Summer Ska Volume 3

I've finally figured out to create a mixtape in iTunes and upload it as a playlist. So hopefully you won't have to try to organize the playlist yourself. Anyways, here is the final mix of the Summer Ska Series +Covers. I plan on to upload more mixes in the future, so be on the lookout. Enjoy!



1. Catch 22-Straight Forward
2. The Hippos-Lost it
3. No Doubt-Spiderwebs
4. Mustard Plug-Everything Girl
5. The Chinkees-Big World
6. Squad Five-O-Fight The System
7. Suicide Machines-Someone
8. Streetlight Manifesto-9mm and A Three Piece Suit
9. The Impossibles-Face First
10. Choking Victim-Crack Rocky Steady
11. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-Simmer Down
12. MU330-Favorite Show
13. Less Than Jake-All My Best Friends Are Metalheads
14. Codename: Rocky-My Heart in Hand
15. Pilfers-Skungle
16. The Specials-Rudi, A Message to You
17. RX Bandits-Apparition
18. Reel Big Fish-The Set Up (You Need This)
19. The Aquabats-Super Rad!
20. Ivy League-More Than Meets the Eye
21. Taxis-Attack!

+Bonus Ska Covers!

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Retreat! Retreat!

This is more of an informative post to let everyone know about the current situation here. There has been a lot of discussion, debate and decision-making (I know you like my alliteration) this past month regarding our future in the state of Washington, as well as viewing our options. Needless to say, our stay here in the beautiful state of Washington has come to a close. It has become apparent that our ventures out unfortunately coincided with the downfall of our economy. We've enjoyed our time here and no doubt love the area, but we've concluded that our best move is to leave and regroup ourselves.

Where do we go from here?
As many of you know, it's Mike, Lindsay and Me here. We all are somewhat splitting our ways, as Lindsay and I will return to the (brown and desolate) state of Oklahoma and Mike will be making his trek to Kentucky (horse capitol of the world). To elaborate: Mike will be living with his friend, Jon, as he will revamp himself and quite possibly return to school for a Masters in architecture. Lindsay will be returning to SWOSU to finish her bachelors and also might go for her Master's while she's at it. Which leaves me.....Things are still up in the air, as I've been utterly flustered with this whole ordeal. I've sent my work out to a couple places out in OKC and hoping that something will settle in. You know me, I'll let you know when it gets settled. It's just a lot more cost efficient to be out in OK for the time being, especially with the Recession and my ability to not get a job....

When are we leaving?
Soon. Very soon. Our original date was the end of August but due to Lindsay needing to be back for school, and me having a job prospect, We've decided to push it back. Our tentative departure is the 11th of August, which will bring us down to Altus on the 15th. Stay there for a day or so, then Lindsay to Weatherford. and Me...well, that's still pending, but the plan is to head up to OKC and couch surf for a couple weeks until I can settle. So if anyone has an extra couch mid to late August and don't mind nightowls, let me know. Feel free to give me a call to hang out as well. I don't really have any idea what's going on, but it will be nice to see familiar faces.

The Drive
I'm assuming I'll be following the moving truck for the majority of the trip (not sure if I get the awesome privilege of driving the moving truck). It is quite a boring ride. No, seriously. So I thought I would make a call for submissions for 'Mixtapes for The Lone Ranger' (the nickname dubbed to me after my 4 day drive by myself). Basically, just seeing if any of you would like to send me over a mix or cd or new music. Might change it up for me, give me something different to listen to. If not, I might have to resort to buying Harry Potter on audio tape or something. hit me up on AIM or upload it or whatever...

Seattle Notes #3

Five Things Seattleites Love

1. Their Pets-No, this is not an exaggeration. I've never been in such an environment where people take their pets Everywhere. And this includes work. Both Mike and I worked in environments where multiple people brought their dogs to work on a daily basis. And to cater to the pet-friendly community, there are even enough pet stores to go around. There are probably more natural pet stores on one street in West Seattle as there are health food stores in OKC. How sad.
2. Northface (and other apparel alike)-I feel like Northface is somewhat of a fashion fad in other parts of the country. Not here. It's part of the uniform. I've seen groups of people, all wearing their helveticasized outer wear, kids included. And if regular outings weren't enough, it's also normal business apparel as well (I worked somewhere where a man wore his Northface vest daily, along with his business attire).
3. Coffee-This is to be expected. I knew this coming in, that there was going to be tons and tons of Starbucks. But not only is there a Starbucks on every block (and/or in the grocery stores), there are other coffee shops lined up next to them. This goes without saying that people make regular visits to their coffee establishment of their choice throughout the day. I wonder how much an average Seattleite spends on coffee annually.
4. Being Green-This is definately a good thing, but I don't believe I've ever lived in such an environment where people made such an effort. Bringing your own grocery bags is heavily encouraged, and recycling trash bins are conveniently placed around. Supposively West Seattle is one of the top cities in solar power as well.
5. Being Active-It's nice to live in an area where you can go out anytime, and you'll see someone walking/riding their bike/walking their dog. This goes along with the pet loving section, I've seen people walking their pets in the brave of the cold. If you make your way down to Alki on a nice day, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see it is quite active, and this includes the rollerbladers. We've made a joke mentioning that this seems to be the only other place besides Miami beach where rollerblading is still cool...Seriously, that was so 1995.


Other notes:
-They love their sports teams, even if they are awful.
-Love not to use umbrellas. You can spot the tourists quite easy on a rainy day.
-Complain about the "horrible" weather. I swear I heard some people complain about it being 'hot' a couple weeks ago. I LOLed.

REDUX: A Remix Mix

1. Mogwai-Auto Rock (Errors Remix)
2. Four Tet-Hilarious Movie Of The 90's (Manitoba Remix)
3. EF-Hello Scotland (Corwood Manual Remix)
4. Tokyo Police Club-Tessellate (Remix by Tom Campesinos!)
5. Thom Yorke-And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix)
6. M83-Run Into Flowers (Jackson Remix)
7. Port Royal-Karola Bloch (Manual Remix)
8. Bloc Party-Flux (GoodBooks Remix)
9. Pivot-Sweet Memory (Clark Remix)
10. Lymbyc Systym-Idle Wires (Lymbyc Systym Remix)
11. Tycho-A Circular Reeducation (Dusty Brown Remix)
12. Dosh-Naoise (Cepia Remix)
13. 65daysofstatic-Reading in Bed (65 vs. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton)

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Part of the Summer Mix Series

Tessellate

I feel like it's kind of necessary to make some sort of update for everyone. But everything is still up in the air right now. and by Everything, I mean, jobs and where I'm going to live and my pending future for the fall. Either way, I'll be starting to pack my gear and I think things will slowly unfold here in a week or so. Either way, I feel I'm in a win/lose situation (better than lose/lose...). Where ever I go, I'm going to miss out on certain aspects that I want, but there will also be benefits as well. Just sways back and forth. But for the most part, the decision will more than likely be decided based on the state that can provide me with the best monetary supply.

Summer Ska Volume 2

Decided to create visuals to coincide my mixtapes (and hopefully continue making them in the future) Here is volume 2 for you guys (all 3 people that will actually enjoy it).



1. Rancid-Time Bomb
2. Operation Ivy-Freeze Up
3. Against All Authority-All Fall Down
4. Slapstick-Almost Punk Enough
5. Codename: Rocky-All Those Years
6. Save Ferris-The World is New
7. Dance Hall Crashers-Lady Luck
8. Mighty Mighty Bosstones-Where'd You Go?
9. The Urge-If I Were You
10. Voodoo Glow Skulls-The Band Geek Mafia
11. Catch 22-Hard to Impress
12. Reel Big Fish-Beer
13. The O.C. Supertones-Little man
14. RX Bandits-In All Rwanda's Glory
15. Pilfers-Chawalaleng
16. Sublime-Wrong Way
17. No Doubt-Total Hate 95
18. Link 80-Kind Of
19. Less Thank Jake-Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts
20. Potshot-We are Potshot


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Note #296

I've been trying to stay productive this week. I've been busy, but not so sure about productive. I've just felt like I've had the most unproductive productive last week or so. I'm hitting it hard with sending resumes. which hasn't really done much for me, but maybe it will eventually fall into the right hands....with the short time period I have to make something happen. I'm also trying to get myself onto some sort of schedule, which is really hard for me. I sleep in for more than one day and my whole sleeping schedule goes off.

This was a semi-unproductive post.

Coming soon: Top Five Things Seattleites Love, and Summer Ska, Vol. 2

This Vicious Cycle

Like another disconcerning phase, I'm at another standstill with my future. A lot of which has yet to be determined, and will slowly come to pass this following month.

Being a visual person, I would like to fully demonstrate the thought flow, but it's not as easy as it sound....As my time on my computer is filled with resumes, cover letters, and on-going search for hope-in a letter word of Job, there is an on-going frustration of what I'm really doing. My efforts in the Northwest have not been completely futile and I have not disbanded the idea of me living so close to such a Creative hub. But if nothing opens up to give me financial stability, I will have to retreat, regroup, and re-evaluate where I'm going....