*listening to it at the office since I currently have no iPod*
it is all around incredible... spanning a wide range of emotions, topics, and tunes... a[nother] long lasting playlist for sure! wow!

I'm certainly glad we went for the Special Edition the acoustic version of Brave alone, would be worth the extra effort... not to mention the last song.

As usual there's the tell-tale cover song, this time a Bob Dylan song gets it's workout a la Nichole with wonderful funk!

I did have to stop it at track #7, call Beth and share the love.. *giddy giggling*

so yeah... mister jonathan hands me this cd i've wanted "for years!"
*shaking head, still in disbelief*
wow... all I could say was, "you're good, real good!"

thank you!

1. Marzipan’s Answering Machine - HomestarRunner
2. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
3. Lo Que Me Preocupa - La Hormiga
4. Waitin - Los Pericos
5. Wait For Me - Rebecca St. James
6. Do Your Feet Hurt (Acoustic) - MxPx
7. One Upon A(Nother) Dream - No Secrets
8. My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra
9. I’ve Got A Crush On You - Ella Fitzgerald
10. Please Don’t Go Girl - New Kids On The Block
11. In Whatever Time We Have - Children Of Eden
12. I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden
13. Stand By You - !Hero: The Rock Opera
14. Fly - Jars Of Clay
15. Come What May - Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
16. Love Of My Life - Santana & Dave Matthews
17. But I Do Love You - LeAnn Rimes
18. Oh, Boy! - MxPx
19. Besame Mucho - Nat King Cole
20. At Last - Etta James
21. More Than Words - Extreme
22. 5 Years To Write - John Reuben

1. Sunday, Bloody Sunday - Pillar

2. Beautiful Day - Sanctus Real

3. 40 - Starfield

4. Love Is Blindness - Sixpence None The Richer

5. Gloria - Audio Adrenaline

6. Grace - Nichole Nordeman
   with such a knack for bringing her own somewhat sultry and impassioned voice to already great songs (see: "Time After Time" for further example) she's slowly becoming an applicable replacement for my high school infatuation with Tori Amos' very abilities!

7. All I Want Is You - Jars Of Clay

8. Mysterious Ways - TobyMac
   This song takes me straight back to school... (so I'm somewhat old, still get carded and confused looks when they see my actual age... take that!) it's a perfect fit for toby's eclectic music mixing styles! *still lamenting Kevin Max's absence in this project*

9. Pride (In The Name of Love) - Delirious?
   no stretch of the imagination for d5! to be tackling a U2 song, as they've long integrated them even into their worship sessions live in concert!
   Martin Smith is pure genius and talent all bundled into a sweet, sincere package... bless them greatly, Lord!

10. One - Tait
    Michael has my heart, and completely attentive ears, when he grabs a mic. Grabbing hold of one of my all time fave/impacting U2 songs; his voice lingers, almost haunting me, with the words and thoughts of injustice, confusion, and ultimately pure love!

11. With or Without You - Grits (featuring Jadyn Maria)
    leave it to Grits to hip-hop up a classic... well! Seriously, maybe it's just 'cause I'm a hip-hop, groove, funk lover at heart... but I really think it's a smooth cover with jadyn's vocals sweetenin' it up as they gruff out the background making manly undertones power it all the way through.

12. When Love Comes to Town - Todd Agnew
    Todd blew me out of the water with his rendition of "Amazing Grace"... yet his voice he is so brask & harsh from what I've come to know/recognize that I actually had to look twice to assure myself that it was indeed him performing... don't get me wrong, it's good, just unexpected!?

13. Where the Streets Have No Name - Chris Tomlin
    that's enough... for now!

I feel like I should be driving through the snow laden roads, admiring overwhelming decorations and light displays, peering out quickly fogging windows with glee and a car full of friends & family!

*singing/rapping along* "John Reuben, the Professional Rapper!"

This boy is shockingly amazing and will never cease to leave me in aaron-mode. and to think, he did it for me... all just for me! *feels all special & stuffs*

kicking it off with a personalized intro... and then just diving into hardcore everything I could ever dream of enjoying as music! tight, seamless transitions left & right! crazy mixes! buttloads of tracks [over 60] ...all a girl could ever dream of in a birthday cd!

1. Intro - Tobymac

2. Alibi - Tait

3. Ibiza MegaMix 2003 - Antinomie [clip]

4. Numb - Linkin Park

5. Haunted - Evanescence

6. Waste Away - Saltbox

7. Bring me to life - Evanescence

8. Breaking the habit - Linkin Park

9. Jesus Freak *Gotee Remix* - DcTalk

10. Part of me - Sandtown *Featuring Tobymac*

11. Rescue - Newsboys [clip]

12. "Interlude" - Veggietales [clip]

13. Punk Rock Princess - Something Corporate [clip]

14. First date - Blink 182

15. Swing Swing - All American Rejects [clip]

16. My Immortal *Band Version* - Evanescence

17. Blue and Yellow - The Used

18. Wedding Celebration - !Hero - The rock opera *Featuring Tait, Nirva (from Tobymac), and Grits*

19. Fly - Jars of Clay

20. The last song - All American Rejects [clip]

21. Spirit in the Sky - DcTalk

note: I enjoy many songs that are foils to my actual philosophy in life, so that could explain some of it
1. Amazing Grace - Helmult Lotti This is one of my favorite songs, both to hear and to sing. This guy has a great voice, so i really like this version of it. I love all of the verses.

   Please Pass the Milk - They Might Be Giants this song actually didn't end up on the cd cus it was 8 sec long and my burning program wont burn anything under 10 sec. But it cracks me up every time that I hear it...."please pass the milk please...please pass the milk please..."

2. East St. Louis Toodle-o - Duke Ellington I really enjoy the big band sound, and songs with just real instruments (read: more than guitars and drums....in fact, if those instruments are omitted, I am happy)

3. If You Could Only See - Tonic This is a song that i really liked in jr high. I was trying to remember it one night this year and spent an hour on the internet looking for it til I found it. this actually reminds me of God in many ways..(and no, I have never been in love and I don't have blue eyes)

4. Money Money - from Cabaret This song makes me laugh because of how wrong it is, which is why I love it (the whole foil to my beliefs thing). I was introduced to Cabaret by my good friend Phil, which is part of why I like it a lot too. It's his favorite musical. I love musicals. there is a lot of things that I won't stand for in movies or music, but if it's in a musical I will let it slide...

5. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants I absolutely love this band for all of their offbeat lyrics. I love the trumpet intro to this song.

6. Vaya con Dios - Jaci Velásquez I love Spanish (working on becoming fluent) and I love God. Nuff said.

7. Why - Helmult Lotti Saw this on PBS and loved it, bought the cd, and this song just plain gets to me.

8. Hooked on a Feeling - ? The first time that I heard this version of the song I didn't like it, cus it messed up the real version. But after dancing to it and waking up to it every morning at Camp Recreation, I fell in love with it, and it always reminds me of camp.

9. Cabaret (Stepping Out) - Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies This is off a cd of punk covers of broadway show tunes. What can i say? I love show tunes, and all of their remixes....

10. Music of the Night - from Phantom of the Opera This is my favorite musical, and for a long time this was my favorite song from it. I love Michael Crawford's voice.

11. Song of the Cross - Susan Hookong-Taylor, Ana Tereza Da Costa (from World Youth Day 2002) I went to World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002. It was a great experience, and one of the best parts was the living reenacted way of the cross, of which this song played a big part.

12. New York City - They Might Be Giants this is my favorite song by this band, and now it also reminds me of Phil, who lives in NYC

13. The Confrontation - from Les Miserables I love what they say in this song, if you listen very closely. I also like the way their voices blend/layer. from my 2nd favorite musical

14. All For the Best - from Godspell We did this at Fox last year, and this song makes me smile and give me encouragement

15. Good 'n' Evil - from Jekyll and Hyde Another foil. I love the allusions in this song

16. Within You - David Bowie (from the Labyrinth soundtrack) I love David Bowie's voice. It has a lot of texture to it. I love labyrinth. I love everything about it-it's one of my 2 favorite movies

17. Your Little Body Is Slowly Breaking Down - from Evita This song makes me want to cry. not many things can do that. it just touches me a lot. it's probably not that effective/good out of context, but i had to include it anyway

18. Lumiére du mundo (International) - Robert Lebel (from World Youth Day 2002) this was the theme song for WYD in toronto. We sung it a lot that week. i love the different languages.

19. Forest Dance - University Repertory Theatre's 2003 production of The Crucible I was sound board op for this production

20. Blatently Explicit Sexual Song - Blame It on John this is my house's "song" this year. we play it really loud, dance around to it and laugh. i just picture the people from "American Gothic" singing it with a totally straight face. It's almost funnier when played twice as fast and twice as high.....

21. The Best Thing - Big Tent Revival The song that epitomizes what I think, although not always the way that I act.

    And the song that I wanted to include, but couldn't get a copy of…
    I Think I Love You - Partridge Family I swear, this is the most romantic song that I have ever heard. I would love it if someone proposed to me by singing this song. it's the phrase "I think" that does it for me....it sounds more practical than sappy. I don't like sappy. not a romantic at heart.....

1. Jars of Clay - Worlds Apart (A cry to God to "take my worlds apart"... Favorite Line: "Watch the world I used to love, fall to dust and blow away.")

2. Switchfoot - Only Hope (Telling God, [Y]ou're it...)

3. Jars of Clay - Needful Hands (Reinforcing #2...)

4. Audio Adrenaline - Ocean Floor (Piano Version) (I just plain like this version best... 1st heard on the Winter Camp video, reminder that He's taken them away and He's done what was asked in tracks 1 - 3.)

5. Jars of Clay - Love Song for a Saviour (The girl, yeah, me...)

6. Switchfoot - Twenty-Four (Just think about a symphony in 24 parts, wow, I'm floored...)

7. Todd Agnew - This Fragile Breath (Let it be known I love the deep bass voice some men have when singing... "Your voice shakes the mountains, the foundations of the earth" just think about it... Wow-ie.)

8. Evanescence - Bring Me to Life (Crying out again to "wake me up inside".)

9. Relient K - Pressing On (Take 1) (Muahaha, I just like this song, no real known reason to me...)

10. Relient K - Pressing On (Take 2) (Riding home in the car one Friday night Pieter and I were listening to this song at topped out volume and singing as loud as we could. One line in particular was done horribly on both parts and Pieter asked if he could re-do it... Low and behold, someone called in and asked who that was and if it could be played again, and the K-Love dude played it again, so we got to re-do 'cos it happened twice in a row.)

11. Switchfoot - Gone ("Ha ha")

12. Five Iron Frenzy - Dandelions (I just fell in love with this song, being a motherly person I so can relate from both sides and then hello, that's God only infinitely more better...)

13. Princess Bride (Willy DeVille) - Storybook Love (Princess Bride rocks... It's kind of like God and me I guess...)

14. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (I've loved this song since forever the first time I heard it ago... It's really been how I've started to want to be, I just want [you] to know who I am, and it's God in a way too... I mean hello?)

15. Nicole Nordeman - I Am (Wow... I cried when I heard this the first time.)

16. Relient K - For the Moments (One, this was played at my high school graduation by Hans, two I liked it from the first time I had heard it and it's just my song...)

17. Jars of Clay - Worlds Apart (Live) (Brings back memories of when I saw them in Tacoma... But I just, this song floors me every time...)