Harlem Shakes — Strictly Game

…this will be a better year

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January came & went. The days are long & hopes of tomorrow just linger while the weeks speed on by. It’s rather strange & doesn’t make any sort of sense to me but it just happens. It turned out to be a rather eventful month, as you can tell by the dual-disc playlist. Rather interesting though—I was looking through my old playlists & this is the first really eventful January that has even made it to dual-disc status. Interesting. And as silly as this may sound, my favorite moment this January was listening to Salem in Salem. lol.

Also, i know i never posted the November & December playlists but those are perhaps better left unpublished as they turned out to be far too personal to share or to be reminded about. Que sera, sera.

JANUARY 2011 // M O R E   A D V E N T U R O U S

1. Harlem Shakes — Strictly Game
2. Tilly & The Wall — Nights of the Living Dead
3. Twin Shadow — Forget
4. Okkervil River — Lost Coastlines
5. Modest Mouse — Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
6. Mirah — Don’t Die in Me
7. Salem — Frost
8. Beach House — Used to Be
9. Galaxie 500 — Parking Lot
10. Jandek — I Passed By the Building
11. Malory — Want You
12. Twin Sister — Lady Daydream
13. Sailor & I — Where Is the Love? (Andreas Löf’s Dreamix)
14. Terminal Twilight — The Fire of Love (Fire Mix)
15. Teengirl Fantasy — Cheaters
16. Pictureplane — Time Teens
17. Gardens & Villa — Orange Blossom
18. Evenings — Friend (Lover)
19. Los Super Elegantes — Nothing Really Matters
20. Baccara — Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
21. Leif Garrett — I Was Made for Dancin’
22. Mean Lady — Far Away
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Warrior
24. Screaming Females — I Don’t Mind It
25. Melted Toys — Preforms
26. Young Prisms — Sugar
27. Cut Copy — Need You Now
28. Belle & Sebastian — Sukie In The Graveyard
29. Fela Kuti — Ako
30. Pomegranates — Create Your Own Reality
31. HTRK — Ha
32. Wild Nothing — Gemini
33. Catwalk — (Please) Don’t Break Me
34. Weekend — Monongah, WV
35. Cloud Nothings — Heartbeat
36. High Highs — Open Season
37. Tamaryn — Love Fade
38. Crocodiles — All My Hate & My Hexes Are For You
39. Deerhoof — The Perfect Me
40. Rilo Kiley — More Adventurous

…and there you have it. Sorry no 8tracks mix to listen to & no download. No time, no time. 

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i’ve read with every broken heart we should become more adventurous…

my senior year of high school, i made these valentines using magazine cut-outs pasted on brown paper bags and quoted my favorite song lyrics of the time . i made this particular one for a boy i was mad crushin’ on but i never gave it to him. i dunno why but i had a sort of attachment to it. (i later made it my background/header thing on my LJ).

i’m bringin out the nostalgia today. haha. i was just reminded of those high school years today when i was taking a wild nothing break (rare i know!) on my drive to school and switched it out for some random purple cd i found in my car titled “post modern girls”. it turned out to be a playlist from 2006, i don’t know what month precisely but you get the point, it was fuckin old. 5 years ago i sat down and put all of my feelings in a playlist. ive been getting kind of lazy with my monthly playlists lately, but this just reminded me why i do them. so i can remember exactly what i was feeling at that period in time. whether good or bad feelings, i still want to remember. that’s probably my biggest weakness, nostalgia. 

anyway, here’s the playlist:

POST MODERN GIRLS (2006)

1. Cheated Hearts — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Lady Memphis — Johnathan Rice
3. On the Move — Whispertown2000
4. Succexy — Metric
5. Suffragette City — David Bowie
6. Neighborhood#2 (Laika) — Arcade Fire  
7. Just Like a Woman — Bob Dylan
8. Fell Down the Stairs — Tilly & the Wall
9. It Wasn’t Me — Jenny Lewis w/ the Watson Twins
10. Hooray — Minus the Bear
11. Suspended from Class — Camera Obscura
12. Requiem for O.M.M — Of Montreal
13. June Gloom — The Like
14. Take Me Anywhere — Tegan & Sara
15. It’s a Curse — Wolf Parade
16. Glendora — Rilo Kiley
17. The War— Mêlée
18. Funny Little Frog — Belle & Sebastian 
19. Swimmers — Broken Social Scene
20. Not Everyone — Nine Black Alps
21. These Things — She Wants Revenge
22. Post Modern Girls — The Strokes feat. Regina Spektor

i know it’s a little late for my september playlist but i haven’t had the time.
i didn’t upload it and i don’t even have a cover for it.

roughin it for now.

September 2010 // September Stalkin’

1. Blue & Silver — Lower Dens
2. Acid Rain — The Growlers
3. True Affection — The Blow
4. Bell — Screaming Females
5. Elephants — Warpaint
6. Meat Step Lively — Thee Oh Sees
7. Crazy for You — Best Coast
8. Answer to Yourself — The Soft Pack
9. Warning Sign — Local Natives
10. Can’t Hear My Eyes — Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
11. Mister Jung Stuffed — Man Man
12. Life Magazine — Cold Cave
13. My Cabal — School of Seven Bells
14. Stay Close — Delorean
15. Blind — Hercules & Love Affair
16. The Witching Hour — Wild Nothing
17. Travelling Woman — Bat For Lashes
18. Fake Tales of San Francisco — Arctic Monkeys
19. Long Distance Drunk — Modest Mouse
20. When They Fight, They Fight — The Generationals 
21. Confirmation — Wild Nothing
22. The Chinatown Bus — Bishop Allen
23. Drunken Butterfly — Sonic Youth
24. Plane Crash in C — Rilo Kiley
25. Trust Me — Zola Jesus
26. Burgundy — Warpaint
27. Basic Space — The XX
28. Show My Ass — Dominique Young Unique
29. Remade Horizon — Dirty Projectors
30. Apply — Glasser
31. Glitter — No Age
32. Candle — Sonic Youth
33. Spit On a Stranger — Pavement
34. Gold Soundz — Pavement

august always just comes and goes. If there’s an emotionally cataclysmic month, it’s definitely august. I really hate august. It always reminds me that summer is ending and all my days of oversleeping will soon be terminated for the new school year. thankfully, this is the last august that will ever happen. at least for a little while. also, august always reminds me of someone and as much you don’t want to, you’re always left wondering, because the kid in you will never let it go, so that explains why i always put Rilo Kiley’s August in the August mix. it means everything and nothing all at once now. 

August 2010 // Before the Leaves Disappeared.

1. I Can’t Stand — Zola Jesus
2. Fly Me Away — Goldfrapp
3. Vacation — Beach Fossils
4. Bloodbuzz Ohio — The National
5. Make It Take It — Amanda Blank
6. Yours Alone — Dum Dum Girls
7. When I’m With You - Best Coast
8. She’s My Baby — Jaill
9. A Summer Wasting — Belle & Sebastian
10. Rebel Yell — Billy Idol
11. Oversleeping — I’m From Barcelona
12. Melt! — Flying Lotus
13. California — Dr. Dog
14. I Love L.A. — Rilo Kiley
15. Golden Haze — Wild Nothing
16. Pressure — Quadron
17. Aunque Sea — Emmanuel del Real
18. Conversation 16 — The National
19. Work It Out — Esser
20. Hair Don’t Grow — Annuals
21. Glitter — No Age
22. Live In Dreams — Wild Nothing
23. Back to School — Cheap Time
24. Velvet — The Big Pink
25. I Feel Just Like a Child — Devendra Banhart
26. We Still Got the Taste Dancin’ on Our Tongues — Wild Beasts
27. Animal — Jenny & Johnny
28. August — Rilo Kiley

p.s. this won’t play on your dash
p.p.s. download here
p.p.p.s. importing a playlist instructions 

whoa! i didn’t even know people were actually listening to my playlists. thanks guys!

uploading takes a long time but i will try to get uploads for most of the mixes up. school is right around the corner so i dont promise any fast uploads but i do promise them eventually.

for now here is the download for July 2010 and i also edited the original post with a link as well. after you download the zip file, import the playlist into your itunes (sorry it only works on itunes). here’s how:

1. FILE —> LIBRARY —> IMPORT PLAYLIST
2. find the zip file and click on the file that ends with M3U.

this should import the playlist into your itunes.

happy listening! ^______^ 

July 2010 // Breakdowns & Diagrams

ohhhh july. ups & downs, breakdowns & diagrams. 

1. Wake Up Exhausted — Tegan & Sara
2. Heavy In Your Arms — Florence + The Machine
3. Kiss That Grrrl — Kate Nash
4. She’s In Love With You — Suzi Quatro
5. Bored Games - Wild Nothing
6. Sleep All Summer — St. Vincent & The National
7. When They Fight, They Fight — Generationals
8. Round & Round — Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
9. Us & Now — Former Ghosts
10. Night — Zola Jesus
11. Need You Tonight — Record Club
12. Love Lust — King Charles
13. Busy Doing Nothing — Love Is All
14. Crazy For You — Best Coast
15. Honey Pot — Beat Happening
16. Ghost Lover — Las Robertas
17. All Around & Away We Go — Twin Sister
18. Just Like We Do — Eisley
19. Love You More — The Buzzcocks
20. Down On Loving — The Soft Pack
21. Girlfriend In A Coma — The Smiths
22. Dog Days Are Over — Florence + The Machine
23. Soft Skull (In My Room) — Crocodiles
24. Surprise Hotel — Fool’s Gold
25. Last Night — The Strokes
26. Night Time — The XX
27. No One Needs To Know — Ozma
28. The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love — Jens Lekman

p.s. playlist won’t play on your dash 
[EDIT: download here]  

i haven’t actually posted a monthly playlist since march. haha. but i wrote things down. i got real busy with R&J and classwork so i never got around to posting or finalizing anything. plus i was only posting those on LJ at that point. but it is the end of the month. so here is this month’s dual disc playlist. it was an eventful month, clearly.

June Gloom (June 2010 Playlist)

1. california - joni mitchell
2. oso panda - papá topo
3. $copie - die antwoord
4. come back from san francisco - the magnetic fields
5. kids - sleigh bells
6. more adventurous - rilo kiley
7. little garçon - born ruffians
8. starving dog - screaming females
9. weird feelings - male bonding
10. difficult - uffie
11. bote - menomena
12. windstorm - school of seven bells
13. park and ride - camera obscura
14. the big fight - stars
15. it’s all ours - delorean
16. sleep the clock around (belle&sebastian cover) - mates of state
17. twisted tongue - woods
18. monkey - kurt vile
19. beach comber - real estate
20. us - stephen malkmus & the jicks
21. picnic - papá topo
22. this momentary - delphic
23. stick to my side ft. panda bear - pantha du prince
24. baby say goodbye - wavves
25. june gloom - the like
26. die alone - ingrid michaelson
27. exhibit a (transformation) - jay electronica
28. brush brush brush - of montreal
29. how do i feel (the burrito song) -  hoku
30. this wouldn’t be the last time - novels
31. mirage - midnight movies
32. you can have it all - yo la tengo
33. not your lover - blitzen trapper
34. you will. you? will. you? will. you? will. - bright eyes
35. a boy like me - patrick wolf
36. your cover’s blown - belle & sebastian
37. i’m sorry i love you - the magnetic fields
38. policy of truth - depeche mode
39. i want you - bob dylan
40. spit on a stranger - pavement