[to keep your heart from freezing]
my senior year of high school, i started making a mix tape at christmas - the annual tape usually covered songs i'd listened to that year, songs that i felt summed up the year, stuff from new albums i'd bought that year.
i've been doing it ever since. sometimes the mix gets made and never gets distributed to people, which is due only to my laziness. sometimes i actually manage to burn three dozen copies and mail them out on time. it goes both ways. but! thanks to yousendit.com, i've got a great new way to distribute the mix.
so here it is, in one convenient zip file (um, that's 60MB big, so dialup users, beware). the track list is behind the cut; the file is available for download here. it's at yousendit, so click on the link and then download the file from the yousendit page. make a playlist and listen to it on winamp! burn it to a cd! ignore it altogether! whatever floats your boat.
this is the minervacat christmas two-thousand four mix: drunk with the only saints i know. enjoy it. ♥
one: "dear chicago" (ryan adams): dear chicago, you'll never guess/you know the girl you said i'd meet someday/well i got something to confess/she picked me up on friday/asked me if she reminded me of you/i just laughed and lit a cigarette/said that's impossible to do
two: "thieves like us" (new order): i've lived my life in the valleys/i've lived my life in the hills/i've lived my life on alcohol/i've lived my life on pills
three: "drunk with the only saints i know" (carissa's wierd): this is how we all look when we die/i'm pretty sure we're crazy, saying that we're all just assholes
four: "under african skies" (paul simon): this is the story of how we begin to remember/this is the powerful pulsing of love in the veins
five: "the blower's daughter" (damien rice): and so it is/just like you said it would be/life goes easy on me/most of the time
six: "shirt" (peter mulvey): and it's the same old friends on new year's eve/the same snow falls on same old leaves/and there's the same old joy, same old hurt/the same old corduroy shirt
seven: "cathedrals" (jump little children): in the cathedrals of new york and rome/there is a feeling that you should just go home/and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
eight: "ontario, quebec and me" (mary lou lord): you don't need my christmas cards/you already have my heart/this has been a holiday romance/right from the very start
nine: "insomniac" (billy pilgrim): i can hear your bare feet on the kitchen floor/i don't have to have these dreams no more/'cause i've found someone just to hold me tight/hold the insomniac all night
ten: "keepin' it real" (mason jennings): oh, yes, my oh my, the earth shakes when you walk by/it's a fairy tale that we made true/i can't believe that i found you/and it's oh, yes, my oh my, people turn and look when we walk by
eleven: "guided by wire" (neko case & her boyfriends): life is not a constant thing/it's only made of short stories/i couldn't even tell you where i'm from/guided by the voices i've deflected/guided by electric wire's hum
twelve: "me & jiggs" (josh ritter): on a saturday night in a town like this i forget all my songs about trains/a bar with a jukebox and you on my arm, heaven and earth are pretty much the same
thirteen: "the joyful kilmarnock blues" (the proclaimers): the question doesn't matter/the answer's always aye/the best view of all is where the land meets the sky
fourteen: "fisherman's blues" (the young dubliners): i will be the fisherman with the light in my head and you in my arms
fifteen: "a dying cubs fan's last request" (steve goodman): i've got season's tickets to see the angels now/so that's just what i'm gonna do/but you, the living, you're stuck here with the cubs/so it's me who feels sorry for you
(if the link dies, let me know and i'll reupload it. i will, however, be gone from thursday to tuesday, so if it dies then, you'll just have to wait. get it while it's hot!)
i've been doing it ever since. sometimes the mix gets made and never gets distributed to people, which is due only to my laziness. sometimes i actually manage to burn three dozen copies and mail them out on time. it goes both ways. but! thanks to yousendit.com, i've got a great new way to distribute the mix.
so here it is, in one convenient zip file (um, that's 60MB big, so dialup users, beware). the track list is behind the cut; the file is available for download here. it's at yousendit, so click on the link and then download the file from the yousendit page. make a playlist and listen to it on winamp! burn it to a cd! ignore it altogether! whatever floats your boat.
this is the minervacat christmas two-thousand four mix: drunk with the only saints i know. enjoy it. ♥
one: "dear chicago" (ryan adams): dear chicago, you'll never guess/you know the girl you said i'd meet someday/well i got something to confess/she picked me up on friday/asked me if she reminded me of you/i just laughed and lit a cigarette/said that's impossible to do
two: "thieves like us" (new order): i've lived my life in the valleys/i've lived my life in the hills/i've lived my life on alcohol/i've lived my life on pills
three: "drunk with the only saints i know" (carissa's wierd): this is how we all look when we die/i'm pretty sure we're crazy, saying that we're all just assholes
four: "under african skies" (paul simon): this is the story of how we begin to remember/this is the powerful pulsing of love in the veins
five: "the blower's daughter" (damien rice): and so it is/just like you said it would be/life goes easy on me/most of the time
six: "shirt" (peter mulvey): and it's the same old friends on new year's eve/the same snow falls on same old leaves/and there's the same old joy, same old hurt/the same old corduroy shirt
seven: "cathedrals" (jump little children): in the cathedrals of new york and rome/there is a feeling that you should just go home/and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
eight: "ontario, quebec and me" (mary lou lord): you don't need my christmas cards/you already have my heart/this has been a holiday romance/right from the very start
nine: "insomniac" (billy pilgrim): i can hear your bare feet on the kitchen floor/i don't have to have these dreams no more/'cause i've found someone just to hold me tight/hold the insomniac all night
ten: "keepin' it real" (mason jennings): oh, yes, my oh my, the earth shakes when you walk by/it's a fairy tale that we made true/i can't believe that i found you/and it's oh, yes, my oh my, people turn and look when we walk by
eleven: "guided by wire" (neko case & her boyfriends): life is not a constant thing/it's only made of short stories/i couldn't even tell you where i'm from/guided by the voices i've deflected/guided by electric wire's hum
twelve: "me & jiggs" (josh ritter): on a saturday night in a town like this i forget all my songs about trains/a bar with a jukebox and you on my arm, heaven and earth are pretty much the same
thirteen: "the joyful kilmarnock blues" (the proclaimers): the question doesn't matter/the answer's always aye/the best view of all is where the land meets the sky
fourteen: "fisherman's blues" (the young dubliners): i will be the fisherman with the light in my head and you in my arms
fifteen: "a dying cubs fan's last request" (steve goodman): i've got season's tickets to see the angels now/so that's just what i'm gonna do/but you, the living, you're stuck here with the cubs/so it's me who feels sorry for you
(if the link dies, let me know and i'll reupload it. i will, however, be gone from thursday to tuesday, so if it dies then, you'll just have to wait. get it while it's hot!)