Side A
Artist	Song
trailer bride	silk hope road
tom waits	everything goes to hell
victory at sea	games
the world/inferno friendship society	i wouldn't want to live in a world without grudges [live]
poe	not a virgin
radiohead	a punchup at a wedding
belle &sebastian	get me away from here, i'm dying
tom waits	9th &hennepin
the dead milkmen	bitchin' camaro
cyndi lauper	money changes everything
the faint	agenda suicide
pj harvey	working for the man
the smiths	heaven knows i'm miserable now
death cab for cutie	the sound of settling
tom waits	god's away on business
the paper chase	paperwork
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
the cure	one hundred years
john parish &polly jean harvey	is that all there is?
the clash	career opportunities
tom waits	starving in the belly of the whale
the world/inferno friendship society	friend to the friendless
the magnolia electric co.	almost was good enough [live]
betty buckley	pirate jenny [live]
jenny lewis &the watson twins	rise up with fists!!
the dresden dolls	backstabber
sixteen horsepower	black soul choir [live]
neko case	hold on, hold on
belle &sebastian	sleep the clock around

Comment:

110 minutes. this is the companion piece to the seventh issue of my perzine, suburban gothic. this issue chronicles the events of the past year and a half of my life, including but not limited to: graduating from college, [mis]adventures on several road trips, getting my first real adult job, then getting laid off three months later, service industry hell, moving twice in five months, trying to go back to school for something practical and pretty much failing miserably, existential angst aplenty, and the process of losing "friends" along the way. it's the "growing up" issue, about changes and stagnation. this mixtape tells the story in what i was listening to at the time and what i identified with through lyrics, the songs and albums that kept me going. that's why i call it a "narrative" mix. title comes from the poe song on side a. if you're interested in seeing the zine, gimme a holla. it's not quite done yet but it will be soon. ps: i know the mix is a little heavy on the tom waits, and i would apologize for that except that a) that really is the bulk of what i've been listening to for the past year and a half, and 2) it's tom fucking waits, c'mon now!

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