New Mixtape

Summer, She Comes

http://8tracks.com/walking_daydream/summer-she-comes

01 Vega 4 - You And Me

02 M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You

03 City and Colour - The Girl

04 James Taylor - You've Got A Friend

05 Danielle Ate the Sandwich - Where I'll Be

06 Allo Darlin' - What Will Be Will Be

07 Vangelis - Love Theme

08 Frank Sinatra - I've Got A Crush On You

09 Kate Havnevik - Nowhere Warm

10 Ivy - Edge Of The Ocean

11 Allo Darlin' - Let's Go Swimming

12 Mathemagic - Always Will Be II

13 The Sea and the Cake - Two Dolphins

14 We Are Trees - Colorado

15 She & Him - Home

16 Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

17 Mathemagic - Beechwood

18 Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason

The Smashing Pumpkins

"It's the backseat of a convertible driving through a cookie-cutter neighborhood in the heat of summer, when the sky looks as if it could be the ocean, as if you could swim in it. It's the timelessness of the playground, when existence is just a series of time slots without knowledge of anything else. It's the heartbreak of not knowing what you will do without someone, and the heartbreak of the possibility they will forget you. It's the joy of being with someone, two people in a crowd, reckless and imaginative. It's seeing something rough and pock-marked as smooth and undefinable; and seeing the dimensions of something smooth."

When I listen to this music I feel a pain inside and remember MTV memories, not even of my past but of the classic images of children walking down railroad tracks and getting a soda at a gas station after school, all in the gritty sepia-tone camera shot. Their sound is so nostalgic its almost like they were recalling the "golden years" while still in their prime. There's something sad about that.

01. Galapogos
02. 1979
03. Today
04. Thirty-Three
05. Cupid de Locke
06. We Only Come Out At Night
07. Disarm
08. Mayonaise
09. Perfect
10. By Starlight
11. That's the Way (My Love Is)
12. Blew Away
13. Landslide
14. Take Me Down
15. To Sheila
16. Drain
17. In the Arms of Sleep
18. Luna
19. Dancing in the Moonlight
20. Farewell and Goodnight

Minimix and Doctor's Office

Today I went to the doctor's to get my first HPV vaccine of the sequence. I was kind of nervous since I still hate shots and tried to think of a way to get it and be fine with it. The needle turned out to be a small one and it was prepared out of eye-sight, which I thought would help; however, while the needle penetration wasn't terrible I felt the vaccine being pushed under my skin and spreading outward into my body. I'm a skinny guy, there isn't a lot of meat, and I think that's why it's harder with me. So it seemed like I was fine afterward; I got a spiderman band-aid. Once the old chatty doctor and my mom and I stood up to talk more in the doorway I began to feel the creeping sensation of nausea. I heard what was being said but a while later I heard every other word then no words. I saw my mom and the doctor become more like 3D outlines colored in by TV static colored like a rainbow. Then the background got blurry. I kept trying to formulate the thought "sorry, I need to sit down" and say it, but I was afraid I might throw up and I didn't want to interrupt (irrational fainting thoughts). But I was noticed and they got me sitting down. This experience was much more different than the previous time I got a shot standing up and just blacked out pretty much. It's the first time I've been able to examine a fainting spell in slow-motion. It felt like a second but my mom said it was more like five minutes. It was just a shot, yet it seemed like a got some short drug trip.

Then I got to see Dandelion, probably the last time before she gets married and buys a white picket fence; maybe just the married part. I might see her during Spring break, though. Anyway, I gave her a minimix of a larger parent mix themed "last human on Earth." I kind of liked the way it came together in such a short list of songs:

01 Air - One Hell of a Party
02 Horse Feathers - The Drought
03 Alexi Murdoch - Breathe
04 Röyksopp - Senior Living
05 He's My Brother She's My Sister - The House That Isn´t Mine
06 Loudon Wainwright III - Missing You
07 S - Wait
08 Belle and Sebastian - Fuck This Shit
09 Tim Buckley - Once I Was
10 Salim Nourallah - Endless Dream Days
11 brian eno & robert fripp - meissa
12 josh ritter - see how man was made

It's a tale of a harsh Earth and loneliness with a glimmer of wishful hope. Dandelion said Adian cried because of the sixth song. I don't know if it was in context of the mix or just the song alone; I like to think I setup that climax of emotion in the scheme of my storytelling.
Tomorrow morning I head out for Colorado, probably around 6am. I always put off packing until the very last minute and leaving home again makes me feel depressed, and I haven't felt sad in a long while. It's hard getting attached to some place with certain people. But I'll sleep a couple times and forget the feeling. It's an improper and immature way to live in the present, but it comes naturally to me.

New Mix

The shortest serious mix I've made. I wasn't sure if it was complete, but I think it probably is. I heard one other song I wanted on it, but forgot exactly which song that is.

http://8tracks.com/walking_daydream/i-want-your-attention

"I Want Your Attention. . . and affection."

01 Pilote - Turtle (Bonobo Mix)
02 Flight Facilities - Crave You
03 A-ha - Take on Me
04 Divinyls - I Touch Myself
05 Katie Herzig - I Want to Belong to You
06 The Whitest Boy Alive - Don't Give Up
07 Lykke Li - Little Bit
08 Mathemagic - Sequin (extra)
09 Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You

New Mix

http://8tracks.com/walking_daydream/i-ll-miss-you

01 Album Leaf - Airplane
02 Yo La Tengo - Our way to fall
03 Caribou - After Hours
04 Cary Brothers - Blue Eyes
05 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Dandelion
06 Coconut Records - The Summer
07 Ray Lamontagne - For the Summer
08 Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
09 Iron & Wine - Love And Some Verses
10 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
11 Coldplay- Talk
12 Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers On A Hotel Bed
13 Counting Crows - A Long December
14 Foo Fighters - Next Year
15 Pheonix - Long Distance Call
16 Robert Francis - Where You Came from
17 Kings of Convenience - Until You Understand
18 Helio Sequence - Shed Your Love