The Way We Sleep All Summer

For fear of making myself even more uninteresting, I haven't bemoaned (on here at least) (God-help-those-around-me I've bemoaned it in-person) this fact: I've slowly been losing my taste this last year. I've come up with grandiloquent theories about how this is my late-twenties rite, to grow up and lose the shackles of loose identity I've used pop-culture to replace. But really, it's mostly because my computer is dying.

It's so full I download to external hard-drives. For some reason since the data still travels through it it acts like I've used up its last bit of its precious memory—until I restart. And its CD burner's been on the fritz this last year. And it won't communicate with not one, but two iPods. In theory, I am, technologically, almost back at the point I was at right before I owned my first CD burner—only I can still download music. So I have no excuse.

And now, after a full year absence, it remains to be seen and is up for public discourse if or not I've regained any taste back:

7/2/09 I'm Baaaaaaack Mix

1. "Old Movies" — Mock Orange (Captain Love)
   
2. "15 Step" (live) — Radiohead and the USC Marching Band (2008 Grammy Awards, February 8, 2009)
   
3. "No Cars Go" (live) — Arcade Fire (BBC2, June 19, 2007)
   
4. "J. Smith" — Travis (Ode to J. Smith)
   
5. "Let's Give This Love a Try" — John Hiatt (Same Old Man)
   
6. "Last Night" — Tom Verlaine (Tom Verlaine)
   
7. "One Wing" — Wilco (Wilco (The Album))
   
8. "Intravenous Agnostic" — Manic Street Preachers (Know Your Enemy)
   
9. "Conjure Me" — The Afghan Whigs (Congregation)
   
10. "See If They Salute" — The Streets (Twitter, April 21, 2009)
    
11. "Rainin in Paradize" — Manu Chao (La Radiolina)
    
12. "I Was Made to Love Her" (extended) — The Beach Boys (Rarities)
    
13. "Rocket Man" (Elton John cover) — My Morning Jacket (Chapter 1: The Sandworm Cometh)
    
14. "Unknown Legend" (Neil Young cover) — Tunde Adebimpe (Rachel Getting Married OST)
    
15. "Unguided" — The New Pornographers (Challengers)
    
16. "My Maudlin Career" — Camera Obscura (My Maudlin Career)
    
17. "I Google You" (live) — Amanda Palmer (Who Killed Amanda Palmer Bonus, August 5, 2008)
    
18. "Sleep All Summer" (Crooked Fingers cover) — St. Vincent and the National (Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!)
    
19. "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" — Los Campesinos! (We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed)