making a mix

to tell someone some stuff

balance. hitting the right tone between sentiment and reality, because songs can do both so well.

i think maybe most songs tend towards sentiment, because it's the easier of the two.

reality doesn't always rhyme, and the truth isn't always pretty.

but, despite his genius for it, i haven't used any seBADoh/lou barlow on this one.

my friend who i 'm making the mix for actually knows me very well. he'll know if i'm using a track as a shortcut, but i hope he will also, for the same reason, know when i'm being ironic.

this isn't just a playlist, it's a letter, starting and middling and ending.

it's kind of broken into acts

from bright eyes through to snow patrol's run

the books for a palate cleanser, then into that brilliant 'i am missing you' song, 'roll up your sleeves'

onward and getting later now, and if he listens all in one go he'll need cheering up maybe, so pour another one to 'you can't win' by heavy trash, that'll sort you out

because we've still got some thinking to do, to the pastels, and julie doiron

leaving you with a song to help you sleep, a george winston

winston is almost too sentimental for me, but like with arvo part, it's the simplicity that makes it so emotive.

because i want to give him a gift not ruin his day.

:)

and it goes with my love,

~ listener

the way things work

is subject to change

i watched my 19 month old try to put a cd into the side of a clock radio, like she's seen mummy do putting a cd into the side of our imac, and realised, how they do change.

this week i went to see the books.

the books!

i almost didn't know about their two melbourne concerts in time to get a ticket, but i did and i went and they were wonderful.

do you hear me? you guys were wonderful. such different looking people, the two of you. how did you happen to meet?

linkage

To test hiredgoon's helpful itunes link advice - a wishlist possibility

(or maybe I'll get the whole album, although i do already *have* All My Friends...)

Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem

If that link takes you to iTunes, then my mission has succeeded.

~ listener

shot in the head with a dollar

embedded? it's in there alright. new pop.

first heard in that same taxi that took me to see sir neville marriner, and dismissed as the lowest form of over-sexualised teenage pop. on further listens, the lyrical value undergoes a slight change.

this girl is brash, certainly. but she's got the same kind of cohones as pink.

she spells her nom de pop with a dollar sign in place of an "s". i wonder how that is affecting her search engine results...

ke$ha

the song in my head, lodged as with a gun, is her new single tik tok

and she has her own channel on youtube

the dialogue between fan and artist getting more mediated, with fans uploading versions of a video for this new single. ke$ha herself appears in several short direct -to-camera messages

in these posts she appears to be exactly what she portrays in her song - a loose-limbed, coolsie blond with an idea of being "edgy"

there is no cynicism in this post of mine, i hope you see. i think she's close to being what other popsters have had to have created on their behalf, and occupied like a character.

and tik tok, for all it's moral hollowness, is a really "kick-ass" summer pop song.

as soon as i learn how to link to it in itunes i will, as youtube seems to be changing away from encouraging embedding even where it is allowed

more another day

~ listener