Friday, December 30, 2005

Gifts I received over break (in no order whatsoever):

1. Bookends
2. Books: Dahlberg's Leafless American*, Alan Dugan's Selected*, Simic's Aunt Lettuce* and Noiseless Entourage, Rohrer's Satellite, Noah Eli Gordon and Sara Veglahn's That We Come To A Consensus, Michael Earl Craig's Can You Relax in My House, Aaron Kiely's Best of My Love, Martel's Life of Pi, and p. inman's at.least*
3: Music: Superchunk's No Pocky for Kitty, Matt Pond PA' s Several Arrows Later*, Superdrag's Regretfully Yours*, The Plus Ones*, and Maritime's Glass Floor.
4. Another subscription to Ugly Duckling
5. Investment $ for Octopus #8 (print)
6. Tuxedo t-shirt
7. Buddy Holly Costume glasses and a fake bendable party mustache*
8. A repaired exhaust pipe on my falling apart vehicle
9. A Nebraska hooded sweatshirt and cornhusker victory over Michigan
10. Candy cigarettes
11. A bottle of good wine
12. 2 power ties, a sweater, 2 dress shirts, shoes* and socks*
13. A lovely trip to San Fran and all the kicks derived from that*
14. Bookends

*Gifts I bought for myself over the break.

5 comments:

CLAY BANES said...

Dude, I got an air hockey table.

The Pines said...

z

what would be your recommendation(s) for the best bookstores in san francisco for poetry? we'll be heading there in six days, in the wake of your triumphant visit there. picking up the pieces.

b

Zachary Schomburg said...

B,

The two musts are City Lights and Green Apple. Green Apple is north of Russian Hill at 506 Clement Street and has a superior used Poetry section (top floor at the back). It had it all there. Really. Except for The Pines, which was glaringly absent, though, who would sell that back?
For music, go to Amoeba near Haight/Ashbery--unbeatable for used cds. They have Everything.
Have too much fun. What are some of your other plans?

CLAY BANES said...

And if you really want to splash out completely looking at books, you have to also cross the bridge and go into Berkeley.

Pegasus Books Downtown on Shattuck, Moe's Books on Telegraph, and SPD.

The Pines said...

Z + C

City Lights and Green Apple it is. And, on to Berkeley if we have time, which I hope we do... We've already mapped out our "vacation" to Amoeba, and I've sold both of my wooden legs to be able to afford everything that I'm going to buy. Zach - any books that you regret not buying, that you want me to pick up for you?