This is the mixtape of my Autumn in the year 2009.
It was a time of change for myself and the people around me. People moved across the country, others thought about doing the same, and others moved to the opposite side of the world. People ended their romantic relationships and started new ones or revisited old ones. People met new people and never spoke to them after the first date. People lost their jobs. People lost their families. Oh yeah, and a new Super Mario Bros game came out, but that really doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of this.
Autumn 2009 in my corner of the universe felt like a tremendous time of opportunity wrapped in a blanket of repeated failures. These songs are how I felt about this at the time, disguised as songs about sex.
1 – Robert’s Rules of Order by One For The Team
2 – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed by Los Campesinos!
3 – Sex Education Ghetto Style by Gil Scott-Heron
4 – The Other Man by Sloan
5 – Searching For You (Nightmares) by Jay Reatard
6 – :[ by Rare Creatures/Kupek/Bryan Lee O’Malley
7 – Obviously Desperate by The Like Young
8 – A Rollerskating Jam Named “Saturdays” by De La Soul
9 – Johanna by Think About Life
10 – I Hear You Drowning But I’m Tied by Letting Up Despite Great Faults
11 – 22: The Death of All the Romance by The Dears
12 – Missing You (Live at Blip Festival 2008) by Trash80
Mix cover photos taken by myself of D.E.E.P. Aerobics on September 9th, 2009, during the Time-Based Arts Festival in Portland, OR. Special thanks to Jenny Nykolak for making me work up a sweat with them.
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