The Construction of a Christmix

Ok, so, I WAS writing a good set of instructions (or proposals) as the how one might (should) go about constructing a Christmas Mix but then some of my dumb friends (you know who you are) came around and I forgot to send/save it. So here's my second go.

Now, for those not familiar with the idea of a Christmas Mix (I would have thought it was more or less self explanatory but hey, some people are just slow), the basic idea is a mix...OF SONGS...that you give to your friends...AT CHRISTMAS. Yeah, its the cheap alternative for the Music-wanker. Having said that, in my construction of such a mix (thats right, I'm getting in early) a few things occured to me, I shall now outline them because I have nothing at all better to do.

First of all, the rules that apply to the construction of a normal mix are suddenly turned on their head to some extent. In some ways you're given more leniency in making a Christmas Mix, but in other ways you're entirely too constricted in what you can and cannot do.

For example, the idea of the Christmix (I'm gonna call it that from now on, haha, it looks like CHRISTmix, haha, what is that? funny! Shut up.) is that you'll be sending it out to your closest friends. As a result the pressure to be all "scene" and display your entirely too obscure tastes in music is not half as great. These people are your friends hence, they know you're a Music-wanker (I could perhaps come up with a more eloquent title for such a person but Music-Wanker both embraces Australian colloquialism and cuts right to the heart of the description). In a Christmix for friends, the song choices open up to include songs that have some sort of significance (in jokes n'such) and so, in this way, the pressure is off.

It is however reapplied (not unlike a moist towelette) when you consider what songs you ARE going to put on the mix. Remember, because these bastards that call themselves "your friends" would typically listen to the same stuff as you (didn't music bring you all together? Just like Michael Jackson?) the selection of songs required to make a cogent mix is suddenly made harder on the grounds that most of these people know most of the stuff you like. You want to surprise and delight these people (and make up for the fact that you're spending all of 3 dollars on their present).

Of course, now is your chance to unearth all those little songs you've discovered and kept well hidden, squirreled away, just for a moment such as this! For those who haven't been saving songs for a rainy day, may God have mercy on your soul. The only problem with these hoarded songs is they can often be of an exotic variety (a reason why they've not made it onto any of the other mixes you've made) and so, will they flow well together? Anybody who knows a thing about making a mix will know, flow is OH SO important.

Anyways, they are some of the things that have occured to me whilst I've been constructing my Christmix. Now I have to go back to doing whatever it is that I do.

B.