• lithographs (all from an antique shop in Croton-on-Hudson, a town near Sleepy Hollow)
    • Audobon Mink from 1844 (my favorite)
    • Audobon Sharp-Tailed Grous from 1837
    • Common Eel
    • a bunch of monkeys and a very out-of-place bat
    • Screech owl
  • so many goddamn books
    • From Book Thing, my picks:
      • The Elements of Style by Strunk& White HARDCOVER FIRST PRINTING for my collection
      • Horses by Kate Reddick - for the pictures
      • The Possessed by Albert Camus, even though I already have it apparently, but this one has a cool cover
      • Against Sadomasochism - intended as a gag gift for Sharon, but when I told her about it she happened to have been looking for it for the past year after she found our library wanting
      • Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women by the Kinsey Institute
      • Our Right To Love: A Lesbian Resource Book (also for the pictures, which are hilarious and dated)
    • From Book Thing, Mattie's picks:
      • The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
      • The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
      • The New Men by C.P. Snow
      • Arise, Arise by Louis Zukovski
      • Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, the Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
      • The Fall by Camus
      • The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
      • Strangers and Brothers by C.P. Snow
      • A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
      • Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Collection of Critical Essays
      • Daniel Martin by John Fowles
      • Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
      • Homecoming by C.P. Snow
      • The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
      • Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays
    • From Croton-on Hudson:
      • A Maggot by John Fowles
    • From Sound Garden in Baltimore:
      • Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (his first novel)
    • From Lewisburg, my picks:
      • Adventures of the Dialectic, by Merleau-Ponty
      • Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes
      • Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
      • The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters by Slavoj Zizek
      • A Wittgenstein Workbook by 4 different guys
      • On the Way to Language by Heidegger
      • The Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault
      • Hegel on Art by Jack Kaminsky
      • Ecrits, A Selection by Lacan
      • The Road Since Structure by Thomas Kuhn
  • I would post Mattie's picks but he already did that on his listography so I'm off the hook
  • excess of vinyls:
    • From Sound Garden in Baltimore:
      • Toro y Moi - Causers of This
      • Broken Social Scene - s/t
      • Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
      • Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
      • Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East 1970
      • The National - Alligator
      • Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
      • Radiohead - Kid A
      • Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
      • Beach House - Teen Dream
      • Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
      • Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
      • Big Star 7in
      • Bibio 7in
  • some little trinkets from an arcade
  • moments of happiness
  • a lot of photographs
  • the most delicious peanut butter in the world from an Amish market in Lewisburg
  • a genuine navy made sailor sweater from an antique market in Lewisburg
  • other antique goodies like a shot glass with a dog on it
  • a beach shot glass with day glo sea turtles on it
  • many new pokemon
apr 4 2010 ∞
apr 7 2010 +