Yet another post about the CDswap.
The lists have been sent out. We did it in three groups.
Click here to see the final groups.
I think we should shoot for two weeks to get your discs in the mail. As I said in the email, if you don't live up to your end of the deal, you will be publicly humiliated.
If you're not on the list, and you should be--or if you have any other questions, let me know at cdswap@9622.net ASAP.
Posted by jpoulos at July 15, 2002 01:07 PMLet's link the CDSwap page to the tracklists after they go out.
By "let's" you understand that I mean "people who know what they're doing" and not myself.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 01:33 PMI'm busily making jewelbox labels as I type this.
I had two mix discs ready, and decided at the last minute which to use for here and which to use for the blue page.
You guys all like polka music arranged for the butt harp, right?
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 01:48 PMLet the intertribal fighting begin. I declare jihad on the MoJo JoJos.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 02:01 PMAlso, I'd like to say that I sent Optamystic (my tribal brother) a copy of my wackadoo Christmas CD and it was returned to me. It broke my heart, but I'm willing to overlook it and swap with him again.
I suppose I could have emailed him and asked for a proper address, but the pain of rejection was too intense.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 02:04 PMI don't even like being next to that sort of riff-raff on the page.
*sigh* But I suppose it is our lot to suffer.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 02:04 PMYou fuckwits have no idea what you're up against. We've got the ringer.
Posted by: anathema on July 15, 2002 02:09 PMYeah! I'm a Mojo Jojo! Although may I suggest next time that Adam and I are split up . . . I'm already tired of listening to SpongeBob and Sesame Street songs every time I visit. I don't need a whole cd of them . . .
Posted by: dogmaticMe on July 15, 2002 02:16 PMAh, I haven't even subjected you to Bear in the Big Blue House yet...
But thanks for the ideas. The duckie song is now number one on my list.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 02:20 PMAnd, may I also proudly announce that it was dMe who gave me my second monkey birthday card on Saturday, accompanied by the movies Pi and Requiem for a Dream. The monkeys are spreading their wings...
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 02:21 PMOh, gosh. I don't mean split up now. Next time! Next time! I can't wait to hear the Bear in the Big Blue House. Oh yeah, you got any Blue's Clues? How bout that bee-otch on the big comfy casting couch?
Posted by: dogmaticMe on July 15, 2002 02:21 PMI only have the mail song from Blue's Clues. The Freaky Ho on the Couch, though, is next.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 02:24 PMThis is gonna be fun. We're not obligated to do silly, weirdness-laden stuff, are we? Or is the Peculiar what's anticipated?
Posted by: Marquis on July 15, 2002 02:32 PMIt's ok Marquis, you can put Celine on your mix. Just keep it away from the FG's.
Posted by: anathema on July 15, 2002 02:35 PMMy cd will be a regional offering with only a single "Haha" song on it.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 02:37 PMI don't see any obligation, and if it is overdone, gets stale. I'm really not going to put that stuff on my mix, I am just enjoying the threat of doing so.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 02:41 PMBy Freaky Ho on the Couch, you mean "The Big Comfy Couch?"
That was a fave of my ex-girlfriend's son when he was younger. We'd watch it all the time. I've got a thing for women in clown makeup and big floppy shoes.
(The brothers are the craddock boys...bo and luke...er, rather, tj and MarsCrash.)
Posted by: jpoulos on July 15, 2002 02:42 PMI'd love to join in, as I have an astounding collection of weird music from my pirate radio days...but I'm forced to admit (at great peril to my geek status) that I've never tried to make a mix CD. I'm not even sure how to do it, honestly. How sad is that?
Back when audionet was still audionet, I had guys who digitized my collection for me, but once Yahoo got hold of us and fired everyone (including me) I lost the ability to transfer stuff from vinyl and tapes...and to be honest, I've never made a single MP3 of the stuff I have on CD. And naturally, the layoffs meant that I couldn't get to the archives of stuff I had on servers at broadcast.
I'm a luddite. I confess. Sigh.
Posted by: dejah420 on July 15, 2002 02:42 PMI like "Freaky Ho on the Couch" better. But yes, that is the one.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 02:49 PMYeah, me too. You can tell she's got a pretty decent rack under those overalls.
Uh, what I mean is...Clown on the couch? What clown on the couch? There's a show with a clown on a couch?
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 02:53 PMdejah: go to download.com and get FreeRip MP3, its a really easy way to convert CD audio to ripped wav files or mp3 files, if you so choose.
You then just need a cd burner, and most cd software is so easy to use that you probably would only need to drag and drop the tracks you ripped.
Posted by: insomnyuk on July 15, 2002 02:57 PMRequired reading for all MixMonkeys.
From Marquis's site.
Oh, and if there was a show with a clown on a couch, and the clown's name was Loonette, and she happened to be played by an actress named Alyson Court, she'd look like this without the clown makeup.
If there was such a thing.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 02:59 PMColdChef, that's a good link. Marquis, well done. I didn't know there were rules for mix CDs, yet I followed them anyway. That gives me a warm glow. Or maybe it's last night's burrito.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 03:02 PMI admit to being a novice at this, but I will give it my best shot.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 03:03 PMI had a friend how went far beyond the Half-Grabbed Ass approach. He would just put the changer on random and let the tape record. He would leave the house. Existential or lazy? You tell me. Some of them were actually very good. Go figure.
Posted by: anathema on July 15, 2002 03:07 PMI am in complete agreement with Marquis on the novelty song thing. If you're making the mix you think, "oh man, this sound-byte of Ringo farting is the ginchiest!", but it's funny exactly ONCE. Unless, you know, he had cauliflower or something.
I used to put little comedy bits on mixes lo these many years ago, but it just meant I fast forwarded over them every time.
As far as ripping to MP3 and all that, why would you have to do that? I'm just asking as a relative novice. I thought MP3s were only for digital storage, and that everyone made their mixes like me, straight from disc to disc.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 03:21 PMOn the couch-show topic, I think the name should be changed to the "On the ig, Hot Loveseat with the Schizophrenic Circus Bum". Now that would describe the reality of the show in a nutshell, don't you think?
Posted by: aw on July 15, 2002 03:57 PMmarquis: i think you forgot the rule about how you should always have a hall & oates song on a mix cd. always.
Posted by: witchstone on July 15, 2002 04:00 PM*quick check to make sure witchstone isn't in my group*
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 04:03 PMI refuse to follow your so-called rules. They smack of authority, and I have a little problem with authority. Damn the Man!
Posted by: MarsCrash on July 15, 2002 04:05 PMI always liked "Adult Education". Kickass video. But "Sara Smile" is clearly their best.
ahem...er, I mean, PANTERA RULES! WHOOOO!!!!
Posted by: jpoulos on July 15, 2002 04:08 PMOf course, the overall rule is "do whatever you want, unless it involves Billy Joel. Then, don't."
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 04:09 PMso, what i'm getting from you, kafka (and correct me if i'm wrong), is that i probably shouldn't have had sex with billy joel a few weeks ago?
damn. i always get the good advice just a little too late.
Posted by: witchstone on July 15, 2002 04:12 PMSenator Kafkaesque would also prefer a disc free of The Indigo Girls. I found this out the hard way.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 04:13 PMkafkaesque, you can't be serious.
*checks list*
Oh, you're in another group. Never mind.
*previews*
witchstone, you scare me.
*previews again*
Really glad kafka is in another group.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 04:13 PM* Say goodbye to hollywood. Say goodbye to all those witchstone fantasies. *
Indigo Girls are entirely in-bounds. As long as it's not "Closer to Fine".
Feh. It's all just common sense, folks.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 15, 2002 04:17 PMKafkaesque, I think we'll get along just fine. (Feel free to include some Oh Susanna, Gillian Welch, Sigur Ros, Tom Waits and Black Heart Procession bootleg CDs in my package, too.) :)
Posted by: Marquis on July 15, 2002 04:19 PMWitchstone, you zingermeistress: you make me laugh those laughs that carry on into the next things I say and do; it's a wonderful gift. :)
And yet you are not on the best list, coz Lupo's my mate, see?, and he fixed me up with the no-shit-of-any-sort crowd.
The Furious Georges forever!
I'll try hard not to disappoint. And you have nothing to fear from the fact that Maria João and I spent a fortune yesterday on a karaoke system and have done little else but sing "I Got You Babe" every waking hour. Our three cats teeter on the edge of the balcony rail but they love life too much to just waste it for the sake of showing what good taste they have. I hope.
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 04:21 PMalyson and me. well, not really me. but some other loser.
Posted by: dogmaticMe on July 15, 2002 04:22 PMNot that I have to worry about you fine folk, but the only rule I recognize is the following: If you put "We Built This City" on a CD, you will be savagely scrubbed with a wire brush and dipped in a lemon juice and brine solution.
Posted by: MarsCrash on July 15, 2002 04:28 PMNot playing, but, may I suggest a title (based on cover art alone):

Here's me with my eldest daughter on the day I had my first sip of red wine!
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 04:31 PMapropos of nothing:
how cute is this little howler monkey?
yes, it's reminding you of someone, isn't it?
Posted by: witchstone on July 15, 2002 04:32 PMAnathema: it gets worse. Check out the Korea Herald's left hand column. Ann Landers? Well she's dead too. ;)
On a serious CD note: Is there any way Walrus could be co-opted? His CD was marvellous on that last swap. I don't have his e-mail address but I feel/hope he might be interested.
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 04:54 PMI had a note from him recently, after repeated requests to stop by. He seems busy busy.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 04:58 PM"dude, miguel has an earring."
OK, impromptu survey time.
How many 9622-folk are pierced, how many times? You may include where if you are so inclined.
I'll start.
Seven piercings. Four left ear, three right ear.
Left ear #1 (solo): 1982.
Pair #1: 1984
Pair #2: 1985
Pair #3: 1985
Pair #4: 1990
Next? Probably not. I think I'm done.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 05:29 PMCrash: I would have never in a million years guessed that. Kafkaesque, I could see. But you? Nope. Never would have guessed.
I have no piercings. Never have. Unless you count the time I had a nail go straight through my hand on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: ColdChef on July 15, 2002 05:32 PMWanna know the coolest part, CC? Only the first one was done at a professional shop. I did all the others with a needle, at home, over the bathroom sink.
One could most certainly invoke the phrase "Slowly cooling puddle of blood" here.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 05:35 PMboth ears are pierced, my navel used to be pierced but is not anymore.
Posted by: pikachu lolita on July 15, 2002 05:41 PMUsed to have eyebrow and tongue. But I'm a corporate sellout.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 15, 2002 05:46 PMI have yet to pierce anything :(
Save for the Veil of Sleep. Hastur, Hastur, HasHEY! What the hell was THAT?
Posted by: UncleFes on July 15, 2002 05:46 PMPierced - left ear twice (first time closed over after being neglected for a year or two).
-AT
Posted by: kokogiak on July 15, 2002 05:49 PMI can't believe I just signed my post. Duh. I'm firing on a single cylinder today....
Posted by: kokogiak on July 15, 2002 05:49 PMAttention MeFites! Check the list. Should you be worried?
(under "I probably want to kill you")
Wow. Very nice piece, adam.
I am but minimally pierced. Left ear once, and that's it.
Of course, that's not counting the time that steel rod lodged itself in my skull.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 06:03 PMI had two in my left ear--the first from highschool. The second I got with my girlfriend circa 1995. We got pierced at the same time, in a display of stomach-turning sappiness.
I haven't worn either in a couple of years though. They're probably closed up by now. :-(
Posted by: jpoulos on July 15, 2002 06:03 PMGroovy mp3 rip link, thanks. I'll join in for the next big swap. :) Piercings: 7 for ears, had a little emerald nose stud, but it drove me nuts, so i took it out, belly button ring, but I'm getting that removed this week. Also, I have a tattoo of Sam I Am, holding a platter of green eggs and ham. (Because life is all about trying new things.)
Posted by: dejah420 on July 15, 2002 06:31 PMI'm not really here. shhhh.
Funny thing about being in the Mojo Jojo's is that I was considering using a big picture of our simian friend on the cd cover. BTW, no one ever really answered my question.
Back to my business trip.
Posted by: eyeballkid on July 15, 2002 06:35 PM"You do know MeFi is back up, no?"
Yeah, it's half up, sort of. MetaTalk is blue, too. Odd. I wonder if I were to post to the blue MetaTalk/Metafilter clone page if it would count as my Metafilter post for the day.
I think I'm going to hold off, just in case. I'm dying to post this hilarious comic strip I saw about getting it on with war, or something like that, and I wouldn't want to use up my post on something stupid.
Posted by: Crash on July 15, 2002 06:36 PM
No piercings of any kind. But I do have spiffy t-shirts, kick-ass footwear, fuckloads of flannel and besides, I'm armed.
That's Rob the EMT's apartment, Kaf. Mine is of course worse.
Posted by: jonmc on July 15, 2002 07:13 PMjonmc, do you know what runs through my head when I look at that picture of you in Rob's apartment?
"When you're a Jet,
You're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last dyin' day.
When you're a Jet,
If the spit hits the fan,
You got brothers around,
You're a family man!
You're never alone,
You're never disconnected!
You're home with your own:
When company's expected,
You're well protected!
Then you are set
With a capital J,
Which you'll never forget
Till they cart you away.
When you're a Jet,
You stay
A Jet!"
OK. You've pushed me too far. Pictures of jonmc eating lunch? What is the world coming to?
It's time for a picture of my cat.

Crash, wasn't there an Alice Cooper version of that song?
Posted by: b****fire on July 15, 2002 07:40 PMI'd also like to say that in the picture of Migster up there, he seems to be the same age as his offspring.
Disturbing!
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 07:57 PMAs a matter of fact, b****fire, there was.
I think Alice also tweaked West Side Story a bit on at least one other song, including Still No Air on the 1970 album Easy Action:
Who says the earth is crumbling
And no sky is falling through
Sometimes, I just.. can't.. die
The world should be assembling
But not just right out of view
Whole days I like to fry
(fight)
Easy action
Got a rocket in your pocket
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette to your last dying day
Who says the earth is trembling
And there's still no air
Does the cat KNOW that? I mean, if he starts meowing for fava beans...
Posted by: b****fire on July 15, 2002 08:01 PMHmmm. For the first time ever, my wife asked me "Are you going to check on your monkey friends?" instead of "MetaFilter".
That's one handsome devil of a cat, Kafkaesque.
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 08:06 PMto answer a very early question... the brothers are: MarsCrash and myself.
Posted by: tj on July 15, 2002 08:06 PMDude, the brothers are actually all of us, tj, and don't you forget it.
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 08:27 PMNo more free music for Stav
Nah, I use WinMx and Kazaalite and Filetopia. A lot.
re : piercings. None, technically, but once when I was, uh....altered....I punched a hole through my earlobe with a push pin whilst laughing maniacally. That was fun.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on July 15, 2002 09:03 PMI think we should take a moment to shout a hearty "Thankyaverymuch" to our man jpoulos, for his thoughtful swap-related list making and email sending, and suchlike.
Oh, and Coldchef...If you want to bundle that Xmas mix with the current incarnation, I'd still love to hear it, season be damned.
Also: I have no piercings.
No piercings but I do have a very sexy tattoo - a rose and a dagger, copied from a Linda Evangelista photo on the cover of (U.S.) Vogue. Don't ask. Does that count? [I hate Marquis for thinking that photo was of me!]
Also, I just posted a great Max Rudin article about beer to SillyFilter. It seems to be working fine, in a Bizarro way...
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 09:22 PMI am unpierced.
Except in the heart. *sniff*
Matt's posted a request for bugs in MetaTalk.
Posted by: Marquis on July 15, 2002 09:33 PMIf The Metafilter is up for good, I have to toot my own horn (have at it) and say my prediction was only half an hour off.
Posted by: anathema on July 15, 2002 09:44 PMand I (easily I might add) predicted Dr. Migs chomping at the bit.
Posted by: anathema on July 15, 2002 09:48 PMI notice that Hannibal has no piercings. Also, not to split hairs or anything, but I think Hannibal was technically a conquered and not a conqueror. Hannibal lost even though they had monkeys AND elephants in Carthage. But the Romans had toilets and better wine, so they won. I think I read that somewhere. No, seriously.
Posted by: MarsCrash on July 15, 2002 10:23 PMI never pierced anything, but I did remove my own ingrown toenail once with a pair of pliers and some whiskey.
Medical insurance is for pussies.
Also, Miguel is disturbingly young in appearance.
Do a lot of babies go disappearing in the middle of the night in Lisbon, I wonder...
Also, for a few months I enjoyed the company of a 5 ft reticulated python named... yes, I know..... "Monty".
Posted by: dong resin on July 15, 2002 10:28 PMYes, but he is still known as Hannibal The Conqueror, ye scurvy knave!
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 15, 2002 10:39 PMHey, that wasn't me, OK? I was just following dogmatic's trick of posting a random picture of someone else. This is me:

Now do you understand why I like that "Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet" New Yorker cartoon? :)
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 10:41 PMMiguel, you logorrheic lush, you, that beer article is fantastic.
Posted by: mcwetboy on July 15, 2002 10:51 PMI have no piercings. (I'm relatively old). I also have already sent jonmc a cd in the MeFi swap - I could have sworn I mentioned that in the signup email, but you know how things get bolloxed up. It probably came out like "I don't want to be in a greviewp with jonreviewmreviewc," and so got disregarded. So - Jon, if you liked the one I already sent you, let me know, and I'll send you another mix. If you didn't, I'll burden some shmoe from another group with it. And don't you know that would then be a hot commodity?!?
Posted by: yhbc on July 15, 2002 10:57 PMMcwetbourdieu: isn't that article full of the sort of information you know you're not going to forget in a hurry? The stuff that's going to get you irrevocably classified as a deadly bore by every friend who's unlucky enough to offer you a cold one.
I'm old enough to remember a time where the Portuguese lower middle classes actually made a point of ordering a beer at a fancy restaurant to set themselves apart from the wine-drinking peasants. Pathetic, no?
Nowadays, beer is still more expensive than (as you say in your comment on MeFi) cheap wine, but the feckin' peasants order beer to show how sophisticated they are. Imitating those long-ago poseurs. Doesn't get more Bourdieu-like than that, can it?
Specially if you can imagine just how atrocious beer is in Portugal - think Kronenbourg and take away whatever's acceptable about it. And how delicious the cheapest wine is (two bucks gets you half-a-litre of unfucked-with grapey goodness).
It's all about class. People should just trust their taste buds, if you ask me. And drink the best possible version of what the knowledgeable peasants drink.
Posted by: Miguel on July 15, 2002 11:21 PM[to the tune of the Beatles' Michelle]
Miguel, mon pal
Beer and pretzels go together well
Oh Miguel
Miguel, mon pal
bière et les pretzels tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble
I love them, I love them, I love them
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words in French that I understand
Miguel mon pal
bière et les pretzels tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble
I need to, I need to, I need to
I need to take a pee
See what beer does to me?
Not number two, I'm hoping you will know what I mean
I love beer
[bridge]
I want beer, I want beer, I want beer
I think you know by now
I'll get some beer somehow
Until I do I'm telling you so you'll understand
Miguel, mon pal
bière et les pretzels tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble
And I will say those two French words I know
that you'll understand
bière pretzel.
Posted by: Crash on July 16, 2002 12:28 AMCrash: as the old, broken and slightly German pretzel I am, I musically and saltily salute you.
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 12:38 AMdude. miguel. how many times do i have to tell you, you're a hottie. don't give me this "on the internet no one knows you're a dog" crap.
on the piercing front, i would like to point out that optamystic was with me when i got my navel pierced and almost passed out.
Posted by: pikachu lolita on July 16, 2002 05:37 AMWish You Were Here

Love,
RunningChicken
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on July 16, 2002 07:11 AM(I didn't post this to tell anyone to fuck off, I just love this guy.)
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on July 16, 2002 07:12 AMI've photoshopped my buddy up a bit here .
Now he's happenin', and telling GWB to eat shit and die!
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on July 16, 2002 08:44 AMLooks like my father-in-law. But only if he dyed his hair.
Posted by: b****fire on July 16, 2002 08:58 AMI've met this guy. Several times. He asked me for some change. I was loaded, feeling generous, gave him a ten euro note. He pocketed it and gave me the finger, exactly as the photograph shows. Dignity, I call it.
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 01:01 PMP_lo: I was just fishing for your compliment and that's the truth. You must be quite a looker yourself to have such good taste. ;)
All of this, though, is à propos this recent photograph of dong_resin (yep, that's Crash doing the arranging) before his ill-starred reunion gig with Kid Creole and the Coconuts:
Er. Sorry to drag the thread on topic, but I figure someone here may be able to answer my Swap question, since MeFiSwapTalk is failing me.
How should I send my CDs from Canada to the USA? I've got some of those padded envelopes, and I figure I could just throw on $2 worth of stamps... but will that do the trick? Can I get away with less? Are there any lurking Canadians who know a better way to go about it?
Posted by: Marquis on July 16, 2002 01:42 PMDrawing a line on the top of my head to simulate a urethra opening was probably my downfall. Didn't play in the sitcks.
Posted by: dong resin on July 16, 2002 01:57 PM* burst capillary veins in both nostrils, despite not seeing that line on his head and just realizing I'm the only fool still to bother with the _ between dong and resin*
Marquis, my dear: you are in the same group as The Chef and The Interrogator. Look at how they've hounded Gonneil. Do not use that lame "But I live in Canada, Mister..." shtick. It will not work.
That "throwing two bucks" trick may work up in the frozen boondocks, where Canadian dollars are the only ones people know, but it definitely won't work in bloody California or Louisiana.
Today the Euro is worth more than the U.S. dollar, for the first time ever, but what you forget, Marquis, is that both were worth far more than the Canadian currency even when they were down in the dumps.
Figure on about 130 Canadian dollars per CD(about 4 U.S. dollars/Euros) and you'll be OK. ;)
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 02:13 PMYo, I'm not trying to shimmy outta anything. These CDs are gonna get sent, mofo.
I guess I'll just ask the post office.
Posted by: Marquis on July 16, 2002 02:25 PMIt all comes back to sex with you, doesn't it, witchstone.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 16, 2002 02:33 PMWitchstone: that has to be up there with the way Joyce ended Ulysses. Ah, Molly Bloom!
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 02:49 PMgreat, miguel. now that you've given away the ending, i'm not going to bother slogging through it.
Posted by: witchstone on July 16, 2002 03:34 PMNo, you should just read the last thirty pages. We made it into a play here in Lisbon. It's probably the most perceptive and beautiful thing ever written about women by someone who knows nothing about them but loves one woman (Nora) so thoroughly his very mistakes are persuasive.
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 03:41 PMLupo and Witchstone: I found the ending. Here it is:
"...the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountains yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes...
...I was a Flower of the mountains yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him and yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
Posted by: Miguel on July 16, 2002 03:49 PMi sense a tagline!
miguel: his very mistakes are persuasive
Posted by: witchstone on July 16, 2002 03:50 PMI'm just playin', Mig. Ulysses is one of my favorite things on earth. Especially the ending.
Remember when Sally Kellerman read that in "Back to School"?
Posted by: jpoulos on July 16, 2002 03:58 PMAll hail Lupo! Viveca Lindfors was quite big in Portugal - and not entirely unerotically - when I was thirteen or so. :)

OK, folks. We have (I think) two late-comers looking to play.
If there are no objections, I'd like to add them as seventh members of the two groups that currently only have six.
Walrus and dejah420 have expressed interest (you do want to play, dejah, yes?)
Objections?
Posted by: jpoulos on July 17, 2002 02:36 PMI object.
I just mailed all mine today.
Snooze, meet lose.
:)
Posted by: Crash on July 17, 2002 02:38 PMThe alternative is to get the seventh person's name in email pronto, as I have an extra copy sitting here on my desk and I note that the mail pickup has not yet occurred.
Posted by: Crash on July 17, 2002 02:40 PMPoint taken. Are there any objectors from the other group, the Grape Apes? If not, there's one slot available. Rock Paper Scissors?
Posted by: jpoulos on July 17, 2002 02:42 PMOr, as yet another alternative, person #7 can get his/her copy a day or two later, since the mail pickup does occur daily.
This had not actually occurred to me, as I skipped breakfast and have not yet had lunch, so my brain is eating itself.
Posted by: Crash on July 17, 2002 02:43 PMHey, what's the big idea with the alacrity thing, Crash? You're making us slowpokes feel guilty.
I'll get mine out Monday.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 17, 2002 02:49 PMKaf, you'll recall I mentioned something about my burner being on the fritz and only burning at 4X? Well, I just got my DSL line installed, and I don't have the CPU power to surf and burn at the same time, so I had to get the CD-burning out of the way so I could use the computer to hunt down more pictures of Jennifer the college girl. Or, to be more precise, any girl whose naked breasts are on display.
A man has to have priorities.
Posted by: Crash on July 17, 2002 02:52 PMI'm up for giving it a shot. :) But, I also don't mind waiting for the next swap since I was so late to the party. Either way, I'm good. :)
Posted by: dejah420 on July 17, 2002 03:06 PMI can push them out after the weekend, possibly, but what was the final date? Wasn't it two weeks from Monday?
Posted by: adampsyche on July 17, 2002 03:14 PMAll right. I'm going to add walrus to the Grape Apes group. I picked him only because he was one of the original members, even though he hasn't been around much. We'll definitely include you on the next round, dejah.
I'll send out updated lists to those members.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 17, 2002 04:42 PMI say we do this once every 6 months. Any more frequent than that, and you get lots o repeats.
Tathagata
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 17, 2002 04:55 PMi think we'd be ok doing one more before then kaf. I/we could juggle the lists so that the same people weren't swapping. But unless we get an influx of new blood, after that six months sounds like a good interval.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 17, 2002 05:13 PMDon't make me send you a Best of Ultravox mix JP!
I'm just crazy enough to do it!
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 17, 2002 05:15 PMOh no my friend. Oh no.
Ultravox actually had a string of hits. You forget Reap The Wild Wind? The Voice?
Sad truth: Ultravox is one of my favorite bands ever.
Posted by: kafkaesque on July 17, 2002 05:21 PMHey, don't leave dejah420 out account of my early-mailing. Put her in with the mofo-whateverthefuckweare and I'll mail her this spare disk that I'm listening to now.
I don't wanna be the wet blanket, 'specially since no one else spoke up.
Posted by: Crash on July 17, 2002 05:21 PMI did make a CD for someone once with twelve different versions of the same song. Be very afraid.
Posted by: walrus on July 17, 2002 05:21 PMDon't make me send you a Best of Ultravox mix JP!
Oh, dear...this means nothing to me....
Posted by: jonmc on July 17, 2002 07:15 PMI too, Jon, am unaware of the power that must be Ultravox. ;)
Posted by: dejah420 on July 17, 2002 09:05 PMOh, this is a sad sight. The Wife and I on our respective computers, hogging the server's resources, blaring samples of tunes we want to throw in from other sides of the room. 9622 has invaded our household.
Posted by: adampsyche on July 17, 2002 09:15 PMThat's it. You're all getting at least one Ultravox (maybe I'll have to go to a Midge Ure solo, if pressed for obscurity) on mine. Heretics.
(and, good line, jon.)
Chris is now in love with both Kafkaesque and jonmc. Y'all are stealing mah gal!
Posted by: yhbc on July 17, 2002 11:16 PMOr, maybe I'll see your Ultravox and raise you one Blancmange - who knows?
Posted by: yhbc on July 17, 2002 11:17 PMcommish - here's an odd metal-new wave connection: I have a live mp3 of Thin Lizzy performing "Whiskey in the Jar" in Cork, Ireland where Phil Lynott kids that "Midge" is the only one who can play the song. "Midge" of course being Midge Ure who soon found himself in Ultravox.
And please, please no Blancmange, one of the first record reviews I wrote was a pan of them for my junior high school newspaper. In the same column I praised Ozzy's Speak of the Devil and Rose Tattoo's Scarred For Life. Shows you where my heads at, I suppose.
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