mixtape 15: gonna run, run away
I’m not gonna lie to you. It’s been a hard week. This is a week that’s been full of disappointment, swollen eyes, too little sleep, and setbacks. It’s one of those weeks where I’m tugged in so many...
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mixtape 14: feel it all around
So I know that last week I was talking about making a Cure playlist, which I never did get around to. Then again, last week was also chilly and rainy. Right now, not so much. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, it got so hot (87° F)...
Read Moremixtape 13: i told you your dreams would come true
This is a day late, but I had to post. Sorry thank you goodbye. A year ago this weekend, I found myself with a group of friends in Newport Beach, CA. It was a perfect storm of happy coincidence: our friend Randall was in the...
Read Moremixtape 12: i don’t even know anymore
Okay, so. I almost didn’t do this playlist. Even though I skipped last week’s playlist. I’ve just been so busy lately, and what’s more, I have been listening to the same two albums over and over and over...
Read Moremixtape 11: 1992
The summer between sixth and seventh grade, my mom and I moved down south to join my dad, who had already settled into his new assignment ahead of us. I saw the move as my chance at reinvention. An opportunity to shed my...
Read Moremixtape 10: americanos
Speaking of America… Bad Religion — American DreamTom Petty — American GirlTrisha Yearwood — An American Girl (Xs and Os)Wilco — Ashes of American FlagsGogol Bordello — American WeddingLos...
Read Moremixtape 9: 5 for ’10
Since we are only a week into 2011, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year with this offering of some of my favorite songs released in 2010. I call it… wait for it… 5 for ’10. Vampire...
Read Moremixtape 8: if we make it through december
First of all, this post is late. Sorry about that. Yesterday I was just too darn busy baking cookies to get this thing up in a timely manner. I know. It’s a crying shame. Second of all, this post features holiday music....
Read Moremixtape 7: electric feeling
I was never really that much into “electronic” music. Until one day, I was. To be fair, this isn’t electronic music in the sense of trance, or house. It isn’t inaccessible. It’s pop. Good, clean,...
Read Moremixtape 6: head space
Sometimes I get in a zone. A musical zone where I want to be mellow and introspective without necessarily being slow or quiet. In those instances, nothing really suits me like a good trip hoppy/electronica/acid jazzy fix. Who...
Read Moremixtape 5: darkness on the edge of town
Recently, Bruce Springsteen released The Promise — the reissue of 1978’s Darkness On the Edge of Town, plus a bunch of other good stuff. I put the box set on my Christmas list. In the meantime, I have been obsessively...
Read Moremixtape 4: 80s redux
In 1983, when I was three years old, I told my mother that Duran Duran was my favorite band and that I was in love with Knight Rider’s David Hasselhoff. While this doesn’t give me supreme cultural ownership over the...
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