Step 1: Find something that works. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Repeat as necessary, then retire.

Step 1: Find something that works. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Repeat as necessary, then retire.

Step 1: Find something that works. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Repeat as necessary, then retire.

Step 1: Find something that works. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Repeat as necessary, then retire.

Step 1: Find something that works. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Repeat as necessary, then retire.

<I>She responds as expected to the only sound: hysterical voices!&#151;Brian Eno</I>

<I>She responds as expected to the only sound: hysterical voices!&#151;Brian Eno</I>

<I>She responds as expected to the only sound: hysterical voices!&#151;Brian Eno</I>

<I>She responds as expected to the only sound: hysterical voices!&#151;Brian Eno</I>

Ah me, another year gone by. The rest of my holiday-gift suggestions are at the end of this column, but I wanted to kick off with a hearty recommendation of <I>Aja</I>, a book by Don Breithaupt. You may recall Breithaupt as a co-author (with his brother, Jeff) of the survey <I>Precious and Few: Pop Music in the Early '70s</I>, which cracked me up in my <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/the_fifth_element_56">October column</A>.