Results of this preliminary damage report provide conclusive evidence that 8 hours is exactly the perfect amount of time in which to instigate and execute the ideal XMASsacre! Sleighers may celebrate the carnage!
Here is the setlist revealing the intial impact of destruction:
2007 XMASSACRE V
I'm pretty sure that is the accurate setlist for XMASSACRE V (and it includes preage and postage, i.e., it's 3pm Friday - 3am Saturday) Please feel free to ask any questions about the show, the tunes, etc.
Sorry to those who wanted to use the live online setlist feature we typically have available at WXYC's website, located about midlevel on the left of our homepage... Before we finished the first hour of the massacre, the flowsheet was starting to clog up, so I had to shift to the notepad method, although the setlist's server *did* apparently stabilize by the time the massacre was complete...maybe sooner... but I was too busy trying to find tunes and get it on to know precisely when the problems ended!
Yes, I was only supposed to be here for 9 hours, 3pm - midnight. There was supposed to be a midnight-3am dj, but no one showed up. Yeah I was tired, but it also gave a chance to get caught up on the flowsheet entry, so no harm, no foul to whoever it was who was supposed to be here at midnight. Anyway, that's the reason the XMASsacre's flow sheet runs 3pm - 3am instead of 3pm - midnight.
I'm goin' home to rest up. There will be more XMASsacre updates and improvements over the next few days... Check back!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Preliminary Damage Report 2007 XMASsacre
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Baby Jesus finally on board for XMASSACRE action!
Last year, a XMASsacre disciple provided us evidence that the adult Jesus was down with the massacre, as documented in this blog entry over on myspace.
Now, 2007, as the fifth XMASsacre looms ever near, Leland has stumbled upon this rare record of Baby Jesus, ready to rock it right, gonna show them thugs what this season is all about! Can I get a HELLS YEAH!?
Monday, December 10, 2007
X-MASsacre 2006
The 9 hour massacre - originally, after that first one, back in 2001, I thought 8 hours would be just right. 9 hours was OK, but I was really tired afterwards, so I believe I had it right after that first one.
Eight will be great!
Last year's blog entry at myspace
X-MASsacre 2005
...a 2 year hiatus... but behold, it raises it's rifle once again to the reindeer, in spite of everything!
X-MASsacre 2002
The Xmassacre that almost wasn't.
With gaping disbelief, in 2002, Richard was accused by the station manager of promoting a religious agenda! It is true.
FWIW, I have never been a member of any faith categorized as "Christian," even when I was a small child. The station manager in 2002 (and 2003 and 2004) was a spin doctor of more than vinyl and CDs, however, and he convinced several people I had a traditional Southern U.S. Christian-centric up-bringing and ideology. Over the next two years, he successfully disinformed those not present for the first two massacres that the purpose of the Xmassacre was exclusively intended to celebrate the birth of the Christ child. I shit you not. In the process, he contended this was a Christian-themed radio show, and therefore inappropriate for WXYC.
"Who approved this last year?" he asked in 2002. "The Music Director," I answered, "In fact, everyone seemed entirely supportive." "I find that hard to believe," he told me. I told him to ask them.
A regular Scrooge (unvisited by the future spirit) regardless what faith or belief system you apply, he seemed even more angry that there were so many requests during the 2002 show. I always felt kind of sorry for him.
This particular station manager would not allow another massacre while he was in control of WXYC, which explains the 2 year sabbatical for those who wondered why there was no Xmassacre in 2003 or 2004. He did, however, time the release of a CD--in which he had financial interest--to coincide with this gift-giving holiday which he seemed to so loathe. I guess he only loathes the elements which don't put cash directly in his pockets. Seems a tad hypocritical to me, but then, my belief system tends to be incongruous with Judeo-Christian capitalism.
In spite of his personal vendetta, in 2002 we blued the barrels and honed the blades to bring the brutality at least one more time:
X-MASsacre 2001 - The On-slaughter begins!
...essentially this is a placeholder, because back then, we actually wrote out our setlists by hand on paper, and I don't have access to the sheets in question for this one, nor the one of 2002... but... I do have the original promotional blurb that was in our weekly email! It went like this:
'XYC XMASsacre Xtravaganza, Monday, Dec. 17, 3-9 p.m.
Get aurally primed for the holiday season this Monday with
the 'XYC XMASsacre Xtravaganza! Pack for home, bake
cookies, go shopping, trim the tree, bask in the light of
the menorah--whatever your holiday pleasure--while
listening to 6 hours of the best holiday music on the
planet. From Gene Autry and AC/DC to Weird Al Yankovic
and Woofing Cookies, it doesn't get better than this!
(Requests are definitely welcome; e-mail title & artist
towxyc@unc.edu* in advance of the show if you like.)
Happy Holidays to all!
*As of 2007, please email your XMASsacre requests to:
FIRST XMASSACRE BLOG ENTRY
NOW
WITH FIRST XMASSACRE SETLIST!!!
