gone are the long morose days of winter, whiskey, and loneliness. one of my favourite ways to greet the longer, improved days of summer is batches of fresh springy music. usually, i do this by spending too much money at some CD megastore. when i can’t afford that – which is always – i just content myself with my current collection.
but the combination of my brand-new shiny mac ibook, the dinky but persistent little rio MP3 player that my parents got me, and my new lovebug being such a music-freak… well, that foot-tapping love of music has been reborn in my heart.
so here’s the deal – there are a handful of CDs that i’ve been coveting for a while. some, my friends have them but don’t have burners, and i’ve never gotten around to borrowing it. some, i used to have and lost. some, i have and are scratched beyond recognition.
i’m going to print the list here. you are going to read it. as savvy, hip bloggers and blogger-afficionados, you probably own some of this music. here is how this is gonna go down:
1. read list.
2. recognize personal possessions in CD collection on list.
3. email me with the CD you have to offer. include your own address.
4. if i haven’t already had that particular need filled, i will reply with my address, and concurrently drop an AMAZING MIX CD* in the mail for you, full of rockin’, spring goodness.
*trust me. it’ll be amazing. it’ll also have a cool arty cover. because i’m just that kind of girl. plus dj boyfriend will probably run an expert eye over it for any possible flaws.
interested?
Coveted CDs of 2004 are as Follows:
1. Norah Jones – Almost Home thanks jenny!
2. Norah Jones – Come Away with Me thanks shiv!
*bonus* 2a. Norah Jones with Peter Malick Group – New York thanks sam!
3. Suede – Coming Up thanks mark!
4. Ben Folds – Rockin’ the Suburbs thanks kyle!
5. White Stripes – Elephant thanks mendy!
6. Shins – Chutes Too Narrow thanks kyle again!
7. Outkast – Speakerboxx/Love Below thanks anna!
8. Rufus Wainwright – Want One thanks biscuit!
and, as crap shoots since i’ve never heard them but people whose taste i trust like them:
9. Snow Patrol – Final Straw thanks pix!
10. Iron and Wine – The creek drank the cradle thanks matthieu!
so i’m ready for your music if you’re ready for mine. BRING IT…
i have all of those except 8 and 10
however the postage to america from brighton might be a bit of a bastard.
arent you planning a visit over soon – if there are any you are missing by then i’ll be happy to furnish you.
Relly x
I have Rufus Wainwright. I burned a copy for Shiv like ninety years ago. And I will burn one for you too! I still want a mix CD, though. Also it would be cool if you could mail it even though I see you all the time, because I love getting packages.
relly! you sweetheart.
and yes, biscuit, i’ll MAIL it to you. want it messengered?
ooo! i want one too! and i TOTALLY want it messengered.
i can give you norah jones in return (the first one)…
OOH! MESSENGERED!! Abuse the perks of a Manhattan office!!!! I LOVE IT! YAYAYAY!
Humph.
With those already proffered, I have nothing to offer!
I am a bit worried at the whole ‘DJ boyfriend’ tag – see – Relly was my YODA. She was Yoda to my…er…Luke.
And she still whoops my ass. It’s like the bit with the X-Wing in the swamp I’ll stop now.
You don’t know me, just a reader. I have OutKast. What is your email address to exchange physicall addresses?
Yay Spring Springy muzak.
Anna
Am I a particularly hideous breed of loser that I don’t have ANY of those? Can I give you a cupcake instead???
anna – it’s petithiboux@yahoo.com… thanks!
Snow Patrol’s Final Straw you say?
Coming right up.
It’s absolutely unbelievably fantastic.
Hey there, just wanted to stop by and post on your new website (thus fulfulling my obligations as Best Friend). I do love the grass! You know me and grass! Also, I find it kind of funny that the two crap shoot CDs you want just so happen to be the ONLY two bands I saw at SXSW this year. Our brains are like, THIS, man!
i have iron and wine if you want it.
you need the first sessions ep norah jones, it is her best.
but for springy spring music. for new love, for good love. pop as sweet as cane sugar, as effortless as breathing the sweet green spring air. anybody with any sense is defenseless.
pop on top, but underneath. a shuffle-beat, and the low moan of a cello.no, no. let me try again. i’ve never been any good at describing music. but let us pretend i am.
when you are sixteen, and in love.
every morning is christmas, and it is wrapped, and tangled in linen.
later, after christmas trees burn your house down once or twice.
then you get to know what happens when you let just pretty pull up and honk.
then.when someone worthy wraps your days and nights in linen. pretty, then too, and christmas in the morning. there is a sadness underneath you have earned that way. pretty, still, in it’s way. allows you to recognize something worthwhile. worth work, worth sacrifice, worth showering everything you have learned upon.
some say the sweetness and the pleasure, it can never be so easy and pure. that’s love that’s going to be around for the heavy lifting, that’s going to last past a perfect drunken saturday night. oh, Lord. my point is still paragraphs away.go and get the mysteries of life “come clean”. pop in the best sense, and it grows on you.
im sorry, but you hate williamsburg, so how can you like the whitestripes, they stink of hipsters, in the bad way… =)
I can deal with Suede’s Coming Up, being the Suede obsessive that I am.
But you don’t get to touch the inlay, because it’s a signed edition.
And yes, K, I can hear you saying ‘tragic’.
From the titles on your list I feel compelled to suggest The Thermals album “More Parts Per Million” to ya — heard it? It’s in my top 3 from 2003 and sure to please anyone with ears that work.
Also, their new album comes out next week, and I have no doubt it will worth hearing. I’d be most happy to send copies to you, if you like…
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