Help, I'm alive
So a LONG time ago, I was working on a mix, and I realized recently I never posted it here, so here it is! It is called the Life After Life mix.
Moving to a new place and starting a new life, while it can be joyful and wonderful and oh so freeing, can also be scary as shit. That is more or less how I was feeling as I drove across the country, found an apartment, started my new job and started living with my partner for the first time. I heard the Metric song on the radio a while ago and realized that it perfectly describes the feeling I'd been having for the first six months of living here. It's a feeling of immense pressure, like I'm living on a planet with five times the gravitational pull of earth. Like the fact of being alive at all is crushing me to death. And to be honest, it was not a very unpleasant feeling. Eventually things settled down and I chilled out considerably. This mix also marks my second-or-so year being relatively depression-free (knock on wood).
So that's kind of what this mix is about.
Track list:
1 - Help, I'm Alive - Metric
2 - Tonight - TV On The Radio
3 - Sun In My Mouth - Björk
4 - Take Time - The Books
5 - To Be Surprised - Sondre Lerche (thanks, A.)
6 - Happy Phantom - Tori Amos
7 - Wedding Dress - Samamidon
8 - Lion's Mane - Iron and Wine
9 - Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
10 - The World's Not Falling Apart - Dar Williams
11 - Never Had Nobody Like You - M. Ward
12 - Nothing Called Home - Girlyman
13 (bonus track) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman
Download it!
love,
ejl
Moving to a new place and starting a new life, while it can be joyful and wonderful and oh so freeing, can also be scary as shit. That is more or less how I was feeling as I drove across the country, found an apartment, started my new job and started living with my partner for the first time. I heard the Metric song on the radio a while ago and realized that it perfectly describes the feeling I'd been having for the first six months of living here. It's a feeling of immense pressure, like I'm living on a planet with five times the gravitational pull of earth. Like the fact of being alive at all is crushing me to death. And to be honest, it was not a very unpleasant feeling. Eventually things settled down and I chilled out considerably. This mix also marks my second-or-so year being relatively depression-free (knock on wood).
So that's kind of what this mix is about.
Track list:
1 - Help, I'm Alive - Metric
2 - Tonight - TV On The Radio
3 - Sun In My Mouth - Björk
4 - Take Time - The Books
5 - To Be Surprised - Sondre Lerche (thanks, A.)
6 - Happy Phantom - Tori Amos
7 - Wedding Dress - Samamidon
8 - Lion's Mane - Iron and Wine
9 - Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
10 - The World's Not Falling Apart - Dar Williams
11 - Never Had Nobody Like You - M. Ward
12 - Nothing Called Home - Girlyman
13 (bonus track) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman
Download it!
love,
ejl