mixtapes and musings
After ignoring the non concert portion of this blog for a while, I’m getting back on track. In fact, 12 tracks! I’m so clever.
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And here’s another week of me pretending to be Zach Braff or Cameron Crowe. Although this week’s influence is clearly more Cameron Crowe with me borrowing his choice of the opening scene from Vanilla Sky.
the opening scene - with the protagonist in his perfect world
the strip club scene - where he meets his partner in crime
the planning scene - done in a montage…montage!
the bank heist scene - with band in cameo as customers
the car chase scene - with peugeots, renaults, and vauxhalls
the happy, drugged out scene - swimming in a vault of gold coins
the casino scene - playing pot limit omaha shorthanded
the losing it all scene - with the robbers being robbed
the aftermath scene - anger and going separate ways
the downward spiral scene - depression and lots of drinking
the redemption scene - with an improbably complicated plan that goes off without a hitch leaving everything nicely tied up and everyone happy
the end credits - with the tease of something cool at the end
The movie is a combination of Oceans 11, Ronin, Heat, and Leaving Las Vegas…but happier! 
Here’s the listing of the actual track names.
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Devotchka - Vengo! Vengo!
Spoon - Don’t Make Me A Target
Bloc Party - Banquet Phones Disco Edit
Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street
Wolf Parade - This Heart’s On Fire
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Around the world, around the world
Around the world, around the world
Around the world, around the world
Around the world, around the world
It kinda keeps on going like that…
Daft Punk - Around The World
R.E.M. - Texarkana
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Grizzly Bear - Colorado
Tapes ‘n Tapes - Manitoba
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Interpol - NYC
Toto - Africa
Beirut - Nantes
Peter Bjorn And John - Amsterdam
The Essex Green - Berlin
Björk - Oceania
From wikipedia:
The Konami Code, known in Japan as the Konami Command (コナミコマンド, Konami Komando), is a cheat code thats appears in many Konami video games. The code also appears in some non-Konami games. The code was first used in the 1986 release of Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System but was made famous in North America in the NES version of Contra. While pausing the game or during the title screen, the player presses the following sequence of buttons on the game controller:
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
In tribute to the Konami code, here is the mixtape for this week:
Dat Politics - Up Up down Ok !
Stars - Look Up
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Men At Work - Down Under
David Bazan’s Black Cloud - Let Down
Air - Left Bank
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
Zero 7 - left behind
Elliott Smith - Half Right
British Sea Power - Oh Larsen B
Justice - D.A.N.C.E
Voxtrot - The Start Of Something
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