Sorry, Red Sox fans. At least you made it further than the Yankees did this year…Now, please enjoy this Sunday mix tape.
Wait, before we begin, I want to take a moment to recognize Swan Fungus reader Bennett for his amazing attempt at trickery. After making a generous donation to the website, he was the proud recipient of one of my now-infamous “Thank You” care packages. His parcel included a mask, some weird little trinkets, a Rod Stewart backstage pass from a ’70s or ’80s tour (I don’t remember which), and — best of all — a really fancy hand lotion sampler kit. His was probably the 2nd coolest care package I put together, so you can imagine my horror when I opened my e-mail this afternoon and read the following:
Thanks for the thank-you gift. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to send you a bill for my dog’s funeral. The package must have gotten too hot and the lotion exploded. It got all over the stuff and somehow attracted the dog. Now, had they not put the package on the front porch, directly in front of the dog’s door, maybe it wouldn’t have started chewing the package open. But it did. And it at the whole thing, along with half a mask, what appeared to be a grocery circular, three balloons, a penny, and half a tongue depressor. We learned that from pumping it’s stomach (I won’t charge you for that, but maybe for the emergency room visit).
Although I initially laughed at the letter, I soon started to wonder if maybe I did kill the kid’s dog. I mean, what possible reason would he have for making all that shit up? I couldn’t think of any. I mean, I barely have enough mental capacity to allow me to think of a funny note to write to my donors. There’s no way I could ever devise such an arbitrarily screwy yet somewhat believable story. I had to write him back and ask if he was joking or not. Total embarrassments. Turns out he WAS joking! I totally didn’t kill his dog!
Hey, Europeans. Your packages are going out tomorrow and Tuesday. I’m going back East on Wednesday for ten days. It’ll be quite an incredible time, I’m sure. Any of you New Yorkers want to get drunk and black out together? If this time home is anything like the last time, it will truly be one for the ages…
Now, the mix tape.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I’ll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. No theme this week. As always, these songs will be removed if desired by the band or those who represent them. Let me know and I will gladly comply. The goal of this endeavor, as always, is to pique your interest in these artists so you’ll support the artists and buy their albums.
SUNDAY MIX TAPE – NUMBER 115
01. Library Tapes – The Sound Of Emptiness Part 1
02. Arab On Radar – 9-19-98 – (buy this album)
03. Black Dice – Things Will Never Be The Same – (buy this album)
04. Karen Dalton – When A Man Loves A Woman – (buy this album)
05. Ghost – Caledonia – (buy this album)
06. John Lennon – Only People – (buy this album)
07. Donovan – A Sunny Day – (buy this album)
08. Boards Of Canada – ’84 Pontiac Dream – (buy this album)
09. Earth – Tallahassee – (buy this album)
10. Helium – Oh The Wind And The Rain – (buy this album)
11. Jackie-O Motherfucker – Lord Of The Underpass – (buy this album)
12. Traffic – Hidden Treasure – (buy this album)
13. Kan Mikami – Kore
14. 13th Floor Elevators – May The Circle Remain Unbroken – (buy this album)
15. Rachel’s – Forgiveness – (buy this album)
16. Pere Ubu – Laughing – (buy this album)
17. Scissor Girls – New Tactical Plan – (buy this album)
18. Prurient – Spider Spins A Child
19. Unwound – Everything Is Weird – (buy this album)
20. Library Tapes – The Sound Of Emptiness Part 2
