Artist	Song
Samantha Regine	Good For You
Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell	Baby It's Cold Outside
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	Me and Mia
Blue Rodeo	Beverley Street
Divine Comedy	Songs of Love
The Cure	just like heaven
The Delgados	Everybody Come Down
Steven Bowers	Run Aground
Jr. Gone Wild	Downtime
Kim Barlow	dancehall (live at the keno city snack bar)
Garth Brooks	The Thunder Rolls
The Donnas	Revolver
Communique	Perfect Weapon
The Arcade Fire	Rebellion (Lies)
Oh Susanna	Little White Lies
Franz Ferdinand	auf achse
Maow	How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	If You leave
V-Roys	Fade Away
K-Taro Takanami	The Door of Remembrance
Trans-X	Living on Video
I Am the World Trade Center	Future Sightings

Comment:

2005/10/03 --- iqaluit, nunavut

the samantha regine track is from a cancon music sampler put out by 'the edge'. other canadian content on the mix includes blue rodeo, who come thru yet again on their latest album 'are you ready'. basil donovan, the bass player for blue rodeo, sidelines on the albums put out by fellow torontonian oh susanna. the steven bowers track is from 'the best of the east coast countdown', another cancon compilation produced by jimmie inch, a former resident of iqaluit. edmonton-based jr. gone wild are now defunct, but put out some great albums in the early '90's. kim barlow is also based north of 60, in the yukon. oh, and of course, the arcade fire are fellow canucks as well.

the zooey deschanel track is lifted from the 'elf' dvd audio track, not from the official OST which has someone else standing in for will. i think the falling water just adds that special something ;) after watching the recent reese witherspoon flick, i couldn't get the eponymous track from the cure out of my head, so i'm hoping that moving it onto a mix will assist. the OMD track was made famous by the 'pretty in pink' OST. the k-taro takanami track is from the soundtrack to 'chobits' a japanese manga and anime project by CLAMP!.

last december, salon.com offered a selection of tracks free to its membership, so i downloaded them to a temporary directory and then forgot about them. 9 months later, i finally got around to listening to them. of the tracks that i liked and kept, 4 appear on this mix, including the ones by ted leo and the pharmacists, communique, the arcade fire, and i am the world trade center. i was pretty stoked at being introduced to them all, even if a tad tardily.

fellow mixers on aotm provided much listening pleasure thanks to trades. from lipstick vogue, i received the delgados and divine comedy tracks, salman provided the maow track and bingsy provided the v-roys. fellow iqalungmiut also contributed as greg lent me kim barlow's cd and malcolm lent me the donna's. malcolm also introduced me to franz ferdinand (am i living on another planet or what ?) on a mix that he gave me last winter, and i bought the cd almost immediately.

to round off this eclectic mix, we have classics from garth brooks and Trans-X. the latter track is found on 'hard to find classics', an alternative '80's compilation. as my poker buddy todd commented, you can't go wrong with a mix that includes Trans-X.

cover is a screencap from 'heroic trio' which features maggie cheung. i was hoping to get a nice action shot with her co-stars michelle yeoh and anita mui, but maggie's weapons were just too perfect :)

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