{"id":10581,"date":"2012-12-24T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2012-12-24T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T07:23:07","slug":"merry-christmas-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, y&#8217;all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you that celebrate, of course. To the others a lovely day spent in whatever way you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;ll be heading over to M&#038;F&#8217;s with my mom for brunch and then a nice day spent together. Making some new traditions this year &#8211; it&#8217;d have been weird to try and cling to our old family ways. But I&#8217;m sure Papi will be there in spirit!<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I have a little something for all of you: my annual mix!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/files\/2012.png\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/files\/2012-small.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image and playlist\" border=0><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Click for full-size. The cover is a photo I took in the Hard forest in autumn, overlaid with a Rilke quote (see below).<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>A Year of Change<\/strong><br \/>\nWenn etwas von uns fortgenommen wird,<br \/>\nwomit wir tief und wunderbar zusammenh\u00c3\u00a4ngen,<br \/>\nso ist viel von uns selbst mit fortgenommen.<\/p>\n<p>Gott aber will, dass wir uns wieder finden,<br \/>\nreicher um alles Verlorene und<br \/>\nvermehrt um jenen unendlichen Schmerz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rainer Maria Rilke <\/p>\n<p>When something has been taken from us<br \/>\nwith which we were deeply and wonderfully connected,<br \/>\nwe lose much of ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>God however wants us to find ourselves again,<br \/>\nricher for all that we lost and<br \/>\nincreased by this infinite pain. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Evamaria&#8217;s 2012 mix<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>For my dad, who I miss every day,<br \/>\nfor my mom, who&#8217;s the strongest woman I know,<br \/>\nand for Michi &#038; Fr\u00c3\u00a4nzi, whose wedding was a light in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1) Wolf Song &#8211; Patrick Wolf<br \/>\n2) Heartbeat Slowing Down &#8211; The All-American Rejects<br \/>\n3) Nobody Should Die Alone &#8211; Bastian Baker <em>[As ridiculous as it might sound (some call Bastian Baker &#8220;the Swiss Justin Bieber&#8221;), but some of his lyrics make me think he might also have had to come to terms with a loss.]<\/em><br \/>\n4) Army &#8211; BOY <em>[I&#8217;ve already mentioned in the past how much I love this song, which <user name=\"hermine\"> introduced me to &#8211; an ode to friendship.]<\/em><br \/>\n5) All the Rowboats &#8211; Regina Spektor<br \/>\n6) Independently Mine &#8211; Little Jackie<br \/>\n7) Can&#8217;t Steal Your Heart Away &#8211; Empires<br \/>\n8) Ghost &#8211; Ingrid Michaelson<br \/>\n9) I Won&#8217;t Give Up &#8211; Jason Mraz<br \/>\n10) Every Time (Love Song) &#8211; Armand Amar (abridged) <em>[This is not a new song, but I felt I had to include it, because this was Michi &#038; Fr\u00c3\u00a4nzi&#8217;s first dance. It&#8217;s been shortened by me, so in this way it&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221;.]<\/em><br \/>\n11) That Man &#8211; Caro Emerald <em>[My adoration for all things 20s\/30s has continued to grow this year (hi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrynefisher.com\/\" target=\"new\">Phryne Fisher<\/a>! *g*), and Caro Emerald has all the flair of that era.]<\/em><br \/>\n12) We&#8217;re Far Enough From Heaven Now We Can Freak Out &#8211; Deep Cotton<br \/>\n13) Rabbit Heart &#8211; Florence &#038; The Machine<br \/>\n14) Images &#8211; Beecake<br \/>\n15) Put One Back &#8211; Mornin&#8217; Old Sport<br \/>\n16) I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything &#8211; Dar Williams<br \/>\n17) Compromising Me &#8211; William Beckett<br \/>\n18) All Alone &#8211; Fun.<br \/>\n19) Let It Rock (feat. Lil Wayne) &#8211; Kevin Rudolf <em>[This is my inofficial Loki \/ Avengers hymn. I mean, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cB22mOOrVHc\" target=\"new\">this fanvid<\/a>!]<\/em><br \/>\n20) Yes, We&#8217;re Sinking &#8211; eaneikciv @ hitREcord <em>[Just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitrecord.org\/records\/582730\" target=\"new\">gorgeous art<\/a> for this!]<\/em><br \/>\n21) Happiness Is in My Head &#8211; eaneikciv @ hitRecord <em>[20 and 21 belong together in my head &#8211; both are part of JGL&#8217;s creative crowdsourcing website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitrecord.org\" target=\"new\">hitREcord<\/A>.]<\/em><br \/>\n22) Move In the Right Direction &#8211; Gossip <em>[Almost the only concert this year that I didn&#8217;t miss due to illness &#8211; and wow, Beth Ditto has POWER!]<\/em><br \/>\n23) This Isn&#8217;t Everything You Are &#8211; Snow Patrol<br \/>\n24) Misty Mountains &#8211; Richard Armitage &#038; The Dwarf Cast <em>[Of course I HAD to include this, come on! So much better than the folks-ified version of the end credits.]<\/em><br \/>\nBonus: <em>[I broke my own rules* for this, but I had to. For complicated reasons which boil down to *hobbit!flail* and *dad*.]<\/em><br \/>\n25) Pippin&#8217;s Song &#8211; Billy Boyd<br \/>\n26) Into The West &#8211; Annie Lennox<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?gooxh7f37bsb8\" target=\"new\">single mp3s on Mediafire<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/2012.zip\">self-hosted .zip<\/a> (135mb: 26 mp3s, cover art + .m3u)<\/p>\n<p><small>*As always, the one rule for the creation of my annual mix was that only songs added to my iTunes in 2012 were allowed. I broke this with the bonus tracks, but hey, it&#8217;s MY mix, after all. *g*<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you that celebrate, of course. To the others a lovely day spent in whatever way you want to&#8230; Me, I&#8217;ll be heading over to M&#038;F&#8217;s with my mom for brunch and then a nice day spent together. Making some new traditions this year &#8211; it&#8217;d have been weird to try and cling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10593,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}