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February 26, 2008, 03:24:29 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Higgs Boson
I tend to keep extensive lists of things I want to acquire, especially in terms of music and books... and I was just wondering if anyone else did the same?

Here are my current (incredibly long) wishlists...

Books:

China Mieville: King Rat
China Mieville: Iron Council
China Mieville: The Scar
Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
Karl Edward Wagner: The Book of Kane
Storm Contsantine: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
Storm Constantine: The Bewitchments of Love and Hate
Storm Constantine: The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire
Storm Constantine: The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure
Storm Constantine: The Shades of Time and Memory
Storm Constantine: The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence
Storm Constantine: Stalking Tender Prey
Storm Constantine: Scenting Hallowed Blood
Storm Constantine: Stealing Sacred Fire
David Gemmell: Waylander
David Gemmell: Quest for Lost Heroes
David Gemmell: Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
David Gemmell: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
David Gemmell: The Legend of Deathwalker
David Gemmell: Winter Warriors
David Gemmell: Hero in the Shadows
David Gemmell: Midnight Falcon
David Gemmell: Ravenheart
David Gemmell: Stormrider
David Gemmell: The Hawk Eternal
David Gemmell: Ghost King
David Gemmell: Last Sword of Power
David Gemmell: Wolf in Shadow
David Gemmell: The Last Guardian
David Gemmell: Bloodstone
Gene Wolf: The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolf: The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolf: The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolf: The Citadel of the Autarch
Steph Swainston: The Year of Our War
Steph Swainston: No Present Like Time
Steph Swainston: The Modern World
Michael Moorcock: The Warlord of the Air Streams
Michael Moorcock: The Land Leviathan
Michael Moorcock: The Steel Tsar
Michael Moorcock: The Stealer of Souls
Michael Moorcock: Stormbringer
Michael Moorcock: Elric of Elnibone
Michael Moorcock: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Michael Moorcock: The Vanishing Tower
Michael Moorcock: The Jewel in the Skull
Michael Moorcock: The Mad God's Amulet
Michael Moorcock: The Sword of the Dawn
Michael Moorcock: The Runestaff
Michael Moorcock: Count Brass
Michael Moorcock: The Champion of Garathorm
Michael Moorcock: The Quest for Tanelorn
Michael Moorcock: The War Hound and the World's Pain
Michael Moorcock: The Brothel in Rosenstrasse
Michael Moorcock: The City of the Autumn Stars
Jane Gaskell: Strange Evil
Michael Swanwick: The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
David R Woodward: Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East
John Masters: Bugles and a Tiger
M John Harrison: The Pastel City
M John Harrison: A Storm of Wings
M John Harrison: In Viriconium
Ani Pachen: Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun

Music:

Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame
Melt-Banana: Charlie
Necrophagist: Onset of Putrefaction
Necrophagist: Epitaph
Slint: Spiderland
Venetian Snares: Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom-Poms
Venetian Snares: Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole
Dysrhythmia: Barriers and Passages
Look What I Did: Minuteman for the Moment
Cannibal Corpse: Tomb of the Mutilated
Pendulum: Hold Your Colour
Ephel Duath: The Painter's Palette
Ephel Duath: Pain Necessary to Know
Ephel Duath: Pain Remixes the Known
The Number 12 Looks Like You: Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.
PsyOpus: Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
PsyOpus: Ideas of Reference
The Locust: New Erections
The Hubble Constant: isin+cos
Squarepusher: Burning'n Tree
Squarepusher: Hello Everything
Jucifer: If Thine Enemy Hunger
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: In Glorious Times
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of Natural History
The Fucking Champs: III
Cynic: Focus
Black Flag: My War
Black Flag: Family Man
Black Flag: Loose Nut
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys: Bedtime for Democracy
The Flashbulb: Red Extensions of Me
The Flashbulb: Reunion
Sum 41: All Killer No Filler
Lustmord: Rising
Lustmord: Purifying Fire
Four Tet: Pause
Four Tet: Rounds
Bob Marley: Exodus
Mr Bungle: California
Mr Bungle: Disco Volante
Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
The Berzerker: Dissimulate
The Berzerker: Animosity
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Isis: Oceanic
EyeHateGod: Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Aphrodite: Aphrodite
Aphrodite: Aftershock
Yowie: Crypt000logy
Richard Devine: Lipswitch
Richard Devine: Asect:Dsect
Clutch: Blast Tyrant
Stolen Babies: There Be Squabbles Ahead
Botch: American Nervoso
Fantomas: The Director's Cut
Aaron Martin: River Water
Aaron Martin: Almond
NWA: Straight Outta Compton
Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill: Black Sunday
Cypress Hill: III (Temples of Boom)
Cypress Hill: IV
MF Doom: MM..FOOD?
Ed Gein: It's a Shame a Family Can Be Torn Apart by Something as Simple as a Pack of Wild Dogs
Ed Gein: Judas Goats & Dieseleaters
all hail the reapers of hope

the_taken

#1
February 26, 2008, 03:41:07 PM
Meh. Could be fun:

TV:
Kim Possible
Stargate SG1
Stargate Atlantis
Avatar: The Last Airbender
WB cartoon shorts (Bugs Bunny and firends)
Robotech
Elfen Lied
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain and Larry
Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain
Connan the Barbarian
Sailor Moon (ENG subs not the butchered Ametican dubs)
Gundam Wing (specificaly, SD was crap)
Super Mario Bothers

Movies:
Live Free or Die Hard
The 300

Video Game:
Starfox 64 (my current obsession actually)
Golden Sun 2
Tales of Symphonia (can't 100%!)
Final Fantasy X and X-2 (got the discs but no PS2! seriously)
Portal (have not played it yet :()
Halo 3
Katamari Demacy
Minesweeper
StarCraft - prepare to join the North American StarCraft League!

Music: Every single trance, techno and instrumetal I can find. I'll listen to most classical. I also like well performed video game BGM arrangements.
Actually, most of the fascist propaganda music from the 30s isn't too bad if you don't know the words.

SDragon

#2
February 26, 2008, 03:56:33 PM
Quote from: KindlingI tend to keep extensive lists of things I want to acquire, especially in terms of music and books... and I was just wondering if anyone else did the same?


Yes, I do the same. I find it easier to make small updates to a relatively extensive wish list, then to come up with a last-minute list of half a dozen to a dozen desires.

That said, I'd rather not post my entire wish list. I may post bits of it, later on, though....
[spoiler=My Projects]
Xiluh
Fiendspawn
Opening The Dark SRD
Diceless Universal Game System (DUGS)
[/spoiler][spoiler=Merits I Have Earned]
divine power
last poster in the dragons den for over 24 hours award
Commandant-General of the Honor Guard in Service of Nonsensical Awards.
operating system
stealer of limetom's sanity
top of the tavern award


[/spoiler][spoiler=Books I Own]
D&D/d20:
PHB 3.5
DMG 3.5
MM 3.5
MM2
MM5
Ebberon Campaign Setting
Legends of the Samurai
Aztecs: Empire of the Dying Sun
Encyclopaedia Divine: Shamans
D20 Modern

GURPS:

GURPS Lite 3e

Other Systems:

Marvel Universe RPG
MURPG Guide to the X-Men
MURPG Guide to the Hulk and the Avengers
Battle-Scarred Veterans Go Hiking
Champions Worldwide

MISC:

Dungeon Master for Dummies
Dragon Magazine, issues #340, #341, and #343[/spoiler][spoiler=The Ninth Cabbage]  \@/
[/spoiler][spoiler=AKA]
SDragon1984
SDragon1984- the S is for Penguin
Ona'Envalya
Corn
Eggplant
Walrus
SpaceCowboy
Elfy
LizardKing
LK
Halfling Fritos
Rorschach Fritos
[/spoiler]

Before you accept advice from this post, remember that the poster has 0 ranks in knowledge (the hell I'm talking about)

Higgs Boson

#3
February 26, 2008, 08:17:08 PM
Books:
Pretty much anything sci-fi or fantasy that comes wit ha good recommendation.

TV:
Stargate: SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis
Family Guy
South Park
Gundam Wing
Full Metal Panic(FUMOFFU and original)
Love Hina
Rurouni Kenshin
Samurai Deeper: Kyo
Elfin Lied (I hear its good)

Video Games:
The Orange Box (Looks amazing, haven't played it yet)
Starcraft (I have never played it, looks really fun though)
Sins of a Solar Empire ( :D ) [note][/note]
Stargate Worlds and Final Fantasy 13 can't come out fast enough.

Hardware:
2x GeForce 9600's
New SLI Mobo
Intel q-core 2.8 ghz
24" LCD.
[spoiler=CLICK MEEEEE] My setting(s):
[spoiler=Quotes]Why are my epic characters more powerful than the archfiends from the Book of Vile Darkness, the archangels from the Book of Exalted Deeds, and the Elder Evils from Champions of Ruin?

If you're playing epic, pause for a moment to laugh at WotC's farcical cosmic entity stats and move on. They aren't there to be taken seriously. Trust me. They aren't even suitable for use as avatars. -WotC Epic Boards, Epic FAQ

Nobody can tell... hell we can't even tell if he actually exists -Nomadic, talking about me.
[/spoiler]

My Site

[spoiler=Oh Noes!] [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Various Awards][/spoiler]
[spoiler=For those who don't know...]...my name is the current name physicists have for the "god" particle that created mass by creating a field that forces other matter to move through (from what I understand). [/spoiler]
From the Office:
Interviewer: "Describe yourself in three words."
Dwight: "Fearless, Alphamale, Jackhammer...... MERCILESS!"
[/spoiler]

LordVreeg

#5
February 29, 2008, 11:48:19 PM
Kindling....I don't keep such lists, but I like your book lists, except save your money on the Storm Constantine stuff.  Gene Wolfe leaks into my setting constantly.  You can't keep him out oce you read him...Have you read Zelazney's 'Lord of Light' or 'Creatures of Light and Darkness'?  It did wonders for making me see deities in a different light.

VerkonenVreeg, The Nice.Celtricia, World of Factions

Steel Island Online gaming thread
The Collegium Arcana Online Game
Old, evil, twisted, damaged, and afflicted.  Orbis non sufficit.Thread Murderer Extraordinaire, and supposedly pragmatic...\"That is my interpretation. That the same rules designed to reduce the role of the GM and to empower the player also destroyed the autonomy to create a consistent setting. And more importantly, these rules reduce the Roleplaying component of what is supposed to be a \'Fantasy Roleplaying game\' to something else\"-Vreeg

Higgs Boson

#6
March 01, 2008, 12:54:30 AM
That reminds me, I need a new series to read. Any fantasy recommendations?
[spoiler=CLICK MEEEEE] My setting(s):
[spoiler=Quotes]Why are my epic characters more powerful than the archfiends from the Book of Vile Darkness, the archangels from the Book of Exalted Deeds, and the Elder Evils from Champions of Ruin?

If you're playing epic, pause for a moment to laugh at WotC's farcical cosmic entity stats and move on. They aren't there to be taken seriously. Trust me. They aren't even suitable for use as avatars. -WotC Epic Boards, Epic FAQ

Nobody can tell... hell we can't even tell if he actually exists -Nomadic, talking about me.
[/spoiler]

My Site

[spoiler=Oh Noes!] [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Various Awards][/spoiler]
[spoiler=For those who don't know...]...my name is the current name physicists have for the "god" particle that created mass by creating a field that forces other matter to move through (from what I understand). [/spoiler]
From the Office:
Interviewer: "Describe yourself in three words."
Dwight: "Fearless, Alphamale, Jackhammer...... MERCILESS!"
[/spoiler]

Kindling

#7
March 01, 2008, 07:26:52 AM
Quote from: LordVreegKindling....I don't keep such lists, but I like your book lists, except save your money on the Storm Constantine stuff.  Gene Wolfe leaks into my setting constantly.  You can't keep him out oce you read him...Have you read Zelazney's 'Lord of Light' or 'Creatures of Light and Darkness'?  It did wonders for making me see deities in a different light.



Hm, well, I wanted Constantine mainly for her name :P
I figured anyone called Storm has to be pretty badass.

As for Zelazney, I haven't actually read either of those books, but I've heard a good deal about them. I read a short story of his once called "The Bells of Shoredan" which I liked a lot.
all hail the reapers of hope

LordVreeg

#8
March 01, 2008, 12:23:19 PM
Higgs, Have you read Kurtz's Deryni stuff?  I'm looking at my bookshelf, and that is a grouping that has kind of been forgotten, but the magic, the church and the politicing is excellent.
VerkonenVreeg, The Nice.Celtricia, World of Factions

Steel Island Online gaming thread
The Collegium Arcana Online Game
Old, evil, twisted, damaged, and afflicted.  Orbis non sufficit.Thread Murderer Extraordinaire, and supposedly pragmatic...\"That is my interpretation. That the same rules designed to reduce the role of the GM and to empower the player also destroyed the autonomy to create a consistent setting. And more importantly, these rules reduce the Roleplaying component of what is supposed to be a \'Fantasy Roleplaying game\' to something else\"-Vreeg

Higgs Boson

#9
March 01, 2008, 12:54:50 PM
No, I haven't. What's the author's name?
[spoiler=CLICK MEEEEE] My setting(s):
[spoiler=Quotes]Why are my epic characters more powerful than the archfiends from the Book of Vile Darkness, the archangels from the Book of Exalted Deeds, and the Elder Evils from Champions of Ruin?

If you're playing epic, pause for a moment to laugh at WotC's farcical cosmic entity stats and move on. They aren't there to be taken seriously. Trust me. They aren't even suitable for use as avatars. -WotC Epic Boards, Epic FAQ

Nobody can tell... hell we can't even tell if he actually exists -Nomadic, talking about me.
[/spoiler]

My Site

[spoiler=Oh Noes!] [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Various Awards][/spoiler]
[spoiler=For those who don't know...]...my name is the current name physicists have for the "god" particle that created mass by creating a field that forces other matter to move through (from what I understand). [/spoiler]
From the Office:
Interviewer: "Describe yourself in three words."
Dwight: "Fearless, Alphamale, Jackhammer...... MERCILESS!"
[/spoiler]

LordVreeg

#10
March 01, 2008, 03:25:21 PM
Quote from: Higgs BosonNo, I haven't. What's the author's name?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels
kATHRYN kURTZ
When they were coming out regularly, they ranked near the top of the fantasy lists.
VerkonenVreeg, The Nice.Celtricia, World of Factions

Steel Island Online gaming thread
The Collegium Arcana Online Game
Old, evil, twisted, damaged, and afflicted.  Orbis non sufficit.Thread Murderer Extraordinaire, and supposedly pragmatic...\"That is my interpretation. That the same rules designed to reduce the role of the GM and to empower the player also destroyed the autonomy to create a consistent setting. And more importantly, these rules reduce the Roleplaying component of what is supposed to be a \'Fantasy Roleplaying game\' to something else\"-Vreeg

Atlantis

#11
March 01, 2008, 04:40:19 PM
My list: Finish reading the Dune series in this lifetime (its probably taken me a year and im on the 4th book only).
[spoiler][spoiler]
 [spoiler FORTUNE COOKIE!] [fortune] [/spoiler] [/spoiler]

 [spoiler The Welcoming song]Welcome new member,
Hope you like it here,
Just don't let these guys,
Talk off your ear.

When we get annoying,
Which happens quite often,
Be annoying too,
And our hearts will soften.

If ever you're bored,
Just show up online,
We wash away boredom,
In absolutely no time.[/spoiler]


 [spoiler The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins]In the middle of the earth in the land of the Shire
lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire.
With his long wooden pipe,
fuzzy, woolly toes,
he lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now hobbits are a peace-lovin' folks you know
They don't like to hurry and they take things slow
They don't like to travel away from home
They just want to eat and be left alone
But one day Bilbo was asked to go
on a big adventure to the caves below,
to help some dwarves get back their gold
that was stolen by a dragon in the days of old.

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Well he fought with the goblins!
He battled a troll!!
He riddled with Gollum!!!
A magic ring he stole!!!!
He was chased by wolves!!!!!
Lost in the forest!!!!!!
Escaped in a barrel from the elf-king's halls!!!!!!!

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now he's back in his hole in the land of the Shire,
that brave little hobbit whom we all admire,
just a-sittin' on a treasure of silver and gold
a-puffin' on his pipe in his hobbit-hole.

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all
 CLICK HERE! [/spoiler]

 [spoiler]Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55% of plepoe can.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, palce it in yuor siantugre.[/spoiler]

 [/spoiler]
 
   

 

Griznuq

#12
March 04, 2008, 08:32:57 AM
Honestly, I'd really love to actually have what one could call a Library.

Now... I don't need junk like those creepy novles with a shirtless fabio on it, but anything either refference or fantasy / sci fi would be great.

One could ener the library de Griz, and thumb through anything from the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespear, or such all the way out to lectures from Richard Feynman.

There'd be comics too.

Higgs Boson

#13
March 04, 2008, 06:38:37 PM
Woots, Richard Feynman! The man who proved that there is no such thing as a magnet! Also, has anyone read The Summoner, by Gail Z. Martin, or The Eyes of God, The Devil's Armor, or the Sword of Angels by John Marco?
[spoiler=CLICK MEEEEE] My setting(s):
[spoiler=Quotes]Why are my epic characters more powerful than the archfiends from the Book of Vile Darkness, the archangels from the Book of Exalted Deeds, and the Elder Evils from Champions of Ruin?

If you're playing epic, pause for a moment to laugh at WotC's farcical cosmic entity stats and move on. They aren't there to be taken seriously. Trust me. They aren't even suitable for use as avatars. -WotC Epic Boards, Epic FAQ

Nobody can tell... hell we can't even tell if he actually exists -Nomadic, talking about me.
[/spoiler]

My Site

[spoiler=Oh Noes!] [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Various Awards][/spoiler]
[spoiler=For those who don't know...]...my name is the current name physicists have for the "god" particle that created mass by creating a field that forces other matter to move through (from what I understand). [/spoiler]
From the Office:
Interviewer: "Describe yourself in three words."
Dwight: "Fearless, Alphamale, Jackhammer...... MERCILESS!"
[/spoiler]

Kindling

#14
March 05, 2008, 04:01:57 AM
I tried to read The Summoner, but it failed to grip me. Same with The Eyes of God, now that I come to think of it...

Don't let that put you off, though, I can be fussy with books sometimes.
all hail the reapers of hope
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