A Christmas List

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree.  If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

 

Books:

Nick Hornby, Funny Girl (Fiction)

Greil Marcus, Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns 1986-2014 (Music)

Brian Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and teh Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (History)

William Wellman, Jr., Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel (Movies/Biography)

Eric Weisbard, Top Forty Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Music)

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Larry Ceplair & Christopher Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (Movies/Biography)

Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)

Peter Guralnik, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll (Music/Biography)

John Cleese, So, Anyway… (Humor/Biography)

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Dennis McNally, On Highway 61 (Music)

Benjamin Cawthra, Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Music/Photography)

Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (Music)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History) 

DVDs:

Crumb

The Americanization of Emily

In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

The Monkees, Season 1 or 2