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All Known Metal Bands
Just what it sounds like, this book is a list of the names of all known metal bands. Use it to name your houseplants, your car, or your first born.
$15 at McSweeny's
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Stack Independent Magazine Subscription
Stack curates independently published magazines, and sends you the best of the best once a month. The site says:
“Each delivery of Stack is a surprise so there’s no way of knowing what will come next. However, every magazine delivered by Stack comes with a guarantee that it represents the very best of independent magazine publishing, targeted at young, intelligent readers who appreciate an alternative to the mainstream.”
$146 at Stack
(Price converted from British Pounds.)
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Film Movement Subscription
A genius movie-of-the-month club for film lovers. Every month, subscribers receive a feature-length, award-winning film and a short from one of the top film festivals. These are movies that aren’t yet available to the public.
You can print out or email the gift notification, so this makes an excellent last minute gift. If $132 is too steep, Film Movement also offers six-month ($68) and three-month ($36) subscriptions.
$132 at Film Movement
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McSweeney’s Book Release Club
Book release club subscribers receive the next ten McSweeney’s books as they’re released. When you see the first book, you’ll agree that the price is a steal for the quality of books they produce. Each one will be an excellent addition to any personal library.
$100 at McSweeny's
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The 1000 Journals Project
Two hundred fifty of the best entries from The 1,000 Journals Project. Since 2000, a San Francisco-based artist has been leaving journals around town and sending them out into the world to see what people will create. Here’s the answer.
$23 at Amazon
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The Believer Bundle Jumble
The Believer is a monthly magazine for readers and writers that feels good in your hands. It features luxurious book reviews and in-depth interviews with authors printed on heavy-stock paper. Individual issues are about $10, and a yearly subscription is $45, so this jumble pack of ten issues is an amazing deal.
$25 at McSweeny's
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The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
An envelope containing twenty-eight of Marcel Dzama’s quiet and sometimes disquieting prints. All suitable for framing. (Click on that link. Do it.)
The packet also includes a scrapbook, an insert card, and an oversized poster.
$42 at McSweeny's
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The Thing Quarterly
The Thing Quarterly is a surprise subscription produced by smart people. I’ll let them explain it in more detail:
“Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand packed at a wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.”
This year’s issues will be produced by visual artists Allora & Calzadilla, writer Jonathan Lethem, and experimental geographer, artist and writer Trevor Paglen, and visual artist Ryan Gander.
$140 at The Thing
(One year subscription, four issues.)
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Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight
Your new summer love has an end-of-summer birthday. If you give them this and they appreciate it, you just quadrupled your relationship’s shelf-life.
$10 at Amazon
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Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
You and I, we prefer our poolside book covers not to be festooned with lipsticks and frivolous shoes. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to be charmed by our beach reads.
$12 at Amazon
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Wallpaper City Guides
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Eat Shop Guides
These guides make thoughtful gifts for people who travel or want to explore their own city more deeply. Each page offers a photo and a paragraph describing interesting shops and restaurants in a given town.
There are dozens of titles available, including San Francisco, NYC, Paris, Atlanta, Austin, Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Vancouver, and more.
$12 at Amazon
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Downloadable Audio Books and Magazines
Subscribe and choose from 40,000 titles available on audio. Do I want an audio subscription to the New Yorker? Yeah, I do.
$24 at Audible.com
(For first three months.)
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Learning to Love You More
Learning to Love You More is a book full of ideas awaiting an artist. It started as a web site created by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Participants can submit their work for potential inclusion in one of the artists’ presentations, or they can put it in a lovely box and tuck it under their beds.
$14 at Amazon
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Cowboy Boots: The Art and Sole
This book will make you want to mosey. Hundreds of full-color photos of the most gorgeous boots you’ve ever seen. Pulled from closets and collections, the boots tell a quintessentially American story.
$23 at Jennifer June.com
(For an autographed copy.)
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2008 Typography Wall Calendar
The letters of each month are superimposed to form that month’s image.
$15 at Oven Door Owl Press
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Yellow Monday Wall Calendar
A collection of sweet, slightly haunting illustrations from an artist in Sydney.
$35 at Yellow Monday
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Recycled 2008 Refill for AAGK100
Old school calendar technology. Don’t forget about the classics.
I have a baby project going with these calendar refill pages. I give one to the boy and snap his photo. At the end of the year, I’ll have a little album of how he looked from week to week without having to keep track of exact dates. Especially great for the first year and birthdays.
$11 at Amazon
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Moleskine Limited Edition Daily Planner 2008
I’m a Moleskine planner addict. This one has an insert with tabbed pages, stickers to help you flag appointments, week at a glance pages, month by month pages, a world map with time zones, and a bunch of travel-related goodies.
It’s the planner for your jet-setter lifestyle.
$20 at Amazon
(3.5 x 5.5 inches)
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Peeps 2008 Wall Calendar
Peeps at the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, the Brooklyn Bridge! Enjoy Easter all year.
$13 at Calendars.com
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