There are things I look forward to buying. Here are five of them.

Okami

September 5th — Everything I've seen about this game has me excited. The Zelda-like gameplay. The incredible art direction and woodblock-print visuals. The plot — being a wolf god who restores light and beauty back to a world devoid of color. (Instead of, say, being a dude and shooting zombie flame alien rocket gun skull heart ghosts, again.) Okami looks like it may be one of the best video games of the year — and when you can only play maybe 4 or 5 of those, tops, that's a pretty exciting prospect indeed. I really look forward to this game.

Sony Ericsson K790a

September? — I currently rock a K750i mobile phone (bought from questionable website and unlocked on T-Mobile). It's the best phone I've ever owned. A good screen, responsive UI, nice basic IMAP email, seemingly indestructible, and a great 2 megapixel camera. But the new K790a? It's waiting patiently to take over. It adds EDGE network speeds, a 3.2 megapixel camera (!) with real flash (!!), a much higher resolution screen and UI, and support for fancy new push e-mail (via a new extension to IMAP, which I've definitely got to investigate). I feel like the K790a will likely grant me many glorious years of phone greatness. Sure, stupidly, no carrier will likely sell this phone, despite it being for the US market, but I'll find it, somewhere. (Let me know if you do!)

Rhythm Tengoku

August 3rd (Japan) — What happens when the Wario Ware team makes a rhythm game? Now we know. The goal is to follow an on-screen rhythm, while the game does everything in its power to distract you. The more you play, the more distracting it gets. Here are some gameplay movies, and here's what you won't look like when you're playing it. I don't know if it'll be good, but I'm excited to find out, and I don't have to wait much longer! Yay!

TiVo Series 3

Soon — Soon, as in, please be soon. Please. I've been thinking about you a lot. And while I may quietly dump you if an iAppleVo comes out, for now, I think we could be best friends. With your native high-definition support (hooray!), your dual CableCARD slots to allow me to record two HD streams at once if I was that insane, your ability to add on an external hard drive for additional storage, your sleek new hardware design , and your classic user experience that puts any other solution to shame — well, there are fewer things I look forward to this year than finally watching high definition television on my high definition television. (Watch it live? C'mon! If I can't watch TV when I want to watch it, in the year 2006, I might as well drive around town in a horse-drawn zepplin listening to victrolas on my chronograph.)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

November 3rd — I am so excited for this movie that it literally makes me physically tingle. Even the poster makes me unfathomably happy. It's a strange sensation that leads to an immediate mental response of terrible superstition, self-consciousness, and preparation for dashed hopes — this movie can't possibly turn out as good as I imagine it to be, can it? Therefore, I'll just say this: I dream, in my rich forest of dreams underneath the dreaming waterfall, that I will never laugh as hard as I do during this movie. Here's hoping.

So, what are your five?