GBCML Summer Mixtape Swap (official post)

[janiejones]

IHO summer, and road trips, and fun mail, I’m opening a mix CD swap on elfster. PM me your personal email address to join, and I will send you a link with the URL invite.

“Rules”
-You should be a fairly active poster (more than a couple hundred posts by now) and may need to remind me of your past SN on the nest if you’ve changed it when we left and It’s not obvious.

-You will be matched on August 4th with your CD recipient, from that point you have until the 19th to make and send your CD.

-You may only put one song per artist on the CD.

-You may not include any Bon Jovi, unless it’s “Blaze of Glory” and you ALSO send a movie poster from Young Guns II. No poster, no Bon Jovi.

-Take some time to read your CD person’s Love/Like/Hate/”Bon Jovi” poll answers, but put your own favourites on there, new, old, obscure or obvious. For the purposes of the poll and swap, each person can elect a band/artist as their personal “Bon Jovi” clause, and you absolutely cannot send them anything from this band/artist. Poll to follow next week. I’ll see if a mod can make it sticky for us for a couple of days.

NB.
1- I have set the swap to show addresses of the person who’s name you draw only. (Is that the correct use of an apostrophe+S?)

2- Tell me in your PM if you want country, or hate country I can manually sort the matching list to avoid iamgrace (and her ilk, myself included) getting a CD full of “Save a horse, ride a cowboy”. If you don’t care, don’t say anything.

3- Apart from the manual sorting to avoid country/assure country, I will let elfster randomly generate the matches.

4- I’ll check my PMs and send invites in batches, so if I don’t respond right away, don’t fret. This bitch is working long hours these days, and can’t nest from work.

OP - pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=ml&thread=36987&page=1

and this is a good summary of general considerations, inspired by High Fidelity: www.wewritelists.com/?p=34

[Deleted]

Awesome!

[vicky]

Woo! This sounds like fun

[ErinExpat]

Nice!

[loveday]

Sent PM.

Forgot to add "No country!" please lol

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 8:16:13 GMT -5 loveday said:

Sent PM.

Forgot to add "No country!" please lol

Haha. You're getting Conway Twitty for sure now.





(I'll make a note for real).

[cereal K]

so, it's morning, and i've only had one cup of coffee, but i want to make sure i'm not missing it...it there a poll somewhere we're supposed to fill out? or will there be one sometime? here on the board or in elfster?

[iamgrace]

Cool!

[Deleted]

So excited!

[Jalapeñomel]

This is when living overseas sucks.

[bab]

I do believe it is "whose," but I still love you!

I'd like to do this but my laziness might mess me up! Let me think about it.

[ErinExpat]

Jul 28, 2012 9:14:27 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

This is when living overseas sucks.

I know!

I was all excited, and then I thought...oh.

[Deleted]

ygpm

[Deleted]

I feel I should warn people that I have 265 Glee songs on my iPod.

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 8:46:12 GMT -5 cereal K said:

so, it's morning, and i've only had one cup of coffee, but i want to make sure i'm not missing it...it there a poll somewhere we're supposed to fill out? or will there be one sometime? here on the board or in elfster?

Next week we'll do the poll, and get it put as a sticky, after we get more sign-ups. I'll make sure nobody misses it!

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 9:14:27 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

This is when living overseas sucks.

Well, I will mail the overseas nesties CDs myself if you send me a PM with your mailing address.
That's jalapeno & erinexpat so far, right?

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 10:03:46 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

I feel I should warn people that I have 265 Glee songs on my iPod.

GLEE will count as ONE artist/band.
:-|

[Deleted]

My link didn't work. It says invalid URL.

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 10:28:54 GMT -5 @jlm523 said:

My link didn't work. It says invalid URL.

balls, I will re-send. It seems to have been working okay so far.

[silva]

can't wait! ;D

[ErinExpat]

Jul 28, 2012 10:14:37 GMT -5 janiejones said:

Jul 28, 2012 9:14:27 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

This is when living overseas sucks.

Well, I will mail the overseas nesties CDs myself if you send me a PM with your mailing address.
That's jalapeno & erinexpat so far, right?

Wow! You're so sweet!

Janie, YGPM

[Deleted]

It worked. It's showing my real name on the page instead of my user name so I changed my settings so my user name is displayed instead of my real name. Is this going to be a problem? Can other people see it?

[janiejones]

I think they can see your name as you are part of the group. Change it to your screen name, and put your real name as part of your address (this part is hidden). That's how I set mine.

[Deleted]

Thanks

[wildfloweragain]

I'm kind of irked by the "couple hundred posts" thing. I don't post just to up my posts. I liked that we were getting away from that here.

[deanlicker78]

I'm excited about this, I love new music!

[mamasaurus]

I love this idea. You may be my new favorite probie.

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2012 11:18:54 GMT -5 wildfloweragain said:

I'm kind of irked by the "couple hundred posts" thing. I don't post just to up my posts. I liked that we were getting away from that here.

It's a loose control mechanism because people will be sharing personal addresses. That makes many people uncomfortable. Sorry if that upsets you.
If you posted over on TN, but haven't been posted much here, you can let me know your old SN. I've been around ML for 6 years, I would recognize any long time poster by name, even if they weren't daily posters.
I promise that anyone who doesn't end up participating this time isn't precluded in the future, I just want to keep as many people feeling comfortable about sharing personal information as possible. This isn't intended as a elitism thing, I swear.

[loveday]

BTW, I have no problem with being matched with overseas GBCNers. I am up at the post office twice a month sending stuff to Europe and beyond

[SKP82]

I'm sad that I don't have enough posts to participate.