October Mix: The Death of Me

10-28-2016

I love this phrase, "the death of me". It can describe the worst, most annoying thing. Or the best thing if you're into eliminating the ego. Take it how you want! You're the boss of your own experience:

1. I Put A Spell On You - Annie Lennox



2. Can't Seem To Make You Mine - The Seeds



3. Sunglasses at Night - Cory Hart



4. Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 



5. Save Us - Tracy Chapman



6. Marrow - ANOHNI



7. Dark Turn of Mind - Gillian Welch



8. Tin Foiled - Andrew Bird



9. Cry, Cry Darling - Chris Thile & Michael Daves



10. Keep Your Name - Dirty Projectors



11. Blank Space (Taylor Swift Cover) - Ryan Adams



12. Lie In The Sound - Trespassers William



13. Blackberry Song - Kurt Vile



14. Atlantique Sud - M83 Feat. Mai Lan



15. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay

NOTES:
1. Get it, girl. Spooky time. Remember this?
2. Thanks, Stranger Things!
3. This song is this. Also, listened to this song on the regular in real life WHAT WAS I THINKING. She's just being Miley, guys.
4. Everyone still loving all the election coverage?????
5. For real.
6. This album... was not for me. But I quite like this track.
7. "I want to electrify my soul"
8. Click here if you want to waste hours with literally all of my favorite people.
9. I love them, and they're too loud everything. There's nothing better than singing like this.
10. You already know how I feel.
11. According to my brother, Ryan Adams knows all the pinball tricks. That's the only fact I have.
12. You know I'm a sucker for any song featured on the WB/CW
13. Give me more of those kaleidoscope sounds.
14. Just lovely.
15. You know you're almost thirty when this song makes you tear up every time you listen to it. And here we go again if you want to remember to love Chris Martin a little more.

Music for your Midweek: Darkstar - "Deadness"

10-16-2016 Site A/Plot M

I visited a nuclear reactor graveyard on Sunday as part of a walk-about with Deep Time Chicago. (Day of rest, indeed!) This song is a pretty good accompaniment to that experience:

If you would like to read more about the experience (and to see a photo of me with my arms crossed, looking thoughtful-ish) click here. Maybe we should start our own Anthropocene discussion/walk-about group in Salt Lake City?

Music for your Midweek: The Dirty Projectors - "Keep Your Name"

10-2-2016

Uffff. This song has been twisting the knife since it was released a couple weeks ago. Impregnable Question is one of my favorite love songs, and the way it's sampled in this track is devastating.
No hyperbole. Made me cry. Big surprise:

Saturday Verse: "Housekeeping" - Natasha Trethewey

9-28-2016

HOUSEKEEPING

We mourn the broken things, chair legs
wrenched from their seats, chipped plates,
the threadbare clothes. We work the magic
of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes.
We save what we can, melt small pieces
of soap, gather fallen pecans, keep neck bones
for soup. Beating rugs against the house,
we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading
across the yard. Late afternoon, we draw
the blinds to cool the rooms,  drive the bugs
out. My mother irons, singing, lost in reverie.
I mark the pages of a mail-order catalog,
listen for passing cars. All day we watch
for the mail, some news from a distant place. 

                                                       - Natasha Trethewey

September Mix: dusky by stars

9-28-2016

I've started running again, which mean my mixes have improved. Good news for you, good news for my muscles. Trying to make more room for the things I like, and get rid of things I don't. Blah blah blah. Anyway, here's the result. I like it quite a bit IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF.

*Mix title from this poem

1. Summers Over Interlude - Drake



2. Vitamin C - CAN



3. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths



4. The Worst In You - Andy Shauf



5. The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones




6. Edge of Town - Middle Kids



7. Hi-Definition - Lupe Fiasco Feat. Snoop Dogg & Pooh Bear



8. California Dreamin' - Bobby Womack



9. If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow



10. No Cars Go - Arcade Fire



11. Good Bye - Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin



12. Sunday Night 1987 - M83



13. Acrobat - Angel Olsen



14. Orphan Girl - Gillian Welch




NOTES:
1. I like Drake but I'm not allowed to listen to him to much anymore so here's this.
2. These drums are sick for real. Hypnotizing. Shout out to The Get-Down for inspiring me so much, I've only watched the first episode so I can draw it out and make it last longer.
3. A Public Service Announcement:
In the song, Morrissey sings, "I am the son / and the heir" and not "I am the sun / and the air" like I thought he sang my whole freaking life.
4. Cutie
5. I could not get through September without a battle / I faced death / I went in with my arms swinging / but I heard my won breath / and I had to face that I'm still living
6. This song is part of my daily dance workout. Video forthcoming.
7. Thanks Julia
8. Bobby Womak - voice like honey - bless my heart
9. My new karaoke jam once someone invites me to karaoke. Also love this cover version.
10. Women and children
      LET'S GO
11. These two.

I mean, really.
12. I am a 1987 Sunday night kind of girl. Literally.
13. Learned how to play this one on guitar a couple years ago and it's still stuck in my heart.
14. Bonus Emmylou Harris cover:

Saturday Verse (on a Sunday): "Rice" - Chun Yang Hee

9-15-2016

RICE 

To you you eat a lot of rice because you are lonely
To you who sleep a lot because you are bored
To you who cry a lot because you are sad
I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornered
Like you would chew on rice.
Anyway life if something that you need to digest. 

                                                              - Chun Yang Hee

Saturday Verse: "And The Days Are Not Full Enough" - Ezra Pound

8-29-2016

AND THE DAYS ARE NOT FULL ENOUGH 

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
     Not shaking the grass

                                                    - Ezra Pound