winter
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Looks like six more weeks. Continue reading
The snow is snowing. The wind is blowing. What do you care how much it may storm? You can dance to this mix to keep warm! Continue reading
Go ahead, take a snow day. Continue reading
This isn’t a competition, but if it were, the Canadians here would win hands down. Team Canada!!! More snowstorm-driving miles (older members) and kilometres (younger members) per capita than anywhere else in the world, except maybe Siberia.
It’s amusing to tell lurid stories of near-disasters on January roads to Californians who have never seen snow, watch their eyes get round, watch that ‘oh they’re exaggerating’ (we’re not) suspicion enter their eyes. But driving and flying and, indeed, walking down the damned street when it’s cold and icy and snowing sideways are no joke. Continue reading
Bear with me, here. I’m going to need a little bit of sympathy and understanding from you, fellow Crasstalkers, because some of you might hate me for the next few things I’m going to say. Particularly those of you who live in places where it gets cold. I live in sunny Southern California and I freak out and need a jacket when it’s 60 degrees outside. I am a baby when it comes to weather. There are probably babies that are better equipped to deal with it, emotionally. I understand all of these things. I apologize. Continue reading
Let’s be blunt: Winter in Canada is fucking dark and cold and we have to find ways to sustain ourselves up here. For me, that means making mixes that keep me warm (alongside a glass or two of red).
Track Listing:
1. Cloudy – Simon & Garfunkel
2. Still Sound – toro y moi
3. Can’t Hear My Eyes – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
4. Wet Cement – The Morning Benders
5. Eyes – Still Corners
6. Don’t Blame Me – The Everly Brothers
7. Demon Host – Timbre Timber
8. Desire Lines – Deerhunter
9. Lover of Mine – Beach House
10. Quick Canal – Atlas Sound (w/ Laetitia Sadler)
11. Asleep at a Party – Memory Cassette
12. Outer Limits – SLEEP ? OVER
13. Chinatown – Wild Nothing
14. Endless Summer – Still Corners
15. Who Loves the Sun – The Velvet Underground
16. Marathon – Tennis
17. Boyfriend – Best Coast
18. Pleasure Sighs – The Morning Benders
19. Hospice Gates – Lower Dens
20. Helicopter – Deerhunter
21. All I Wanna Do – The Beach Boys
22. Walk in the Park – Beach House
23. I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration – Jens Lekman