The Christmas Booty: A Partial List

I just started using my Christmas iTunes giftcard. I love music but find myself really reluctant to use any of the credits just waiting to be spent. It's free money, I don't know what the problem is. But I just grabbed my first album, a little known 2002 release by The Squire of Somerton. You don't know him, and that's a shame.

Here are some of the season's other highlights.

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Venture Bros: Season One

Animated adventures of failed super-scientist Doc. Venture, his bodyguard/Swedish murder machine Brock Samson and Doc's charming boys. Also include the mundane details of arch-villainy and costumed aggression. From my sweet wife who likes the show as well.

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Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds for Baby" An ambient electronic soundtrack for child development, recorded in 1964. Raymond Scott created much of the music that ended up in Warner Bros cartoons of the 40's and 50's like "Powerhouse" and "Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals." Just the guy you want influencing your child's young mind.

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Interior Desecration's: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s and The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks. Mean things said about food and decor from the decades before punk rock and after the WW2.

A 1950's pamphlet on "Meat, The Main Course." An irony-free version of the Jame Lileks book. Needs to be scanned and shared online.

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A damn sharp knife for the kitchen. An even more dangerous Cuisinart mandolin.

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There's more, for later...