Music

Chipped away learning to mix hip-hop, I present Bonobo’s “Days to Come” (2006) narrated by Big K.R.I.T. “Good Foot” (2011).

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40 minutes, 125bpm, island hopping via flight 79 to Honolulu.

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Track Listing

1. The Avalanches — Live at Dominoes
2. 40 Winks — Welcome To Paradise Island (Interlude)
3. Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz — The Girl from Ipanema
4. Silicone Soul — The All Nite Dub
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela — Buster Voodoo
6. Shwayze — Buzzin (Villains Remix v.2)
7. Michael Jackson — Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
8. Steed Lord — You,
9. Sufjan Stevens — The Dress Looks Nice On You
10. Yelle — La musique (Tepr Remix)
11. Spoon — Don’t You Evah (DJ Amaze and Alan Astor Mix)
12. Death From Above 1979 — Romantic Rights (Girls Are Short Mix)
13. OH SNAP!! — I’m Too Fat To Be A Hipster
14. Brad Sucks — Dropping out of School
15. Mumford & Sons — Little Lion Man
16. Kid Cudi & Cee-Lo — Scott Mescudi vs. the World
17. The xx — You’ve Got the Love (Theophilus London Remix)
18. Delphic — This Momentary
19. The Presets — This Boy’s In Love
20. I Am Finn — I Love You (Van She Tech Remix)

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• Bon Iver playing with the entire crowd singing The Wolves
• Rodrigo y Gabriela. Doing anything. They could just sit there and their level of awesome would be greater than 95% of everything else on the planet.
• Noodles at Hotei
• Cowboy hats *
• Climbing King’s Mountain Road with the homies
• The Hetch Hetchy terminus. A Greco-Roman temple in San Mateo? Lolwut?
• Lolwut
• The Long Now Foundation

* particularly when paired with boots on cute girls.

P-Thugg and Dave 1 make sweet, sweet music at Daryl Hall’s house.

A friend of mine used to ask me every day, “What was the best thing that happened to you today?” I love that question. Unlike the more pedestrian “how are you? or “how was your day?" it forces the person answering to think about a specific event, the entire day, and in a positive context. Even the worst of days, there’s something good—however small—that happens.

I took issue with the question for a while, because I thought it was too passive, the “happened to you” part leaving out self-determination, as if the person to whom the question was directed was an observer or passenger.

Today, after tweeting about sad pandas in the inner sunset, I recalled another panda and saw the question differently. Instead of being passive, it can be interpreted as very personal, an individual observation. Taken in pieces, “What was the best thing that happened?” and then further distinguishing the answer from an abstract sense by explicitly asking “to you.” The answer is then not small talk, scripted or someone else’s. It’s their own.

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I am seriously behind on my music consumption. Toof and Dan’s unread postings in my feed reader are stacking up, I’m a week late (and counting) delivering a mixtape for July, and mainly just enjoying large quantities of doing nothing on the island.

I’m itching to remix Frank Turner:

Bummed I’m missing the Start Conference (holla @ Fort Mason!), but stoked that Eric’s there. Been filling in the gaps of time by writing bits of JavaScript and Python for our first release hack. It’s small tiny and cool and open-source and a little disruptive and hopefully useful.

Also, Obama is here tomorrow!

Edit: Someone wants to buy my art. Woot!

Saw Bloc Party last night at the Fillmore with Arsie—like their first performance there, they played three encores. They really know how to play to a crowd—I’m stoked for Cut/Copy and Yelle coming up!