Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Birthday-ing

There isn't a name but there should be for crossing that line where you don't automatically know how old you are but instead have to do a bit of arithmetic to figure it out. The cool part of birthdays is splurging on stuff. Here's what I grabbed this year:



DVDs: The Cole Porter Collection, Elvis '68 Comeback Special Deluxe Edition and I found incredible deals on The Larry Cohen Collection and Miike's Dead or Alive Trilogy.



Comix: Justin Green's Musical Legends, Gaiman et al's The Sandman: Endless Nights, Morrison's Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage and the second volume of Tezuka's Buddha biography.



Books: MacCabe's Godard, Robert Whiting's Tokyo Underworld and Stefan Fatsis' Word Freak.



Plus last weekend I made a trip to a local store that carries nothing but remainders and found some cool stuff including Hugh Thomson's The White Rock (about archaeologists discovering Incan ruins), Basbanes' Patience & Fortitude, Jon Latimer's Deception in War, Peter Conrad's Orson Welles and Stephen Tanner's Afghanistan: A Military History. Those and a couple of cookbooks were something like $20 which is why I love that place but only go by every few months.