Nothing but flowers

I keep coming across little mixes that people have made for me down the years. I've decided I might document them.
I'm definitely going to document this one, because I found it on my iPod this morning, while doing a search for another album, and remembered instantly how great it is.

It was made by My Friend Paul for me when I was ill at the very beginning of 2007 (aptly named, in my iPod, as 'Paul CD Feb '07'). He sent it in an envelope of other great stuff to cheer me up, including this song request someone gave him:



Not sure why he had that on his person, but it made me chuckle anyway.

Okay, to the CD! It came packaged in a little plastic wallet, and the cover / tracklisting had been folded in an almost origami style way, so that the front had the picture on (pink, with a kitten on it), and the back had the tracklisting, which was printed in white along the edge. I haven't done the description justice, but it really is marvellous.



Some notes:

• That Mint Royale song is a staple mix song, it's the like the glue that holds it all together
• The Field Music song is probably one of my favourite songs ever. It's important to know these things, right?
• I like that Semifinalists song, until it kicks in... then, not so much.
• If you've never heard that Dananananananananana song... then you should.
• I just checked my Last.Fm, and it says I've only listened to the Field Music song 11 times, but my iPod says 39 times. Just saying.
• Everything else on here is classic. Check out the sneaky bit of Op Ivy and that BRILLIANT Talking Heads song (which got wrongly tagged by Paul as 'Time' by Tom Waits. Either would have been acceptable)
  

I wish I had a copy of the artwork, it was mega. But yeah, there you have it, one of my favourite things anyone has made for me. I've got quite a lot more knocking about, it's just a matter of finding them.

I think this week I'll be having a cheeky go at reviewing a BOOK OR TWO. I've started reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It's only taken me about 5 years to actually buy this book. Got it yesterday and can't put it down. I don't want to speculate too soon, but I think it could be one of my favourites already. Depends what the end is like. Don't think it's going to overtake anything by Donna Tartt. I've also got a copy of Pride & Prejudice to read. I've never been into books of this ilk, but I think that now is the time to try and read them. Even if all the romance stuff drives me insane. I WANT MURDERS AND SUSPENSE IN MY BOOKS!
Watch this space for reviews. Tell me more books to read. I thought I should read more after preaching to one of my more stupid colleagues about how that, now she doesn't have a TV (it broke), she should probably start to read (her English is BAAAD. She says she has mild Dyslexia, I just think she needs to read more), and not trash (she said she was reading Marion Keyes or something), SOME MODERN CLASSICS. Camus, Plath, Orwell, Kerouac. She looked at me as if I had just killed her kids. I should really practice what I preach, though, so that's why I'm embarking on this reading journey. Wonder how many I can read in the next fornight.

Today I would like nothing more than to play Diner Dash, stare into space, READ THE LOVELY BONES, go shopping for clothes (tried on this yesterday, it looked RUBBISH cos i couldn't fill it out enough. FML. I love that dress so much!)... instead, I am doing the most tedious, but necessary, job of data inputting. I should really be getting on with it, but writing this is much more fun and time consuming.

Cup of coffee and I will start. I swear.