i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

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, blah blah blah fishcakes.

i've been doing it ever since. sometimes the mix got made and never got distributed to people, which is due only to my immense laziness. sometimes i actually managed to burn three dozen copies and mail them out on time. it goes both ways. but! thanks to yousendit.com & the almighty internets, i've got a great new way to distribute the mix.

so here it is, in one convenient zip file (um, that's 66MB, so dialup users, beware). the track list is behind the cut; the file is available for download here (mirror one - mirror two - mirror three). 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.

(if you do download, comment so i can reupload if necessary; but i will be out of town all weekend, so get it while it's hot! and if you live in the research triangle metro area and would prefer a burned copy, just let me know; megan, i'm looking at you and your dialup.)

this is the minervacat holiday two-thousand five mix: writers of unpopular fiction are trying to drink more. enjoy it. ♥

one: "rebels of the sacred heart" (flogging molly): no ball or chain, no prison shall keep, we're the rebels of the sacred heart

two: "thank you" (the whitlams): thank you for loving me at my worst/if this isn't love it's very close/can you hear the world is waking up/can we be crazy for a few more years/have i got them in me

three: "the whole of the moon" (peter mulvey): i wandered out in the world for years/while you just stayed in your room/i saw the crescent/you saw the whole of the moon

four: "louisiana 1927" (randy newman): what has happened down here is the winds have changed/clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain

five: "wash away" (joe purdy): i got troubles, lord, but not today

six: "madeleine and nine" (mike doughty) i can give you the constellations/lay down here and we'll count them all/call me back when the war is over/call me back when your boyfriend's gone

seven: "dance all night" (ryan adams and the cardinals): i ain't lonely now/yeah, i've got someone i love/someone i think about/someone for me to take care of

eight: "what you own" (anthony rapp and adam pascal, from the new rent soundtrack): i don't own emotion - i rent

nine: "heart" (stars): sometimes the tv is like a lover/singing softly as you fall to sleep

ten: "maybe i'm wrong" (mike garrigan): in chapel hill it's raining/and here i have no friends/i took a drive to atlanta/to let the devil do me in

eleven: "portions for foxes" (rilo kiley): and it's bad news/baby i'm bad news

twelve: "red right ankle" (the decemberists): this is the story of the boys who loved you/who love you now and loved you then

thirteen: "guess how much i love you" (the lucksmiths): here’s me/here’s you/draw a line between the two/this is cartography for beginners

fourteen: "this year" (the mountain goats): i am going to make it through this year if it kills me

happy holidays, kids.