Artist	Song
Curve	Hell Above Water
Rockers Hi-Fi	What A Life
Joseph Arthur	Big City Secrets
Marc Carroll	Crash Pad Number
P.J. Olsson	Thorazine
The Raveonettes	Dead Sound
Iron & Wine	Boy With A Coin
Billy Bob Thornton	Lost Highway
John Oszjaca	Long Drive Home
Lambchop	Backstreet Girl
Andrew Bird	My Skin Is
Axiom Funk with Bootsy Collins	If 6 Was 9
Jim Carroll Band	People Who Died
Constantines	Hard Feelings
The National	Without Permission
Interpol	No I in Threesome
The Starlight Mints	Popsicle
Lily Allen	Smile
REO Speedwagon	Keep On Lovin' You
Ladytron	Destroy Everything You Touch
Gnarls Barkley	Smiley Faces

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Gregg Araki grew up in Santa Barbara, California before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager. He graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television and then
worked as a music critic for L.A. Weekly. He directed his first film at the age of 23 and has been renowned as a seminal figure of the "New Queer Cinema." Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Regarding this gay categorization, Araki said, I couldn't make movies like this if I started to worry about what Jerry Falwell is going to have to say about it.

Araki likes to hand-pick the songs for his soundtracks. "The music is all from my personal collection. A lot of the attitude, and the feelings of alienation, disenfranchisement and anger, comes from the music. I'm much more into buying CDs than I am into keeping up with current movies." Only 4 of the 21 songs in this mix came from Araki soundtracks. It's not that I have a problem with his choice of music; I just wanted more of a narrative feel to the mix.

He's currently in production of "CrEEEEps," scheduled for release later this year. His other films used in the mix are as follows:

After two hand-held camera shot indie films, Araki followed this up in 1992 with "The Living End," a road movie about two HIV-positive men whose paths cross one fateful day.
Araki's next three films comprised his "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy."
"Totally Fucked Up" (1993) chronicled the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit. Araki described it "as a kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick."
"The Doom Generation" was a black comedy brimming with graphic violence, cultural symbolism and relentless eroticism. The film starred the riveting Rose McGowan.
"Nowhere" (1997), was described by Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid."
Araki's subsequent effort, the romantic comedy "Splendor," told the story of a woman (Kathleen Robertson) who cannot choose between two men (Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar) and so decides to live with them both. Splendor was both a response to the controversy surrounding his relationship with Robertson and an homage to screwball comedies of the 1940s and '50s.
"Mysterious Skin" (2005), based on a novel by Scott Heim, tells the story of a teenage hustler and a withdrawn young man obsessed with alien abductions, and how they both deal with the sexual abuse they suffered from their Little League coach.
"Smiley Face" is a stoner film where a young actress and hopeless pothead inadvertently ingests her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes, and then attempts to manage her day as it goes awry through a series of misadventures.

And here's the quiz where a free copy that is track marked and has artwork goes to the first correct answer. What was the name of the ill-fated MTV series that Araki produced and directed?
Once again props to the Netflix Internet DVD rental company, which carries so many movies that cannot be found at a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. All of Araki's are avaialble on their website.

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