Mixtapes
Getting to Know You
Songs that may merely facilitate intimacy, and not exactly discuss or explore it… I asked people about intimacy and the songs they associate with the word. I cautioned them about the first impressions of that concept, of the physicality it immediately implies, and asked them to veer away from the R. Kellys and the Careless [...]
The Deathless Love We Swore to Protect with our Bodies is Stumbling Across its Bleak Ending
Those are not my words, they’re John Darnielle’s. If I had to choose one band/musician to describe the ending of my last long-term relationship–or at least to set a good story to good music–it would have to be The Mountain Goats. Not that my break-up is a good story, at least not in that way. [...]
I am Sorry for my Commitment Issues
A Mixtape About a Penchant for Emotional Unavailability. First things first, you must admit: unavailability is attractive. You have this quote-friend-unquote. You share beers, you share spit, you share the occasional cold bed which you warm every weekend after your friend convinces you that you are too drunk to go home. Just stay the night. [...]
She’s Gotten Used to This Version of You
If he listened, he’d know that she is more scared than she is angry. But he never does, he never lets her finish a sentence without a fight, and she doesn’t care enough to explain herself anymore. So they wrestle all the time about things past and future (the worst fights are about things that [...]
God Hates a Coward: A mixtape for all of those times that you need to fight
The fight or flight instinct is one of our basest human tendencies. Though modern society has pretty much made sure that our lives are very rarely put in actual danger, evolution has yet to get that memo. Because of this glitch we go through life feeling like running or fighting when we should actually be [...]
Monday Is For Drinking To The Seldom Seen Kid
Like many of you, the relationship I’ve had with alcohol and its consumption has waxed and waned over the years that have transpired to convince me that I am, on most levels, a functioning adult. As I transitioned from the early, degenerative years of experimentation and toxic yolk brain hangovers to the ‘reformed’ dynamics that [...]
I Will Write About the Possibility of Us Everywhere
Instead of a futuristic, bleep-bloop-y selection of songs, here’s a mix that’s tangentially related to the idea of possibilities, which is tangentially related to the idea of The Future. It began with The National’s “Slow Show,” mostly because of this fantastic line: You know I’ve dreamt about you, for 29 years, before I met you. [...]
So What’s Next?: A Soundtrack for Things Yet to Come
In the here and now, we bemoan the failed promise of keeping up with the Jetsons, even as we busy ourselves with content-on-demand, and real-time newsfeeds packed with blips and tweets. Our present day feels like a bland caricature of the future envisioned by the generations just before us. Our hyper-globalized world, with its post-Fordist [...]
The Future of Synth is in Your Hands
“It’s not what you have but how you use what you have” Pharrell Williams, all-around coolness icon, said. Any Neptunes fan can tell if it’s a Neptunes track, just by hearing the group’s signature synthesizers. The duo is just one of many popular acts rediscovering synth, a musical staple since the ‘60s. The music of [...]
Be Nothing Short of Amazing Today: An Election Mix
Also Known as the “I Hope You Know Who to Vote for Mix,” the “No Votes are Wasted Votes Mix” the “Please Don’t Fuck This Up Mix,” the “You Will Always Be More Powerful Than a Motherfucking Survey Mix”, the “That So Many People Care Now Gives Us Hope Mix”, the “Change Has to Start [...]
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