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February 12, 2007
all fires have to burn alive to live
for those that don't keep up with the news of the day. i - the formerly not so young christopher - have been locked in the death throes of an creative drought for the better part of 8 months now. coincidentally this drought started around the time that i left nashville and moved in with my 110 year old lover at 4808. in an effort to be proactive i've been shuffling through old demo tapes and the like looking for a spark. but so far it's just been a whole lot of wet wood. in the meantime i've been immersing myself in music that i've been meaning to check out but haven't really gotten around to yet. and in the process i decided maybe i should cobble together a mix cd - i realize in the age of the i-pod a mix cd is about as useful as horns on a bull. but i don't care. i happen to enjoy compliations. also, in fairness it's not really a new mix cd per se it has been a work in progress that was meant to become with sexy results vol. 3 . but in its various incarnations i was never completely happy with the not so sexy results. it sounded like the same music i always put on cd mixes - so i decided to rebuild it using some songs that i've been enjoying quite a bit recently - and i have to say so far it feels like a wild success. the track list is as follows:
1. kissing the lipless ~ the shins
2. me and mia ~ tedd leo/the pharmacists
3. wasted state of mind ~ ...trail of dead
4. army of me ~ bjork
5. 10 gallon ascots ~ tapes 'n tapes
6. shut up i am dreaming of places where lovers have wings ~ sunset rubdown
7. weather reports ~ bright eyes
8. just like honey ~ jesus and mary chain
9. i found a reason ~ cat power
10. country mile ~ camera obscura
11. all fires ~ swan lake
12. army ~ ben folds five
13. once around the block ~ badly drawn boy
14. if you knew ~ neko case
15. let it ride ~ ryan adams & the cardinals
16. so much wine ~ the handsome family
17. in a future age ~ jeff tweedy
18. she may turn around ~ the innocence mission
19. salute my shorts ~ rilo kiley
obviously i'm not re-inventing the wheel here but i did stretch myself a bit. i never thought i would see the day that i could justify putting a the shits. song into a mix but what can you do. sometimes we are forced to evolve. but i evolve with my credibility intact. and really the point of this excercise is not musical snobbery - it's a contrived effort to whip myself back into creative shape because i'm fairly confident that at the age of 33 i still have a few cringe inducing power ballads within me. only time will tell.
| By young_christopher | 7:19 PM
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Posted by: No Man Is an Island at February 12, 2007 8:12 PM
Posted by: young_christopher at February 12, 2007 10:21 PM
Posted by: Nick at March 2, 2007 5:53 PM