The idea behind a CD-Swap is that one distant person from across the internet sends you a CD full of their musical goodness in exchange for your own magically compiled list of audio heaven.

The trick is, trying to cut your 4,000hour+ playlist into something closer to 74 minutes. On my first shortlist I went through the list constantly thinking "Oh! I've just got to send that one!", "And that one!" or "Just -got- to put that on it, too!". The result being that over 80% of my playlist made the first cut.

So. I think I need a bit of help.

Do I create a CD full of my standard well-worn background-noise music? Or, would it be better to try and compile a list of music that I think somebody else would appreciate? The hardest part about trying to anticipate somebody else's choice of music comes down to my own lack of taste.

I cant define what type of music I like. Of late, my tastes have gone just a bit spazzy. My recently aquired music list include songs from bands and people such as: Janis Joplin alive, acoustic and drunk-sounding, The Chipmunks sing christmas carols, Patrick Swazy (yes! He sings!), The Prodigy and acoustic versions of Puddle of Mudd.

To put it quite simply, there's no rhyme or reason to my musical whims, just a strange little impulse that causes me to crave the strangest sounds at the weirdest possible moment.

So, what am I going to do about this CD?
I have absolutly no idea.

I think I'm just going to take the first 20 songs from my list, bung them into the burner and hope for the best.