so one way you can pass the time on Christmas Eve is to restock that little bag of CDs you carry everywhere with you, in case you need a music fix right now. Mine holds about 32 CDs plus CD player. In case of dire emergency I've got an old one that just holds 50 CDs, but I found it really hard to settle on an extra 18 titles. Anyway, for people who like lists :

...so it looks something like this :

Things I've had sitting around that require "further investigation" (ie. I've had a few cursory listens, but that's about it so far) :

• Lucinda Williams - Essence
• Wire - Pink Flag
• Warn Defever - I want you to live 100 years
• Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic
• Boredoms - Vision Creation NewSun
• Mekons - So Good it Hurts
• Mekons - Original Sin
• The Fall - Dragnet
• They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
• The Saints - Spit the blues out
• various artists - heartbreaks and highways, vol. 2
• Neil Young - Comes a time
• The Birthday Party - Live 81-82
• Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody knows this is nowhere

random favourites :

• Mekons - Honky Tonkin'
• Mekons - I love Mekons
• Ed Kuepper - Out-takes, castaways, pirate women and takeaways
• Golden Rough - This Sad Paradise
• A Drag City Supersession - Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils
• Registered Nurse - Strippers
• Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
• Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway
• Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions
• Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World
• Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits

old stuff I haven't listened to in ages :

• The Fall - The Unutterable
• The Fall - The Marshall Suite
• Mission of Burma - vs.
• Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
• Meat Beat Manifesto - Original Fire
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic