{"id":2161,"date":"2004-01-21T03:09:28","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/preliminary-birthday-wishlist\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:20:39","slug":"preliminary-birthday-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/preliminary-birthday-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Birthday Wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is really early (my birthday isn’t until May 3rd), but I’m starting to put together a birthday wishlist. Admittedly, just about everything I’ve come up with so far is definitely on the “wish” side (as in, triple-digit prices), but I can dream, right? ;)<\/p>\n

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Black 10-eye Doc Martens<\/a><\/dt>\n
I haven’t had a good pair of Doc Martens boots in a few years now, and I’m jonesing for another pair. Black, of course (this is me, after all), and while I occasionally toy with 12 or more eye boots, I think the traditional 10-eye style should do me just fine. Unfortunately their website is entirely Flash-based, so I can’t link to a specific style.<\/dd>\n
Black Utilikilt, either in original<\/a>, mocker<\/a>, or survival<\/a> style.<\/dt>\n
I’m not sure quite when the idea of getting a Utilikilt really started bouncing around in my head, but I keep wandering back to the idea. Seattle’s Utilikilt company makes some really nice models, and all three of the styles mentioned above have caught my eye. Besides, I think I’ve got the legs to pull it off. ;)<\/dd>\n
An electric violin<\/a>.<\/dt>\n
It’s been years since I picked up a violin, but I’ve occasionally thought that it could be fun to pick up an electric violin to play around with. The recent release of GarageBand<\/a> (which I’ve yet to pick up, but will be getting as soon as I can afford it) has just kicked the bug back into gear again. I may not be much of a guitar player, but being able to run the violin into GarageBand and run it through the various guitar amps, filters, and other assorted toys could be a lot<\/em> of fun to play around with.<\/dd>\n
Added: Stanton ST-150 turntable<\/a><\/dt>\n
Not only is it a nice high-quality turntable, but it has a digital output — coupled with the digital input on my G5, it’d make my eventual vinyl to digital<\/a> conversion process much easier!<\/dd>\n
Added: SightFlex<\/a> iSight stand.<\/dt>\n
The included mounts with Apple’s iSight camera leave a little bit to be desired, and this replacement stand looks absolutely perfect — a firewire cable inside a gooseneck fixture that the iSight plugs onto the top of. As an added bonus, this is actually a reasonably-priced item, unlike the other items I’ve mentioned so far.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

That’s it for the moment. As I’ve said, they’re all kind of high-ticket items, but that’s the point of a wish list. There’s a few months to save up before the big day rolls around, anyway. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. :)<\/p>\n

iTunes:<\/strong> “Decypher” by Velvet Acid Christ from the album Fun With Knives<\/em> (1999, 4:47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is really early (my birthday isn’t until May 3rd), but I’m starting to put together a birthday wishlist. Admittedly, just about everything I’ve come up with so far is definitely on the ‘wish’ side (as in, triple-digit prices), but I can dream, right? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}