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Mixdisc #17
Too Many Fallen, Too Many Failed

I wanted to start posting my mixdiscs for those souls, who, if they have the time to track down the music... would, could, should.

intro (napoleon dynamite - what'd you do this summer)
doves - black and white town
kings of convienience - i don't know what i can save you from
dallas green - save your scissors
animal collective - prospect hummer
pinback - fortress
Fountains of wayne - mexican wine
spinto band - japan is an island
rouge wave - publish my love
dogs die in hot cars - celebrity sanctum
clap your hands say yeah - skin of my yellow country teeth
editors - fingers in the factories
okkervil river - black
panic! at the disco - the only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage
futureheads - hounds of love
spinto band - brown boxes
entro - (LOTR-leave now and never come back)

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"We’ll find a cathedral city you can be handsome I’ll be pretty..."

I took Thursday night and made the rounds in Denver, all by myself. It was killer to just cook dinner for the ladies and wonder out the door with no one in tow.
Met up with a couple of former work pals at the 10th anniversary party for a production vendor of ours. Always good to keep in touch with those folks since they are quite nice, really. chit chatted for a bit about the new 300 movie that we all want to see. Freaking Frank Miller! i will be there for the opener.
Met up with T-Race and DJ Stupac for a beer at Goosetown. Always a pleasure. They were kinda just rollin with it. I'm sure that the band that we were going to see wasn't their cup of cake but they're troopers and were door passed in too.
Went across the street and saw Camera Obscura. A fine band out of Glasgow. Pop-friendly and almost country. I never really noticed it while i was listening to them before, but the slide-guitar is very Mazy Star and the female vocals are....well, just nice. Thanks to my pal Constantine for setting me up with door passes to that.
Met up with SwampCo, poster artist and general scenester. Almost stayed out and shut down bars just hanging and talking about art and the state of corporate america. Damn art kids getting out of school, being taken advantage of by large corporations trying to market to GenXYZ and in turn driving the price of service way down. I blame the instructors for not preping them more for the onslaught of corporate values that will use them up and throw them away for $5. He was telling me about his recent conversation with Pushead about the topic and that Pushead was all worked up about the floods of young stud artists being pumped into the scene. I blame it on the computer and the fact that any monkey with a crayon or bottle of poster paint can make "legitimate art" and be taken seriously nowadays. Like all those kids in my highschool art classes that were just there, making time and not really interested in art but didn't want to sit in studyhall. ugh! Now anyone can sketch a squiggly line drawing and scan it into photoshop and drop some hap-hazzardly cut-out photos into the mix and call it a sneaker ad. Where's the skillz, where's the forethought? oh the humanity!

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