Happy Birthday Jesus!
Songs About Jesus (a mixtape by the Brooke).
[Sorry dudes. All mixtapes are temporarily out of commission until I find a way to not have them use up all of my allotted monthly bandwidth within a matter of days!]
Do you have a big but?
Turn this up loud (because the audio on it sucks, but the profound wisdom contained is worthwhile).
P.S. - Pee Wee’s Big Adventure: Great movie or the Greatest movie?
P.P.S. - Happy Festivus! (aww… flashback).
Warm Light on a Winter’s Day (new covers)
I sang some more songs tonight. Here are three.
Pink Bullets (Shins cover)
Under the Milky Way (Church cover)
Lovesong (Cure cover)
Christmas Mixtapes!
Present of the day!
CHRISTMAS MIXTAPE 2007 (lovingly brought to you by the Brooke).
[Update: Sorry dudes. All mixtapes are temporarily out of commission until I find a way to not have them use up all my allotted monthly bandwidth within a matter of days!]
Stocking stuffers!… Some other Christmas mixes I found on the internet (by some other people):
Wild Xmas volumes 1, 2 and 3 (good stuff!).
DJ Riko Merry Mixmases (1 of the 3 songs I listened to was cool enough to make it onto my mixtape. You might have as good or better odds with the rest).
Appropriate Christmas (not yet listened to, but it seems mildly interesting based on the description).
A Christmas album from the kids in the Inpatient Music Therapy Program at the U of M’s Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. (listened to a teeny bit. seems kinda neat, though could get annoying fast. it’s a weird novelty nonetheless, so I include it for the weird novelty-seekers in the crowd).
But enough already. Too much of this stuff will rot your ears! Go brush your teeth.
PS: Much thanks to WMFU’s Beware of the Blog for more bizarre Christmas music links than I could ever possibly have time to explore. If you like what’s posted here, follow that link into the swirling vortex of obscure Christmas tunes all over the internet! (hold onto your touque. I almost lost mine traversing the land of Christmas Disco).
Less Delirious But Random As Ever
Dang. I guess it’s the flu, after all. I refused to jump on the flu-shot bandwagon last month or whenever it was, fully confident in my super-awesome immune system, which hasn’t let me down in almost three years! Maybe it was just time for a good rest and detoxification. Prob’ly. I don’t regret my decision and it will be the same next year.
It is nice in situations like this to have the sweetest boss in the land. It’s the busiest week of the month, when the newspaper is about to be printed and everything’s crazy and she needs all the help she can get, and she insists I stay home - for the whole week if need be. She even asked if I need anything. She would have made a house call if I’d said yes. How bizarro is that!? I need to give her a present.
Speaking of presents, for the next week, until I fly to Michigan with my husband for Christmas, I’m going to try and post a present here every day. Hooray!
Album news: As you might have guessed from my absence around here, I’ve been quite a busy camper, making songs n such. New song seeds just keep coming (close to 60 recorded now), and I’ve completed (not recorded, but written) two song-songs I’m happy enough with to call finished. A few more are getting very close. I’m thinking this will be an EP, so I only need about 7 good songs and then I’ll let her go. It will probably be in the Spring. The recording phase is where the real fun (and time intensiveness) will begin for me, I thinks. Playing with layers is something I can definitely see myself getting carried away with. A fun way to be starting out the new year!
Some rather unlikely collaborations are in the works as well, like a hip hop cover of “Lil Red Riding Hood” with my ‘new black friend’*, Pharoah Snefru from NY. But I’ll let these things speak for themselves when they happen, because who really knows they will until they do.
Win Wenger of Project Renaissance asked me to write an article for his site about my use of his ‘Improvitape’ method, an approach I’ve had a lot of success with. I’ll post that article here too (probably in January).
Some cool news which has had my mind bouncing all over the place lately is the infamous Tim Boucher’s recent announcement that he has released all of his work (at least his entire blog contents, past, present and future) into the public domain. Pretty awesome. He encourages derivative works, and it’s a great (as in vast and as in awesome) body of work to draw from, so go look at it, you creative bastards.
Speaking of cool news and awesome people, here’s the coolest news of all for me. My little brother just celebrated his first “Clean Day” at AA (that means clean for a whole year). I wish I could share the entire account my dad and step-mom sent me of the event because it blew my mind and had me in tears, but I want to respect his privacy and the whole ‘annonymous’ part of Alcoholics Annonymous. I think I can get away with this little bit, though: “We listened to person after person get up and tell how much [your brother] has had an affect on their life over this past year… people from late teens, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and even an elderly woman in a walker! Your brother has been an inspiration to so many, he is loved by so many, and he is making a huge impact in other peoples lives.” That’s an amazing thing to say about anyone, but if you knew my brother as a kid, you’d know why I was in tears reading it about him. He’s gone from someone I, at times, feared and despised (when we were kids) to possibly the person I admire more than anyone else I know (no offense to everyone else I know). I only wish I could have been there to celebrate with him. Needless to say but I’ll say it anyway — anyone who claims that “people never change” or “once a ___, always a ___.” — They is wrong.
And now I forget what else I was going to talk about… oh well.
Present time! First present:
I found this little jackpot the other day. It’s full of awesome MP3s! …like the entire 5 volumes of Sufjan Stevens’ “Songs for Christmas”, the soundtrack to “The Fountain”, Elevator’s “Parts 1-3″… and tons more.
See you tomorrow, kiddies.