Susannah, the confluence of plays and music nerd books in your bag makes me hope we get each other as Secret Santas (assuming that I am not getting that plane from Laurie).
I'm supposed to be reading Darwin's Origin of Species for a play I'm writing, but I'm so fried at the moment that I'm doing a lot of piecemeal reading. It's my least favorite kind, but about all that I'm up for at the moment. I have actually just purchased two books that fit the fill perfectly: WFMU's The Best of LCD book and, also from Princeton Architectural Press, Taking Things Seriously by Josh Glenn and Carol Hayes, which is a series of 75 photos and short essays about weird fetish objects that people own.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Negativland is doing an Entourage book?