i miss the pod­cast. i miss shar­ing music i like with my friends. le sigh. so…

a lit­tle comp i pre­pared, in mem­ory of autumn. last day of novem­ber, last day that really is “autumn” as it’s emo­tion­ally defined. maybe you live some­place warm and sunny and you didn’t really get an autumn: this should help put a cloudy chill in the air.

“Vio­lina: the Last Embrace” Lisa Ger­rard The Mir­ror Pool 1995
“Your Help­ing Isn’t Help­ing” The Boats Words Are Some­thing Else 2009
“Atem­los” Zwis­chen­fall Gestern und Heute 1983
“Warten” ExKurs Fak­ten sind Ter­ror 1981
“Are You Alone?” Skan­from Are You Alone? 2009
“How Dif­fi­cult It Is” Zerkalo Stoi Storoni Zerkala 2009
“Where’s Your Child?” Bam Bam Where’s Your Child? 1988
“Unti­tled 08″ Tele­vi­sion Set & Oth­ers in Con­ver­sa­tion Novem­ber Ses­sion 2009
“I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart” A Place to Bury Strangers Explod­ing Head 2009
“Plea­sure and Pain” The Chameleons Radio 1 Evening Show Ses­sions 1983
“Sev­er­ance” Ride Waves: Peel Ses­sions 1990–94 1991
“Witch Hunt” The Church Priest = Aura 1992
“Two Hands” Nudge As Good As Gone 2009
“The Dawn” DJ Krush Kaku­sei 1999
“Some­time Later” Alpha Come From Heaven 1997
“The Host of Seraphim” Dead Can Dance The Serpent’s Egg 1988

(zip file)

if you use iTunes, import the .xml playlist file. if you use some other player, there’s an .m3u file.

update: thanks to mor­gan of commenting-below-fame, here is an updated m3u file if the included one doesn’t work.

well, maybe you’ve been won­der­ing what has hap­pened to my pod­cast. i talked a lot about hav­ing some excit­ing stuff planned for my 100th episode (and around then), but that was in july. months have passed, and noth­ing. well, all of the excit­ing stuff i wanted to do, i couldn’t get any­thing more than luke­warm responses from the folks i wanted to have as guests, so i guess i’ve scrapped it. the whole thing.

i don’t want to come across as all emo, but i’ve only recently heard from three peo­ple that they lis­ten reg­u­larly, and i guess i just don’t feel moti­vated to do it if it’s the dig­i­tal equiv­a­lent of a tree falling in a for­est. my increasingly-irregular sched­ule must have clued you in (if you actu­ally paid atten­tion, that is to say), so i sup­pose one can tell i’m just not feel­ing it.

in a way, a shame, as i’ve cer­tainly found a lot of music i enjoy lis­ten­ing to lately, and i wish i had peo­ple around to talk to about it, to share it. that’s the point, there: i wish i had peo­ple around. doing the pod­cast must have given me the idea that i would be cre­at­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with my friends (and maybe make some new ones) about music i enjoy and they might enjoy as well. that didn’t really hap­pen. no rea­son why it couldn’t, but i’ll look else­where for that. try a new method, maybe, some­thing dif­fer­ent. i still want the con­nec­tion, but it’s not hap­pen­ing like this. i’ll have to come up with some­thing else.

any­ways, i fin­ished with 99 episodes, so some would say it is incom­plete. i can see that. maybe it ends now, incom­plete, as a reminder of _______. maybe i fin­ish it later, some­how, appro­pri­ately. we’ll see.

hey Blog.

so i’ve got a wack­load of pic­tures from my august trav­els. (for me, a wack­load is a lot…like about 2 dozen.) first i gotta sort ‘em and tweak ‘em, so i’ll just leave you with a teaser.

this is the view i had for a few weeks at my grand­par­ents’ on lake michigan:

can’t argue with that, can ya?

so, to tide you over until those pics come…Song of the Past Two Weeks:
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