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Mixes for Posterity XIX: Late 90s Tape

Side One

The Finegan Song — Finegan Elementary School Music Teacher 1996(?) I’m Gonna Miss U Forever — Aaron Carter What’s My Age Again — Blink 182 American Woman — Guess Who Always Be My Baby — Mariah Carey I’m Just a Girl — No Doubt Sixteen — No Doubt Thriller — Michael Jackson Our House — Madness (WAPE 95.1 bumper)

Side Two

To The Moon & Back — Savage Garden Drive Me Crazy — Britney Spears They’re Coming to Take Me Away — Napoleon XIV You Learn — Alanis Morissette Head over Heels — Alanis Morissette The Boy is Mine — Brandy & Monica Walkin’ on the Sun — Smash Mouth (Do You Know) What It Takes — Robyn Don’t Want to Miss a Thing — Aerosmith (WAPE bumper) Fantasy — Mariah Carey Inside Out — Eve 6 Everybody — Backstreet Boys ...Baby One More Time — Britney Spears

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Mixes for Posterity XVIII: Mad Rush (2005)

Supermarket in California--Allen Ginsberg I Want You--Bob Dylan California Stars--Billy Bragg and Wilco Such Great Heights--Sam Doan Fade into You(Cover)--Pedro the Lion Maps--Yeah Yeah Yeahs More Than Us--Travis Your Winter--Sister Hazel February--Dar Williams A Minute Longer--Stereophonics Waste of Paint--Bright Eyes No Children--Mountain Goats NYC--Interpol The Novelist--Richard Swift Mad Rush, Solo Piano--Phillip Glass I Don't Blame You--Cat Power For Emily Wherever I May Find Her--Simon and Garfunkel

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Mixes for Posterity XVII: Pleasure + Accomplishment (2005)

Book store--Yann Tierson(Amelie) Lost in the Supermarket--The Clash(LondonCalling) The OC--The Assaul(Come on in Master) Bohemian Like You--Dandy Warhols(13TalesfromUrbanBohemia) This Charming Man--Death Cab for Cutie(YouCanPlayTheseSongswithChords) Charmless Man--Blur(TheGreatEscape) The Sporting Life--The Decemberists(Picaresque) The Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free--Ryan Adams(From a Basement on the Hill) Sneaky Feelings--Elvis Costello(MyAimisTrue) I've Got You Under my Skin--Frank Sinatra(OntheSwingingSide) Where Its At--Beck(Odelay) Dude Yr So Crazy!--Le Tigre(LeTigre) Game Shows Touch Our Lives--Mountain Goats(Tallahassee) Be Thou My Vision--Pedro the Lion(TheOnlyReasonIFeelSecure) The Novelist--Richard Swift(TheNovelist) Unfinished Words--The Rutles(Archaeology) Love is Hell--Ryan Adams(LoveisHellPt.1) Mr. Writer--Stereophonics(JustEnoughEducationtoPerform) Pale Blue Eyes--Velvet Underground(VelvetUnderground) Buddy Holly--Weezer(Weezer) You've Got Her in Your Pocket--White Stripes(Elephant) Call Me--Blondie(The Best of Blondie)

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Mixes for Posterity XVII: There are Many Rules (2005)

Take it or leave it--Jet I'm Happy Just to Dance with You--Beatles Oceanside--Decemberists Thinking About You--Radiohead This Modern Love--Bloc Party Some kind of Love--Velvet Underground Sparks--Coldplay She wants to Play Hearts--Ryan Adams I am Always the One Who Calls--Pedro the Lion A Perfect Sonnet--Bright Eyes Say Yes--Elliot Smith I'm so Tired--Beatles C'mere--Interpol Not a Pretty Girl--Ani Difranco I Want You--Bob Dylan

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Mixes for Posterity XVI: Missing You (Winter Break) 2005

Blue Christmas--Bright Eyes Love Me Two Times--Doors A Minute Longer--Stereophonics Don't Go Away--Oasis I want You Around--The Ramones I still Miss Someone--Johnny Cash Missing You--Jem Wish You Were Here--Ryan Adams Wish You Were Here--Pink Floyd So Far Away--Carol King Everything Reminds Me of Her--Ryan Adams I don't Want to Walk Around Alone--The LuckSmiths I'll Be Waiting--Archer Prewitt I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself--White Stripes Going Out of My Head--The Zombies Why Don't You Write Me?--Simon and Garfunkel Angel, Why Don't You Call Me?--The Decemberists You Belong to Me--Patsy Cline

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Mixes for Posterity XV: I’m Sorry, I Can Never Love You (2006)

The Weakness in Me--Joan Armatrading I Don't Want to Walk Around Alone--The Lucksmiths Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want--The Smiths I was Meant for the Stage--The Decemberists Pretty (Ugly Before)--Elliot Smith Way of the Sun--Archer Prewitt Beautiful--Athlete Bohemian Like You--Dandy Warhol Quit Your Job and Go on Tour--The Assualt Art Star--Yeah Yeah Yeahs Noisy Summer--The Raveonettes Fade Into You--Pedro the Lion California Stars--Billy Bragg Such Great Heights--Sam Doan Second Skin--John Vanderslice Peach Plum Pear--Final Fantasy C'mere--Interpol Old College Try--Mountain Goats February--Dar Williams They Never Got You--Spoon I Don't Blame You--Cat Power One More Cup of Coffee--Bob Dylan Positively Lost Me--The Rave Ups Carry Me Ohio--Sun Kil Moon Try a Little Tenderness--Otis Redding And She Was--Talking Heads Left of Center--Suzanne Vega

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Mixes for Posterity XIV: They Froze Up So Quickly (2006)

Your Heart is Like an Empty Room--Death Cab for Cutie Mistakes We Knew We Were Making--Straylight Run No Regrets--The Von Bondies Maybe--Stereophonics Doughnut Song--Tori Amos Have to Explode--Mountain Goats Seeing Other People--Belle and Sebastian I Can't--Radiohead Dotted with Hearts--Horrorpops Love Can Destroy--The Raveonettes Undone (Sweater Song)--Weezer Somebody That I Use to Know--Elliot Smith Positively Lost Me--The Rave Ups No Children--Mountain Goats The Good That Won't Come Out--Rilo Kiley It's Cool We Can Still Be Friends--Bright Eyes Old College Try--Mountain Goats I Don't Blame You--Cat Power Just One of Those Things--Frank Sinatra We'll Meet Again--Johnny Cash Friends with You--Bob Dylan I'm Happy Just to Dance with You--The Beatles

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Conversation

Joan Didion: What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Interviewer: The first is the gesture, the second is the commitment.

Joan Didion: Yes, and the last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. It should make you go back and start reading from page one. That's how it should be, but it doesn't always work. I think of writing anything at all as a kind of high-wire act. The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

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Mixes for Posterity XIII: It’s Over and It’s Over (2006)

It's Over and It's Over (I Can't Seem to) Make You Mine--The Clientele Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want--the Smiths Everything Reminds Me of Her--Ryan Adams Rest of My Life--Rilo Kiley I Know We Could Be so Happy Baby--Jeff Buckley Hey, I Really Love You--Lisa Brown Follow You Into the Dark--Death Cab for Cutie (judge not!) Your Hand in Mine--Explosions in the Sky Fire in My Heart--Super Furry Animals Is This Love?--Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Let's Do It(Let's Fall in Love)-Ella Fitzgerald (surprise) Ending Start--Metric Honey and the Moon--Joseph Arthur Anything for Now--Do Make Say Think Wish List--Her Space Holiday No Distance Left to Run--Blur (If There's) No Hope for Us--Arab Strap I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself--White Stripes

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Mixes for Posterity XII: I was Playing with Ethyl (2006)

Born on a Different--Oasis Stormy Weather--The Pixies Shelter from the Storm--Bob Dylan Have You Ever Seen Rain--Creedence Clearwater Rain Morning Rain--I am Kloot Rainy Days--Ryan Adams Rain--The Clientele Buckets of Rain--Bob Dylan Why Does It Always Rain on Me--Travis It's Raining on Prom Night--Me First & the Gimme Gimmes The Thunder Rolls--Garth Brooks Fire and Rain--James Taylor Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)--Ryan Adams Dry the Rain--Beta Band Come Rain on Come Shine--Don Henley The Rainbow Connection--Kermit the Frog Somewhere Over the Rainbow--Judy Garland

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Mixes for Posterity XI: All I Ever Say is “Fine” (2006)

Trains to Brazil--Guillemots Une Annee Sans Lumiere--The Arcade Fire Details of the War--Clap Your Hands Say Yeah I'll Believe Anything--Wolf Parade Dark Center fo the Universe--Modest Mouse Nomadic Revery--Bonnie "Prince" Billy Black Ice Cream Song--Mountain Goats For Real--Okkervil River Cause=Time--Broken Social Scene Car--Built to Spill The City--Dismemberment Plan Morning Rain--I am Kloot Ringing in My Ear--Adem Holland, 1945--Neutral Milk Hotel The Legionnaire's Lament--The Decemberists

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Mixes for Posterity X: I’m Stickin’ with You (2007)

I’m Stickin’ with You This Will Be Our Year-- The Zombies I'm Stickng with You-- The VU I Will Follow You into the Dark-- DCFC (so corny-- but an inside joke) Naked as We Came-- Iron & Wine Still in Love-- Cat Power Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In-- Modest Mouse You're My Only Home-- The Magnetic Fields King of Carrot Flowers, pt1-- NMH (our song) Remember Me as a Time of Day-- Explosions in the Sky (crazy long break in the middle) Blues in Dallas-- TMG (he always says this is really romantic, I thought it went along with the DCFC) I Found a Reason-- The VU You've Got Her in Your Pocket-- White Stripes (this mix has a lot of stuff I stopped listening to and recently picked up) Rest of My Life-- Rilo Kiley (I listened to this song a lot when we were going to break up) Kingdom of the Animals-- Iron & Wine Things I Should Say-- Bears Twin Human Highway Flares-- TMG Long Time Ahead of Us-- Walkmen

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Day 4 — Glorious Awkward

I can remember thinking always that I was too big for my desk. Which is why I use my kitchen table to write on now. You gave me a prompt as if scribbling my first thoughts in some kind of stanza was going to prove I had talent. But I guess I did. I push through the awkwardness in that audition and many other moments— confident that everyone is as awkward as I am and that we all have some kind of anxiety. I hate when we’re in a group and men only look to other men when speaking or responding. Hello, I am here, too. You look for figures of authority and of course, I am nowhere close to your idea. But... guess what? I will pluck out your ingrown misogyny and lay the whole scene waste with awkward tension. Yeah, that’s right. Who is too big for this space now?

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Day 3 - Write a travel journal entry from your home

I don’t want to think about how my home is foreign to me. I have enough trouble believing anything is my own

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Day 2 - Put yourself in a moment where you were not fine

I Need You, I Don’t Need You

Looking back on it, there were many things I should have done differently. And, in the end, I wish I hadn’t lost what I lost in the chaos of all of it.

It seems to me like the best-laid plans all go to hell anyway. But you know I could have had a better plan... an outline of a plan... or even a basic goal. I guess I was just waiting for life to happen to me. Not that I was going to be given anything, but that it was simply going to happen. Nothing great. No immense success or anything like that. Just a clearer path. I didn’t know how to make that happen and you know, even with the opportunities that I was afforded, I didn’t know how to say “yes.” I don’t even know if I knew what “yes” meant back then.

I wasn’t happy and I wasn’t ready. And all I ever knew how to do was maintain. I wish I had been honest or up front. Though how much honesty can we really take from one another at the age of 23?

The whole 24 hours from when I left the dinner to giving my books and records to Nathan and then leaving on the bus to go to Virginia. Well, I didn’t plan on coming back. But I was hoping I would eventually. I knew leaving would split us apart. But I also didn’t know what was left of our friendship that could bind us through something like that.

Everything had been so natural between us. So natural and easy. And I didn’t know how to maintain it. I didn’t know how to cultivate it through our own growth and changes. I wish I had tried harder.

I should have said I was sorry sooner. And I tried to, you know, later. But it was too late. And I understand. I see where the lines of forgiveness are and I’ve been on both sides.

I think about you all the time. Especially now. Last I checked, you were still up there and you seem happy. I don’t even know what we would have to say to each other now.

But I’ll always miss you.

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Day 1 - Write a Letter to a Stranger

Dear Md USA,

I remember when the cuff of your sleeve receded to reveal a tattoo crawling down your forearm to your wrist. And now I can’t recall what the image was. But I liked it. And I liked your fitted shirt like that Spoon song. And I guess you do look a little like Britt Daniel.

I am always waiting for someone to talk about what I play on the coffee shop stereo. Some other morning, I had on the local radio station and you commented on the Gang of Four song that was playing. And maybe it was a little early for Gang of Four, but not really— if you had been up for four hours already like I had.

I was a little busy every time you came in, so I never got to talk to you really. But we traded some jokes and gratitudes about music and coffee. I felt a little bad serving you that terrible stuff. But I liked that you ordered exactly what I would order if I lived near that coffee shop and had an office job to go to.

I made you a playlist that I put on every morning at about the time you’d come in. But it was spring break and you didn’t come in. Then it was extended break and you were probably making coffee at home. Then it was pandemic break and I’m not going to die for somebody’s latte. So you never got to hear this mix. Which, I think, you might have liked. I included Gang of Four and Elvis Costello because now you know my “Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes” story. I put a cover of “Lola” by the Raincoats on it; if you haven’t heard it, you should look it up. Or actually... here you go.

Well, anyway. I hope you’re doing ok. I found your instagram and it seems like you and your cat are doing well. Maybe when all of this is over, we’ll run into each other and not recognize each other because you never really looked me in the eye just took your medium americano and left.

Sincerely,

SC

PS. No, it was the taller guy from Black Keys. That’s who you look like.

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50 lost words from the Oxford English Dictionary

acnestis (n.): on an animal, the point of the back that lies between the shoulders and the lower back, which cannot be reached to be scratched

advesperate (v.): to approach evening

aerumnous (adj.): full of trouble [‘practically begging to be reintroduced to our vocabulary’, Shea notes]

backfriend (n.): a fake friend; a secret enemy

benedicence (n.): benevolence in speech

cellarhood (n.): the state of being a cellar (cf. tableity)

cimicine (adj.): smelling like bugs

constult (v.): to act stupidly together

dactylodeiktous (adj.) pointed at with a finger

discountenancer (n.): one who discourages with cold looks

elozable (adj.): readily influenced by flattery

epizeuxis (n.): the repetition of a word with vehemence and emphasis

fard (v.): to paint the face with cosmetics, so as to hide blemishes [‘I suspect there is a reason no one ever gets up from the table and says, “Excuse me while I go to the ladies’ room and fard.”’]

felicificability (n.): capacity for happiness

gound (n.): the gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes [‘the type of word I was unaware that I didn’t know, and yet it still felt like a relief when I discovered it’]

grinagog (n.): a person who is constantly grinning

hamartia (n.): the flaw that precipitates the destruction of a tragic hero

happify (v.): to make happy [this one gives me a happy, as they said in Buffy]

heterophemize (v.): to say something different from what you mean to say

impluvious (adj.): ‘wet with rain’ (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656)

insordescent (adj.): growing in filthiness

jentacular (adj.): of or pertaining to breakfast

kankedort (n.): an awkward situation or affair

latibulate (v.): to hide oneself in a corner

letabund (adj.): filled with joy

malesuete (adj.): accustomed to poor habits

misdelight (n.): pleasure in something wrong

nefandous (adj.): too odious to be spoken of

neighbourize (v.): to be or act neighbourly

obganiate (v.): to annoy by repeating over and over and over and over

occasionet (n.): a minor occasion

petecure (n.): modest cooking; cooking on a small scale [‘Very few people eat in an epicurean fashion, yet many of them know what the word epicure means. A great many people eat in a simple fashion, and yet no one knows the word for this.’]

postvide (v.): to make plans for an event only after it has occurred [the antonym of provide, which originally meant ‘exercise foresight; make provision for the future’, per OED]

psithurism (n.): the whispering of leaves moved by the wind

quag (v.): to shake (said of something that is soft or flabby)

remord (n.): a touch of remorse; (v.) to remember with regret [‘when utilized as a verb, remord seems as though it can instantly render poetic any decision made in the past and subsequently regretted’]

residentarian (n.): a person who is given to remaining at table

scringe (v.): to shrug the back or shoulders from cold

scrouge (v.): to inconvenience or discomfort a person by pressing against him or her or by standing too close

subtrist (adj.): slightly sad

sympatetic (n.): a companion one walks with [‘Discoveries like this one are what make reading the OED from cover to cover worthwhile.’]

tacenda (n.): things not to be mentioned; matters that are passed over in silence

unbepissed (adj.): not having been urinated on [‘Is it possible that at some time there was such a profusion of things that had been urinated on that there was a pressing need to distinguish those that had not?’]

undisonant (adj.): making the sound of waves

vicambulist (n.): one who walks about in the streets

vulpeculated (pa. pple.): robbed by a fox

well-woulder (n.): a conditional well-wisher

xenium (n.): a gift given to a guest

yesterneve (n.): yesterday evening

zyxt (v.): to see [‘It is the second-person singular indicative present form of the verb “to see” in the Kentish dialect and has obviously not been in common use for some time.’]

Ammon Shea (because)

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