This ain’t no party, this ain’t no infinite playlist, this ain’t no foolin’ around.

The idea: see how folks order their 10 song mix and see if there’s a trend how others would place the same 10 songs in order.

The recipe:

1) Send me your mix of ten songs with a list of artist and track names to this address, preferably postmarked by August 7th, you procrastinator, you:

Bath Haus
7603 Fondren Rd.
Houston, TX 77074

2) I send you data (mp3) CDs of all mixes submitted alphabetically sequenced by song, by submitter (anon.), and you send me an email with your preferred sequence of songs for each mix. No need to overthink it as you will receive several mixes. Visceral reactions shimmer like fish and shine like disco balls submerged.

3) I mathificate and statistify the data to see if there’s a correlation among strangers how things should go. There’s no club, no trying to make girls dance for rain-making purpose, no Cusaks holding boom-boxes overhead in the rain (non “make it rain!” division), no trying to get the myopic dude to chug a 2-liter of Mountain Dew in a LAN party goals. As Stevie Nicks said in her prophetic tablets, “you can go your own way.” So go your own way.

What you get: for academic purposes, a heterogeneous mix of mixes. A Santa so secret that he knows not himself. For academic purposes. This is a real experiment. Which means you should burn (physical fire version, brandy glass in the fireplace optional, not the 0101 type) the discs after you order them.

Disclaimer: these songs are proprietary and you should buy them if you want to use them for non-academic purposes. If you are an artist whose songs are used I will pay for Amazon.com individual listening rights to your song for all the the first-party participants of this survey who are mailed trial listening versions of your song for this experiment. In other words, I wish to respect the artist’s property and avoid mass distribution to third parties. The person who distributes a song outside of this experiment does so at their own discretion. So please don’t.

Hearts and remnants,

J

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