i made this tape for one of my best friends this past new year's. it was named after an incident where we'd split a bottle of Chartreuse and gone dancing, and were so hung over the next day that we thought we'd given ourselves wormwood poisoning. all of these songs are about him, in a way, or have some special significance to us. for instance, i put in "soap commercial" because he'd done all my laundry at his parents' house, as my christmas present; "scary monsters" is how people react to us in public. in retrospect, i wish i hadn't put all of "ten little bottles" on the thing; it's really only funny the first time you hear it. the friend i gave this to tends to fast-forward through it. but i like how i kept it all nice and multi-cultural----christmas AND chanukkah! if only they made kwanzaa music...