all i want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air, and also some of these things.

My birthday's Nov. 6. Now, you don't have to get me something. But if you do, here's a long list of items I've been eyeing.

$0 to $10
The Body Artist, Don DeLillo, $4.98
Tropisms, Nathalie Sarraute, $5.95
The Age of Grief, Jane Smiley, $6.99
Elbow Room James McPherson, $7.99
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender, $9.56
Compendium Maleficarum : The Montague Summers Edition, $9.56
Lancome blush, color: pink pool, $9.79
Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson, $10.36
Anagrams, Lorrie Moore, $10.36
Love, Stendhal, $10.40
Adultery, Louise DeSalvo, $10.40
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, $10.40
Couples, John Updike, $10.47
A Heart So White, Javier Marias, $10.47
Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet, $10.80
Two Novels, Robbe Grillet, $10.80

$11 to $15
Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories, $11.16
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace, $11.16
Tomorrow on the Battle Think On Me, Javier Marias, $11.17
The Romantic Movement, Alain De Botton, $11.20
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, $11.20
The Stories of John Cheever, $11.87
The World Won't End, Pernice Brothers, $11.99
Yoko, Beulah, $11.99
Unholy Ghosts: Writers on Depression, $12.55
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, $12.60
Intimacy and Midnight All Day, Hanif Kureishi, $13
Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors, $13.30
Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Belle & Sebastian, $13.49
eye glimmer, $13.95
Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec, $13.97
Haha Sound, Broadcast, $13.99
Work of Director Chris Cunningham, $13.99
Work of Director Michel Gondry, $13.99
Under the Influence, Morrissey, $14.99
lip gloss, $15
Urban Decay eye shadow, color: mildew, $15

$16 to $20
Stila eye shadow, color: mambo, $16
Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes, $16.95
How to Be Alone: Essays, Jonathan Franzen, $16.80
Amazing face Reading, $17.95
Stardust Memories, Woody Allen, $17.98
Emily tee, size: small, $18
lipsticks, color: deep shade, $18
Secretary, $18.74
The Power of Face Reading, $18.95
Looking Awry: Jaques Lacan through Popular Culture, Slavoj Zizek, $19.95
Face Language 2000 E-Z 10 Second Personality Speed Reading System, $19.95
Chicken Run poster, $19.99

$21 to $30
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction, $21.95
Stila lip glaze, color: cinnamon, $24
8 Altoids Tangerine Sours, $24.40
Basics of Design: Layout and Typography, $25.17
The Drag King Book, $24.50
Namco TV Classic Games with stick, $24.99
The Royal Tenenbaums, $25.49
The Art of Makeup, $28
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self, Marina Warner, $29.95
Sex and the City: Season One, $29.99

$31 to $50
The Family Guy: Seasons 1, 2, $34.99
8 1/2, $35.99
Chanel eye shadow, $42.50 (also here for $40)
quilted sash, $45
Lip glosses, $45
Michael Stars tee, color: Loden, $48
fresh lobster at a tacky rest'rant, you choose price

$51 to $100
snow gloves, color: camel, $52
choker necklace, $58

$100 to $150
leather book bag, $110
menswear shirt, size: small, $123
The Body: An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism, $125
Seven jeans, size: 24/0, $128
Chica hoodie, size: small, color: black/white, $142

attn: wealthy fans
corduroy jacket, size: petite (that's smaller than "small," right?), $220
sneaker boot, size: 6, $315
cashmere tweed pants, size: xsmall, $460

also
pretty ties
a couch
all books, Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time (what's the best [and does that mean newest?] translation?)
cigarette holder and cigarette case
a gothic lolita dress
TIVO, ReplayTV, etc.

My Amazon wishlist, which ships to my current address, can be found under my full name, Nathalie Chicha. Friends and family: if you need my new address, email me at Nathalie_Chicha at hotmail dot com.

Posted by nchicha at October 14, 2003 06:16 AM