you know me. i'm kind of a hippie. i try to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever possible. to this end, i ordered 100 refurbished jewel cases from www.greendisk.com. keep 'em off the streets.

but they haven't come yet, and our first show is thursday. i called them, and they said they'd look into it and get back to me. so where's the first printing of Eponymy going to live?

a few years ago, a book of CDs was stolen out of my car. i kept the empty jewel cases to remind me what i was missing, and to hold a new CD if someone burned me a replacement. i've held onto those cases for 4 years now. it's time for them to move on. really, it's a great honor for DeatHat's first EP to share cases with such albums as "Clowns in the Sky: the musical history of MST3K" and Nina Simone's "Pastel Blues/ Let It All Out."

Here's the full run-down on what you might be inheriting if you buy one of the first 8 copies of "Eponymy:"

Sweet Dreams are Made of This- the Eurythmics
Nighmare Before Christmas soundtrack
Drums and Wires- XTC
Screamin' the Blues- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Dead Man's Party- Oingo Boingo
Only a Lad- Oingo Boingo

as well as the two albums mentioned above. i'm feeling very sentimental about this. also, it says a lot about a person what CDs are stolen from them, and possibly even more what CDs they don't replace in 4 years (although, to be fair, 2 of these are extras. you guess which ones.)