intelligence cell #2

1:30 in the afternoon: sun blazing, cotton candy clouds drifting in the blue bowl of sky; it must be Pride weekend.

And for the first time in years, I’m here, I’m healthy, un-mad, and sober. All at once.

What kind of trouble could I possibly get up to?

[mixed tape project] final cut

Yes, yes: I’m a terrible blogger.

In the plus column, that mixed tape project took on a life of it’s own, shortly after I stopped compiling YouTube videos of the contenders, and the final mix more or less sorted itself out. It’s called “Hate to Heal”, and it’s my Unresolved Anger Mix, Summer 2009.

The playlist is as follows:

In For The Kill (Skreams Let’s Get Ravey Mix) . La Roux
Face To Face On High Places (Jesu Remix) . School Of Seven Bells
Actor Out Of Work . St. Vincent
Wrong (original) . Depeche Mode
Fuck You . Lily Allen
Zero (RAC “Remix Artist Collective” Mix) . Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Shoes . Tiga
WOW . Marilyn Manson
Doing Drugs . Union of Knives
Parallel Lines . Junior Boys
Fixin to Thrill . Dragonette
Heads Will Roll (Weird Tapes Version) . Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Trick Or Treat . Peaches
If You Seek Amy (Winkle Remix) . Britney Spears
You Came Out . We Have Band
Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction . IAMX
Earthquake . Little Boots
Messages (We Have Band Remix) . Filthy Dukes

And if I were that kind of blogger, with that kind of blog, each of those entries would have a link to the mp3 files so that visitors could download the songs for themselves; but I’m not, and this blog, if it is anything, is not about music.

It’s about mental stability.

However, for anyone who would like to find one of those tracks somewhere on the interweb, I would suggest going here. They’ll help you out.

[mixed tape project] i am, he is

IAMX is the spin-off project of Chris Corner, the former front man of the Sneaker Pimps, who were all trip-hop-pop-y. The Pimps seem to be over and done with, having failed to reemerge after their third album, but Corner is going strong. He alter-ego IAMX has a new album out; which I love.

[mixed tape project] swooping in

Is it time yet to revive the sound of the early 90’s? La Roux thinks so:

[mixed tape project] there she is

Include who, you ask? No, you couldn’t possibly.

Oh, just watch me.

[mixed tape project] little dragon

Ah, Dragonette.

If only all the children of Canadian politicians could be so cheerful and sordid.

[mixed tape project] french fancy

Et voilà, a classic: Serge Gainsbourg.

It conjurs all sorts of clichéd, smoky imagery, kind of lurking its way out of some depraved 70’s orgy, n’est-ce pas?

[mixed tape project] waiting

Julia Kent is an immensely talented cellist who has presumably spent a rather long time sitting around waiting to get on board aeroplanes; each track on her solo album is named after a different international airport. This one, after YUL:

[mixed tape project] young lads

[mixed tape project] nothing

If not, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

She so reminds me of someone else. Don’t you think?