Monthly Archives: November 2004

Winter Morning Playlist

Thumbnail: Winter view from my apartment

Usually, my playlists are very care­ful­ly planned, and aside from a few orga­nized by genre, are based on emo­tion and expe­ri­ence. However, there was there was one morn­ing when I got up, and found myself out­side on a chilly fall day, with every­thing was cov­ered in an ear­ly win­ter frost. Past the build­ings and the trees, a wall of cloud hung over the riv­er, faz­ing stark whites through pale reds, coloured by the ear­ly sun.

This playlist was inspired by that sin­gle morn­ing. The music is a mix of two moods; the first is a relaxed and beat-ori­ent­ed, while the oth­er is more dreamy and floaty. I rec­om­mend it for long trips by bus dur­ing the fall-win­ter tran­si­tion. The bus real­ly is the best way to pay atten­tion to the land­scape and the chang­ing sky.

Portishead — Glory Box
Portishead — It’s A Fire
Portishead — Mysterons
Portishead — Roads
DJ Clue — Exclusive New Shit (feat. Nature)
Nas — Gotta Love It
Dido — Aria
Pinback — Loro
The Fugees — Ready Or Not
Xzibit — Carry The Weight
DNTEL — Why I’m So Unhappy
Cardigans — Explode
Band Of Bees — Punchbag
Modest Mouse — The World At Large
Bel Canto — Capio
Radiohead — Everything In Its Right Place
Radiohead — Motion Picture Soundtrack
Radiohead — No Surprizes
Sigur Rós — Ágætis Byrjun
Omni Trio — Higher Ground
Sylver — In Your Eyes
Dune — Winter Kills

A Day Without Coffee

It was almost ten min­utes into Godspeed, You Black Emperor! — Hungover As The Queen In Maida Vale when I stepped off the bus onto the damp ground. It was bare­ly light out, and I care­ful­ly made my way between deep and dis­tinct­ly brown pud­dles caused by car tires on a soft­ened grav­el lot. The sirens in my ears rang over and over, and it felt like the bombs had all been dropped, a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic after­math on a bar­ren, name­less day. I was among the last of the liv­ing dead mak­ing his way to work.

I’m going to make it through this day with­out cof­fee. I’m going to make it through this day with­out cof­fee. I’m going to make it through this day with­out cof­fee.

Honestly.