I got:

- 2 underwear (from my Grandmother)

- A perfume (from my Father)

- A check (from my Mother)

- 2 DVDs: CINEMA PARADISO & PULP FICTION (from my gorgeous Wife) - YES!!!

Chicken Run and The Patriot DVD

CDs:
Cliffhanger score
The Lost Child
Tin Cup promo
Total Recall: Deluxe Edition
Dungeons & Dragons
Thirteen Days

Remember the Titans promo
and The Tigger Movie promo are both on there way.

Then there were a bunch of clothes and a electric shaver too.

Oh, and I forgot a important one:

VATEL by Morricone (like a romantic comedy. gorgeous and fun. puts scores like Shakespeare in Love to shame. veeeery good)

FIRST BLOOD, TOTAL RECALL (Expanded), LAST RUN/WILD ROVERS (ordered from Moviemusic.com. of course, all are great)

LILIES OF THE FIELD (the foreign Tsunami release with 3 more tracks than the Pendulum one)

& OCTOBER SKY by Isham

Continue having a Merry Christmas everyone!

• got LIVE if you want it! (The Rolling Stones)
  
• What Lies Beneath (Alan Silvestri)

Other stuff:

• An M.C.Escher puzzle (the guy who did all those strange pictures, e.g. the one with the water running upwards)
  
• Terry Pratchett: The Fifth Elephant (Book)
  
• A great deluxe edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - I've read LOTR 8 times, but I didn't have an English version (I read it once, and intend to do so again )

Plus even a bit of money, although I had expected to pay a part of the Tolkien books on my own, they're not too cheap.

I received great soundtracks and ONE no-no soundtrack.

The good stuff was To Kill a Mockingbird, Cutthroat Island, The Lion Roars, The
Blue Max, Conan The Barbarian (wore my old LP and tape out), The Mighty,
Waterworld, Last of the Mohicans, Vertigo, Les Miserables, and Untouchables.

Speaking of “untouchables,” brother dear thought he should send a soundtrack to
my hubby to get him interested in soundtracks. Good Luck. However, the
“Art” work did intrigue him. BLECK! It’s called Russ Meyer’s Mega, Ultra
and Super Vixens. Track titles are unprintable. Art work would probably fetch
a high price to some scab-laden ultra perverted cretin. (None of my “sons” need
apply. )

Mark H. filled me in on the phone on the artistic sensibilities of Russ Meyers.
O brother, thou art in trouble.
(Now don’t all of you e mail me at once hoping I have a scanner...I don’t! )

This is all too much for a "mom."

A Creative CD-RW drive. Finally! But I'm having ASPI problems which I can't understand. Aaaarrrgghh!

A CD-Labeller
A Webcam!!! (Great fun)
Clothes
Books - Jeffrey Archer and Einstein Bio.

And my ex-girlfriend got me the American Beauty soundtrack - but she got the song CD...

• Three Star Trek books
  
• One Thesaurus (which I actually did need)
  
• A mousepad
  
• A nice little whale magnet
  
• A check
  
• Four DVDs! Yes! The 10th Kingdom (great), Dark City (also great), Snow Falling on Cedars (good movie, and I love that score), and Frequency (isolated score and commentary-sweet)

No CDs, but I'll pick up a couple of them tomorrow.

2 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER BOOKS (both are reference books - "The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 1", and "The Monster Book").

3 scores - UNBREAKABLE; WAKING NED DEVINE; and THE POWER AND THE GLORY: MUSIC FROM NFL FILMS (totally cool, and another time-machine CD).

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK on DVD, as well as 5 Bond films: DR. NO; ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE; THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN; THE SPY WHO LOVED ME; and MOONRAKER.

A Bill Cosby comedy CD (from a VERY old LP), along with a Monty Python CD and a Playstation game.

Stephen King's ON WRITING (Thanks Joan, you nice lady, you!).

Some Amazon.com money to blow (Thanks Brad!).

LOTS of chocolate, which proves that there is, indeed, an Almighty.

Plus an itty-bitty Corvette & some other stocking stuffers.

Santa Rules!

So do my friends.

And a little thing called "Final Fantasy IX" (The Adventure Begins)

DVD:

Tarzan CE (YYYYYEEEEESSSS!!!!!!)
The Usual Supects
Gladiator
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke

CDs:

Vertical Limit
Unbreakable
The 6th Day

--Kyp
Writer/Editor

A new phone (highly advanced as phones go, heck, all I need it for really is to receive calls and call close ones).

A great watch.

And I bough Total Recall and 13 days for myself.

I got a large book on great photography of the 20th century, plus practical things like shirts, trousers, jumpers etc...all very apreciated.

CD's:

Willow
Braveheart
Legends of the Fall
Small Soldiers (score)
Iron Giant (score)
Labyrinth (hah)!

Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit shirts ...Very excited

A Calvin Klein "Obsession" pack.
I don't mind it, though I wear Tommy Hilfiger through choice. It was from my grandparets

A leather organiser, I doubt I'll use it much, but again its from grandparents. May come in handy for University.

Chicken Run boxer shorts--wearing now

Turntable, completing my hi-fi, except for MD

blank VHS tapes, food, $200.

quote:

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My parents refuse to buy me CDs or DVDs coz thats all I buy with my money, the bastards!

---

You're not alone brother, I tend to have the exact same problem.

CD's: Unbreakable...very nice
Star Wars Ultimate...oh yeah!
Red Planet...little bit of a let down
For the Love of the Game (score)..finally

DVD's: Rules of Engagement
Scary Movie
Road to El Dorado
Mission to Mars
Shaft
Plus I bought my fiance: Legengs of the Fall (new version with iso score and a great digital mix), Fantasia 2000, and Cider House Rules.

I also Grandia 2 for the Dreamcast...it came with a score CD that I haven't listened to as of yet...we shall see.

A leather jacket
Some gloves to match
A nice set of Sony Headphones
A new lamp for my bed (one of those cool ones that turns on when you touch it)
3 DVDs that I got with some Xmas Money (X-Men, MI:2, Living Daylights)
2 dozen Donuts (That I bought for the family)
Gift certificate for Circuit City that my cousin sent me (I wish I could see the look on her face when she gets the same thing from me )
Lots of bathroom stuff I needed, like Razor blades, toohbrush heads, etc etc.
Some new slippers (that don't smell like foot oder)
A victornox swissarmy card (see through green...ooooooh)
Gift Certificate for LLBean

I think I did pretty good over-all I'm gonna see what else I can buy tomorrow.

DVDs:
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT
STAR TREK: INSURRECTION
CRIMSON TIDE
THE PERFECT STORM
PRINCESS MONONOKE
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
THE CELL

I'm a happy man!

DVDs:

-You Only Live Twice
-The Living Daylights
-Diamonds Are Forever
-From Russia With Love
-Octopussy
-Gladiator
-Chicken Run
-Road to El Dorado
-X-Men
-Fargo
-Fight Club
-Fantasia Anthology
-Princess Mononoke
-The Perfect Storm

CDs:

-SpaceCamp (John Williams) - There were only a limited number of these discs made... Wow!

Other Schtuff:

-Clothes
-Gift Certificates for Movie Tickets (from my cats!)
-Video Game, (Star Trek DS9: The Fallen).

...oh, and those 5 Bond DVDs completed my 19-DVD Bond Collection! Woohoo!

I am like one of *the* luckiest kids in the world... or at least I feel like it.

Jeron

--Kyp
Writer/Editor

NP: The Usual Supects: John Ottman

I want socks, because:

Ennio Morricone - Cinema 70 - 2CDs for the price of 1.

Stupid me bought one And 4 games...

Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles (Kick-butt, lightsaber swingin' action!)
4x4 Evolution (Georgous graphics. Slow gameplay)
Shenmue (This massive 4 CD game is so emmersive that I played it for 2 hours and didn't progess very far )
Blue Stinger (Kind of cheesy, but still fun to play with)

OK...that was my big presant for myself I also got a memory card.

DVD's..

Cosmos
Gladiator
The Right Stuff
Time Bandits (Criterion)
The World is Not Enough

Also this year's Star Trek Ornament, and the Star Trek monopoly game.

But the highlight of my Christmas was seeing the look on a woman's face as I gave her a custom printed (and framed) portrait that I took of her last fall. That made my year.

"Oooh look. It makes ripples. Like water. And it leaves a fingerprint too. Wow."