Friends of Tom Secret Santa Gift Exchange 2009

[Christina]

What everybody said.

Also, I forgot to elaborate, but there are a number of FOTs that have written for me to get into contact with their recipient RE lateness for whatever reason. They're worried about their recipient thinking they're unloved!
 
I'm totally happy to do that, believe me, but I also thought it warranted a public mention.

[betheboy]

Way to find the silver lining of your Mom forgetting your birthday every year!

She remembered, just not at the right time.

[jbissell]

I haven't sent mine out yet either, because I'm an asshole that wants to ship everything in one package.

Apparently the post office just wanted to dump a whole bunch of packages on my front steps today because I got my missing piece, plus part of the mini-marathon premium, the last of my Merge SCORE! series, and Freak Wharf.

Package will be in the mail tomorrow, not in time for Christmas but hopefully not too many days late.

[erechoveraker]

Sent out the 2nd half of my gift today, since it's not a secret who my sanatee is, I will just say this: suck it Bryan for living in Canada. PO said it would take 10-14 days depending on the load, I didn't even have any kind of faster option sans going crazy overnight expensive with the federal expresses or something.

Anyways, I'm hoping they're working extra hard to get it there faster, but probably not going to happen before FRIDAY. Surprised this turned out the way it did, getting the 1st box to you before the 2nd, wouldn't have bet on that. SORRY bud.

[DoodleJump!]

I'm ok with not getting my gift by christmas, if that be the case. To me, christmas is pretty much the entire season of winter. Or at least, that's how I try to paint things.

[dave from knoxville]

I bought my gifts today. Now there's the assembly, the welding, the arrangements for shipping, the hope that s/he doesn't already have one, and that there's a room in the house big enough to hold it.

[Bryan]

Sent out the 2nd half of my gift today, since it's not a secret who my sanatee is, I will just say this: suck it Bryan for living in Canada. PO said it would take 10-14 days depending on the load, I didn't even have any kind of faster option sans going crazy overnight expensive with the federal expresses or something.

Anyways, I'm hoping they're working extra hard to get it there faster, but probably not going to happen before FRIDAY. Surprised this turned out the way it did, getting the 1st box to you before the 2nd, wouldn't have bet on that. SORRY bud.

Looking forward to it, Erech!

[dave from knoxville]

Here's part of what someone's getting; you decide if they're lucky or cursed. Going in the mail in about 1 hour!

.38 Special   Hold On Loosely
3D's   Sing Song
Adrian Belew   Gunman
Aimee Mann   Par For the Course
Al Green   I Want To Hold Your Hand
ALT   The Day You Were Born
Amnesia   Cherry Flavor Night Time
Amnesia   Mind is Slow
Amnesia   Undergarden Song
Andrew York   Sunshine Rag
Apollo Sunshine   Ghost
Arthur Godfrey   Amen
Badly Drawn Boy   A Minor Incident
Badly Drawn Boy   All Possibilities
Barclay James Harvest   Pools Of Blue
Barry White   Honey Please Can't Ya See
Bay City Rollers   Saturday Night
Bert Jansch   Orlando
Betty Everett   Hound Dog
Bill Bruford   Wonderous Stories
Billy Joel   Honesty
Bo Heywood   Billy Don't Be a Hero
Bob Dylan   Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre
Bob Marley   Soul Shakedown Party
Bob Mould   Egovveride
Bran Van 3000   Drinking in LA
Brett Anderson   Love Is Dead
Brett Dennen   Ain't No Reason
Bruce Cockburn   A Dream Like Mine
Bruce Springsteen   Murder Incorporated
Calliope   Green With Yellow Specks
Calliope   Isaac
Camper Van Beethoven   Good Guys and Bad Guys
Camper Van Beethoven   Opi Rides Again
Can   Oh Yeah
Cast of Beauty and the Beast   Be Our Guest
Charlie Sexton   Cruel and Gentle Things
Cheap Trick   California Man
Cheap Trick   Southern Girls
Cheap Trick   Taking Me Back
Christopher Ragnstam   Man Overboard
Clifford Brown   Brownie Eyes
Clifford Brown   Easy Living
Confront James   Magic Man
Confront James   The Giant and Lucille
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose   Treat Her Like a Lady
Corrine Bailey Rae   Venus As a Boy
Coven   One Tin Soldier
Crowded House   There Goes God
Cyndi Lauper   I'm Gonna Be Strong
Darcy Clay   All I Gotta Do
Darcy Clay   Jesus I Was Evil
Dave Matthews   #41
Dave's True Story   You're a Big Girl Now
David Baerwald   Colette
David Baerwald   Stranger
David Ball   Old Folks at Home
David Crosby   I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here
Dean Carter   Jailhouse Rock
Death Cab For Cutie   Summer Skin
Den Fule   The Blue Tune
Dirt Merchants   Bullfight
Dirt Merchants   Cavernous Location of Low Activity
Dirty Pretty Things   Blood Thirsty Bastards
Don McLean   Genesis
Drive-By Truckers   Daylight
Ebba Forsberg   Fine Is the Line
Ebba Forsberg   Hold Me
Ebba Forsberg   You Surprise Me
Eddie and the Hot Rods   96 Tears
Eels   My Descent Into Madness
Elizabeth Cook   Rest Your Weary Mind
Elliott Murphy   Hard Core
Elliott Smith   A Fond Farewell
El-P   Tuned Mass Damper
Elton John   Crocodile Rock
Elton John   Daniel
Elton John   I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
Elvis Costello   Jacksons Monk and Rowe
Eskimo   Kill the Great Raven
Evan Dando   Shots Is Fired
Feathermerchants   Change My Night
Frank Black   If Your Poison Gets You
Frank Zappa   Babbette
Frank Zappa   Be In My Video
Frank Zappa   Echidna's Arf
Frank Zappa   Good Lobna
Frank Zappa   How Could I Be Such a Fool
Frank Zappa   Peaches n Regalia
Frank Zappa   Stevie's Spanking
Frank Zappa   The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
Gallery   Nice To Be With You
Gary Wright   Dream Weaver
Gentle Giant   The Runaway
Gloria Gaynor   I Will Survive
Good Charlotte   My Bloody Valentine
Gran Torino   Fall From the Night
Grand Mal   Superstars
Gumball   Accelerator
Gumball   Here It Comes Again
Gumball   Real Gone Deal
Gumball   The Damage Done
Gumball   Tumbling
Hector on Stilts   Tongue Tied
Hello Sailor   Latin Lover
Husker Du   No Reservations
I'm From Barcelona   We're From Barcelona
Jim Reid   And Your Bird Can Sing
Joan Jones   Starlight Criminal
Joan Jones   The Lonely One
Joan Jones   Wide-Eyed Devil
Joe LoPiccollo   Global
John Cale   Hanky Panky Nohow
John Lee Hooker   Drug Store Woman
John McEwen   Ryan William's Arrival In America
John McLaughlin   To Bop Or Not To Bop
John McLellan   The Little Music Box
John Renbourn   Another Monday
John Renbourne   The Earle of Salisbury
Johnny Cash   I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Johnny Cash   I'm a Drifter
Johnny Cash   Pocahontas
Johnny Cash   Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
Jook    Watch Your Step
Junkster   Subside
Junkster    Twister
Kansas   Fight Fire With Fire
Kansas   Hold On
Kansas   Play the Game Tonight
Kate Bush   Kashka From Baghdad
Kate Campbell   Bury Me In Bluegrass
Katherine Whalen   You Who
Kelley Stoltz   Heaven Up Here
Kevin Coyne   Bird Brain
Kind of Like Spitting    Passionate
King Crimson   Thrak
King Harvest   Dancing In the Moonlight
King's X   Lies In the Sand
Kristen Barry   Big Girl
Kristen Barry   I Swear
Kristen Barry   Nada
Kristin Hersh   Rock Candy Brains
Lamya   Pink Moon
Lavender Diamond   Oh No
Lenny Kravitz   Mr Cab Driver
Link Wray   Rumble
Little Feat   Dixie Chicken
Liu Sola   Introduction
Lonesome River Band   Perfume Powder and Lead
Loreena McKennit   Bonny Portmore
Lou Reed   I Want To Boogie With You
Low   Breaker
Lucinda Williams   Words
Luke Temple   Doctor Robert
Luna   Bobby Peru
Lynyrd Skynyrd   Gimme Back My Bullets
Magnetic Fields   Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Magnetic Fields   Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
Magnetic Fields   Love Is Like a Bottle Of Gin
Magnetic Fields   Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old
Magnetic Fields   Zebra
Mahavishnu Orchestra   Stepping Tones
Maroon 5   This Love
Martin Sexton   Happy
Mary Cutrufello   Miss You #3
Mary Cutrufello   Sad Sad World
Mary Cutrufello   Tonight's the Night
Matthew Sweet   In Too Deep
Matthew Sweet   She May Call You Up Tonight
Matthew Sweet   Time Capsule
McKinley   Movie
McKinley   Stone
Meg Hentges   Heaven Sent
Meg Hentges   High
Meg Hentges   Sleepwalking
Meg Hentges   Submission
Meg Hentges   Tip Of Her Tongue
Mercury Rev   Goddess On a Highway
Mission of Burma   Laugh the World Away
Mysteries Of Life   Going Through the Motions
Mysteries of Life   Once In a While
Mysteries of Life   Shaking
Mysteries Of Life   Unmet Friend
Nada Surf   Do It Again
Neil Young   America the Beautiful
Nick Drake   Hazey Jane II
Nils Peter Molvaer   Song of Sand
Noella Hutton   Fed Up and Hungry
Noisettes   Don't Give Up
Odds   Anybody Else But Me
Odds   Eternal Ecstasy
Of Montreal   Suffer From Fashion
OhGr   Shite
Oho   Ethipoia
Ozomatli   Can't Stop
Pacha Massive   Don't Let Go
Paul Anka   Wonderwall
Paul Simon   Spirit Voices
Pentangle   Cold Mountain
Peter Bruntnell   Waterloo Sunset
Phil Collins   Behind the Lines
Phish   Sparkle
Prefab Sprout   All the World Loves Losers
Prince   17 Days
Prince   Erotic City
Prince   When You Were Mine
Radiohead   Creep
Radiohead   Just
Randy Newman   Going Home
Randy Newman   I'm Dead
Randy Newman   The One You Love
Ray Davies   Run Away From Time
Reckless Sleepers   Notting Hill Gate
Redd Kross   1976
Redd Kross   I Don't Know How To Be Your Friend
Regina Spektor   Begin To Hope
Rheostatics   Cephallus Worm
Richard Thompson   Devonside
Richard Thompson   Hand of Kindness
Rick Wakeman   The Pyramids of Egypt
Robert Crenshaw   Put the Bottle Down
Robert Crenshaw   She's Not You
Robert Gomez   Closer Still
Robert Wyatt   Kutcha
Robinella   Mornin Dove
Roddy Frame   Shore Song
Roger Hudson   Cool Colors
Roger Hudson   Sambavacation
Roger Hudson   Seven Heaven
Roger McGuinn   I Dream Of Geniw With the Light Brown Hair
Roy Brown   Love Don't Love Nobody
Saint Etienne   Mountain Rain
Scott Miller   Hawks and Doves
Scott Miller   On a Roll
Sean Watkins   Summer's Coming
Serj Tankian   Bird of Paradise
Silver Connection   Fly Robin Fly
Skeleton Key   Hoboerotica
Skeleton Key   Machine Screw
Skinny Puppy   Grave Wisdom
Snow Patrol   Spitting Games
Stephanie Dosen   Vinalhaven Harbor
Steve Almaas   The Lonely Sea
Steve Taylor   On the Fritz
Swan Lake   All Fires
Talking Heads   Stay Hungry
Talking Heads   The Girls Want To Be With the Girls
Tall Dwarfs   Breathe
Tall Dwarfs   Life Is Strange
Tall Dwarfs   Mr Broccoli
Tall Dwarfs   Phil's Disease Day 1
Taylor Barton   Dear Rose
Taylor Barton   If I Had Faith
Taylor Barton   Outlaw
Taylor Barton   Violet's Cry
The Allman Brothers   Little Martha
The Beatles   Get Back
The Black Watch   Come Inside
The Black Watch   Just Get Away
The Black Watch   Just Last Night
The Decemberists   Oh Valencia
The Edgar Broughton Band   Apache Drop Out
The Fiery Furnaces   One More Time
The Guess Who   American Woman
The Handsome Family   Eleanor Rigby
The Hold Steady   Hot Soft Light
The Januaries   Chocolate and Strawberries
The Januaries   Cinema Girl
The Januaries   Summer of Love
The Jimmy Castor Bunsh   It's Just Began
The Main Ingrediant   Everybody Plays the Fool
The Notwist   Pick Up the Phone
The Odds   Family Tree
The Pernice Brothers   How To Live Alone
The Police   Invisible Sun
The Simple Ones   Archipelago
The Simple Ones   Dealing For Now
The Simple Ones   Forget You
The Simple Ones   They're Everywhere
The Simple Ones   Two Cups For a Tale
The Slits   Typical Girls
The Trashmen   Surfin Bird
The Vapors   Turning Japanese
The Who   I'm a Boy
The Who   Pictures of Lily
The Who   Squeeze Box
Tim Finn   How'm I Gonna Sleep
Tom Petty   A Higher Place
Tom Petty    A Woman In Love
Tom Rasely   Innuendo
Tomorrow    Revolution
Tony Levin   Ever the Sun Will Rise
Tuck Andress   Louie Louie
U2   One Step Closer
Vicki Sue Robinson   Turn the Beat Around
Vince Gill   These Days
Wagon   Confused By Me
Wagon   No Kinder
Weird Al   I Remember Larry
Wilco   In a Future Age
Wilco   Jesus Etc
Wilco   When You Wake Up Feeling Old
Wizardzz   Chasing Our Shadows
Wizardzz   Jelipepper-Lily Field
Yes   Abilene
Youth Group   Sorry
Zach Davids   Heartsong 7
Zappa's Universe   Echidna's Arf
Zvuki Mu   Crazy Queen
Zvuki Mu   Paper Flowers
Zvuki Mu   Traffic Policeman
Zvuki Mu   Zero Minus One
Zvuki Mu   Zima

[JustSheaNo]

Wow, DfK, I hope it is me.

Alert to my Santor, my delivery address is my work, which I won't be at again until 1/5.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

[KickTheBobo]

Hell yeah, Secret Santa! Now I got a couple new bongin' buddies...

look, I took then on a Shackleton Adventure already!

[emma]

Sent mine out today! I got a few looks and one question in the post office, so I guess that's a good sign.

[dave from knoxville]

I made a promise earlier that anyone left out of the Secret Santa process could get a little end-of-year gift from me if you like. (and really even if you ARE in.) Just send me a mailing address, I will get on it as soon as I can. It will be a miniature version of my post two or three messages back.

[masterofsparks]

I got my gift from wwwes today - DVDs of The Wrong Guy and Xavier: Renegade Angel. I haven't seen either but will look forward to watching over Christmas break. I have thanked him privately via message, but I want to take this opportunity to thank him publicly.


Also, thanks to Auntie Christina for taking over the administration of the Secret Santa project. It's a lot of work for very little appreciation, so I want to send a little her way.

Happy December holiday to everybody!

[Christina]

I got my gift from wwwes today - DVDs of The Wrong Guy and Xavier: Renegade Angel. I haven't seen either but will look forward to watching over Christmas break. I have thanked him privately via message, but I want to take this opportunity to thank him publicly.


Also, thanks to Auntie Christina for taking over the administration of the Secret Santa project. It's a lot of work for very little appreciation, so I want to send a little her way.

Happy December holiday to everybody!

Aw, thanks, it was sort of fun to get all of your mailing addresses.

You guys know I'm a Mary Kay saleslady right?

I want that goddamn cadillac...

[ben]

I sent mine out Saturday, so it should be arriving soon.  I am paranoid it will arrive crushed or misdelivered.  I think I packed it really safe though!