I love Christmas. It’s such a fun time of year. Sitting around the fire, drinking from 11am an not feeling guilty and eating loads of good food are all part of the celebration. But the real reason for Christmas is of course Jesus’ birth presents, and loads of them. Below is a list of a few things that would be nice to receive this year, though I doubt I will.

Old Communist Camera

This is like a real Lomo, except you can get this for a lot less if you know where to look. Camera shops, especially in Brighton will probably charge 1000 times more for this compared to the three or four quid you would have to pay if you bought this in Estonia, Latvia or Russia. They were mass produced in Eastern Europe 50 years ago in order for every household to have a camera, however they were usually dismissed as ‘being a bit crap’. In this modern world though where every Tom, Dick and Henry has a ‘digi cam’ and takes hundreds of pointless pictures of themselves in a bar with their mates, the ghostly, saturated look of an old Chema will stand out a lot more than a picture where ‘you can see every hair up Gavin’s nose’. Mr Murley Bassey has one of these. I want one too.

Political Satire DVD Box Sets

Having watched every single episode of In The Thick Of It about three times over the last month and In The Loop twice, I am now ready for a new political comedy. Since I’ve never seen either the West Wing or Yes Minister/Prime Minister, I can’t tell you what they are like, but I’ve had a lot of recommendations. I suppose from looking at the stills on the back of the DVD case (the best way to find out about any film) West Wing looks like it’s set in the White House and Yes Minister/Prime Minister looks like it’s set in the 70’s. I bet there is no character as good as Malcolm Tucker in either of them though.

Rose Blake T-Shirts

You can never have enough T-Shirts. I usually get them from gigs or my friend Rose who has been designing T-Shirts for a few years now. This is her website, I’m not going to type any more about her because she’s famous enough already. Look Here.

Juke Box

Why is a Juke Box called a Juke Box? One of my friends recently got one of these in his front room and it’s the coolest thing ever. It’s just like Spotify, but without any adverts and you only have the choice of 200 records, but it looks fucking cool sitting there in pride of place. Having one of these also means you HAVE to spend money on old 45’s in record shops where you will probably find some random gem from the 50’s or 60’s.

We are going through the worst recession though since the last one, so you might just get something shit like this.

Peg