Kates Journal

My friend ordered me to create a page of ‘things I want’ no matter how expensive, how stupid, or how insane they are. So, here goes:

Work
- Handbook of ED Medicine

Books
This is nowhere near a complete list. There are so many books I want, most of which I can’t even remember they’ve been on the list so long.
- Duplicate, by Alex Feinman
- Ben Elton’s: Past Mortem
- Carl Hiaasen’s: Skinny Dip, (and any of the others I’ve not got).
- Any Sara Paretsky V.I Warshawski novels I’ve not got.
- Tish and Pish: How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry – A Delicious Collection of Sumptuous Gorgeosities
- Paperweight
- Harry potter – second hand hardbacks – all apart from Half blood prince, that’s right, I own only one of them :(
- Alec Issigonis, the man who made the mini
- MZ, by Mick Walker
- The Big Blind / Perfect Play (Same book, two different titles).
- A Certain Chemistry
- Derelict London – Paul Talling.
- Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Mother Tongue – The English Language, Bill Bryson African Diary, A Walk In The Woods
- The Road to McCarthy
- Round Ireland With a Fridge, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis.
- Field Guide to the Apocalypse : Movie Survival Skills for the End of the World
- Infiltration magazine back isses
- Arthur Golden: Memoires of a Geisha
- Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
- Brain Rules – 12 Principles…
- Road Waffles – Volume 1
Okay… enough books…. (Out of Print – Gah!)
- No Girls Allowed: Tales of Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure.
- The Apex Book of World Sci-Fi

Audio
CD’s I’ve borrowed that I want… vinyl’s always good too. God I love vinyl.

- Texas Campfire Tapes, and other Michelle Shocked albums (I’ve got the original Texas Campfire Tapes and Short Sharp Shocked on Vinyl; Short Sharp Shocked is okay, but the original version of the Texas Campfire Tapes LP is apparently ‘not to her liking’).
- Franz Ferdinand
- Indigo Girls
- Garbage, the most recent album
- Lemon Jelly
- The Flaming Lips
- Fisherspooner
- Early Bowie, on vinyl :)
- Daft Punk
- Cibo Matto
- The Arrogant Worms
- The 2 Many DJ’s pirate disks
- The Zutons
- Tracy Chapman
- Within Temptation
- Royksopp
- Pink
- Alex Parks
- Mogwai
- Ladytron – 604
- Melissa Etheridge
- KT Tunstall
- Kraftwerk
- Julian Cope
- Chilled out Jazz, ideally on vinyl
- Any Jazz on 78 Gramophone records, it’s just impossible to get in the UK…
- Ella Fitzgerald
- The Bravery
- Electrocute – Troublesome Bubblegum
- Space and the Woods (by Late of the Pier) (the 7″ vinyl)
- Remi Nicole’s album.
- Axe Girl’s album – but not as an iTunes download, that’s a pain for me, ‘cos I’m working on ditching windows on the lounge machine and there’s no iTunes for Linux
- Soho Dolls

Uh. And more :)

DVDs:
- L Word Season II, L Word Season III, Season IV
- Hustle Seasons I and II
- Life on Mars Series I and II.
- Father Ted (all three seasons)
- Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 remake, all of it)
- Long Way Round
- The Invader Zim DVDs
- Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place on DVD
- Green Wing on DVD
- Kids in the Hall, both the film and any of the TV Seriessss
- If anyone can get the Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos, on DVD, I will love you forever
- Eddie Izzard (all of ‘em)
- Christine, on DVD, just because
- Similarly: Braindead (UK release), Bad Taste
- The Van; why is it not available with the original english language soundtrack?! Geeze you sods… When the English language version comes out…
- Films other than Katakuri-ke no kôfuku by Takashi Miike
- V for Vendetta
- Dark Horse (2005 – aka – Voksne mennesker)
- Children of Men

Electrical (and oooh, so expensive)
- Canon EOS-5D. Okay, there are better, newer Canons, but this’d do me. Mmm, Digital SLR. Hell, any fairly good digital SLR. Not that I don’t love my Canon AE-1; I do. I love film. Dearly. But that’s just it, it’s dear.
- No particular one, but a nice shiny AV amp with surround sound. I love film, and I love film that sounds right. I’ve finally got a decent telly, now for decent sound :)
- Hoover Constellation, just for a laugh.

Automotive
- Morris Minor Locking doorhandle for passenger side for a 4 door / pick up.
- Air con unit from Vintage Air, for a morris minor.
- Moskvitch 401.
- Tatra T-603.
- 1964 Trabant 601 Universal / Kombi (the Estate).
- Vincent HRD Black Shadow.
- Landrover Series II / IIa.
- Some sort of full height toolchest.

Unobtainium
- Douglas DC-3.
- Flying Lessons to get a Pilot’s Licence.
- Rally Driving lessons.
- The ship from from Firefly.
- House in Canada, permanent residence visa, job at an ED department in any one of Canada’s major hospitals.
- Huge workshop.