Cracking The Chrysalis

'Cracking The Chrysalis' - welcome spring 2009 mixtape

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1. The Notorious B.I.G - "Party And Bullshit (Ratatat remix)"

2. Fucked Up - "Black Albino Bones"

3. Animal Collective - "Daily Routine (live bootleg, Amsterdam Oct. 2007)"

4. France Gall - "Teenie Weenie Boppie"

5. Creation - "Making Time"

6. Mika Miko - "Wild Bore"

7. Wavves - "Vermin"

8. Cold Cave - "The Trees Grew Emotions and Died"

9. Psychic TV - "Cold Steel"

10. Mount Eerie - Who?"

11. Grizzly Bear - "On A Neck, On A Spit"

12. Deerhoof - "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back"

13. Dum Dum Girls - "Catholicked"

14. Francoise Hardy - "Je veux qu'il revienne"

15. Shocking Blue - "Rock In The Sea"

16. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Come Saturday"

sup-stache

dumb

Martin Parr and Aperture can get $1250 for 4 photos of Obama undies, Jones Soda, sandals, and a piece of jewelry?

 

1st graders

Hrvatska xmas

here's how I spent my xmas in Croatia:

upon arrival to Zagreb, I went to see Severina, Croatia's equivalent to Madonna

this is where I spent xmas and the days following

this is where I slept

here are some relatives, Nico and Ivan

put so eloquently:

"Do you have any idea what a gift it is that a young man offer to share his feelings with you? For any man to volunteer his essence to you, however carefully notated, is a miraculous act of generosity. The offering of his voice in a zine or a poem or a song is a brave act because he is giving it to you for keeps. With this gift you can read and listen to him any time you want, and you will absorb his horrible secrets hidden in the words, the shame he thought he might never shake, and he doesn’t mind, because he has offered these secrets to you, unafraid and as best he can. This gift can set him free, finally, fully, and put him on his way to living as a normal, untormented human being, unshackled at last from the chains of his hormonal years. Adolescent notation is of no use until the reader completes it by reading it and by keeping it, legitimizing the filth and insanity that he has worked so hard to contain and understand, canonizing it somewhere, memorializing it somehow. The mutation ends here. The young man’s notated life becomes absorbed into the world, unadorned now, an explosive apotheosis as his sorry former existence becomes gas and light and just another normal part of everything else in the world. Do you have any idea what a gift it is that a young man offer to share his feelings with you? Do you have any idea what a gift it is for him to know that you’ve listened?"

skype degradation

not being hungover on a sunday morning for the first time in 3 months feels great