just greenery and humid air

Today was the hottest day ever in Toronto... well, not quite, but it was the hottest day of the year so far! I almost melted like the bad guy did in the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark!

Native Korean Rock: Indian Summer
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes [wicked-cool song]
Hüsker Dü: Celebrated Summer [wicked-cool song]
Belle & Sebastian: A Summer Wasting
The Rural Alberta Advantage: In The Summertime
Death Cab For Cutie: Summer Skin [super-wicked-cool song]
Fake Problems: Heck Yeah Summer!
Seabear: Summer Bird Diamond
The Billionaires: The End Of Summer Song
The Pogues: Summer In Siam
JFA: Beach Blanket Bongout [super-wicked-cool song]
Jens Lekman: Another Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill

it's you, who put me in the magic position...

Today marks the most important date of 2007: the birth of Patrick Wolf’s latest masterpiece, The Magic Position! It hits stores in the UK today and it will be available on May 1 in North America.

buy The Magic Position here

To celebrate the release of The Magic Position, I composed a My Soundtrack list dedicated only to Patrick Wolf songs. For those of you who are not familiar with the My Soundtrack list, go check out my post from last Thursday. Again, much like the other list, feedbacks are always welcome!

Opening Credits: Paris
Waking Up: The Magic Position
First Day of High School: Overture
Falling in Love: Short Stories
Fight Song: Souvenirs
Breaking up: Blue Bells (live from Patrick's flat)
Prom: Accident & Emergency
Sex Scene: Don't Say No
Mental Breakdown: This Weather
Driving: Bloodbeat
Flash Back: Pumpkin Soup
Proposing: Penzance
Wedding: The Hazelwood
Birth of a Child: A Boy Like Me, live at Benicassim Festival In Spain on August, 08 2004
Final Battle: Tristan
Death Scene: Idumea
Funeral: To The Lighthouse
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with your hands on my shoulders, a meaningless movement: A movie script ending...

So there is this pretty neat thing circulating around MySpace and Facebook called IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? You are suppose to open your music library, put it on shuffle, and insert a song on each of the ‘movie scene’ below... well, I tried the whole shuffle thing and didn’t like the result... So instead, I inserted the tracks manually to fit the described ‘scenes’ below. Btw, feel free to post your shuffle or made-up soundtrack in the comments section.

Opening Credits:
Death Cab For Cutie - Title Track

Waking Up:
Great Lake Swimmers - When It Flows

First Day of High School:
Jawbreaker - Oyster

Falling in Love:
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life or The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

Fight Song:
GlassJaw - Siberian Kiss or Klaxons - Magick

Breaking Up:
The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out

Prom:
Sigur Rós - Glósóli

Sex Scene:
Tricky - Hollow

Mental Breakdown:
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown or Alkaline Trio - Trouble Breathing

Driving:
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

Flash Back:
Kate Bush - Oh England My Lionheart or Nada Surf - Blonde On Blonde or Something Corporate - Cavanaugh Park

Proposing:
Guided By Voices - Learning to Hunt

Wedding:
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall

Birth of a Child:
Björk - Venus As A Boy

Final Battle:
Refused - New Noise

Death Scene:
Brand New - Guernica

Funeral:
The Smiths - Asleep

Closing Cedits:
Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out or The Velvet Underground - After Hours or The Beatles - A Day In The Life

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month-end-mixtape no.1

It’s the last hour of November, and I am introducing the first of a new ongoing monthly feature called End-of-Month-Mixtape . This "mixtape" features songs (old and new) that I’ve enjoyed and listened to particularly more than others through the month of November.

1. Brand New: Sowing Season (Yeah)
2. Radiohead: Paranoid Android
3. The Libertines: Death On The Stairs
4. Salyu: Ai no Jikken
5. The Walkmen: Rock Around the Clock
6. Zombies: A Rose for Emily
7. The Shins: Phantom Limb
8. My Chemical Romance: Teenagers
9. The Florists: Stolen Love
10. Kate Bush: In Search of Peter Pan
11. Bloc Party: Where Is Home?
12. Hot Chip: Boys From School
13. The Velvet Underground: After Hours
14. Patrick Wolf: Overture (Live on XFM with John Kennedy October 17, 2006)
15. The Beatles: A Day in the Life
16. Mickey Avalon: My Dick
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