stupid, yet compelling

i guess that's pretty much all of western history, but i'm talking about all the ridiculous crap that people post on myspace. thanks to noah pwned for this one. i have, of course, run the numbers and come up with this for my soundtrack.

Music Library+Shuffle+Skip Forward for Every New Song = A Life Soundtrack (of a life-movie)

START!

Opening credits: Hamoa Beach – Gomez

Waking up: Machines Pt. 1 – Dabrye

Average day: Silent Shout – The Knife

First date: The Denial Twist – The White Stripes

Falling in love: In This Home On Ice – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Fight scene: Big Girl – Ghostface Killah

Breaking up: Suicide Uma Schrantz – P.O.S.

Getting back together: Away From Home – Crystal Skulls

Secret love: A Little Longing Goes Away – The Books

Life's okay: Viking’s Daughter – Szymanski Shettler Morris

Mental breakdown: Teddy Bear and a Tazer – P.O.S.

Driving: All the Wine – The National

Learning a lesson: Hard Party – Crystal Skulls

Deep thought: Guns Before Butter – Gang of Four

Flashback: Game Over - Dabrye

Partying: Is This Love? – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Happy dance: Always a Target – Radio 4

Regretting: Courtesy Laughs – Phoenix

Long night alone: Far Left – Spank Rock

Death scene: Cubbybear – Flavor Crystals

Ending Credits: Raised By Wolves – Voxtrot

jay-z is for the geniuses

i always though that jay-z was not my kind of rapper. from back in the day (which was a wednesday, by the way), i thought his money, guns, hoes thing was not for me, but damnit if the way he puts his lines together isn't stunning. couple that with great taste in beatmakers, and you can make a pretty damn amazing mix of fantastically thumping tracks to bump in your benzos, jeeps and regals.

1. public service announcement (interlude) from the black album
2. '03 bonnie & clyde (feat. beyonce) from the blueprint 2
3. dirt off your shoulder from the black album
4. the watcher 2 from the blueprint 2
5. hola hovito from blueprint
6. n**** what, n**** who from vol. 2 ... hard knock life
7. 99 problems from the black album
8. streets is watching from streets is watching
9. a dream (feat. faith evans and notorious b.i.g.) from blueprint 2
10. lucifer from the black album
11. guns & roses from the blueprint 2
12. takeover from blueprint

mixchange

so i'm in the process of assembling a mix for exchange with some other music fans in other states of stuff i've heard and loved in the past six months. how excited was i to learn that i can make an entire hour-long mix of basically only minnesota artists and that it will completely rock? answer: very. here it is so far:

parallels :: beight
schoolyard bullies :: aphrill
drowned :: halloween, alaska
stand up (let's get murdered) :: p.o.s.
bombs away :: friends like these
market made murder :: sims
via satellite :: the notes and scratches (chicago)
ghost in the house :: the plastic constellations
playboy :: hot chip (brooklyn)
thieves choke on spit :: askeleton
oscar wilde breakdown :: digitata
what comes at the end :: cloud cult
lakeshore drifter :: cecil otter
gemini (birthday song) :: why? (cali? i'm not sure)

it strikes me now that i need to add white light riot's "out of sight," but i haven't ripped it to my itunes yet.