"Are you always such an asshole?" (a.k.a. Long drives to the West in an old Volvo.)

Artist Song
Philip Glass  Opening 
Ted Leo/Pharmacists  Bridges, Squares 
Wilco  Outtasite (Outta Mind) 
Simian  You Set Off My Brain 
Lonnie Johnson  Racketeer's Blues 
Air  La Femme D'Argent 
Three Mile Pilot  Mending King 
Pinback  Penelope 
Radio 4  How The Stars Got Crossed 
Hot Hot Heat  Oh, Goddamnit 
Q And Not U  Soft Pyramids 
Dewey Segura  Far Away From Home Blues 
The Make Up  C'mon, Let's Spawn 
Beautiful Skin  Harsh Distractions 
Leonard Cohen  Coming Back To You 
Steve Reich  Pulses 
Yo La Tengo  The Hour Grows Late 

Comment:

I put this mix together while thinking about my friend Alex, who lives in California, and my friend Aaron, who is moving to Colorado in a matter of days. Thus, I had a sense of urgency in finishing this mix (even though I haven't felt especially urgent about doing the liner notes) yet. The long and short of it is that I wanted to create something edgy and weird that would fit both the surreal postmodernism of Los Angeles and the empty stretches of Midwest interstates. Even though I gave up on Baudrillard a long time ago, think of what "America" might sound like if it were set to music and you have an idea of where and why this starts.

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hayward
Date: 4/22/2003
ooohhh this is gorgeous!
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Cool idea. Wall Of Voodoo might have made a nice addition.