The Recommend a Holiday Gift Thread

[toddpolt]

Look its that time of year, and I'm kinda stuck on that last present or two to surprise that person or two. So can we sorta help each other out here?

I believe Target may have quit it, but man for $10 you could have gotten the first four Nightmare on Elm Street movies on DVD. Best Buy did it in the past as well. The classic original, the fan popular #3, the wrongly-overhated-just-screwy-interesting #2, and Renny Harlin's #4.* Another set had #5/Freddy's Dead/A New Nightmare**/Freddy vs Jason.

Or basically, $2.50 per movie.

Or....ok you'll laugh but Steven Seagal. His action classic Under Siege, his quite entertaining debut Above the Law, the decent rednecksploitation Fire Down Below, and Glimmer Man...ok that one sucked, but using my math, think of it as paying $3.33 per flick, with a penny only for Glimmer Man. A deal regardless.

They have other similar sets of other series, but this is a start. Not much, but its a start.

*=Biggest box-office hit of that series, believe it or not.
**=Best Nightmare sequel. Yes, even better than #3.

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I saw these at Target and they looked like great deals. Sadly, I was pretty broke when looking around.

A great deal, imo, is amazon's silverware deal. Let's face it, a lot of people lose forks and spoons. Noone know where they disappear. Did someone get drunk and throw them in the trash? Do dope fiends break in and grab spoons? All I know is amazon runs some great sales on various models so if you're not too picky and you have an odd set, it's probably cheaper to just replace the whole set than it is to fix an existing one. I got my mom a really good set last Christmas.

[toddpolt]

Wow thanks. You can never go wrong with silverware. Its like a paperweight but without the stigma of a paperweight. Also forks are great for both eating and stabbing someone in the hand reaching for the last piece of fried chicken.

If you're fan of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. You know, those giant stack of books full of trivia, in-depth articles, and useless knowledge (or Reader's Digest without being lame)....anyway, they each cost from $12 to under 20 bucks. But at Border's Bookstores, you can find a special compilation edition of the first four volumes for 8 bucks.* Another good gift for Dad.

*=Where I learned how Brian Epstein bought up 10,000 copies of the Beatles' first single "Love Me Do" just so it would qualified at the minimal as a "hit." Turns out it didn't need his help.

[toddpolt]

Since I'm only on iTunes (which makes me lame), so I don't know how helpful this recommendation is. They're running a $7.99 album sale.

The real main event is the Rolling Stones' two disc epic classic Exile on Main St., which many would consider that legendary group's best record. Rolling Stone magazine even put it up as the #7 greatest album in that lengthy 500 list. Suck it White Album.



Not a single friendly album necessarily. Weird for the Stones, the whole sucker after a few listens just starts melting in your mouth as one collective opened can of music whoop ass. Still a cool one is Keith Richards' Top 30 hit "Happy."



But the rest of their sale is from the 1980s, and yet you still have some rather good (many even classic) music of different flavors. Rock, rap, pop, etc.

Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys
1984 - Van Halen
Synchroncity - The Police
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Raising Hell - Run DMC
Pump - Aerosmith
Freedom of Choice - Devo

[Grendel]

Nov 18, 2009 18:25:47 GMT -5 toddpolt said:

Since I'm only on iTunes (which makes me lame), so I don't know how helpful this recommendation is. They're running a $7.99 album sale.

The real main event is the Rolling Stones' two disc epic classic Exile on Main St., which many would consider that legendary group's best record. Rolling Stone magazine even put it up as the #7 greatest album in that lengthy 500 list. Suck it White Album.



Not a single friendly album necessarily. Weird for the Stones, the whole sucker after a few listens just starts melting in your mouth as one collective opened can of music whoop ass. Still a cool one is Keith Richards' Top 30 hit "Happy."



But the rest of their sale is from the 1980s, and yet you still have some rather good (many even classic) music of different flavors. Rock, rap, pop, etc.

Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys
1984 - Van Halen
Synchroncity - The Police
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Raising Hell - Run DMC
Pump - Aerosmith
Freedom of Choice - Devo

I was thinking about picking up some Stones. I'll have to look at that album.

[toddpolt]

You should check it out.Asides from iTunes, I've surprisingly have had a hard time of finding that album at the usual Internet retail outlets. Amazon, Best Buy, whatever. Seems to be a pain in the ass to obtain. So if you can do iTunes or whatever MP3 download, I say go for it. And only $8.

Again I have to stress you might not be really impressed with Exile at first. It's hard to explain. Anyway, Another kickass hit tune from the album was "Tumbling Dice." You might probably know that one.

[toddpolt]

I know buying a Christmas album, like Bob Dylan's new "Christmas in the Heart," is like a wet dream for a label executive, but (probably) a lead balloon for everyone else. At best a gift to give mom, who'll then put it next to Grandma's Elvis Christmas CD. But here's a good honorable reason why you should.

Dylan is donating all his royalties from this album to Feeding America (U.S.) and Crisis (in U.K.) to help feed people this Christmas. So yes download or go iTune a song at least off the album, you could (and we all have) done worse. Besides, you'll feel good that some one-armed bum in Seattle will get a biscuit and a bald failed model-turned-actor in London will get Diet Coke.

Dylans' "Must Be Santa" is sorta catchy in an annoying good sort of way. I guess we'll stuck with another holiday tune rotating on radio beginning in October until New Year's for all eternity. Thanks Bob.





EDIT - Looks like Nirvana's great influential album Nevermind is also part of the iTunes $7.99 sale.

[Slingshot Suplay]

There's only one thing to get that special someone this holiday season...

[toddpolt]

Nov 21, 2009 2:01:44 GMT -5 Slingshot Suplay said:

There's only one thing to get that special someone this holiday season...

Any value deal if I buy both?

[♥ Bunnyslinger ♥]

Here's what you do for you significant other, you buy a fish, and stuff it with soaps, but erotically shaped little soaps, and you put a note on the fish that says "life stinks without you"

[Slim Loves Lily]

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Oh yeah, amazon is running an awesome deal on a bunch of magazines right now. $3-$5-$10 off various magazines

www.amazon.com/magazines/b/ref=sd_allcat_magazines?ie=UTF8&node=599858

Pretty much everyone is covered with some awesome deals. I got my grandmother two years of Redbook for $10 with $5 credit returned. Now it's the rebates are instant.

Marie Claire (two years), Esquire, or Harper's Bazaar, Spin, Revolver, Maxim, Popular Mechanics, Complex (two years), Seventeen and more for $5

National Geographic, Food Network Magazine and more for $10

Penthouse or Playstation (2 years) for $20, Nintendo Power (2 years) for $25, Sports Illustrated for $30, XBox Magazine (2 years) for $35.

[toddpolt]

Nov 21, 2009 6:06:11 GMT -5 default said:

Penthouse or Playstation (2 years) for $20, Nintendo Power (2 years) for $25, Sports Illustrated for $30, XBox Magazine (2 years) for $35.

This is completely off-topic, but in this age of the Internet with more and more red-blooded American men going on-line, what is the incentive to subscribe to Penthouse or Playboy or any of those rags these days?

[toddpolt]

For $10, get the perfect gift for that action fan/nerd in your family. Very funny, very smart, and very surprisingly informative. Even if you don't care anything for the Ponytail.