A Note To My Fellow Listeners
Please,
1. Moon - Diptera
Sit silently.
2. Deathbed - Ash in Pensacola
Grandpas
3. Pictures of Success - Rilo Kiley
Live your life.
4. Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips
The most uplifting.
5. Existantialism on Prom Night - Straylight Run
Sing me anything. Tell me everything.
6. That Right Ain't Shit - The Books
Go outside and play it's autumn.
7. Boats & Birds - Gregory and the Hawk
Momz.
8. Hide & Seek - Imogen Heap
Just because it's beautiful.
9. Lost Girls - Tilly and the Wall
Reach in both directions.
10. Of Angels and Angles - The Decemberists
"Here's a hand to lay on your open palm..."
11. Comptine D'un Autre Ete: L'Apres Midi - Yann Tiersen
Christmas, ironically.
12. Hallelujah - Michael Koester
Warm under covers.
13. Swing Life Away - Rise Against
Appreciate the people that walk in and out of your life.
14. Postcards From Italy - Beirut
No words, not yet.
15. Samson - Regina Spektor
Awe-inspiring wondrful-man.
16. Smells Like Content - The Books
Really listen to the 5th and 6th verses.
17. Dance While The Sky Crashes Down - Jason Webley
True power. See him live, if you get the chance.
18. A Necessary End - Saltillo
Rainy Day Truths.

take this with you.
1. Eyes Down - Eels
Dance around in your undies.
2. Hum Along - Ludo
Genuine.
3. I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Emily Ozga
One of the most beautiful girls in the world.
4. New Slang - The Shins
Not because of Garden State.
5. Under the New Sun - Giants
Warm & fuzzy in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
6. Old Letters - Company of Theives
The greatest band that never was.
7. Talk to Strangers - Saul Williams
Seriously, do it.
8. Honey - Moby
Happy.
9. Be Good to Them Always - The Books
Can nothing more be done?
10. At Last - Etta James
Typewriters & Hot Baths.
11. Did You See the Words - Animal Collective
Change my life, why don't you?!
12. Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Mark your brain with memories.
13. Stacking Up Reasons - Buildings Breeding
Clap your hands, and appreciate everything!
14. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
She just reversed the vowels.
15. Alice - Tom Waits
Slow dance with someone you can't figure out.
16. Strawberry - Paul Baribeau
Sweetheart.
17. Where Does Love Come From? - Corpus Callosum
Handlebars on faces and bicycles...
18. PS - The Books
Awkwardly OK.

Peanut butter and Smiles,
Lisa

These here compilations are comprised of several songs that became incredibly relevant to my life within the past year, or so. Some graced my awaiting eardrums at a particularly poignant moment. Others were written, performed, and recrorded by those who molded or muddled my mind, lifted my spirits, and led me to believe that life was perfect. Well, not perfect... but at least as good as this... which is close.


I am currently without a camera (and the internet, actually. Luckily, my neighbors have wireless.), thus I have no pictures to post, just yet. However, I would at least like to tell you about the most wonderful time I had completing this task. And so... After setting up two playlists worth of ear candy and burning them to CD's, Dan Miller, Laura Bu, Charles, and I set out for a picnic in the park. With a basket full of pb&j sammies, some guacamole chips, a length of yarn, and a pair of scissors, we felt very confident in our endeavors. A bubbling fountain and some other late night park-goers provided the soundtrack to our unconventional lunchmunchmunch. Once our bellies were full and our brains were weaving through dreams of the roads we would travel next summer, the four of us decided to take a little stroll through Wicker Park in search of a good tree. We found one outside of the Pontiac Cafe, right across from the el station. This would be the perfect place for someone to walk right into a mixed CD dangling from a low hanging branch. I tied the yarn around the amalgamated music with the aforementioned note taped to it (How convenient for compact discs to be fashioned in the shape of a doughnut!). Dan Miller tied the other end of the filament around the tree's limb, leaving just enough to have the scissors suspended there, as well. We frolicked away to the playground, our spirits lifted and our hopes high, to climb and swing and swim amongst our own thoughts about the consequences of sound traveling through ears en route to the brain.

After being bundled in blankets for a good six hours, awaking to the sound of Kristy snoring peacefully across the room, showering, breaking the fast, and packing a lunch, I set out for work this morning around seven:thirty. As I walked past Pontiac Cafe, I took note of the scissors tied to a nearby tree.

I hope someone is enjoying their commute much more now that they have some new music to listen to.




**DAN MILLER SENT ME PICTURES!!**