7 posts tagged “mix tape”

    It all started with hearing Wet and Rusting for the first time. The song felt like foreshadowing... slowly I worked (for almost three months) waiting for the rest of the songs to come together over me, all the songs that will tell me the future. Once I was done, I'd have a prophetic mix tape on my hands... something to pass along to God to make sure He gets it right.
    Originally titled "Dear God: Take Notes..." The songs on this mix have lyrics that line up with the premonition I had of what is coming. The general idea is that things are changing for me and I feel it, I felt this way last February and I'd missed this ambition and restlessness. I'm hoping that during the process of picking songs and weeding them out, I'll find a conclusion that is more optimistic. The last song to be chosen was Enter One by Sol Seppy, and in that song they sing "Insha'Allah" which translates into English as "if it is God's will". After giving it some thought I decided that this was a better title for the mix.

I've been picking songs very slowly for this mix I'm working on inspired by the last Menomena post. The mix is called "Dear God: Take Notes..." and it's going to be really good. The songs on this mix have lyrics that line up with the premonition I have of what is coming, or are significantly appropriate for how I feel right now.

The general idea is that things are changing for me and I feel it, I felt this way last February and I'd missed this ambition and restlessness. I'm afraid that I'm callousing romantically, but I think that everyone feels like that while they are alone.

I'm hoping that during the process of picking songs and weeding them out, I'll find a conclusion that is more optimistic. I've only used mixtape making as a form of therapy on two other occasions, neither of which were this calculated.

here's the most recent addition to my list, although there's no way to know if it will make the final cut.

04 Much Farther To Go

Rosie Thomas

I suppose I could have written this to you in an e-mail. I could have called you, or walked across the street. You do live just there, right across the street. Why am I writing you a letter and printing it out? Putting it into one of those archaic white envelopes... I hate the way that glue tastes, it's bitter.

I suppose the internet seems too trite for these kinds of words, and if I tried to call you I'm sure that we'd end up saying completely different things than I'd originally intended. If talking to you was easy, then I'd never had been in this position in the first place. I can never figure out how to transition from "I can see that the grass is starting to come in green, I guess it's that time of year"... to... " you keep me up at night".

I made you a mix tape. The tape, like this letter is an extension of my inability to articulate the things I want to say to you. With lyrics vague and hinting, songs carefully arranged to tell a small and fractured story of my feelings. Starting with a song about growing up, talking about the phenomenon like it's a monster in the forest... and the noise fades into Bonnie "prince" Billy singing...  "I'm longing to be born for you, thats her. Love comes to you, love comes to all, It's your hands, your heart, your lip and that's all"... the sentiments get deeper, Tom Waits singing comparing the consistency of his love to the inevitability of spring. Andrew Bird shouts his love at the top of his lungs. Neil Halstead will sing to you intimately about your beauty. Maria Taylor sings about not wanting to loose the place she's created... they all fill the air, an extension of my heart and emotions.

I always thought that someday falling in love would be different than it was in Jr High. Giggles and confusion, love letters and mix tapes, secrets and nervousness. And though I'm surely a "grown up" now, you still breed that childish excitement in me. I know these days it's passé to think of Fate as anything other than an intermingling of motivated desire and luck, but I believe that you and I belong together, not just logically... I believe it is our destiny. In my mind I say often to myself "I think she is the one" quietly and with playfulness.

very soon I'll invite you to coffee, and should you accept, it will be the beginning of something different than what we have now. Should you refuse, then things will continue as they have for so long. Either way I'll remain faithful to what time throws at me.

- The boy Next door

Spy covers front

"Spy Goes for a Walk"
14 tracks @ 35min and 5 Sec
01. Spies! (lux radio theatre - The 39 Steps)
02. The Magic Number (De La Soul)
03. Deus Ibi Est (Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan)
04. Luscifer's Grain (Baxter Dury)
05. Another Lego in Tha Cross (Chocolate USA)
06. I'm Bad at Sports (Optiganally Yours)
07. Hurt Like Mine (The Black Keys)
08. woman spies! (lux radio theatre - The 39 Steps)
09. All Tomarrow's Parties (The Music Tapes)
10. Onefnt (Mugison)
11. Amayadori (Shugo Tokumaru)
12. Bushman's Samba (lullatone)
13. The Hoofs (why?)
14. "have you ever heard" (lux radio theatre - The 39 Steps)

Spy covers back

This is my submission for the contest. It is a modification of a playlist I used to use for short walks around my neigborhood late at night. I took a few songs off, added a few more, and Re-arranged alot of it. I added 3 soundclips From the Lux Radio Theatre production The 39 Steps.

Please download it and let me know what you think.
It's just over 35 min long and I'd love to know how I did.
the link for the zip file is:
http://voicemailstories.com/private/music/mix/spy_goes_for_a_walk.zip

Birth of a habit Cover art

Birth of a Habit
here again is the track list that I didn't upload for you to not download.

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