My boring room

I have to admit that my sister outdid herself this year in picking me out a present. I've been wanting to get something to cover the walls of my room for some time now, and she picked out a couple of things to get that started:
Two James Bond posters! Most excellent. As you can see, my room is in need some sprucing up:

I took those photos when I moved in, and if you've been over to my place lately, you'll know that the only thing that has changed is the amount of books on my shelf (and I replaced my stereo). Now, I love my room, but the place is pretty sterile - kind of like an Ikea showroom without the charm (hmm...). I'd like to personalize the place a little bit. So, after a trip to the local Swedish modular furniture mart, and a few hours scouring art.com, I've come up with a few ideas. First of all, I need more light in my room. As is, I have three light sources - a floor lamp and a table lamp (seen in the first bedroom photo) and a second table lamp on my desk (seen on the desk). Maybe another floor lamp? Where would I put it? And what about getting rid of all the white in my room? What color might work? I'm kind of hoping that one of you might be able to help. Yeah, wishful thinking, I know, but I'm not about to refuse any kind of suggestion.
At the very least, I've come up with some ideas about what to put on the walls. I figure I should start with the things that I like, which means heavy on music, movies and photography. I've already got the two Bond posters, so that's a start on the movies, but I figure that I've got to class it up a bit so that my room doesn't look like a college dorm. Luckily, I found these:


Aaaah, Vertigo. What a great poster. And I love the little splash of blood on the last one. As far as music is concerned, I got this great idea, but I'm not quite sure how to fund it. Basically, it would hang over my bed (being roughly the same width) and look something like this:
Those are all album covers from Blue Note Jazz albums. The artwork is pretty easy to come by, but I don't really know about the frames. Anyone know where to get a bunch of 9x9-ish frames cheap? Well, this may never happen, but I think it would look pretty cool. Now for a few more things I'd like to have on my walls:


I love that Louis Armstrong poster. These next two fall into the NYC category. The first one is cool, but way beyond my price range:

I really like the Hopper, and strangely enough it's cheaper on the MoMA website than it is at Art.com. Maybe the MoMA store is more of a bargain than I think it is. Then again, maybe not.


These are the kinds of photos that I'd like to be taking. Unfortunately, my new camera hasn't magically made me a better photographer, so it might be a little while before I'm framing anything that I've taken, but I guess that will just give me more time to save up for that frame. But, I can't resist sharing a recent photo that I took a couple of weeks ago:
Well, I hope you all are having a great Holiday Season. Merry Christmas (late!) to you all!