Just Another Mixtape: December Issue.

This post is coming to HAUUUUNT you from the paaassst.

Woka woka. 

The mixtape for December at [The Monthly Mixtape] was, of course, THE BEST OF 2009. There was another option for "The Best Of The Decade: 2000s," but that was too epic of a task for me.


So here it is! It's not my ULTIMATE 2009 playlist, but pretttty close. If it were up to me, I would've gone "All Rush Mixtape"-style and just send out the entire album of Band of Skulls and The xx, with a smattering of El Perro Del Mar (who I totally forgot about! Look her up- Lykke Li-ish). Oh, and Fever Ray. I LOVE FEVER RAY (and all of Sweden).


Sooo, here is the mixtape I sent to my mixtape partner, landmarcattack. Click on the title if you want to downloads it.


::12.09 Mixtape:: Best Of 2009::
01/ Pump Yr Brakes: Amazing Baby.
02/ Impossible: Band Of Skulls (my favorite band of the year!).
03/ Beach Baby: Bon Iver.
04/ I Cut Like A Buffalo: The Dead Weather.
05/ When I Grow Up: Fever Ray.
06/ My Boy Builds Coffins: Florence + The Machine.
07/ It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry: Glasvegas.
08/ Cheerleader: Grizzly Bear.
09/ Pursuit Of Happiness: Kid Cudi.
10/ I've Got Your Number: Passion Pit.
11/ Meet and Greet: Slaraffenland.
12/ Know Better Learn Faster: Thao + The Get Down Stay Down.
13/ New Fang: Them Crooked Vultures.
14/ Crystalised: The xx


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**OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST:


These are a few of the photos I loved in 2009. All pictures are taken with 100-200 speed 35mm film with 8M or regular Lomo cameras (except, of course, the polaroid picture). Digital pictures SUCK compared to grainy, overexposed, real-to-the-touch photos.

Just Another Mixtape: November Issue

Hhhhhhoooohhhhh... almost forgot this post. Woka woka.

Be entertained with this while I catch up on my weekend/Thanksgiving post(s).
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This month's mixtape tape theme over at [The Monthly Mixtape] was "1, 2, 3, 4"- meaning first song had to be one minute long, second song would be two minutes, and so on and so forth. Only catch: the playlist can only be 10 minutes long.

Coooool, cool. I decided to be a team player and I played by the rules (YOU CANNOT BOX ME IN!) and the theme. Here is what I came up with (I really tried hard not to make the last few songs completely instrumental and I think I did alll right):

This is what I sent to my pard'ner, witchywoman.
::11.09 Mixtape:: One, Two, Three, and More::
01/ Moments With Oliver: Rachel Yamagata
02/ Teenage Timebomb: The Okmoniks
03/ Tessellate: Toyko Police Club
04/ Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy
05/ "En Gallop": Joanna Newsom
06/ Sunflower River Blue: John Fahey
07/ Sometime Later: Alpha
08/ Lament For The Aurochs: The Sword
09/ Into Dust (Mazzy Star Cover): Ashtar Command
10/ The Only Moment We Were Alone: Explosions In The Sky

And here is the playlist that she sent to me:

01/ Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting: Of Montreal
02/ The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1: Neutral Milk Hotel
03/ The Songs That We Sing: Charlotte Gainsbourg
04/ Sing, Theresa Says: Greg Laswell
05/ April Fools: Rufus Wainwright
06/ No Cars Go: The Arcade Fire
07/ Delilah: The Dresden Dolls
08/ Gerdur: Sigur Ros
09/ Old Whore's Diet: Rufus Wainwright
10/ Light: Ben Lee

**OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST:

Jaya got me this t-shirt:

While she's rocking this one almost everyday:

Hahahahaha! How contradictory. Snag them from Print Liberation.

Have A Merry Halloween + Dive For Cover October Mixtape, pt I.

This month's mixtape option for [The Monthly Mixtape] was a Covers playlists, however both my partner and I decided to do an added Halloween playlist to keep in the spirits of the holiday. Here are the mixtapes that Karlientjeuh sent me: ::Have A Merry Halloween! Mixtape:: 01/ Mirror's Paradise: The Kovenant 02/ Panda Problem: The Panda 03/ Castlevania - Stage 3: The Advantage 04/ Tombstone Shadow: Creedence Clearwater Revival 05/ Ironclad: Sleater-Kinney 06/ Clockwork: CDOASS 07/ Engineer Fear: Birdy Nam Nam 08/ Anatonal: Stade 09/ F.V.K.: Bad Brains 10/ Ghosts Of You And Me: Less Than Jake 11/ Codename: Peabrain: The Lillingtons 12/ Skeletor/Beastman!: Gnarkill 13/ Evil Ways: Santana 14/ Tootled: Orbital 15/ Graveyard Girl: M83 16/ Into The Air : 16 Bitch Pile-Up 17/ Your Smile Makes Me Smile: RENEGADE ANDROID 18/ Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: The Emersons 19/ the universe is designed to break your mind: Burning Star Core ::Dive For Cover Mixtape:: 01/ Daniel: Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 02/ 32-20 Blues: Eric Clapton 03/ I Shall Be Released: Nina Simone 04/ While My Guitar Gently Weeps: Jake Shimabukuro 05/ Hotel California: Gipsy Kings 06/ You Can't Hurry Love: Phil Collins 07/ Feelings: The Offspring 08/ Smooth Operator: Señor Coconut 09/ Diamond Dogs: Beck 10/ Imagine: A Perfect Circle 11/ Hurt: Gregorian 12/ Rocket Man: My Morning Jacket 13/ Isolation: Therapy? 14/ Believe: Macha & Bedhead 15/ Jack The Ripper: The Horrors **OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST: From the Hello Kitty/Three Apple Exhibit @ Royal/T in Culver City. This is almost as good as "Kittens in Jars."

Kittens in Plexiglass walls! New internet phenomena.

Now I gots to go watch Monkey Shines. LLLLLAAAAAAATER.

Open Windows Mixtape pt. II

Here is my Open Window mixtape and this time I decided to put some thought into it. WHHAAAA? I know. I divided it into 2 parts: the first half is "Daytime: Light and Breezy"- these are songs I would play obnoxiously loud in my car with the windows rolled down, fists in the air, and me just LOSING MY SHIT; the second half is "Nighttime: Moody"- see aforementioned description of previous half but insert "nighttime" and "moody." Most of these songs are old because: 1\ I'm a sad, sad creature of habit and will only listen to what I know and like and 2\ New music? What new music? It's tooo much to go looking for it. 09.2009 Open Windows Mixtape: 01 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody): Talking Heads 02 That's Entertainment: The Jam 03 Normandie: Shout Out Louds 04 Hounds of Love (Kate Bush Cover): The Futureheads 05 To Hell With Good Intentions: McLusky 06 Age of Consent: New Order 07 Sleepyhead: Passion Pit 08 The One U Love: Hail Social 09 Blood: Band Of Skulls 10 It's A Man's World: James Brown 11 It Gets Your Body Movin': Suckers 12 The Dillon Family Dancers: The Redneck Manifesto 13 Cold Fame: Band Of Skulls 14 Look After Me: Hot Chip 15 2 Wicky: Hooverphonic 16 Are U That Somebody (Aaliyah Cover): The Gossip 17 Summer Breeze: Seals & Croft -- *DISTURBING/OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST*: The other day, Jaya and I are jammin along in my car trying to catch the 110 freeway via the 5 when J spots the license plate of the white truck in front of us. It reads (from top to bottom): "Daddy's Little Girl... Mommy's Clone." AAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH. Vomit in my mouth, vomit, vomit mouthfeel. We saw this just DAYS after Mackenzie Phillips made the entire world collectively dry heave (p.s. A LOT). Since we couldn't get a great picture of the vanity plate (that whole driving/moving car thing) here is this:

Some little dude lost their balloon to the air vents at LAX.

Open Windows Mixtape.

The September theme for [The Monthly Mixtape] at Last.fm was "Open Windows." Here is the description:

What does that mean? For the last days of summer, or if you're on the southern half of the coin the first of spring, let's make a mix that you'd (like to) hear through the open windows of your neighbourhood. The laid-back tunes that just give you a good feeling, make you break into song, attracted to strangers and have you dance on the street... you know, the tunes that make you act like a drunk in the middle of the day. Have fun and good luck making it!

I was paired with A-bay, who I, miraculously, have a "musical compatibility of HIGH" (first time that has ever happened). This is the mixtape she sent me: 09.2009 Open Window Mixtape 01 Stars: My Favourite Book 02 Andrew Kenny & Ben Gibbard: You Remind Me of Home 03 James Morrison: You Give Me Something 04 Ben Kweller: Run 05 Missy Higgins: Peachy 06 Ukesperience: Oceanside 07 Tom Petty: Mary Jane's Last Dance 08 Matt White: Love 09 Mason Jennings: Keepin It Real 10 Feist: I Feel It All 11 Meiko: How Lucky We Are 12 Sondre Lerche & Regina Spektor: Hell No 13 The Rolling Stones: Happy 14 Michael Jackon: Enjoy Yourself 15 Chairlift: Bruises I've only listened to the mix, fully, once and it was all right. There are some hits (Feist is always good, as is Tom Petty) and misses (ugggghhh on James Morrison- stop. making. music.) but I have to listen to it a couple more times. OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST: Jaya found this outside her door at her new apartment the other day:

WHAAAAA??

WHAAAAA?? is right. Someone, evidently, went smashy-smashy on their 40" (ohhhh for realssss) TV.

I DO do (some kind of) WORK.

So, this is what I spend time doing: RE-RE-ARRANGING SONGS. It's alll types of fun. This is the playlist that I'm sending my mixtape buddies on Last.fm. Mixtape 07.09: Schweaty Messes Summer '09: 01 To Hell With Good Intentions: McLusky 02 O Shot: The Gay Blades 03 Light of the Morning: Band of Skulls 04 Sleepyhead: Passion Pit 05 Ghetto Love: Spinnerette 06 Teen Creep: No Age 07 Daylight: Matt & Kim 08 In For the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix): La Roux 09 It Get's Your Body Movin': Suckers 10 Skinny Love: Bon Iver 11 Some Things Last A Long Time: Daniel Johnston 12 Honest James: Thurston Moore 13 Cold Fame: Band of Skulls 14 The Wolves (Bon Iver Cover Song): Ellie Goulding 15 The Dillion Family Dancers: The Red Neck Manifesto OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST SO I DON'TS FORGETS (this is some kind of crude memory-jogging therapy):

It do, it do. Saw this at the PCC Flea Market back in 11.06. Time traveling!

Just Another Playlist.

This mixtape was sent to me by landmarcattack via The Monthly Mixtape on Last.fm. It is eclectic and strange; the first mixtape (yep yep it's a twofer!) is a bit 90s/college rock-ish, while the latter is screamo/emo/punk rock. What the what, am I right? Here's the list: Mixtape #1: Crybaby Pussyfaces 1) Br00tal – Drag The River 2) How To Live Here – Good Luck 3) Mess Me Up – Nobunny 4) Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus 5) Darwin Was A Baptist – Ninja Gun 6) Fire On Peshtigo – O’Death 7) Kingdom of Ice – Woven Hand 8) The Gardner – The Tallest Man On Earth 9) Black Pear Tree – The Mountain Goats & Kaki King 10) Sin – Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas 11) Motivational Song – Algernon Cadwallader 12) Teenage Timebomb – The Okmoniks 13) Small Talk (blah blah blah) – The Max Levine Ensemble 14) Night Owls – Bridge And Tunnel 15) The Minimum Wage Song – This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb 16) Jus’ Folks – The Bananas 17) Say I Won’t (Recognize) – The Gaslight Anthem 18) Summer Grof – The Spinto Band 19) Toadvine – Ben Nichols 20) The Purgatory Line – Drive-By Truckers 21) Guilt: The Song – Andrew Jackson Jihad 22) Infamous Apology – Halo Fauna 23) Motion in the Ocean – Nana Grizol Mixtape #2: Meathead Doodbrahs 1) Trilogy 3 (Fall Days) – Loma Prieta 2) Letter of Resignation – Transistor Transistor 3) Awaken – Racebannon 4) The Shape of Punk that Never Came – United Nations 5) Dropping Cylinders – Mouthbreather 6) Retro Abortion – Double Negative 7) A. News Rips Through The Community – Jason Crumer 8) (My Head) – Times new Viking 9) Self Checkout – Off With Their Heads 10) I hate myself but I don’t want to die – Down In the Dumps 11) Lost – Jonesin’ 12) Fair Well – Young Livers 13) A Place To Die – Osceola 14) For Medications Only – Trainwreck 15) Speed of the Nail – Torche 16) I Hope The Ghosts Of the Dead Haunt Yr Soul Forever –Valient Thorr 17) Chapter 2, 3 – Verse 18) 体脂肪と戦う - Killie 19) Hounds – Cruel Hand 20) Not Your Choice – Wetnurse 21) Germ Freak (I Ain’t No) – Annihilation Time 22) Gotta Get The Gist – Shorebirds 23) Bridge above the Water – Ghostlimb And because every GOOD post should be accompanied by pictures, here are a couple of photos from a daytrip Jaya and I took to Solvang , CA (the home of wooden toys, craz-zaizie white folk, and ableskevers) back in the summer of 2007.

This place is the reason I LOVELOVELVEO windmills and turbine energy.

Ohhhh, an OG Pancake "Haus".