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"You are like bullets, like knives, guns and... grenades! You're what we call bombs in suits."

-Andrew McNair

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The Last Salesman (11/6/09) [View | Hide]

Today's post is difficult. Yesterday my stepfather died. I was having a difficult time processing it all, so I made a playlist to mull it over. I still have so much to process, but I think this will help.

It's not an easy listen. It will hurt at times. I'm ready for it.

I'm going to do a little something different this time around. I used to make poems out of the track names of the songs I'd put on a CD. Today, I'm bringing that back.

Here is one for my stepfather David, who I will miss for reasons unknown to me. He was a hard man, a cruel man, a bastard. I hated him for false reasons. Now when I reflect, I remember the good. It's what I'll keep. I hope it will change my perceptions.

Goodbye David.

The Last Salesman

1902.
From the deep ocean,
a beached baby was born
and inhabits
stolen houses
for shelter.

He was young when he left home.
It was a sort of revolution:
renegade, ruanaway, bad kid.
He would jangle on a bayonet
under the Milky Way:
murky white stars.

He turned from them,
to become a traveling salesman;
the last one.
Hands on the radio,
in that big red
machine.

Red lights,
black tables.
Action, reaction.

Breathe?
It was his time to die.

There's a boy who builds coffins,
Harry Patch.
"In memory of," was engraved.

We walked the wake
and I bent to kiss
you on the cheek.

Ma said,
"it was something
to have wept."

We danced on his grave,
to the burial sounds of seagulls,
all to avoid the void;
the void
of sailing home,
of the sequel.

We are the souverians,
waiting,
for the first days of spring.

*Please take special note that there are four files to this set (so download them all!) and if you put them in order you'll hear the story.

Tracklist:

1. The Uglysuit 1902 Deep Ocean
2. Bon Iver Beach Baby
3. Iron & Wine Stolen Houses (Die)
4. The XX Shelter
5. Antony & Bryce Dressner I Was Young When I Left Home
6. Fink Sort of Revolution [The Cinematic Orchestra Remix]
7. Kings Of Convenience Renegade
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Runaway
9. Black Lips Bad Kids
10. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Janglin'
11. Beirut On A Bayonet
12. Sia Under The Milky Way
13. Warpaint Stars
14. Patrick Watson Traveling Salesman
15. Au Revoir Simone The Last One
16. Chris Garneau Hands On The Radio
17. Justin Vernon & Aaron Dressner Big Red Machine
18. Vib Gyor Red Lights
19. Other Lives Black Tables
20. Choir of Young Believers Action/Reaction

The Last Salesman: Disc 1, Pt. I
The Last Salesman: Disc 1, Pt. II

1. David Gray Breathe
2. The Dodos A Time To Die
3. Florence + The Machine My Boy Builds Coffins
4. Radiohead Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
5. The Antlers Wake
6. Desmond & The Tutus Kiss You On The Cheek [King Of Town Remix]
7. El Perro Del Mar It Is Something (To Have Wept)
8. Paper Route Dance On Our Graves
9. The Phantom Band Burial Sounds
10. Motorama Seagulls
11. Atlas Sound Avoid The Void
12. Papercuts The Void
13. Karen O & The Kids Sailing Home
14. St. Vincent The Sequel
15. Andrew Bird Souverian
16. Noah & The Whale The First Days of Spring

The Last Salesman: Disc 2, Pt. I
The Last Salesman: Disc 2, Pt. II

Treasure Island: The Butter (10/25/09) [View | Hide]

So I planned my move to Southern California around the Treasure Island Music Festival. I have never been to a major music festival and after seeing the line-up I knew this was the one for me. It was insanedible.

Knowing that I would be driving down to and through San Francisco it meant that I had to do a lot of soul searching and by soul searching, I mean downsizing. That was hard. I got rid of nearly half my stuff just moving from college, but now I had to make it all fit into the back of my 1995 Ford Escort Wagon. This was no easy task. Then again, there were a few items (such as a bottle of Log Cabin Syrup, or 2 dozen pairs of straightedge scissors, or a t-shirt with a cowboy and his horse drinking from the same trough, caption reading "Best Friends) that would suggest downsizing was still a viable option.

Thus I scrapped and scrapped and dumped and pawned and gifted and re-gifted and stuffed that car like a turkey for twelve. I even fit my 8' carved wooden statue from Borneo in there! So the girl and I sat off for the show the night before the concert and drove for 12 hours to get to the gloriousness that is San Francisco.

Along the way I had an epiphany... in the seven years of ownership that I had on my car I had yet to name the beaut. And around 3am, just after crossing Grant's Pass (a real mammoth of a mountain pass) her name came to me. LOLA PEPITA ESTEBAN RUIZ. She'll kick your ass any day. She's bad like that.

In honor of this moment I decided to make a playlist of the show that inspired the trip that would henceforth conjure up the name of names for my queen of cars. Here are some of my favorites from the show.

Tracklist:
1. The Management (MGMT) Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix)
2. MSTRKRFT Breakaway (Feat. Jahmal from The Carps)
3. Girl Talk Hands In The Air
4. The Brazilian Girls Last Call (Disco Pusher Remix)
5. Passion Pit Sleepyhead (Joel's Inch From The Edge Of The Bed Version)
6. Federico Aubele Su Melodia
7. Dan Deacon Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life
8. Murs What Do You Know?
9. The Decemberists The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
10. Beirut La Llorona
11. Grizzly Bear About Face
12. Yo La Tengo Gentle Hour
13. The Walkmen On The Water
14. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Beat (Health, Life and Fire)
15. Vetiver You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)
16. Tommy Guerrero Falling Awake
17. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Home

Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. I
Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. II

Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain (10/25/09) [View | Hide]

Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Musical Playthings (10/9/09) [View | Hide]

Humandroid (10/1/09) [View | Hide]

animalia (8/21/09) [View | Hide]

Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Deep Laze & The Long Kiss (7/24/09) [View | Hide]

Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Big Step (7/13/09) [View | Hide]

Fuck A Twat (7/12/09) [View | Hide]

Dog Days, 5 Things EP: The Big Swim (7/8/09) [View | Hide]

sumMErsize: vol. 2 (6/15/09) [View | Hide]

the perks of being a wallflower (6/13/09) [View | Hide]

Tracklisting:

The Smiths Asleep
Ride Vapour Trail
Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Procol Harum Whiter Shade of Pale
Nick Drake Time Of No Reply
The Beatles Dear Prudence
Suzanne Vega Gypsy
The Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
The Smashing Pumpkins Daydream (Demo)
Genesis Dusk
U2 MLK
The Beatles Blackbird
Fleetwood Mac Landslide
The Smiths Asleep (Soundcheck)

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The Perks of Being A Wallflower: Winter Songs

When I was reading Wallflower, it occured to me that I needed to share a little of what it offered. It's superb. When I came upon this passage:

"I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of htese memories adn feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote on of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

it was as if reading a passage from my mind... except made profoundly clear so that others could understand. Understand what it is that I get out of making playlists. The following is a playlist made from and inspired by the music from the book. In the style of Charlie I hope.

"I hope it's the kind of second side that [you] can listen to whenever [you] drive alone and feel like [you] belong to something whenever [you're] sad. I hope it can be that for [you]"

Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

Regina Spektor Laughing With
David Bowie Rebel Rebel
Red Light Company With Lights Out
The Beatles Something
Gary Jules Falling Awake
James Blackshaw Infinite Circle
Billie Holiday Solitude
Arcade Fire Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Blondie Union City Blue
Mr. Mister Broken Wings
Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit [LP Version]
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. II
Tim Curry (Frank N' Furter) I'm Going Home
Glen Hansard Lies
The Wallflowers Another One In The Dark
Adam Lambert Mad World (Tears for Fears Cover)
Matt Nathanson Bulletproof Weeks
Jeff Buckley Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Links:
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. I
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. II

Instrumentality. (6/8/09) [View | Hide]

Instrumentals offer a plethora of possibilities when it comes to the emotional experience. If culminated properly there is the prospect of the picturesque portrayal... perhaps at times too perfect. Even still, the idea of collecting worldess psalms, ones which celebrate and lament life is throughly promising to me. Below is a collection of instrumentals from what I consider the great contemporaries of composers. The 25 track collection covers the epic journey of a single person through a great many tribulative triumphs, to the ultimate conclusion of life... death. I hope you enjoy.

Michael Brook Carte Noir [From "Into the Wild"]
Mark Isham Building a Family [From "Life as a House"]
Hans Zimmer Gumption [From "The Holiday"]
Nico Muhly Reading [From "The Reader"]
Ennio Morricone Deborah's Theme [From "Once Upon a Time in America"]
John Williams Destiny's Path [From "Memoirs of a Geisha"]
Thomas Newman Dead Already [From "American Beauty"]
Piero Umiliani Crepuscolo Sul Mare (Twilight on the Sea) [From "Ocean's 12"]
Nicola Piovani Vita É Bella (Life Is Beautiful) [From "Life is Beautiful"]
Rachel Portman Chocolate Sauce [From "Chocolat"]
Christopher Gunning L'éveil [From "La Vie En Rose"]
Adrian Johnston With Terry Davies & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Fantasy-Impromptu in C Sharp minor, Op. 66: Always Summer [From "Brideshead Revisited"]
Christophe Beck Blue Umbrellas [From "Under the Tuscan Sun"]
Nicola Piovani Caro Diario [From "Caro Diaro (Journal Intime)"]
Itzhak Perlman & John Williams With The Boston Pops Orchestra film score Theme [From "Now, Voyager"]
Janusz Olejniczak Nocturne For Piano in C Sharp minor (Doubtful), KK Anh. Ia/6 [From "The Pianist"]
Ryuichi Sakamato Bibo No Aozora/04 [From "Babel"]
Ennio Morricone The Crisis [From "The Legend of 1900"]
Dario Marianelli Your Hands Are Cold [From "Pride & Prejudice"]
Patrick Doyle & Miriam Stockley Love Theme (Kissing In The Rain) [From "Great Expectations"]
Philip Glass The Poet Acts [From "The Hours"]
Thomas Newman Road to Chicago [From "Road to Perdition"]
Dario Marianelli Elegy for Dunkirk [From "Atonement"]
Jake Parker (Performed By Isobel Griffiths & Conducted By Nick Ingman/Jake Parker) Title Theme [From "The Life of David Gale"]
Ennio Morricone (Performed By Yo-Yo-Ma) Ecstacy of Gold [From "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"]