April Mix: Branches on the Same Old Tree

4-9-2019

This is one arena where I have no modesty. These mixes are good, and someone neds to hire me to make them. Aren't you lucky you get it for free?



1. Garden of England (Interlude) - alt-J





2. La Vie En Rose - Lucy Dacus





3. Harmony Hall - Vampire Weekend





4. Funtimes in Babylon - Father John Misty





5. Forest Lawn - Better Oblivion Community Center





6. In A Big Country - Big Country





7. Words - F.R. David





8. Fuh You- Paul McCartney





9. For No One - Emmylou Harris





10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters





11. 1950 - King Princess





12. Drew Barrymore - SZA





13. Pretty Ugly - Tierra Whack





14. I've Got my Mind Set On You - James Ray





15. Look at Me Now - Emily King





16. Pressure to Party - Julia Jacklin





17. Make Out in My Car (Sufjan Stevens Version) - Moses Sumney, Sufjan Stevens




18. Northsiders - Christian Lee Hutson




NOTES:
5. Who knew I would finally seee Conor Oberst 15 years after being obsessed and being more excited for Phoebe Bridgers? Also related. Was chatting with a new girl at work about the first concerts we had gone to. And she talked about how the song "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World really helped her on her first day of school...in KINDERGARTEN.
6. 1985 was a good year - https://the-time-crisis-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_88
8. Trust me I feel conflicted about this
9. Can't resist a cover
13. Thank you, Shrill
14. Can't resist an original
18. Christian Lee Hutson opened for Better Oblivion Community Center and was great great great. I'm glad that everyone is embracing the Elliott Smith sound. High school really is back again.

February Mix: Your Own

1-18-2019

A good mix for a birthday month.

1. Andromeda - Weyes Blood

2. Through Windows - Wild Nothing

3. Time is Everything (feat. Riley Calcagno) - Vivian Leva

4. Washing Machine Heart - Mitski

5. And I Love Him - Esther Phillips

6. Downhearted - Molly Burch

7. Pork And Beans - Weezer

8. Getting To Me - Caroline Rose

9. 2021 - Vampire Weekend

10. Cut Your Bangs - Girlpool

11. Person Mythology - Sen Wisher

12. Lighthouse - Grouper

NOTES:

1. Thanks to Julia for re-introducing me to Weyes Blood

3. What luck to be brave enough to go to a random house show full of semi-strangers twice my age. It was worth it. Vivian and Riley are a beautiful duo.

7. Inspired by this skit

9. I cannot tell you how excited I am for this. Thanks to Time Crisis for carrying me through

10. Don't mind if I do

11. Ben is the best. Listen to his whole new album here.

Saturday Verse: "Snowshoe to Otter Creek" - Stacie Cassarino

                                             love lasts by not lasting

                            - Jack Gilbert

I’m mapping this new year’s vanishings:    

lover, yellow house, the knowledge of surfaces.

This is not a story of return.

There are times I wish I could erase

the mind’s lucidity, the difficulty of Sundays,

my fervor to be touched

by a woman two Februarys gone. What brings the body

back, grieved and cloven, tromping these woods

with nothing to confide in? New snow reassumes

the circleting trees, the bridge above the creek

where I stand like a stranger to my life.

There is no single moment of loss, there is

an amassing. The disbeliever sleeps at an angle

in the bed. The orchard is a graveyard.

Is this the real end? Someone shoveling her way out

with cold intention? Someone naming her missing?

January Mix: Problematic Nineteenager

01-20-2019

I like listening to music again!

1. Buckeye Jim - Burl Ives



2. In Another Life - Foxwarren



3. Faded Dream - Goldmyth



4. Army Dreamers - Kate Bush



5. Moonlight - XXXTENTACION



6. Darling - Real Estate



7. Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen



8. Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates



9. When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout



10. when the party's over - Billie Eilish



11. Here Before - Vashti Bunyan



12. Red Wine & Promises - Mike Waterson, Lal Waterson



13. Your Dog - Soccer Mommy



14. Be the Song - Foy Vance



15. No Matter Where I Roam - Tom Brosseau



16. He Came From The Mountain - Bruce Cockburn



17. Ol' Man River - The Beach Boys



And here it is on Spotify:



NOTES: 
1. When you'd rather live in a Disney movie than real life
2. When you'd rather live in a Andy Shauf party than real life
3. When you'd rather live in a dream than real life
4. When you'd rather be in Kate Bush's army than real life
5. Sorry
6. They made good
7. I'm reading Warm Bodies and wish I was just watching the movie. I think it's my favorite? The soundtrack is the best
8. A banger
9. It slaps
10. This is what the teens are listening to
11. I read a tweet about about a mom saying her daughter talks about her life "from before" and she's 4 years old and it freaked me out so bad I almost couldn't sleep
12. The best best best that you can't hear on Spotify so listen to it here
13. More neu emo
14. More from the Warm Bodies soundtrack
16. The sweetest song that I heard for the first time when Emily Golightly played it at a Christmas acoustic night
17. Always the best harmonies from these brothers

A Poem: "The Birthday of the World" - Marge Piercy

12-28-2018

The birthday of the world

BY MARGE PIERCY

On the birthday of the world

I begin to contemplate

what I have done and left

undone, but this year

not so much rebuilding

of my perennially damaged

psyche, shoring up eroding

friendships, digging out

stumps of old resentments

that refuse to rot on their own.

No, this year I want to call

myself to task for what

I have done and not done

for peace. How much have

I dared in opposition?

How much have I put

on the line for freedom?

For mine and others?

As these freedoms are pared,

sliced and diced, where

have I spoken out? Who

have I tried to move? In

this holy season, I stand

self-convicted of sloth

in a time when lies choke

the mind and rhetoric

bends reason to slithering

choking pythons. Here

I stand before the gates

opening, the fire dazzling

my eyes, and as I approach

what judges me, I judge

myself. Give me weapons

of minute destruction. Let

my words turn into sparks.

December Mix: DrEaMO

12-11-2018

There she is:

1. Saturday - Real Estate

2. No Fear of Hellfire - Nap Eyes

3. Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt

4. Alone (feat. Lily Elise) - Twin Shadow

5. I'm Not Scared - Tomberlin

6. Sunday Light - Choir Boy

7. Caledonia, My Love - Hiss Golden Messenger

8. Bring Your Love To Me - The Avett Brothers

9. Beautiful - Bazzi

10. Imagining My Man - Aldous Harding

11. Necessary Evil - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

12. We Were Meant to Be Together - Tom Brosseau

13. Palace (Sam Smith Cover) - Cam

14. Show You a Body - Haley Heynderickx

15. Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers

16. L'Inconnue - Beach House

A poem: "Day in Autumn" Rainer Maria Rilke

11-23-2018

I subscribed to the Poetry Foundation's daily poems and it was a great decision. Today's:

Day in Autumn

BY RAINER MARIA RILKE

TRANSLATED BY MARY KINZIE

After the summer's yield, Lord, it is time 

to let your shadow lengthen on the sundials 

and in the pastures let the rough winds fly. 

As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness. 

Direct on them two days of warmer light 

to hale them golden toward their term, and harry 

the last few drops of sweetness through the wine. 

Whoever's homeless now, will build no shelter; 

who lives alone will live indefinitely so, 

waking up to read a little, draft long letters,   

and, along the city's avenues, 

fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen.