Thin Air

A lot of really awesome new music has come out lately and I’ve put some on here. This started out being the Spring mixtape but I wasn’t happy with it. Now Spring is nearly over and summer will start. I could use the warm weather. 

Tracklist

1. Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem
2. Nobody But You by The Apples in Stereo
3. Crash Course by The Spill Canvas
4. Nothing Like You by Frightened Rabbit
5. Come Back To Me by Chatham County Line
6. Hollar and Howl by Annuals
7. Burden of Tomorrow by The Tallest Man On Earth
8. Save It For A Rainy Day by The Jayhawks
9. Remains by Matt Pond PA
10. Chinatown by Wild Nothing
11. Heaven and Earth by Blitzen Trapper
12. Sorrow by The National
13. Truth Sets In by Avi Buffalo
14. Thin Air by Aqualung
15. The Curse by Josh Ritter

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I Must Be Crazy You Make Me Feel Like I’m Seventeen Again

So, I’ve been busy and I’m going to use that as the excuse for why I haven’t posted any mixtapes lately. This is sort of an extension of the Mixtapes For Falling In Love Series (Part 1, Part 2).

Tracklist

1. I’ve Just Seen A Face by Jordan and Josh (Originally by The Beatles: My friend and I covered this)
2. Two of Us by The Beatles
3. You You You You You by The 6ths
4. Lover by Devendra Banhart
5. Something To Look Forward To by Spoon
6. I’m In Love With A Girl by Big Star
7. Someday, Some Morning, Sometime by Billy Bragg and Wilco
8. Beauty by The Shivers
9. Florida Rain by Matt Bauer
10. Part One by Band of Horses
11. Sweet Avenue by Jets to Brazil
12. My Love by The Bird and The Bee
13. Little Bit by Lykke Li
14. Love You Madly by CAKE

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Chrissy’s Birthday Mix

So, on my way home from the most awesome LA trip in June, I was surfing the internet at the Newark Airport during a layover. I was going back through my tumblr dashboard, not really paying attention, when something caught my eye and took me by surprise. Holy shit that is my cousin! I wasn’t lying or joking about her being my cousin when I reblogged this and yesterday was her birthday. I know, I’m a day late, I’m a horrible cousin. Forgive me. Now, Chrissy, it should be known that if I were at my parent’s right now, I would have scanned pics of you as a baby. Consider yourself lucky.

Tracklist

1. Soldier’s Grin by Wolf Parade
2. All We Want, Baby, Is Everything by Handsome Furs
3. Good Arms vs. Bad Arms by Frightened Rabbit
4. I’m Walking This Road Because You Stole My Car (Don’t Go) by Fascinoma
5. This Ain’t A Scene by The Henry Clay People
6. Down In The Valley by The Broken West
7. Bat Coma Motown by Richard Swift
8. No More Birthday by Sound Team
9. At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) by fun.
10. I See A Brightness by Lacrosse
11. Launch Yourself by Adem
12. This Lamb Sells Condos by Final Fantasy
13. May You Never by Land of Talk
14. Mr Understanding by Pete & The Pirates
15. There’s Never Enough Time by The Postal Service

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Everything I do is stitched with its color

The title of this mixtape was inspired by this poem, written by W. S. Merwin.

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

If you can’t tell, this is a mix about long distance relationships. Recently made.

Tracklist

1. The Promise by Tracy Chapman
2. Orange Sky by Alexi Murdoch
3. Northern Sky by Nick Drake
4. You Belong To Me by Jason Wade
5. Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together) by Queen
6. I’ll Catch You (Acoustic) by The Get Up Kids
7. When You Come Back Down by Nickel Creek
8. Set the Fire to the Third Bar by Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright
9. My Slumbering Heart by Rilo Kiley
10. Second Star To The Left, Go Til Dawn by Copeland
11. You’re The Good Things by Modest Mouse
12. The New Year by Death Cab for Cutie
13. If You Would Come Back Home by William Fitzsimmons
14. Starlight by Muse
15. All My Loving by The Beatles
16. The Thoughts That Give Me The Creeps by Hellogoodbye
17. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville by R.E.M
18. Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie

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July 2008

Ok, so…I apologize for the shitty cover. When I have time I promise I will make a better one.

Anyway, this mix…this. I met someone not too long before I made this mix and this is sort of about her. I still think that if things had gone just a bit differently, we would probably be dating right now. We are, however, super good friends still so that makes me happy. This is sort of about her, sort of about some other friends of mine. If you haven’t figured it out, most of my mixes are autobiographical in some way. I might not explain them, but this is me showing the world who I am, what I feel, and what I think.

Tracklist

1. The Start of Something by Voxtrot
2. Where We Gonna Go From Here by Mat Kearney
3. Henney Buggy Band by Sufjan Stevens
4. Dancing In A Minefield by Plushgun
5. Shake It by Metro Station
6. Energy by The Apples in Stereo
7. Polite Dance Song by The Bird and The Bee
8. On My Way by Cocoon
9. This This Home On Ice by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. Suffer For Fashion by of Montreal
11. Outta Heart by Hot Hot Heat
12. Bye Bye Bye by Plants and Animals
13. Million Young by American Analog Set
14. Abandon by French Kicks
15. You’re A Wolf by Sea Wolf
16. Better Off Alone by The Black Angels

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Middle School Mixtape: The boys didn’t make you one in middle school? Fucking slackers.

So I was at work when piscesinpurple mentioned something about not getting a mixtape in middle school. So for those of you that didn’t get a mixtape, this is for you. (I didn’t get my first mix until the beginning of this year, talk about slackers.)

Tracklist

1. Question by Old 97’s
2. Avenues by Whiskeytown
3. Sweet Thing by Van Morrison
4. Our Day Trip by Nina Nastasia
5. Just To Know What You’ve Been Dreaming by Will Johnson
6. Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline
7. That Teenage Feeling by Neko Case
8. You’re So Good To Me by The Beach Boys
9. I’ll Be Here In The Morning by Townes Van Zandt
10. Sea of Love by Tom Waits
11. When My Boy Walks Down The Street by The Magnetic Fields
12. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
13. Mama, You Been On My Mind by Jeff Buckley (It was a toss-up between this version or Bob Dylan’s)
14. Your Arms Around Me by Jens Lekman

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October 2008: Extended

Last year, after I made the October 2008 mixtape, I decided that it wasn’t complete and so I made this little bonus mixtape to go along with it.

Tracklist

1. Shadow by The Southland
2. Upon Viewing Brueghel’s “Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus” by Titus Andronicus
3. Year of the Dog by The Lovely Sparrows
4. Ways To Make It Through The Wall by Los Campesinos!
5. Electric Feel (MGMT Cover) by Katy Perry
6. This Ship Was Built To Last by The Duke Spirit
7. Come On Get Higher by Matt Nathanson
8. Orange Sky by Alexi Murdoch
9. Diamonds In The Dark by Mystery Jets
10. Ghosts by Laura Marling
11. Generator by The Holloways
12. Your Fractured Life by Air Traffic

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And I’m done for the day.

October 2008

I’m currently at work and I started listening to this mix to keep myself occupied; if I’m not occupied with something I tend to get into trouble. By trouble I mean I run around the office or try to convince someone to have chair races with me. It’s never a good thing; that’s a lie, it is a good thing, it’s fun, but I need to be responsible and pretend I’m an adult. Anyway…

I had written out an explanation about this mix, but what it comes down to is that it was long and really, this is about my ex-fiance and me finally figuring out that she was not the person for me. We broke up in March and it took me until October to FINALLY move on.

Well if that wasn’t a long explanation…anyway. I’m at work and I only have MS Paint so the cover sucks.

Tracklist

1. Jenny Don’t Be Hasty by Paolo Nutini
2. Love Has A Diameter by Biffy Clyro
3. One Week Of Danger by The Virgins
4. Wolves at Night by The Manchester Orchestra
5. I’d Rather Dance With You by Kings Of Convenience
6. Never Miss a Beat by Kaiser Chiefs
7. Textbook Love by Fleet Foxes
8. With A Bullet by Sam Roberts
9. Love and Some Verses by Iron & Wine
10. Dont Trust Me by 3OH!3
11. 10,000 Nights of Thunder by Alphabeat
12. Good Fight Fighting by The Very Most
13. Surefooted by Geoff Ereth
14. Happy Day Today by Jim Noir
15. Rocks And Daggers by Noah and the Whale
16. Rum Brave by Murder By Death
17. Skeleton Man by Evangelicals
18. For The Winter Coats by Oxford Collapse

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June 2008

Last June was absolutely amazing. I reconnected with old friends, I started to get my own life back. I was no longer defined by the relationship I was in and I didn’t see a point in continuing that in the future. At the same time, I still had a lot of issues to deal with and things to figure out, but for the most part, I could see the “light at the end of the tunnel.” For the first time in a couple of years, I was actually happy. I have my friends to thank for that, but I also started to change, to mature. I wasn’t the same person I was two months prior, and even now, I can look back and say that I’m not the same person I was last June. It’s a great feeling.

Tracklist

1. Fight Song by The Republic Tigers
2. I Got Mine by  The Black Keys
3. Section 9 (Light & Day/Reach for the Sun) by The Polyphonic Spree
4. Can’t Say No by The Helio Sequence
5. Grass by Animal Collective
6. Wild Mountain Nation by Blitzen Trapper
7. The Opposite of Hallelujah by Jens Lekman
8. Strangers by Van She
9. L.E.S. Artistes by Santogold
10. Normandie by Shout Out Louds
11. Get Better by Mates of State
12. Think I’m In Love by Beck
13. Hot Knives by Bright Eyes
14. Let The Poison Spill by The Faint
15. The Modern Age by The Strokes
16. Obsessed With You by The Orion Experience
17. Falling In Love At a Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg
18. If It Kills Me by Jason Mraz
19. Wish I Could Forget by The Weepies

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Edit: I had the wrong zip file linked; it is now correct. If you downloaded the other one, it is missing a couple of songs from the mix, you can re-download the mix or get the songs here and here.