after decade of blizzard and drought we crucified the sun...

i figured it was time to make a longer post as the next two weeks are going to beyond busy, even for procrastinating on the internet. that was about 2 hours ago as my shitty stolen wireless keeps cutting in and out, making up-loading all the more difficult (the nerve of my neighbours, i thought they would understand by now past midnight their bandwidth is purely for my use)... so, ive made an extended playlist with extended rants instead of working on three school papers and a conference paper which are all due in two weeks. the songs are sort of all over the place, but ive put them in an order i think fits nicely, so i suggest you listen to them that way...




























the constantines remind me of a lot of things: concerts at louis' with young eyes that aren't so innocent, the cd in the background when we slept on your floor in first year making out, the radio show staple, wandering around cuba listening to on to you and feeling again, warm beer and cigarettes in the alley after the concerts, tamborines, too much wine and dancing in the living room, songs sung in my range, songs that dont remind me of you, deeann finding tyler's twin, my little sister, making great coffee at midnight.... this is no gentleman's blues.

1. bright eyes - papa was a rodeo (magnetic fields cover)
2. bright eyes - four winds
3. cuff the duke - ballad of a lonely construction worker
4. the constantines - thank you for sending me an angel (b-side)
5. the constantines - fuckin' up (neil young cover)
6. the constantines - why i didnt like augest 93' (elevator to hell cover)
7. the constantines - sea line woman (nina simone cover)
8. the constantines - young lines (alternate version)
9. the constantines - our age (alternate version)
10. the constantines - stringe birds (alternate version)
11. the constantines - i will not sing a hatefull song (alternate version)
12. the constantines - st. you
13. wooley leaves - people and planets

memory was an elephant sitting in the room - racing eyes looking for unfamiliar clothes - your hustle is on, a hedgefox in the snow - but what you didnt know is she smiled at me - entire cities played as i drank whiskey smuggled in from a gatoraid bottle - she looked across the room and smiled again with no disguise - and you can gather your acolytes - it takes a fire to confess a flood and mine is a body which can't be burnt away

1. st. vincent & the national - sleep all summer (crooked fingers cover)
   
2. entire cities - turbines
3. entire cities - accountant dreams
4. entire cities - talkers
5. entire cities - cop song
6. entire cities - coffee
7. entire cities - the woods
8. red river - something good

once i drove out to jasper with my girlfriend and best friend. the elk were in rutt, we had never set up the tent before, the summer was coming to an end, and i drove, i drove; on the way home i was driving 160 through the fog east of north battleford listening to godspeed you black emporer. before we reached our destination we stopped in edmonton, there was watersliding, the blue bullet and record stores, there was smog-lambchop-electralane-dump-preston school of industry purchased (a strange panacea for a soundtrack). i remember buying foreign beer at a middle eastern grocery/alchohol store (the irony didnt strike me at the time), we tried to crush the japanese beer cans on our heads, we learnt not to mess with the japanese.

1. adrian orange & her band - window (mirror) shadow
2. smog - dress sexy at my funeral
3. smog - cold blooded old times
4. smog - hit the ground running
5. bill callahan - eid ma clack shaw
6. bill callahan - santa maria (versus cover)
7. lambchop - low ambition
8. lambchop - flick
9. lambchop - d. scott paisley
10. lambchop - women help to create the kind of men they despise

do you like fleet foxes? do you like bonnie 'prince' billy? do you like cabin and bedroom recordings? if you answered yes to any of the above questions listen to mimicking birds, i came home drunk and downloaded their album along with a bunch of crap, then the next morning decided to give them (actually him) a listen because i liked the name (i deleted the other albums without a listen)... this is brilliant, its familiar, its strange... listen to this if nothing else...

1. mimicking birds - rivers, veins, and roots
2. mimicking birds - home and somewhere else
   
3. mimicking birds - the loop
4. mimicking birds - plastic seeds

"I came to your party dressed as a shadow and you never knew, you never knew I rolled through the halls like a velvet wave, as quiet as an empty stage I blackened your eyes and stole the light from your glass But in the cold calm of the morning, lay like a death-kite on your lawn I came to your party dressed as a shadow, without invitation, without a motive I parked three streets from the moonlight - the soft walk to your house on a silver string You were dancing in the backyard to a biscuit-tin beat I slunk between the notes, posting them off to the night This is symptomatic of you and me : I have jars full of your breath I have shelves of your words but you have nothing of me but a space where I would be " -piano magic

1. kurt vile - beach on the moon (recycled lyrics)
2. kurt vile - my best friends (dont even pass this)
3. smokin' hot bitch - steel city
4. night control - star 131
5. forest fire - forute teller
6. foreign born - vacationing people
7. yellow city - culver city
8. leafcutter john - seba
9. piano magic - i came to your party dressed as a shadow

Download Playlist:
part 1 - http://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNMYURNTkxvQnZ2Wmc9PQ
part 2 - http://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNMYURBYTJLVlZjR0E9PQ
part 3 - http://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNMYURPZDV0NjljR0E9PQ

also I found a couple of live links for albums of some of the stuff i've put in this 'mix'. these links arn't mine (bolachas, hipinion, etc) so they could be taken down at any time....
mimicking birds lp- http://rapidshare.com/files/211547758/Mimicking_Birds_-_Mimicking_Birds_-_2009__acoustic_____.zip
entire cities lp - http://rapidshare.com/files/164456317/EC-DR.zip
contantines tour ep - http://www.mediafire.com/?dtzmznijgiz
















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