February 2010
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Mixes 002 and 003 Now Live
Hey! So I’ve finally gotten around to uploading Mixes 002 and 003. Click here for 002 (“Winter ‘10”) and click here for 003 (“Under the ‘Covers’”). I did it really sloppily, so the tracks aren’t necessarily in order, nor are they all MP3s. Sorry! They should be all playable, though; lemme know via a comment or something if they aren’t....
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Mixtape 007: Sad Valentines Day
So I tried to post this a few days ago (before Valentines Day), but my internet was being a bitch so I couldn’t post it until today. Sorry! This one goes out to everybody, which violates my own rule of not giving the same person more than one mix (I gave my first one to “everybody” too), but really, who would want to receive a Sad Valentines Day mix made specifically for them?
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Mixtape 006: Los Angeles, I'm Yours
This one goes to Laura!, who just moved to my hometown of ever-sunny Los Angeles, California. This is sort of a housewarming gift, I guess? It’s so cold here, it’s ridiculous!
Here are a bunch of songs about or carrying the vibe of Los Angeles and/or California as a whole. I burned this deal onto a yellow CD and I drew (to the best of my ability!) the Hollywood sign on the left and the U.S. Bank...
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Mixtape 005: Bloodhail
Sorry for the astoundingly violent-sounding name; this was designed as a drone metal introduction mix for Shahrod, who had never heard of the drone metal genre. Weird, right?
Anyway, I soon realized that I didn’t have enough drone metal to make an entire mix, so this is sort of drone metal/shoegaze/dream pop/darkwave/ambient/shit to fall asleep to if you’re feeling really angsty. Also...
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New Downloadables
Mix 004: Sad Bastard Music is now live and ready to download! Get it here or see the original post here.
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Mixtape 004: Sad Bastard Music
This mix goes to Jessica, who is one of my best friends ever. I can’t possibly give her any music that she doesn’t already have; I think that’s impossible because she already has everything worth listening to.
Anyway, she’s got her own radio show (the indie pop show Pop Molecule, which you should definitely listen to at KZSC.org from 2 to 4 p.m. Pacific Time every...
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JOY
Naomi got the CD! You guys have no idea how happy I am right now, I thought for sure that it’d come undone on its way to the post office or that they wouldn’t mail something so bizarrely shaped or that I didn’t put enough postage on it or something, but I guess it came though.
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Mixtape 003: Under the 'Covers'
Get it? It’s a covers mix! I’m sure nobody’s ever used that joke before, ever.
Anyway, this one is for Natalie, who along with Naomi and I made up the three drivers in our little carpool, which we called “Team 20” because that was the number of the parking space that was designated ours for most of the year. After a rousing iChat session with her last night about...
January 2010
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Mixtape 002: Winter '10
So my friend Naomi and I were in a carpool together in high school, and I used to make seasonal mixtapes to leave in her car, so I made a Winter ‘10 mixtape for her as a sort of throwback to that. This past summer we both moved to the state of New York from Los Angeles, I to New York City and she to Schenectady, so this is sort of the first really cold winter for both of us.
I burned it...
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Mixtape 001: Best of 2009
So the first mix I made I posted on my main Tumblr last month. It was for everybody, really, which I guess is breaking my own rules, but whatever.
Here’s the track list:
01: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Zero” 02: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - “Young Adult Friction” 03: Crocodiles - “I Wanna Kill” 04: Wavves - “Gun In The Sun” 05: Peter Bjorn and John - “It Don’t Move Me” 06: Phoenix - “Rome”...
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An Introduction
On June 1st, I created my list of “101 Goals for 1,001 Days,” a list of 101 things that I wanted to do before 1,001 had elapsed. One of those was to create 100 mixtapes.
The rules of the game are that each has to be made for a different person and each has to be physically burned onto a CD (or recorded onto a tape!) for said person to enjoy. I also must decorate each CD personally for...