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.

Today's mp3blogging finds -- Ben Gibbard covering Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us,"

Is that Kirsty MacColl? I think I have a collection at home that has it sung by Tracy Ullman. If it's the same song, and I'm not on the bad cough medicine.

BTW, Pina Colada Song? Bugs hell out of me. Since when was discovering that both oneself and one's partner were actively seeking new partners through the personals a bonding experience?

"They Don't Know About Us"

Is that the song Tracy Ullman covered?

BTW, Pina Colada Song? Bugs hell out of me. Since when was discovering that both oneself and one's partner were actively seeking new partners through the personals a bonding experience?

Also, how could they not know that they both liked pina coladas and making love at midnight?

I love that stupid Pina Colada song. It's like Funyuns -- I have no justification for *why* I like it; I just do.