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Two Dunes Away From The Beach - A MIXTAPE

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the title was a paraphrase from DFW’s essay (The View from Mrs. Thompson’s) in which he described the sound of wind as “the way light surf sounds when you’re two dunes back from it”. those words paint the nicest mental picture. here are some old & new songs that kind of did the same thing.

radio ballet - elluvium

babys - bon iver

la mer (beyond the sea) - django reinhardt & stéphane grappelli

waterfall - daniel rossen

other people - beach house

window #3 - two bicycles

i only have eyes for you - beck

saturday morning - real estate

bread - yellow ostrich

gun has no trigger - dirty projectors

two angles - s. carey

mercury (live) - sufjan stevens, nico muhly, bryce dessner

dark parts - perfume genius

afternoon (live daytrotter) - youth lagoon

ekki mukk - sigur ros

photo credit: anna kras.

COVERED - a mixtape

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i made this a few months ago for this person here but haven’t got around to uploading it until now. whoops. anyway: here are some great covers!

Nothing In This World Could Stop Me Worryin About That Girl - the morning benders (the kinks cover)

Graceland - Grizzly Bear (Paul Simon cover)

God Only Knows - Dale Earnghardt Jr Jr (Beach Boys cover)

Have I The Right - Vampire Weekend (The Honeycombs cover)

Ring Them Bells - Sufjan Stevens (Bob Dylan cover)

Act Nice and Gentle - The Black Keys (The Kinks cover)

I’ll Be Your Mirror - Beck (Velvet Underground cover)

To Be Alone With You - Joshua James (Sufjan Stevens cover)

Bruised Orange - Justin Vernon (John Prine cover)

Troubles - Elliot Smith (Cat Stevens cover)

VCR - The Antlers (The XX cover)

By Your Side - Gayngs (Sade cover)

A Case of You - James Blake (Joni Mitchell cover)

Hard To Explain - Owen Pallett (The Strokes cover)

Bein’ Green - Andrew Bird (The Muppets cover)

i forgot the artist’s name who made the cover image sorry :(

(EDIT: I HAVE FIXED THE LINK!)

Brits - download here

a mixtape requested by Willy. am not super-familiar with british music but here are some that i really fancy*:

The English Riviera - Metronomy

Far Nearer - Jamie XX

Good Old Bill - The Maccabees

Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club

Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Morning Mr Magpie - Radiohead

Alabaster - Foals

Lindesfarne I - James Blake

Lindesfarne II - James Blake

YES, TWO JAMES BLAKE SONGS!

* that’s a british word, right? ~fancy?

a mixtape for the summer*

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Futura - Battles

Plath Heart - Braids

Everlasting Light - The Black Keys

Georgia - Yuck

Call It What You Want - Foster The People

It’s A Corporate World - Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jr

Imagine Pt. 3 - Smith Westerns

News - tUnE-YarDs

Marathon - Tennis

Sitting - White Denim

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear

i don’t listen to a lot of, like, happy music so there are some old songs in there, deal with it.

Artwork by Nina Nolte

(*which is basically all year long for me and natalia - to whom this is dedicated. tropical country FTW!!!!)

In Foreign Land - a mixtape

whether you’re burned out or burning bridges, going a few (thousands) miles away is always good.

Tahquamenon Falls - Sufjan Stevens

Boston - Augustana

Temecula Sunrise - Dirty Projectors

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

Coronado - Deerhunter

Norway - Beach House

South Carolina - Tennis

East Harlem - Beirut

England - The National

Calgary - Bon Iver

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a mixtape for those over-contemplative rainy days - as requested by Natalia and Kartini

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Curious Moments - Matthew Cooper

Think You Can Wait - The National

Run That Body Down - Paul Simon

Middle Distance Runner (live acoustic) - Sea Wolf

I Was Wrong (Nico Version) - the morning benders

The Fairest of The Season - Nico

Hows About Tellin A Story - Devendra Banhart

Someone You’d Admire - Fleet Foxes

Big Red Machine - Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner

Pickerel Lake - Sufjan Stevens

Herring Bone - Department of Eagles

Kettering - The Antlers

Drifting - Matthew Cooper

Cover image by Aron Wiesenfeld

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some of my favorite mellow (for the lack of better word) songs from the soundtrack of Wes Anderson films.

Hey Jude - The Mutato Muzika Orchestra

Over and Done With - The Proclaimers

Wigwam - Bob Dylan

Lullabye - Emitt Rhodes

Rue St Vincent - Yves Montand

The Wind - Cat Stevens

Strangers - The Kinks

The Way I Feel Inside - The Zombies

Ol’ Man River - Beach Boys

Staraflur - Sigur Ros

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some of my favorite happy songs from the soundtrack of Wes Anderson films.

Snowflake Music - Mark Mothersbaugh

This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks

Everyone - Van Morrison

Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens

Oh Yoko - John Lennon

Fooba Wooba John - Burl Ives

Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Paul Simon

Zorro Is Back - Oliver Onions

Queen Bitch - David Bowie

Let Her Dance - The Bobby Fuller Four

Ben Folds - A Wishlist Setlist

on account of :

• Ben Folds coming to my city next month and
• i’ve already got first class tickets to it and
• i’ve been waiting for more than 10 years for Ben Folds to come to my city so that i can buy first class tickets to the concert….

here’s what i wish will be his set list:

One Angry Drawf and 200 Solemn Faces (Live)

Underground

Gone

Philosophy

Fired

Sentimental Guy

Silver Street (Live)

Boxing (Live with WASO in Sydney)

Before Cologne

Cologne

Still Fighting It

You To Thank

Steven’s Last Night In Town

Video

Best Imitation of Myself (Live)

Zak & Sara (Live)

Lulabye

Encore: Hiroshima

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