And this is how I spent my Friday evening

...making mixes and using my cutting and gluing ability to make covers. The first is for Aileen, who I've been making mixes for since we were tweens. And the second is for my friend, David, in Pennsylvania (which is why I chose the NYC cover). Each mix starts and ends with an instrumental/instrumental-esque band! Clippings were taken from old New Yorker magazines.

 

For Aileen:

 

1. Lymbyc Systym – Astrology Days (The One AM Radio)
2. Museum of Bellas Artes – Watch The Glow  
3. Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)
4. Baths – Hall  
5. Butterfly Bones – xoxo
6. Kisses – Kisses  
7. King Charles – Love Lust  
8. Two Door Cinema Club – Costume Party  
9. Thao Nguyen – Beat (Health, Life and Fire)  
10. Princeton – The Waves  
11. Phoenix – Sometimes In The Fall  
12. Bobby and Suzy – The Tour  
13. The Bowerbirds – Bur Oak  
14. Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot  
15. Generationals - Trust  
16. Wild Nothing – Golden Haze  
17. Tennis – Marathon  
18. Sufjan Stevens – All For Myself  
19. Do Make Say Think – Do

For David:

 

1. Lymbyc Systym – A Day At The Beach (Reference)  

2. Houses – Soak It Up  

3. Sun Airway – Put The Days Away  

4. Discovery – Can You Discover?  

5. A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Drink Drank Drunk  

6. Wild Nothing – Chinatown  

7. Tapes ‘n Tapes – Freak Out  

8. Teletexile – I Don’t Know How To Act Here  

9. Princeton – Sadie and Andy  

10. The Blow – Knowing The Things That I Know  

11. The Bowerbirds – In Our Talons  

12. Local Natives – Sun Hands  

13. Opus Orange – Almost There (feat. Lauren Hillman)  

14. Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work  

15. Broken Social Scene – Swimmers  

16. Thao Nguyen – Feet Asleep  

17. Stars – Calendar Girl  

18. The Antlers – Bear  

19. Sing Me To Sleep – Cloudbusting  

20. Dirty Projectors – A Labor More Restful  

21. Mount Eerie – Great Ghosts  

22. Teen Daze – Driving Home From The Beach (The Feeling Of)

mike mcq

 

photo courtesy of courtney allison.

rhode island, august 2009.

MY FRIEND MIKE (a childhood friend) FROM RHODE ISLAND IS COMING TO NEW YORK ON FRIDAY! he literally told me one hour ago (today is wednesday), and i'm so excited to see him and meet his girlfriend, amanda, who i made a mix for:

para amanda, october 2010
1. do make say think - hooray! hooray! hooray!
2. strand of oaks - end in flames
3. deerhunter - microcastle
4. beirut - nantes
5. the antlers - two
6. arcade fire - we used to wait
7. opus orange - nothing but time
8. the bowerbirds - in our talons
9. dark dark dark - the hand
10. good old war - that's some dream
11. princeton - sadie and andy
12. stars - 14 forever
13. thao nguyen with the get down stay down - know better learn faster
14. voxtrot - the start of something
15. sufjan stevens - enchanting ghosts
16. pepper rabit - older rabbit
17. fol chen - if tuesday comes
18. mount eerie - we squirm
19. explosions in the sky - the only moment we were alone