Artist	Song
cat power	bathysphere
sonic youth	nyc ghosts & flowers
spoon	believing is art
pj harvey	long snake moan
juliana hatfield	backseat
rufus wainright	damned ladies
tiny g	nothing divine
bjork with the brodsky quartet	hyper-ballad
sevenball	youth dilute
cat stevens	the wind
patti smith	spell

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so i'm back home for thanksgiving and, as usual, have raided my library's rather impressively varied music collection. (someday, i'm going to track down the acquisitions librarian responsible for all this and give them a hug.) rob, who's heard me praise my library before, suggested that i try and make a mix from the cds i borrowed. now, it's hard to mix from cds i don't really know, so i went the theme route, and by the time i finished, i really liked the theme (search for the means to live and thrive in the postmodern western world), but wasn't sure about the mix. when i get back to school (and my cds), this is going to be pretty thoroughly augmented and somewhat revised. in the meantime, it'll do. (notes and clarifications: tracks 1, 7, and 9 are the only ones not from library cds; the cat stevens track comes from the rushmore soundtrack. other notable contributions the santa clara county library system has made to my repetoire: the dirty three, calexico, aphex twin, sunny day real estate, mark eitzel, yo la tengo, neutral milk hotel, tom waits, sparklehorse, rasputina, mogwai ... you get the picture. smile at a librarian this week, kids. they really do make a difference.)

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