nocturnal weeks: -lazy haze-

its been a pretty good week: hung out by the water with laura and ashley one afternoon and went swimming in the lake (as polluted as it is), the power went out and ashley and i had a great candle lit dinner and a healthy amount of wine which led to ashley kindly listening to me rant, most days i get up at 9 and read on the deck drinking coffee and then by noon make some food and play a few games of online scrabble, drank late into the evening one night with some lovely new friends, went to sandbanks with ruhi and her sun lukas for a picnic and play which was a brilliant time, went on a farmers market-produce town run and then made a mean spicy gazpacho, lots of laying around in the sun followed by the public pool which i realized is two blocks from my house, played mariokart one night with a bunch of school friends, a softball game, many coffee chats with more lovely friends, received lovely poems on postcards from nassim and dave from thier locations in corsica and korea, etc etc... its been good, perhaps the calm before the writing storm which is soon to occur, but really this has been one of the the best summer weeks ive ever had and im going to ride that high for a while..

s0 i figured i would make a post which somehow encapsulates my days of late, the soundtrack for my midsummer daydream haze... i've been listening a lot to lo-fi/tape hiss/sundrenched haze/post-surf (whatever 'catchy' label you want to give it) stuff that has been coming out lately on notnotfun and captured tracks... minus my dislike for this hipster cassette trend of late (i think ive been bitching about this for a year, but now is not the time), i'm really digging this unapologetic nostalgic beach leitmotif... so, here is the 2 hour mix that has been playing most hours of the day in my house...