Listening to "Pet Sounds" and thinking about how brilliant people are.
Sometimes I try to prevent myself from rediscovering TinyMixtapes.com, but then I accidentally find it again and spend precious seconds minutes hours lifetimes wanting to live, eat, and breathe these people and playlists. Some favorites....
"My decadence is bigger than yours"
Hard to go wrong with some Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Nine Inch Nails, and the Rolling Stones.
"You Say Potato, I Say Get the Fuck on the Dance Floor"
I'm in love.
Ellie Goulding, Brazilian Girls, Biggie, then some Justice, N.E.R.D., The Whip, Justin Timberlake.
"Strippers like good songs, too"
1. Tom Waits, 2. Norah Jones, 3. Leonard Cohen, 4. Portishead...and we haven't even gotten to Kings of Leon, the White Stripes, or Emiliana Torrini.
"Stop being passive-aggressive and fucking hit me"
The Misfits, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and lots of goodness.
"Music to Write Home About"
Yes yes yes yes YES. I agree - expect a letter, 'cause I'm writing it.
Sufjan Stevens. Deertick. The Clash. Granddady. Bright Eyes. Pavement. Bob Dylan.
"I wanna fuck my roommate: the story of in-house sexual frustration"
These groups could easily compose a soundtrack to my life.
The Kinks. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Feist. Roy Orbison. Yo La Tengo. Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz. Radiohead. Mos Def.
Other notable playlists:
"All I want to do is smoke a blunt, listen to dubstep, and have sex with you"
"I want to strap some headphones on my belly and blare some tunes to get my fetus excited to enter this world"
"Harsh noise guy meets indie pop princess; needs to prove accessible music sensibility"
"I'm a closet christian dying to come out"
"Hipsters, stop acting like you're in hell."
I think if I submitted a playlist request at this moment in time, it might be something like "I want too many things. Like to save the world."
