.livejournal.com]

*gasp* *shock* *horror*

You like Placebo?! And the Magnetic Fields?!?! You automatically have amazing taste in music. Have you heard Sleeping with Ghosts yet? I want to know what you thought. My friend Steve (http://www.livejournal.com/~stevieboy) and I have conversations about which is their best album all the time, and I'm curious as to your opinion. Also, you should check out 69 Love Songs (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JY1X/qid=1058805103/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-3195496-2021609?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) by the Magnetic Fields. It's some of the most beautifully understated love music I've ever heard.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! :-D

Oh, Amadeus is better than Equus. I hope you enjoy.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't heard Sleeping with Ghosts and, actually, I've never heard anything whatsoever by the Magnetic Fields at all yet, since I haven't yet listened to the CD and I just asked for it on deadinmotion's recommendation without having heard anything by them first. (He likes both Placebo and the Magnetic Fields, though.)

It will be quite difficult to top Equus in my mind because I loved it so much. I look forward to this.

[deadinmotion.livejournal.com]

my vote is with 69 love songs -- it's my favourite album ever.

[theobscure.livejournal.com]

Amadeus!

And happy (really-late-but-not-half-as-late-as-I-was-last-year) birthday! ::goes back into hiding::