Skintight's Journals

Random Mixtape For Your Listening Enjoyment Of Sorts

I haven't posted a mix in a while & I know you've all been slitting your wrists waitng for a new one so here you go.

Beirut - Nantes

Cold War Kids - Mexican Dogs

The Bongos - In The Congo

Jaguar Love - Highways Of Gold

The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno

Madeline - Oh My Darling

The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Jerusalem Boys

MGMT - Weekend Wars The Gay Bades - You’re A Garbage Barge, I’m A Dream Boat

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Head Will Roll

Metric - Grow Up & Blow Away

Sneaker Pimps - Sick

The Dresden Dolls - Night Reconnaissance

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Bad Bad Things

Violent Femmes - Prove My Love

Laura Marling - I’m A Fly

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead

The Hush Sound - We Intertwined

Defiance, Ohio - The List

The Mountain Goats - Game Shows Touch Out Lives

Why? - The Vowels, Pt.2

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Also if you are not already in these groups you should probably join the Mixtape & the International Mixtrading Group

April Showers (Bring May Showers)

Songs that filled my ears in the month of April

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed
Tilly & the Wall – Lost Girl
The Gay Blades – Bob Dylan’s 115^th Nightmare
Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
The Blow – True Affection
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Paul Baribeau – Brown Brown Brown
L7 – Hanging On The Telephone
Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely
Bomb The Music Industry! – Big Plans Of Sleeping In
The Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice
Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Empires – Spit In The Dark
The Smiths – You’ve Got Everything Now
Lady GaGa – Pokerface (Acoustic)
Letters To Cleo – I Want You To Want Me
Regina Spektor – Somedays
The Dresden Dolls – The Mouse & The Model

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Happy Happy Joy Joy

For those of you who have been living under a rock I run this wonderful little thing called the International Mix Trading Group. We recently had our 4^th trade which in celebration of the upcoming warm weather is all about being happy. Seriously, nothing makes me happier than the spring. Except maybe cake.

Florence and the Machine – Kiss With A Fist

The New Pornographers – The Laws Have Changed

Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness

World/Inferno Friendship Society – Only Anarchists Are Pretty

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Biomusicology

Beirut – Elephant Gun

Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, Its Alright

Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger

The Ramones – She’s The One

They Might Be Giants – Don’t Let It Start

Mika – Grace Kelly

Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945

Edith Paif – La Vie En Rose

The Dresden Dolls – Sing

The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercip

The Smiths – Shakespeare’s Sister

The B-52’s – Love Shack

The Wombats – Let’s Dance To Joy Division

Nina Simone – Feeling Good

Laura Marling – Ghosts

Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation

Ima Robot – Creeps Me Out

These songs may not all necessarily be about happy topics but for some reason or another they still make me happy. Maybe they will make you happy to. DOWNLOAD HERE

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Making Of Me: John Waters

When I was God only knows how old, my mother brought home a box set of John Waters movies. I had no idea who he was at the time or what kind of phenomenal impact he would have on my life. I was like 8 or something, how could I possibly ever fathom that a series of films would change the way I saw life. The box set contained four VHS tapes. The first one I was permitted to watch was Hairspray & I instantly fell in love with it, watching it over & over again. My mother told me that the mother in the film was actually a man & I found this completely amazing. Every time I watched it I felt the need to point out when they showed him out of drag, whether or not the person knew already knew it. The second was Polyester & it went right over my head, the whole thing. I had no idea what any of it was about & the only thing I ever distinctly remembered about it was watching a teenage girl strangle a woman with what I assumed was a lamp made of yarn. I liked the movie, I just had no idea what it was actually about.
The two other movies the set contained my mother would not let me watch but I was dying to. On the cover of one was a man dressed in drag (the same as before) in a red dress & outrageous make up, pointing a gun towards some off screen sorry sucker. It was called Pink Flamingos. I assumed it had something to do with lawn furniture though not sure how the cover tied in with it. On the cover of the second a woman in a tiny leopard print dress sat proactively in the middle of a bunch of cops dressed in leather. I had no idea what it could possibly be about, all I know is that I had to watch it. I had no idea who the woman was or why cops would wear leather but whatever the answer was I knew it was badass. It would be years before I found out I was correct.

A long time passed before I ever set eyes on the box set again. In the winter of my senior year of high school me & my friends decided we were going to have a BBQ. (Yes, in January. This has to do with John Watersâ�™ do you expect this to make sense?) After most of the guests had left the only people that remained was myself & my two insane friends Sean & Wriston. I donâ�™t know if it was late but I know it was dark & cold so we had little business outside (also Wriston had decided to piss on the charcoals & the smell was too unbearable to stay in the yard). So we took refuge in my living room, raiding through old videos in hopes of something interesting. We found some old tape about dragons that Wriston said he remembered being awesome from his youth. After about a half hour we decided his younger self was an idiot & continued in search for something better. That is when Sean pulled out Pink Flamingos. Both boys had heard good things about the movie & I had always wanted to see it, so we popped the taped hoping to get better result than our last. What we got was the best possible results.
To this day there is nothing that can match what I felt when I first watched Pink Flamingos. Both tasteless & hilarious, the movie changed my definition of cool in 93 minutes. Only Glenn Milstead could dress like a woman, eat dog shit off the street & call himself Divine. He was in every single way. He made filth chic & destroyed how I saw the world. Nothing was sacred, nothing was taboo. Not gays, Nazis, cannibalism, murder, incest, nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Everything was up for grabs. Nothing was normal anymore. Nothing was safe.
Soon after I showed the movie to my friend Jen & we become obsessed. For the next few months we went on a John Waters binge, renting every movie he was involved with. Cry-Baby, Pecker, Desperate Living, Serial Mom, A Dirty Shame, Female Trouble. & everyone we were close to became susceptible to it. You couldnâ�™t be friends with us without having to sit through at least Pink Flamingos. Those who couldnâ�™t were rarely around much longer. If you couldnâ�™t accept the John Waterâ�™s lifestyle then you wouldnâ�™t worth knowing. I still hold that truth to this day, along with everything else John Waters has taught me.
Embrace your weirdness. Live without shame. & never ever keep any perception of time.

15 Songs You Didnâ�™t Hear This Year Cause You Were Busy Listening To Shitty Music

So while you were all listening to All Time Low while simultaneously reaching an all time low in your lives, I was listening to better music. & I donâ�™t mean that in a bitchy way. The bandâ�™s name really says it all. Anyway, all year Iâ�™ve been combing the earth for new music that youâ�™ve probably missed while attending Bill & Travâ�™s Bogus Journey Tour. Again, name speaks for itself. They could have used â�œExcellent Adventureâ� but they didnâ�™t. Guess they knew it was false advertising. But enough about shitty music, lets talk about the awesome songs that were released this year that you missed.

Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist (Kiss With A Fist)
Amanda Palmer - Guitar Hero (Who Killed Amanda Palmer)
Laura Marling - The Captain & the Hourglass (Alas I Cannot Swim)
Murder By Death - Spring Break 1899 (Red Of Tooth & Claw)
Be Your Own Pet - Becky (Get Awkward)
Man Man - Poor Jackie (Rabbit Habbits)
Tom Gabel - Random Hearts (Heart Burns EP)
Those Dancing Days - I Know Where You Live (In Our Space Hero Suits)
Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me (Loyalty to Loyalty)
We Are Scientists - Letâ�™s See It (Brain Thrust Mastery)
The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft In Brooklyn (Heretic Pride)
Black Lips - Bad Kids (Good Bad Not Evil)
Why? - Fatalist Palmistry (Alopecia)
Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When Your Naked (Fortress Round My Heart)
Girl Talk - The entire Feed The Animals album ---Whole album runs together like one brilliant 53 minute song

I actually started writing little paragraphs about each song but stopped when I realized it was pointless. On buzznet, when it comes to music I am basically the equivalent to an old woman yelling at kids to pull their pants up & get off her lawn.

Songs to Aid Another Existential Crisis

Everything is always falling apart.... but I can't

Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere & Its Now
The Mountain Goats - This Year
We Are Scientists - The Great Escape
Kevin Tuffy - ToBeToBeginToBeFreeToBeNothing
Defiance, Ohio - Petty Problems
Evan Greer - I Want Something
The Action Design - Ten Feet Of Snow
Ben Kweller - In Other Words
The Bravery - Believe
Elliott Smith - Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
Amanda Palmer - Another Year: A Short History Of Almost Nothing
Idlewild - Modern Way Of Letting Go
Rilo Kiley - Better Son/Daughter
Kimya Dawson - I Will Never Forget
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Little Dawn
Andrew Jackson Jihad - We Shall All Die Alone Someday
The Futureheads - Decent Days & Nights
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation

***Bonus Tracks**
Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Ain't Nobody's Business
The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches - So Let's Go! Nowhere

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One Last Lament: A Mixtape

There are some nights that I still get cold thinking about you. But for the most part I think I have finally turned the final page in the chapter. Donâ�™t worry, its not me its you.

Built to Spill â�“ Joyride
Alkaline Trio â�“ I Was A Prayer
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins â�“ You Are What You Love
Joy Division â�“ Love Will Tear Us Apart
Nightmare Of You â�“ I Want To Be Buried In Your Backyard
Be Your Own Pet â�“ Take That Walk
Man Man - Easy Eats Or Dirty Doctor Galapagos
Anna Nalick â�“ Consider This
Lightspeed Champion â�“ Galaxt Of The Lost
Jump, Little Children â�“ Because Of You
Taking Back Sunday â�“ Cute Without The E
Death Cab For Cutie â�“ Crooked Teeth
Laura Marling â�“ Old Stone
The Hush Sound â�“ Momentum
Anna Vogelzang â�“ Bad Habit
Defiance, Ohio â�“ To Lanterns, Denver & One Last Lament
Weezer â�“ This Is Such A Pity
The Magnetic Fields â�“ I Donâ�™t Really Love You Anymore

I know this is two months too late, but do me a favor & donâ�™t call back.

Another Halloween Mixtape

Halloween is tomorrow, are you ready? I am totally not. I have no costume & I am sick. But here are some more songs for Halloween!

North American Hallowe'en Prevention, Inc. - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en

The World/Inferno Friendship Society â�“ Pumpkin Time

Dead Kennedys â�“ Halloween

Ryan Adams â�“ Halloweenhead

be your own PET â�“ Zombie Graveyard Party!

Zombina & the Skeletones â�“ Dracula Blood

Warren Zevon â�“ Werewolves of London

Randy â�“ Going On With The Dead

The Dickes â�“ Killer Klowns

Volitaire â�“ When Youâ�™re Evil

The 6^th â�“ The Dad Only Quickly Decay

Groovie Ghoulies â�“ Sheâ�™s My Vampire Girl

Leslie & The LY's - Zombie Killer

Iâ�™d make some jokes & shit for you kids, but I am a little busy. So enjoy your tunes & have a good Halloween.

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& incase these aren't enough for you here are some more mixtapes:

This one is about zombies!

This one is about Satan!

This one is a list of Halloween songs that if you don't have I will smack you with a trout!

Seven Essential Songs For Hallloween

The perfect Halloween mix is a hard thing to create. I should know, every Halloween I try. & every Halloween I get really frustrated & never finish it. There are so many directions to go. You can go with your classic tacky tunes like the Monster Mash or just make a whole CD full of pyschobilly & horror punk songs as their genres generally apply to halloweenish themes. Or you can just leave on the Misfits for the whole month of October & you would be pretty much set. Whatever songs you decide to play this year here are some essentials that no Halloween is complete with.

Bauhaus â�“ Bela Lugosiâ�™s Dead

In my mind this will always & forever be the theme to Halloween. The whole song, which is nine minutes long, is just down right creepy. The way the guitar drones on & Peter Murhy cries â�œUndead, Undeadâ� over & over again is enough to send chills down any skeletons spine.

Concrete Blonde â�“ The Bloodletting

Best song ever written about vampires, hands down. This is the kind of song that makes you want to wear all black, drink red wine & smoke cloves all day.

The Cramps â�“ Surfinâ�™ Dead

The Cramps are one of those bands that have a lot of Halloween themed songs. I Was A Teenage Werewolf, Zombie Dance, Human Fly, Aloha From Hell. Almost any of their songs are prefect for the ghoulish occasion, but I feel like Surfinâ�™ Dead fits the mood best.

Anything by The Misfits

Seriously, they donâ�™t have one song that isnâ�™t appropriate for Halloween. All of them about zombies, skulls, killing people, monsters, et cetera. But if you donâ�™t want to play the same band over & over, you are in luck cause everyone & their mother has covered a Misfits song. My personal favorites being Skulls by the Lemonheads, Halloween by Alkaline Trio, Hybrid Moments by Idiot Pilot & No Use For A Name, Where Eagles Dare by Atom & His Package, Astro Zombies by My Chemical Romance, & a very nice Misfits Medley done by Zombina & the Skeletones.

The Ramones â�“ Pet Semetery

The song stated above was written for the movie adaptation of the Stephen King book of the same name. So you know its fucking good. I was raised on the Ramones & Stephen King. Donâ�™t question my logic.

Screaminâ�™ Jay Hawkins â�“ I Put A Spell On You

This song never fails to blow me away. I honesly donâ�™t even know what to say about it. It would be a sin not to play it on Halloween, thatâ�™s how amazing it is.

Siousxie & The Banshees â�“ Halloween

Similar to the Cramps, this band has a handful of songs for halloween. Generally speaking Goths capture the dark spirit of the season, instead of just screaming about blood and zombies, they really make you feel like that apocalypse is right at your door.

So there they are. Seven songs (well actually six songs & a band, but whatever) you have to have on your Halloween mix this year. & if you don't Satan will eat your soul. TRUFAX.