craftgrrl | Book for CDs and a question. (Reply)

My girlfriend found the slash_lyrics community on Livejournal. First response: oh my god, it's our dream community! Second response: oh, how woefully incomplete it is! So we all started listing songs that alluded to queer relationships (or just some good old fashioned gay lovin', or used bumsex as a metaphor for drugs or... whatever). Our list came to about 51.

"I've heard maybe nine of these!" said sweet

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Well, we couldn't have that! I had all the songs we were talking about on hand (which says a lot of sad things about my CD collection), but we're both still on caveman dial-up, so sending them that way was out. I decided to burn her a box set because HER LIFE WAS INCOMPLETE. But I had no CD cases.

And so the CD book was born:

Full of lyrics, pictures, and of course, CDs.

Each CD nestles in the beginning of its very own signature. The slots for them are mostly taped on, because I didn't really have room to glue them in all pretty. Clearly, I plan these things well.

I added the lyrics because... they're the whole reason the set exists. That, and I needed something to take up space. Printing these was by far the hardest part--I used these instructions for making the book itself, and they're fabulous, but it took a lot of planning to get the lyrics in the right order in each signature. Then I had to get them to print correctly on each side of the half-sheets...

On the plus side, I could use any paper that wasn't messed up on both sides to print the pictures! Yay!

The sections for each CD are all different colors to make for easy browsing. And because there had to be a rainbow. It's a compilation of gay songs, for god's sake.

And when it's all tied up for safe shipping, who would guess that it's full of sexual deviancy?

I imagine no one cares enough for five pictures, but hey! It's the first book I've actually completed, so I feel like I should give it some love.

And now for my question: ~~For those of you that use it: where do you get your grommet tape?~~ I have been enlightened! But if anyone gets theirs obscenely cheap from some kind of crazy fabric speakeasy, I'd still like to know.

Edit: Okay, okay, you dirty girls. The tracklist is here:
Disc 1:
David Bowie - Time
Jacques Brel - Au Suivant
David Bowie - Lady Stardust
Charles Aznavour - What Makes a Man a Man
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
Gavin Friday - Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves
Pete Townshend - Rough Boys
The Damned - Jet Boy Jet Girl
David Bowie - John, I'm only Dancing
The Kinks - Lola
Lou Reed - Make Up
David Bowie - Queen Bitch
Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love

Disc 2:
U2 - Until the End of the World
Tori Amos - Raspberry Swirl
King Adora - Boy For Rent
Travis - As You Are
Gavin Friday - Saint Divine
Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go, Baby, Go!)
Gavin Friday - Next
King Adora - Drag
Tori Amos - She's Your Cocaine
Gavin Friday - Dolls
Franz Ferdinand - Michael
Placebo - My Sweet Prince

Disc 3:
Suede - Introducing the Band
Mansun - The Chad Who Loved Me
Suede - My Insatiable One
Suede - Animal Nitrate
King Adora - Asthmatic
Spacehog - Adam and Steve
Blur - Girls and Boys
Suede - The Drowners
Nancy Boy - New Attitude
Spacehog - Space is the Place
Suede - Pantomime Horse
Spacehog - At Least I Got Laid
Suede - He's Dead
Manic Street Preachers - No Surface All Feeling

Disc 4:
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Nine Inch Nails - The Only Time
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker
Lords of Acid - Pussy
Timo Maas feat. Brian Molko - Pictures
Scissor Sisters - Better Luck
Darren Hayes - Unlovable
Nine Inch Nails - Starfuckers, Inc.
Suede - W.S.D.
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Darren Hayes - Love & Attraction
Underworld - Born Slippy

I tried to limit it to the ones that actually suggested relationships instead of just being really fruity, because otherwise I would have to include everything the Pet Shop Boys have ever done. And yes, some of them aren't strictly queer (My Sweet Prince, for instance), but use your imagination here.