September Mix: Practical Romantic Brutality

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“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.”

- Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921

August was pretty awesome. September (so far) is going to be really strange. Exorcising my demons one monthly mixtape at a time…onward.

1. Paralyzer • Past Lives

2. Warhead • U.K. Subs

3. Because the Night • Patti Smith

4. Helena • Misfits

5. Foolish Fool • Dee Dee Warwick

6. New Radio • Bikini Kill

7. Gimme Shelter • The Rolling Stones

8. Your Lips Are Red • St. Vincent

9. I Can’t Wait • The White Stripes

10. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone • Sex Pistols

11. While My Guitar Gently Weeps • The Beatles

12. Make The Music Go Bang • X

13. Somebody To Love • Jefferson Airplane

14. Atomic • Blondie

15. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood • Santa Esmeralda

16. Master of None • Beach House

August Mixtape: Mercury Julep

Mercury Julep
Girl le Rando: Wow it seems like you’re making a lot of [big, life altering] decisions
Me: Well fuck, aren’t you?
Change is good. Hi August.
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1. Amor de caravana | Chiquita y Chatarra
2. Psycho Killer | Talking Heads
3. Resilient Basterd | RVIVR
4. In This House That I Call Home | X
5. Take Warning | Operation Ivy
6. Kick Out of You | The Coffin Lids
7. Only Happy When It Rains | Garbage
8. Love Lost | The Temper Trap
9. Kill the Poor | Dead Kennedys
10. Sloop John | Beach Boys
11. I Think I Smell A Rat | The White Stripes
12. Lincoln Highway Dub | Sublime
13. I Can’t Do Anything | X-Ray Spex
14. Wrong ‘Em Boyo | The Clash
15. You Changed My Life | The Thermals
16. All I Do | Stevie Wonder

July Mix

Edge of Reason (dwnld/8tracks)
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut. 
The other side of summer.
1. She’s Long Gone • The Black Keys
 2. The Hunger • The Distillers
3. Blue Spark • X
4. A Different Kind of Tension • Buzzcocks
5. 40 ft • Franz Ferdinand
6. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction • The Rolling Stones
7. Otherside • Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Dazed and Confused • Led Zeppelin
9. Good Morning Potato • Chiquita y Chatarra
10. Supermassive Black Hole • Muse
11. Alone, A Fool • The Thermals
12. Waiting Room • Fugazi
13. Gimme Danger • Iggy & The Stooges
14. Straight to Hell • The Clash
15. Masks • Sed Non Satiata

16. Simple Kind of Life • No Doubt

June Mix

DYMO TAPE (dwnld / 8tracks)
It's June and it's time to party-fucking-hard... or carry on in your normal fashion. Whatever. This is still The Year of The Vixen I'm gonna have fun. ;)
BRING ON THE SUMMER BITCHES!

1. Hello Operator • The White Stripes
2. Beat Your Heart Out • The Distillers
3. The Hot Pearl Snatch • The Cramps
4. Nothing Left • Buzzcocks
5. Meteorite • Zombina & The Skeletones
6. Roll Over Beethoven • Chuck Berry
7. You Don't Love Me • Dawn Penn
8. Holiday in Cambodia • Dead Kennedys
9. One Way or Another • Blondie
10. Attitude • Misfits
11. Helter Skelter • Siouxsie & The Banshees
12. Rebel Rebel • David Bowie
13. Shake Appeal • Iggy & The Stooges
14. Something Else • Sex Pistols
15. 5 Di 6 • Raein
16. End It on This • No Doubt

Love it or hate it. Take it or leave it. I'm waking up to this every morning until July 1st... possibly longer.

May mixtape: the color of Chiba Sky

the color of Chiba Sky
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“He closed his eyes. Found the ridged face of the power stud. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled from random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information. Please, he prayed, *now* — A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky.  *Now* — Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray.  Expanding — And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity.  Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach. And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release on his face. ” -from NEUROMANCER, by William Gibson
If you haven’t already, GO READ IT! (and listen to this mix while you’re reading ;-) )
Tracks
1. Nature Boy - David Bowie & Massive Attack
2. I Want to Kill You Like They Do In The Movies - Marilyn Manson
3. I Wanna be Your Dog - The Stooges
4. All The Things She Said - t.A.T.u.
5. Lulled By Numbers - IAMX
6. Gemini Syringes - The Flaming Lips
7. Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
8. L’air Du Temps - Amanda Woodward
9. Metabolism - The Strokes
10. The Drive-bye - Tweaker
11. Is This Real - Lisa Hall
12. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) - The Mars Volta
13. Fade Away and Radiate - Blondie
14. I Luv I Jah - Bad Brains
15. Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4 - The Apples in Stereo
16. Close to You - Mirrormask Original Soundtrack

April Mixtape: MAN CANDYYYYYYYY!

ManCandy Download or Listen first on 8tracks.
man candy man-kan-dee n. A delicious, delectable, scrumptious little niblet of happiness which tickles one's fancy and satisfies one's sweet tooth while bringing a flavorful abundance of zing to one's lips and appearing as a Greek god descending from the heavens of the male specimen.
If I could marry men just for their voices I would figure out a way to... well enough of that. Male vocalists that make my liver quiver.
Tracks:
1. Spoonful • Howlin' Wolf
2. Why Don't We Just Dance • Josh Turner
3. You & Me • Dave Aaron
4. My Heart Is The Worst Kind of Weapon • Fall Out Boy
5. To Hell With Poverty! • Gang of Four
6. So I Need You Acoustic • 3 Doors Down
7. I Want a Love I Can See • The Temptations
8. Shiver • Coldplay
9. To Be Loved • Jackie Wilson
10. Be True (draft) • Jon Jackson  <= I actually know this person but he asked me not to share with the world just yet ;)
11. You Belong to Me • Misfits
12. Foolish Fool • Sublime
13. For Your Love • Stevie Wonder
14. Reckoner (Radiohead Cover) • Gnarls Barkley
15. Delilah (That's All Right) • Flogging Molly
16. Amazing • Aerosmith

17. Waiting In Vain • Bob Marley

March mixtape: Little Girl

Little Girl (download)

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”


March mix! Loosely based on Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (toldya I would make one) Maybe that book can stop stalking my life now.

Los trackzors:
1. I Wanna Be Loved By You • Helen Kane
2. Heart-Shaped Glassses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) • Marilyn Manson
3. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) • Michael Jackson
4. Never Met a Girl Like You Before • Flogging Molly
5. You’re Just Too Good To Be True • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
6. You Really Got Me • The Kinks
7. Angelfuck • Misfits
8. Dirty Little Secret • The All-American Rejects
9. Daddy’s Home • Shep & The Limelites
10. Every Breath You Take (The Police Cover) • UB40
11. (I Know) I’m Losing You • The Temptations
12. Run For Your Life • The Beatles
13. Fuck You Lucy • Atmosphere
14. Whatshername • Green Day
15. Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) • Vertical Horizon
16. Why Don’t You Do Right • Jessica Rabbit

Preview on 8tracks: http://8tracks.com/cyanyde/little-girl

Double Down & Deadly

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There’s just something so deliciously dirty about indulging in an audio version of The 7 Deadly Sins. Want to know what’s your deadliest sin? Check out this quiz AFTER you grab the mix. I promise, it’s much funnier that way.
Happy early V-day.
Tracks
Intro - 1. Bad Things • Jace Everett
Avarice
2. Money (That’s What I Want) • Barrett Strong
3. Material Girl • Madonna
Vanity
4. Pretty Piece of Flesh • One Inch Punch
5. Ego (feat. Kanye West) • Beyonce
Lust
6. Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan project remix) • Sara Vaughan
7. Darling Nikki • Prince
Envy
8. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby • Bing Crosby (?)
9. She Came Along (feat. Kid Cudi) • Sharam
Gluttony
10. Camel Walk • Souther Culture on the Skids
11. Uncle Johnny • The Killers
Sloth
12. Flowers on the Wall • The Statler Brothers
13. Grondalic Edit • Of Montreal
Wrath
14. Last Caress • Misfits
15. The Rake’s Song • The Decemberists
 Outro - 16. Devil in Disguise • Elvis Presley
Preview on 8tracks.