Wow, this is a pretty amazing set! Your tastes and sense of eclecticism are rather similar to my own (although there are quite a few tracks here I'm not really familiar with). I really like the songs by Black Sabbath, A Perfect Circle, the Mars Volta, Pantera, the Who and Smashing Pumpkins - and I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan as well! A few things I'm curious about: What's the overall theme here, and how does it relate to California? How do the Tarantino quotes figure into it? Is this just a collection of yours and Danny's favorite songs, or was there any sort of method in the mix of songs and artists? Are you simply concerned with the overall flow of things, light and shade, stuff like that? I'm simply curious, because these kinds of things go through my head when I'm making my own mixes - although for me the thought process is somewhat abstract and it's often difficult to explain or pin down. Perhaps it's the same way for you. In the meantime, keep up the goood work! :)

When I made this mix, I had just met Danny, and I didn't really know him that well. I did know that he was a huge movie buff and a Tarantino fan, so the main reason I put the sound clips in there was just for the "Aha!" moment, I guess. I was actually going to change the title, because although it was a lyric in "Tender," it didn't really fit with the mood of the music. I tried to keep the transitions from being jarring, and while sometimes the genres jumped quite radically, I tried to maintain some vestige of a flow. I was mainly trying to introduce Danny to a lot of groups he hadn't heard before and threw in a few recognizable songs to keep his interest.