JZ - perzactly. I'll obsess over something because it's in my nature, so it may as well be something Z & I have total control over.

Okay, here's the list - feel free to ignore, mock, suggest, or tweak.

(The various bride/groom/family dances aren't listed, because that's been set in stone for ages.)

Friday I'm in love - cure
end of the world - r.e.m.
shake your groove thing
dixie the tiny dog -
some fantastic - bnl
comfortably numb - scissor sisters
a kiss to build a dream on
city love - mayer
come on eileen
you an me - bbvd
got to give it up - marvin gaye
volare - gipsy kings
I'll take you there
damn I wish - sophie b.
babylon - david gray
lady marmalade - moulin
pyt - michael jackson
freedom 90 - g. michael
I wanna be your lover - prince
you sexy thing
you'll accompany me - seger
cakewalk - taj mahal
wanna be like you - big bad voodoo daddy
Kiss - Prince
rock your body - justin
what is love
brick house
come back to bed - mayer
what a good boy - bnl
smooth - santana
linus and lucy
I will survive
Push it
Gett Off - Prince
downtown train - waits
your song - e. john
go daddy o - bbvd
modern love - bowie
lady marmalade - moulin
love man - otis
ain't no woman like the one I got - lang
goody 2 shoes
let's get it on - marvin gaye

I am not well-versed in the art of the mix, and the order of songs, etc., so I have no comment on that. However:

I will survive

I've had many arguments with friends as to whether this is a good song to play at a wedding. I'm of the opinion that it is, because it's a song everyone loves to dance to.

lady marmalade - moulin

You have this twice -- on purpose?

The Fabulous Thunderbirds? Romeo Void? Steve Cropper's crying on Duck Dunn's shoulder; Booker T. is too stunned to move. Isaac Hayes is chuckling, but that's 'cause he's got a piece of the action -- and I'm not talking about his South Park gig. Long before he wrote "Shaft" or did a day long version of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Hayes & his partner David Porter made the charts (and a whole lotta money, although apparently not history) with a series of songs written & produced for Sam and Dave: "Hold On, I'm Comin'," "Soul Man," "I Thank You" and yes, "Wrap It Up".

I'm of the opinion that it is, because it's a song everyone loves to dance to.

As am I. Actually, it was a request from the most happily-married woman I know. She & her wife love it.

You have this twice -- on purpose?

On purpose. It's a call-back to the previously-mentioned friend's wedding, in which this was played and then demanded again. All the women get on the dance floor for it.

All right, then. My questions about the wedding mix have been answered, and I am satisfied with the utter rightness of it.

I forgot to post this yeaterday: I was in Chicago this past weekend, and there were not one, but TWO shows I would have loved to have seen, but my lame friends had no interest, having never heard of the bands.

Show 1: Death Cab, Modest Mouse, and someone else.
Show 2: Dresden Dolls.

I could have even theoretically seen both shows, since one started at 5:30 and one started at 8:00.

Bad friends. No cookie.

My questions about the wedding mix have been answered, and I am satisfied with the utter rightness of it.

I just wish you could hear it in person.

Bad friends. No cookie.

Indeed!! Those would have been fantastic shows!

I just wish you could hear it in person.

I got home on Sunday night to your fabulous invitation! I was tired and sore and hungry, and it was midnight and I had to be at work in 9 hours, and yet when I pulled it out of the mailbox, I got a big grin and got a little bouncey.

Show 1: Death Cab, Modest Mouse, and someone else.

I would LOVE to see that. I have seen Death Cab, but at the time they were just "the opening act I have to wait through to see Dismemberment Plan, dammit." So I did not give them the respect I now believe they deserve.

Juliana, that mix looks good. my only question would be about this section:

smooth - santana

linus and lucy

I will survive

Push it

Gett Off - Prince

downtown train - waits

It seems to me to be ping-ponging through genres pretty fast, and the transitions might feel jagged. But I'm not sure how I would change that.

feel free to ignore, mock, suggest, or tweak

1) ignore:
2) mock: See 4.
3) suggest: "Let's Get Married" Al Green or "DMSR" by Prince (Dance, music, sex & romance are all apropos, plus it has "All the white people clap your hands on the 4 - now!")
4) tweak: I'd be a little more consistent with the upper-/lower-case protocol.

It's a fine list. If you must obsess over it please promise me you'll have a drink or three while doing so.

My friend Eliot sent me the link to the archive of FMU's The Hound. It took me a while to figure out that it wasn't just the playlists but mp3s for years worth of shows! Once I did, though, I haven't been able to get anything else done. The sorted by title page is my favorite. It makes it easy to find inspired titles -- "Mama Get the Hammer (There's a Fly on Baby's Head)", "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" -- and inspired names (King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones). I especially recommend the Christmas special featuring "Santa's Doing the Horizontal Twist," "Santa Came Home Drunk" and "Christmas in Jail". Enjoy.

I bought my second pair of Fluevogs today, and came *thisclose* to telling the store clerks about Jon and Hec's discussion about their shoes' importance in living the rock and roll lifestyle.

Today's mp3blogging finds -- Ben Gibbard covering Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us," and a Seattle band called The Lashes, who clearly have listened to a LOT of the Replacements.