When I Grow Up

My new mix is finished! Here's the tracklisting

When I Grow Up, I’ll Stop Having These Dreams


1. Andrew Bird- The Trees Were Mistaken
2. Ane Brun- The Treehouse Song
3. Fever Ray- When I Grow Up
4. Bloc Party- Biko
5. Ane Brun- The Fall
6. Micah P. Hinson- I Keep Havin’ These Dreams
7. TV On the Radio- Stork & Owl
8. Refused- Bruitist Pome #5
9. Andrew Bird- Sectionate City
10. Beirut- The Penalty
11. Deerhunter- Activa
12. Sufjan Stevens- Lets Here the String Part Again Because I Don’t Think
They Heard it All the Way Out in Bushnell
13. Pseudosix- Put Your Back to The Sun
14. The Arcade Fire- My Body is a Cage
15. Sufjan Stevens- In This Temple, As in The Hearts of Man For Whom
He Saved The Earth
16. Beirut- In the Mausoleum
17. Devendra Banhart- Fall
18. Xiu Xiu- Sad Redux-O-Grapher




If you want a copy just let me know and I'll send it.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

If you pay attention, and succumb to your surroundings, everything that we come into contact with, if we allow them, can be strangely related to each other.



My favorite book of all time is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. McCullers skillfully intertwines 5 characters wherein which she creates a story which explores the struggle with isolation and loneliness. Recently, I started reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, an equally satisfying read, which focuses on the same themes as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
In my research on McCullers, I stumbled across a poem by Charles Bukowski, who happens to be another favorite author of mine.


Carson McCullers


she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
steamer.

all her books of
terrified loneliness

all her books about
the cruelty
of loveless love

were all that was left
of her

as the strolling vacationer
discovered her body

notified the captain

and she was quickly dispatched
to somewhere else
on the ship

as everything
continued just
as
she had written it

Charles Bukowski


It's not necessarily surprising that Bukowski would write of McCullers and her lost battle with alcoholism being that he was an infamous alcoholic himself.





While on the subject of depressed alcoholic artists, here's Modest Mouse at Albert Hall doing Bukowski. One of my favorites!


Bukowski
by Modest Mouse

"Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, that every night turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole? God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole?"

Bonnaroo!

Back in 2002 after leaving Tennessee I vowed I would never return to Manchester. It was hot, dry and dusty, unorganized and much too far away! But after the announcement earlier this week, I have to eat my words. With Phish and The Boss headlining and others signed on such as Bon Iver, Animal Collective, David Byrne, Wilco, Girl Talk, MGMT to name a few I will be purchasing my ticket immediatly!


Here's the link to the full line-up.