Dear Santa

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:

Simon Reynolds, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy (Music)

Philip Lopate, American Film Critics: From Silents Until Now (Film)

David Bordwell, The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (Film)

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

Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: the 400 Year Untold History of Class in America (History) 

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and hte Racial Imagination

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

Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)

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

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

I can also always use SD memory cards for my camera, any brand or amount of memory but preferably class 10.