Danny DeVito in a rat suit....

1) Someday We'll Be Together - The Supremes
2) Old Yellow Bricks - Arctic Monkeys
3) I'm A Long Way From Home - Shooter Jennings
4) Who Makes Your Money - Spoon
5) ATLiens - Outkast
6) We're Just Friends - Wilco
7) We're Gonna Groove - Led Zeppelin
8) Imitosis - Andrew Bird
9) Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
10) The Angels Hung Around - Rilo Kiley
11) California Waiting - Kings of Leon
12) Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
13) If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian

......and that's when he started hitting me and cheating at Scrabble.

What is there to say? It's music. Play it.

1) Action/Reaction - Choir of Young Believers
2) Can You Get To That - Funkadelic
3) Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
4) Made-Up Dreams - Built to Spill
5) Oh Yeah - Daft Punk
6) I've Never Found a Girl - Al Green
7) Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
8) Character - Van Hunt
9) October, First Account - Be Your Own Pet
10) Walk In The Park - Beach House
11) Who Is It - Bjork
12) Ain't To Proud To Beg - The Temptations
13) Twisting - They Might Be Giants
14) The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) - The Flaming Lips

So it begins....

I'm going to start this blog out with a little brutal honesty; I'm not a very good writer. I'm not going to use this space to voice my poorly thought out (and poorly spelled) political/religious views, the mundane aspects of my everyday life, or any of the other typical blog topics. With the exception of this initial post, I'm actually going to try to write as little as I can.

The reason I'm starting this blog is because I want to play music for people. Ever since I was a dorky teenager, I've wanted my own radio show. Now that I'm a dorky adult, I realize that the only people in this day and age that are featured in their own radio shows are preexisting celebrities, and even those shows are few and far between. I had resigned myself to the fact that the only outlets for me to expose people to music were through mixtapes and links on Facebook posts. The idea to use this blog as a sort of mixtape to a larger audience grew slowly until I was compelled to actually follow through with it.

This first mixtape was inspired by fall. Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. There's a dignified beauty to the death of summer that I feel these songs represent well. This mix is made for walking around, listening to your headphones on a blue, cool autumn day and for driving through the cold, rainy nights. The common themes that run through these songs ares a sense of melancholy, with underlying, conflicting senses of wonder and hope. So it's basically the sonic equivalent of an indie film.  Hope you enjoy it!

P.S. - Until I can learn to embed music, these mixtapes will unfortunately have to be made up of links to Grooveshark.

1) Eucalyptus - The Deadly Syndrome
2) Norway - Beach House
3) Pumpkin Seeds - Devendra Banhart
4) Rachel Evans Tenenbaum (1965-2000) - Mark Mothersbaugh
5) Blake Says - Amanda Palmer
6) Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
7) Skinny Love - Bon Iver
8) Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
9) The Moon - Cat Power
10) Signs - Bloc Party
11) Your New Twin Sized Bed - Death Cab for Cutie
12) From the Morning - Nick Drake
13) The Ghost Who Walks - Karen Elson
14) Josephine - Magnetic Fields
15) Scatterbrain - Radiohead