A musical revolution
So two of my daily reads are starting something fantastic. It is a musical revolution that I am apart of and want to share with the four people who read my random gibberish.
Here's how it works:
Bloggers send their address (that would be your home address) to Melissa and PK who will then send it to another fellow blogger who will make you a mixed CD full of their favorite songs and what have you. If they want they can get really creative and even send you a note on cute stationary. (PK is known for this and I think it's adorable.)
They then take the finished mixed CD (and note if they decided to write one), put it in an envelope and send it to you. You should receive it within 5 business days and then you rock out to some new music that you may or may not already be jamming to.
Fabulous, no?
Melissa has already sent me my first name. I've already been compiling songs that I think he might like, making sure there's a variety, a little something from each decade perhaps, and a good shuffle of bands from around the globe. I want it to flow nicely and I'm discovering that this is turning out to be a little challenging for me. There are so many great bands that I want to share, and each of these great bands have so many great songs and I'm afraid that one CD may not be enough to hold everything that I might want to send.
That's okay though. There are plenty of other times I can share each single.
I have been thinking though, and their idea is so great that I want to sort of/kinda do the same thing only not really.
Here's the thing, about two months ago, I received a very BIG box of blank CDs. When I say BIG box, I mean that I could fit inside nicely and have room to move around comfortably. From the top to the bottom there is nothing but blank CDs. They have been sitting in my office for over TWO MONTHS. I've asked around to see if anybody knows who they belong to, made a flyer and put it up so that the owner could come and claim all of these CDs, and yet still nobody has come to pick them up.
So my policy downstairs is if you don't come and claim your shit within a month or two, I start putting up different ads for people to come and take it if they want it. It's as simple as that. Obviously they weren't so important that they needed them right away and it's not like I haven't tried to find out who they belong to. I'm not a storage closet though and I can't keep big boxes like that hanging around. It's a serious eye sore.
I've already given out a couple of them, but it hasn't even created a small dent in the pile I've got going on. But then I thought of what PK and Melissa are doing and wondered if anybody out there in the blogosphere would like me to send them a mixed CD? You don't have to send one back to me (unless you absolutely want to. I'm not one to turn a mixed CD down), but I figured I could kill two birds with one stone and others would get what I consider to be fabulous music.
Everybody at work is getting a mixed CD from me (whether they want it or not) and I did want to send some tunes to some of my favorite daily reads, but I wasn't sure if they would think it was weird or not. I can understand how some people may not want to give out their home address to somebody who could live in a cave for all they know, but it never hurts to ask. I used to be weird about giving out my address too, but I figured that if somebody I gave my address to took time out of their life to randomly turn up on my door step, I'd probably drive them to the nearest ABC store so they could but us some liquor and then we'd go talk about how their flight was.
Ash has already recieved plenty of CDs from me and it never feels like enough. Sadly I didn't even think about creating a mixed CD for him (even though he has done so for me a couple of times and we listen to the exact same bands anyway so it wouldn't be anything new to him) and I already shipped out his very big box of Christmas joy yesterday. I'm sure he wouldn't mind another one though.
Right. So that is it. Anybody who wants me to make them a mixed CD so they can expand their musical horizon and be apart of this kick ass music revolution, send me an e-mail with your address and I'll be more than happy to do so. And of course if you want to get into the regular CD sending hop on over to PK and Melissa's website. They're the ones who I nicked the idea from.