Holiday in VoVatia

[vovat]

I just set up an interview at a library on Tuesday. It's for a part-time position, but that's better than nothing, right? Actually, it's possible that my current temp job will last longer than originally planned, but I don't know this for sure.

I kind of wish people would leave more detailed messages on voice mail, instead of just "call me back." I guess it's largely my anxiety, because I like to be able to plan out what I'm going to say, and I can't do that when I don't really know what they want to talk about. Besides, it makes it difficult when I call back and get an answering machine, because there really isn't much to say other than, "I'm returning your call."

I got an invitation for a holiday party at work today, but I'm not going. I will, however, share the playlist for my own holiday mix, as I promised in an earlier post. (Actually, I think I just said "maybe," rather than promising, but let's not get bogged down in details.)

1. Father Christmas - The Kinks
2. Step Into Christmas - Elton John
3. Christmas In Dimension X - James Kochalka Superstar
4. Christmas In Hollis - Run DMC
5. Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet) - Stan Freberg
6. O Little Town Of Bethlehem - Young Fresh Fellows
7. Merry Christmas Emily - Cracker
8. Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues
9. A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer
10. The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas - Allan Sherman
11. Feast Of Lights - They Might Be Giants
12. The Chanukah Song - Adam Sandler
13. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica - Tom Lehrer
14. Santa's Beard - TMBG
15. The Night Santa Went Crazy - "Weird Al" Yankovic
16. Christmas Letter Home - Laura Cantrell
17. Thanks For Christmas - XTC
18. Chocobo Happy Christmas
19. Super Mario's Sleigh Ride OC Remix
20. Sleighride To Heck - James Kochalka Superstar
21. You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft
22. Merry Christmas - The Ramones
23. Santa And The Satellite - Buchanan & Goodman


Although I'm not sure I'll actually burn this to a CD, I still wanted to keep it under 80 minutes so that it would be the right length for a CD. That meant cutting out a few things, including:

Green Chri$tma$ - Stan Freberg
Christmas At Ground Zero - Weird Al
Merry Christmas - Wesley Willis
Carol Of The Bells - Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Metallica
Jingle Bells - Singing Dogs

If anyone wants a copy of the entire mix (either through the mail or electronic transfer) or some of the individual songs, let me know. I'd put them all up for download, but since no one ever seems interested in downloading anything I put up, I don't think I'll bother. Besides, I'm sure a lot of you already have these songs. In fact, some of them were taken directly from mixes that bethje, zimbra1006, and revme had made in earlier years. I'm also probably going to come up with a Best of 2007 mix, although pickings are slimmer than for the past two years. So let me know if you're interested in either of those two.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

Not a bad mix! I think the only one I don't have is the Buchanan & Goodman, so that'd be kinda cool if you could maybe send that one to me when you had a chance! Yaay! Also, all hail best of 2007! I'm kinda wanting to do one of those too, but it might end up being in, say, mid-January or somethin'.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I sent it to you. Let me know if you get it.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Hm... I haven't seen it yet... maybe it got hung up somewhere?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

If I can get the whole thing uploaded, I'll just do that. Otherwise, I'll try sending it again sometime this weekend.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Super Mario's Sleigh Ride OC Remix

Don't call it that.

I love my Christmas mix so much that I've been listening to it at work. You don't have Snoop Dogg on yours or that weird Santa Baby rap.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my mix is much less rap-intensive than yours. Yours was also considerably shorter, though.

[colleenanne.livejournal.com]

I would love an electronic version of it. How do you want to do it? Put it all in one big zip file and upload it somewhere?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what the best way to handle that would be. Maybe just zipping it and then sending it by e-mail? I'm not sure. Any suggestions?

[revme.livejournal.com]

Usually what I'd do, well, if I don't have webspace, is go through YouSendIt, and upload it there, and then send the link. It works out pretty well, and I think if you need an account, it's free. If it's not, let me know and I'll give you my account info, since I might be grandfathered in or something because I don't gotta pay them a damn dime!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I've used YouSendIt before, and they've never required an account in the past, so maybe I'll go with that. I'm not sure how to zip it, though.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Okay, I tried making a zip file, and it's 85 megabytes, so YouSendIt won't let me send it without an account.

Also, I'm not sure how to make sure the tracks show up in the correct order when someone downloads it.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'll email you the todcra login, see if that goes!

As for the tracks, what I usually do is burn it to a CD, then re-rip it. That way it's got the mix info on there without me changing the source mp3s, most of which come from other albums and whatnot.