Artist	Song
Cleaners From Venus	Drowning Butterflies
Tindersticks	A Night In
Emitt Rhodes	You Must Have
The Books	Don't Even Sing About It
Illyah Kuryahkin	Never Now
The Czars	Drug
Circulatory System	Now
Songs: Ohia	Didn't It Rain
Squarepusher	Tommib
The Flaming Lips	Can't Exist
John Cale	I'm Not the Loving Kind
Sufjan Stevens	Romulus
The Angels of Light	Kosinski
Nick Drake	Northern Sky
Saturday Looks Good to Me	I Would Find It So Beautiful

Comment:

Like many hipsters these days, I pretty much adore _Lost in Translation_. Fantastic flick; saw it twice in the theater. Of course, not the least of the things I enjoyed was the soundtrack. S.C. picked a great bunch of songs -- the shoegazing, hazy ambience was the perfect accompaniment to all those scenes with BM and/or SJ staring out of hotel windows, limo windows, etc. (This made _LiT_ one of the few movies in which I felt sitting in one of the front few rows greatly enhanced the viewing experience.)

So anyway. I'm back at home, starting work on a mix -- theme as yet undecided -- for an Internet buddy. Now, I'm a pretty fucking happy-go-lucky dude, yet somehow the mix I end up with completely reflects that lost, forlorn mood found in the film.

Instrumentally, it takes a more, hrm, organic approach, save the more fuzzed-out tones in the opening CfV track and the Squarepusher track (the latter lifted directly from _LiT_, making the influence that much more obvious). But the effect is similar, I think. Pre-dawn, wondering where it all went wrong.

Feedback: