*why don't you tell me a story?-please tell me a story too"you know, i think i'll tell you the story of my life"
*you tell me
-i wanna hear too
"i was born in anamoose, north dakota, a long time ago, see.and now i'm lucky enough to be here with you.*yeah but what happened in between?
-yeah what else happened?"well...it went pretty much like this"
[variously sampled by grandmaster flash, dj shadow & david holmes inter alia]
and then some stuff happened which may or may not have involved visiting our nation's capital, vanquishing all-comers at quiz versus once more, and seeing sin city and my summer of love (both highly recommended, particularly the former)...
it was nick hornby who wrote in his oft-referenced high fidelity that making a mixtape for someone is like writing a love letter with other people's poetry. as the obsessive/compulsive mixtape maker knows, self imposed and frequently thematic rather than pragmatic limitations often affect the outcome of the final product. and as ben lee knew when he was 13, "every boy in the world writes a song for every girl for every girl in the world" so, it was quite refreshing for me to compose the following tracklist based entirely on the available mp3s on my computer, all of which have been downloaded and none of which are represented in my cd collection:
it was nick hornby who wrote in his oft-referenced high fidelity that making a mixtape for someone is like writing a love letter with other people's poetry. as the obsessive/compulsive mixtape maker knows, self imposed and frequently thematic rather than pragmatic limitations often affect the outcome of the final product. and as ben lee knew when he was 13, "every boy in the world writes a song for every girl for every girl in the world" so, it was quite refreshing for me to compose the following tracklist based entirely on the available mp3s on my computer, all of which have been downloaded and none of which are represented in my cd collection:
01 simple minds don't you forget about me
02 the streets could well be in
03 soul coughing screenwriter's blues
04 dntel (this is) the dream of evan and chan featuring ben gibbard (death cab for cutie)
05 gary jules mad world (tear for fears cover)
06 belle & sebastian don't leave the light on baby
07 belle & sebastian i don't love anyone
08 wheatus a little respect (cover)
09 julianna hatfield spin the bottle
10 the concretes you can't hurry love
11 the church the unguarded moment
12 the whitlams tangled up in blue (bob dylan cover)
13 ratcat that ain't bad
14 the black keys 10 a.m. automatic
15 the black keys she said, she said (beatles cover)
16 beatles in my life
17 grant lee phillips humankind
18 ride vapour trail
19 the yeah yeah yeahs maps
20 the verve bittersweet symphony (UNKLE remix)
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