Artist	Song
The Polyphonic Spree	Ensure Your Reservation
Pernice Brothers	Waiting For the Universe
Kings of Convenience	Homesick
Brendan Benson	Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Belle & Sebastian	Jonathan David
Elliott Smith	Sweet Adeline
Andrew Bird	A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
The Wrens	Happy
The Dismemberment Plan	Time Bomb
Xiu Xiu	I Luv the Valley OH!
Bjork	Pluto
Bright Eyes	The Calendar Hung Itself
Foo Fighters	Stacked Actors
RES	They-Say Vision
The White Stripes	Little Ghost
Bjork	Human Behavior
Neil Young	There's a World
The Flaming Lips	All We Have is Now
Coldplay	Don't Panic
Sondre Lerche	Things You Call Fate

Comment:

Mix #43, the resignation. One of a few inspirations for this one was Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe, though once again the result is not very comical. The other inspirations are personal. This is kind of a sequel to mix #38, "Time Travel is Fictional". The final tracks of both mixes even share a melody. What both mixes come down to is this: time travel is my metaphor for fantasizing about relationships that could be but aren't (38) and relationships that can never be (43). Tracks 2-12 are pretty much recognizing impossibility with varying reactions of calm sadness, angry sadness, plain anger, frustration, and half-assed attempts at being happy for them. 13-17 is attempting to heal while dealing with external annoyances. 18 is the painful realization sinking in once more, undiluted. 19-20: acceptance. "Once I believed we could approach this. Now I have faith placed in the things you call fate." (edit: decided to remove the Travis Morrison song - wasn't fitting.)

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