Dang it! The mail place closed just as I got there with Tina's package. Sorry it's so late, Tina, but it will go out on Monday with four Buffista mixes, and my four Wedding mixes as well.

Here's the tracklisting for the first dance mix - Dance Fools Dance:

Knock Me A Kiss Louis Jordan
Satin Doll Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Deja Varoom Southern Culture On The Skids
Baby Workout Jackie Wilson
I Want You Back The Jackson 5
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart The Supremes
I Can't Get Next To You The Temptations
Brick House Commodores
Let It Whip The Dazzband
Boogie Wonderland Earth Wind & Fire
Dance To The Music Sly & The Family Stone
Treat Her Like A Lady Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Give Me Just A Little More Time Chairmen Of The Board
Linus And Lucy Vince Guaraldi Trio
Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu & Kamehameah Schools Children's Chorus
Temptation Shelby Lynne
Big Pants Dance Lee Press On & The Nails
White Wedding (Rebel Yell) Medley The New Morty Show
It's Oh So Quiet Björk
Cheese Roll Call Animaniacs
Shattered The Rolling Stones
ABC The Jackson 5
Bruces' Philosophers Song Monty Python

Here's the music that played at dinner, mostly Bossa Nova with a middle section of latin jazz. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

Corcovado (Quiet Nights) Astrud Gilberto
Desafinado Gal Costa
Outra Vez João Gilberto
So Danco Samba Wanda De Sah
Tim Dom Dom Jorge Ben
Falsa Baiana João Gilberto
Ginza Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete
Viva Cepeda Cal Tjader
Mas Que Nada Tamba Trio
Samba De Minah Terra João Gilberto
Couleur Cafe Serge Gainsbourg
The Telephone Song Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Nem Oem Que Nao Tem Wilson Simonal
O Pato João Gilberto
Jim On The Move Lalo Schifrin
Hard Latin Kenyon Hopkins
Soul Sauce (Guacha Guaro) Cal Tjader
Tito Puente Take Five Tito Puente
Ballad Of Pancho Villa Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete
O Meninho Das Laranjas Elis Regina
Dora Lice João Gilberto
Eu E Voce Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Maria Ninguem João Gilberto
Canto De Ossanha Caterina Valente
Nós E O Mar Doris Monteiro
Agua De Beber Astrud Gilberto
Rosa Morena João Gilberto
Águas De Março (Waters Of March) Ellis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Here's the Harmony Cathedral mix.

Wouldn't It Be Nice The Beach Boys
I've Been Waiting Matthew Sweet
Ain't That Enough Teenage Fanclub
It Won't Be Wrong The Byrds
Book Song Fairport Convention
Baby, You're So Free Cosmic Rough Riders
Four Seasons In One Day Crowded House
Starless Summer Sky Marshall Crenshaw
Cloudy Simon & Garfunkel
Valley Winter Song Fountains Of Wayne
Ballet For A Rainy Day XTC
Bus Stop The Hollies
Look Through Any Window The Hollies
Bowling Green The Everly Brothers
'Til I Die Beach Boys
Fall At Your Feet Crowded House
Orleans David Crosby
Suddenly Mary The Posies
I Saw Her Again Last Night The Mamas & The Papas
I'm Alive The Hollies
Sebrina, Paste And Plato Jellyfish
You're My Best Friend Queen
Stained Glass Window Yellow Balloon
God Only Knows The Beach Boys
Caravan Of Love The Housemartins
Do You Realize?? The Flaming Lips

And finally the second dance mix, Kick Up Your Heels.

The Tick theme
Hot Stuff Donna Summer
Dancing Machine The Jackson 5
Kiss Prince
Housequake Prince
20th Century Boy Marc Bolan & T.Rex
Editions of You Roxy Music
Suffragette City David Bowie
Red Right Hand Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Spiderman Frenchy
Jump, Jive, An' Wail Louis Prima
Hand Clappin' Red Prysock
Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Buffy Theme Nerf Herder
Rockaway Beach The Ramones
Rock the Casbah The Clash
Whip It Devo
Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes
Dancin Late at Night Jonathan Richman
Ruler Of My Heart Irma Thomas
What Would Brian Boitano Do? Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski And Eric Cartman
Let's Go Where The Action Is BMX Bandits
Wild Elephants James Clarke
Belleville Rendez-Vous (Maquette) Ben Charest
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life Monty Python

Sorry it's so late, Tina, but it will go out on Monday with four Buffista mixes, and my four Wedding mixes as well.

Somehow, I will find it my heart to forgive you, Hec. I am so excited for so many new mixes (and I was coveting your wedding mixes - so thanks mucho for throwing them in as well.)

Devendra Banhart seems to be from your neck of the woods (SF). It's good. A mix of standard old folkie with some songs going for the sweeping western epic thing and others 40s jazz-y. One is in Spanish. Some let's-hope-it-grows-on-me vocal eclecticisms are my only complaint. AMG describes him as "quirky and low-fi" which I would agree with. But it' s not funny quirky so much as "art student" quirky. But mostly smart art student quirky. Not annoying pretentious art student quirky.

re-reads last paragraph

This is why I've never given serious thought to writing music reviews.

I haven't heard him, but he looks like stoner quirky to me. He's a dreamy hippy boy.

Yeah, late is bad, but 8 discs of free music makes up for some tardiness.

Here's the Harmony Cathedral mix.

OMG. This is going to make me weep. What a gorgeous mix. I can't wait.

OMG. This is going to make me weep. What a gorgeous mix. I can't wait.

It's very pretty. I spent the most time on the Bossa mix and on harmony cathedral. On the Bossa stuff it was mostly an effort to choose things that weren't Joao Gilberto. He's just the coolest. But I did find some great versions to make it work.

Harmony Cathedral actually has a through-line in that about 75% of the songs there tell the story (in order) of my getting together with JZ. Some of them are just on there for the sake of the pretty, and I did work a little seasonal subset in as well (which charted the year of our relationship prior to engagement). Like that.

Some amusing notes on the dance mixes which I slapped together quickly.

We were supposed to choreograph our first dance, but wound up just winging it to Louis Jordan's "Knock Me a Kiss." Fortunately, we dance to that song around the kitchen fairly often so it wasn't much of a stretch.

A spontaneous conga line erupted during "Rock the Casbah."

That's a big band swing version of "White Wedding."

Every parent there hit the dance floor for "Hawaiian Roller Coaster" from Lilo and Stitch.

The older folks were tricked out onto the dance floor when "It's Oh So Quiet" started and looked throroughly betrayed when Bjork was yelping all over the place.

I danced with msbelle to "Temptation" - which is a kick ass contemporary western swing song.

JZ's RenFaire friends all went apeshit for "What Would Brian Boitano Do."

Everybody hit the dance floor for "Linus and Lucy."

Ple danced a lot!

I skipped ahead to Nick Cave to lure Jilli to the dance floor, and I was then myself horrified and betrayed because my new sister in law had dragged my Dad and his wife and a bunch of other old folks out onto the dance floor. I really didn't want to see my Dad dancing to "Red Right Hand." (Jilli was fabulous, of course, so I focused on watching her.)

I really didn't want to see my Dad dancing to "Red Right Hand."

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Something about this strikes me as...justice? Something?