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Accidental mixtape vol. 1

January 29, 2010 in Uncategorized by Stephen | No comments

So, sometimes I purposefully make mixes: for a pretty girl, for a friend, for driving fast, for chilling out. Other times I make accidental mixes, in that I keep playing the same songs over and over for a while from various places in my life. So it makes sense to a mixtape out of it instead of going through the trouble of looking up this one on Hype Machine, this one on a CD in the car, this one only on an MP3 on my computer, that one off a Myspace somewhere, and etc. and etc. This is an accidental mixtape of the highest order.

I usually don’t repeat artists on mixtapes, unless I’ve really been listening to their songs over and over. But this one I have several artists that make repeats. Still, it’s not like the Summer ’08 mixtape, which I put Josh Ritter’s “Girl in the War” as every fourth or fifth track so I wouldn’t have to skip back to the beginning so often. I almost put that song on this one this time, but it got bumped by hip-hoppers Chiddy Bang. Somewhere a folk singer just had a heart attack.

My last few days:

1. “Gold and Warm” by Bad Veins

2. “Kids” by MGMT

3. “The Opposite of Adults (KIDS)” by Chiddy Bang

4. “My Father Was a Horse” by Wild Light

5. “Let My Love Open the Door” by Audio Adrenaline

6. “Go Home” by Bad Veins

7. “Oh Christmas Tree! Or Happy Birthday” by Elijah Wyman

8. “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” by Sufjan Stevens

9. “Fantastic Lovers” by Elijah Wyman

10. “Hallelujah” by David Bazan (probably my favorite Leonard Cohen cover)

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I love it when a plan comes together

January 7, 2010 in Projects by Stephen | No comments

This is my 200th post. It neatly coincides with my decision to start being more disciplined in posting. I’m going to start using “tags” and “categories,” because I’ve heard that people like these things. Also I’ve heard that they make people be able to find your site. Ah, that. Readership.

An update on projects:

- I “released” the album today. Its “official” release was December 21. I say all these things “in quotations” because when there’s no money being exchanged, it’s very unimportant to have things like “release dates.” Nevertheless, it is now available at this website for free. You can listen to and download the whole thing, and all you have to do is go to www.stephencarradiniandthemidnightsons.bandcamp.com. Honest! I won’t sell your e-mail address to strangers, I swear. Quick numbers: 13 tracks, 5 years to write, 9 months to record, 8 musicians, 7 recording sessions, 4 completely solo tracks, 1 cover song.

-Now that the album is “released,” I’m going to start editing The Last Unicorns on Earth in earnest.

-I want to get re-started on the fantasy project that Peter C. Myers and I started writing this summer but put on hold for the semester while I wrote Unicorns.

-I’m in the plotting stages of my next solo novel. Details are fuzzy, but it looks like there will be a lot less cursing and probably more fight scenes (as odd as that combo seems).

-I’m in the process of making Independent Clauses back into a daily pub (that is, five times a week). It’s going to be a lot of work, but it’s what I want to do.

-Listening to a lot of good music: Post Harbor’s excellent post-rock manifesto “They Can’t Hurt You If You Don’t Believe in Them,” Freelance Whales’ Myspace at the urging of my friend Jenn Scott, and Wild Light’s Myspace because of my friend (and incredibly talented illustrator) Jason Flack.

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