Allison and I hosted our Christmas Album Release Party this past weekend and I've reached one big conclusion: I am a better party planner than a party executor.
Don't get me wrong, the party was great. Everyone had a lot of fun, and the place was packed; had the Christmas lights malfunctioned and started a fire, there would have surely been fatalities.
But we went so overboard on promises before the party that we couldn't deliver. Each of the TWELVE days before the party, we sent out a new announcement promising a new exciting element to the party. While this succeeded in creating a hype (people were talking!), it was practically impossible to run a game of White Elephant, organize a group singalong for charity, and have everyone dance like the Peanuts amidst a standing room only crowd.
For the sake of completion, once the crowd thinned to the last drunkies standing (and in some cases, leaning) at about three AM, we did rush through all of our promises. But that doesn't make us good hosts, just hosts looking to get by on a technicality.
If you want a copy of the album Allison and I recorded, we've still got some extras. Either we didn't do a good job of telling people to grab them, or people decided to forego the freebie for the sake of their eardrums. Below are three tracks in case you want to sample/download them:
O Come All Ye Faithful (featuring Macomputer)
Carol of the Bells
The Chipmunk Song
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