h-h-hayley hit her head
Music Log:
“I’ve Just Got to Tell You” - Dr. Dog
“”To the East” - Electrelane
“Psychic City (Voodoo City)” - YACHT
“Ready for the Floor” - Hot Chip
“Stay Free” - The Clash
“Livin’ A Dream” - Dr. Dog
Backstory:
Guest host Kevin Blicker shared this mix which effortlessly blends the desire to share new music one has discovered with the running theme of friendship. Small details like the references to location (his friend did in fact move “To The East”) and the nostalgia of old times and Blicker’s personal manifesto of the Clash’s “Stay Free” create an intimate feel of a shared playlist that is sure to span the distance between friends.
Music Log:
- One of Those Days - Joshua Radin
- We Looked Like Giants - Death Cab for Cutie
- I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light - Brand New
- Waiting for You - Allister
- Only One Week - The Honorary Title
- In the Summer’s When You Really Know - Jets to Brazil
- Protection - Ben Folds
- Yeah Yeah - Sam Means
- What You Do To Me - Teenage Fanclub
- (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To - Weezer
- Summerboy - Lady Gaga
- Back to You - Coconut Records
Backstory:
Summer romances never last forever, but winter can make you miss it so much that you do crazy things like assemble a mix cd, make a sweet-ass case, wrap it all up and address it to your summer sweetheart and then wait and wait and wait until you can get some stamps, and then mail it and wait and wait until they should have gotten it, and then by then you might be asking yourself, what have I done?
Progressively, what this mix is saying, in my own words: “Hey, I still think about you a lot. It’s ok but sometimes I wish I didn’t. Remember those awesome times this summer? God, I miss summer. I miss a lot of things. I’ll always remember those days even though I knew they wouldn’t last. I can’t wait until next summer, to see you again. I can wait, though I don’t want to. But I have to. But for what? Another few months that are so sweet but there is absolutely no chance of it progressing beyond it? Should I just appreciate it as it is, or am in the right to want more even though it’s impossible? It feels like no matter what, even with this knowledge beforehand, I’ll likely be hurt. But shucks I just like you so much. Hey, you know what, what’s all that matters. This is ok. You’re a great person who brought a lot of great stuff into my life. Let’s enjoy it while it lasts. I’m ok with this not being forever. But still - ‘Wouldn’t it be good if you could stay? But I know you can’t, and I know you wouldn’t anyway.’”
But was this a phase, brought on by confusing, troubling feelings and seeing the future recipient a week or two previously? Do I still mean it all? I probably will in a few months, but as it is, I had some “why did I do that?” moments. Not to mention the fact that when the work was in progress, the working playlist title was “why am i making this”.
The inaugural episode! One day I hope to record my shows and post them here. In the mean time, a music log and anecdotal information akin to what I was saying on air.
The Backstory:
Senior year - I had spent the last four years giving this guy mixes for his birthday and occasionally other time of the year. He’d give some back, as we were in a constant state of battle due to the complete lack of overlap in our tastes in music. But more often or not, I figured giving him mixes for his birthday every year would be the key to his heart. Because that’s what you do when you have a crush on someone, right? You make them of a mix tape/cd of course.
But in this fourth year of our friendship (as it always remained - he never returned the feeling), I failed to make him a birthday mix initially. Why? Because I was over it. And thus the thought didn’t even occur to me. But not a day passed before he asked why, for the first time in four years, did I not make him one? I won’t lie, this was still pretty exciting. But not in the, HEY maybe he does like me, he wants me to make him a mix! More like - WOAH my mixes made an impact even though he said he hates them and my mainly pop punk taste in music. Thus I crafted what I thought (and to a certain extent, still do) was the best mix I had ever made. Probably due in part to the fact that I made it without trying to prove anything about my taste in music.
Encompassing a range of emotions, this mix starts off with an audio clip from my favorite movie, Rushmore and then the angry pop punk kicks in! Tongue in cheek references to the drunken high school hook ups I never took part in but it seemed like everyone did, a little bitter, even a bit of left over longing - but then finally acceptance and a guarantee of friendship. We don’t keep in touch much these days. Maybe I should send him a cd.
Music Log (Song Title - Artist)
Mr. Blume: She’s my Rushmore, Max.
Max: I know… she was mine too.
- A Lotta Nerve - Allister
- Surprise, Surprise - The Starting Line
- The Razor - Head Automatica
- Drunk Girl - Something Corporate
- Gone - Ben Folds 5 (*not aired due to language… I always forget how much Ben Folds curses)
- Undone (The Sweater Song) - Weezer
- Your House - Jimmy Eat World
- Car - Built to Spill
- A Good Time at Your Expense - The Format
- Mix Tape - Brand New
- Chia-Like, I Shall Grow - Say Anything
- I’ve Let You Go - Steel Train
- Poprocks and Coke - Green Day
Drive back to Auburn was pleasant enough. Took some pitstops - I will never like looking at antiques the way m y mom does. Though I did come across this old camera in a leather case that I liked and wish I had bought - it was only $30. I’m thinking about starting a collection of old cameras. I don’t know, maybe. Bleh. Not looking forward to classes starting. It’s too cold here.
alright, one of my new years resolutions is to start blogging again. i use livejournal for personal stuff aka me freaking out about life crisis and Birdie reading and commenting, and then i get to look back on what a dork i was.
this tumblr can be forrrr oh i don’t know what exactly. everything else. photography maybe? tracking how i adhere to those resolutions? ha
in case you were curious, the resolutions i have been making up as i got along the last couple weeks
1. blog more! also do that cutesy thing where you don’t use your friends real names to protect them on the internet, but really i think its cause i’ve always wanted a nick name.
2. learn more about how to use my camera, take more photos, use my mom’s film camera!
3. drink less coffee lol jk
3. wear my pearls more often. oh man i saw some orange/blue/white pearls at the jewlers today and while they were obv fora gator fan they could do double duty as auburn - they were beauuuuuutiful.
why do i always pretend i can spoon a guy and still be his friend?
i always wind up crushed out in the end and it makes me crazy
omg want
http://www.starbucksstore.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=188277
would be perrrrfect for my dormroom… a microwave to heat milk and boom lattes
“jesse lacey, please get inside me nao and then write a song about how it wasn’t as great as you’d hoped it would be.” i love twatlight lol
someone preorder mc lars’ new album for me pleeeeeeeeease
Fall Out Boy have recorded a version of “The Simpsons” theme song that will appear on the January 25th episode. via ap.net
COOL
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