Head for the horizon
This Summer Soundtrack Contest playlist, titled "Driving Past the Sunset," was submitted by Greg Bills, who included this short explanation: "Bopping in your seat in the low sun, dazzling colors smoothing into starlight, then strange transmissions drifting in from far away." The mix does indeed make a nice transition from dancey numbers, including remixes of songs by R.E.M. and Bloc Party, to "strange transmissions," like the brilliant and truly bizarre "By Your Side," by CocoRosie. Incidentally, Calexico's cover of "Alone Again Or" has been by far the most frequently recurring song in the playlists submitted so far. Something about those sunbaked Southwestern sounds, I guess. Or the trumpets.
1. "Jetstream (Live at Canal+)," New Order
2. "Ageless Beauty," Stars
3. "Revolution Get Down," The BellRays
4. "Hole in the Ground," Mekons
5. "Alone Again Or," Calexico
6. "Rainbow's End," Modern English
7. "Milking," Deerhoof
8. "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)," Bloc Party
9. "Divine (Ian Pooley Mix)," Supreme Beings of Leisure
10. "Lazy Lover (Free Mix)," Brazilian Girls
11. "Summer Turns to High (Her Space Holiday/Marc Bianchi Mix)," R.E.M.
12. "Sold," Joe Henry
13. "Bedroom Eyes," Laura Veirs
14. "By Your Side," CocoRosie
15. "When the Bees Are in the Hive," Edith Frost
Great literary podcasts:
"In Walked Bud"
Amiri Baraka
"The Last Days of the Suicide Kid"
Charles Bukowski
"The House on Mango Street"
Sandra Cisneros
"A Reporter's Life,"
Walter Cronkite
"An Open Heart," by The Dalai Lama
Read by Nicholas Vreeman
"Robert Frost Reads"
Robert Frost
"In Harry's Bar in Venice"
Ernest Hemingway
"The War on Drugs"
Bill Hicks
"I Have a Dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"King of Horror"
Read by Stephen King
"Motherless Brooklyn," by Jonathan Lethem
Read by Steve Buscemi
"Long Walk to Freedom," by Nelson Mandela
Read by Danny Glover
"Shopgirl"
Steve Martin
"All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy
Read by Brad Pitt
"The Bluest Eye"
Toni Morrison
"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov
Read by Jeremy Irons
"The Bell Jar,"
Sylvia Plath
"The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
Read by Basil Rathbone
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by JK Rowling
Read by Jim Dale
"Everything"
Henry Rollins
"Fast Food Nation," By Eric Schlosser
Read by Rick Adamson
"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
David Sedaris
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Dylan Thomas
"Slaughterhouse Five"
Kurt Vonnegut
"Hooking Up"
Tom Wolfe
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