Q: Hannukah starts on
Wednesday and Black Friday follows soon after. What are you buying your
culturally savvy loved ones this year?
Um,
nothing? In all honesty my family and I (and this goes for my wife’s family as
well) are so different when it comes to what we love culturally that I tend to
stay far away from those sorts of presents for them – sticking to old standbys
like soap and alcohol. Every washes, everyone drinks, so we’re good, right? One
brother stopped taking my movie advice after I told him to see About Schmidt in
2002 and he hated it. The other, I’m not sure has seen a movie in the theater
since Inception. My sister-in-law did recently mention her interest in Devil’s
Knot, so perhaps a gift basket that includes the excellent book by Mara
Leveritt, all three Paradise Lost films and West of Memphis and a note telling
her to stay far away from Atom Egoyan’s horrible version coming out next year? Perhaps
the best thing to get them “culturally” would simply be movie passes or gift
certificates. That way, they can see whatever the hell they want – and if they
waste them on crap, oh well. At least they’re going to the movie, which they
don’t often do.
Now,
what would I like this Christmas? Matt Zoller Seitz’s The Wes Anderson
Collection for starters. The Crtierion Shoah for another (I may find it
impossible to not watch it for another year if it stared at me all the time).
Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep – which I’ll remain too cheap to buy until it comes
out on paperback otherwise.
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