Welcome Spring

Date

April 27, 2011

Miracler

Steven Trujillo

Location

Santa Fe

'Member Steven?

He brought us Rocket Sled in Feb. '10, which elicited such enthusiasm as "Whoa! So cool you put Mysteries of Life on this mix!', "Super fun stuff," 'Solid mix—what a crazy guilty pleasure that last one is! That's the one goes over the closing credits, right?", and "Really fun mix, thank you. Especially for I Was a King: the confluence of two things I love dearly—Teenage Fanclub and Norwegian rock."

Liner Notes

Fairly schizoid tracks–just things that have had hooks in me of late.

(1) seriously outs me as a fan of manufactured mainstream pop and an iCarly fan to boot. But I loves this stuffs.

(2) is E-Dubble's welcome-spring track from a Freestyle Friday in 2010

(3) is from This American Life's Breakup Song remix contest. Read about the episode here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/339/break-up and the contest here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/339/break-up/songs

(4) I just suggested to a junior-miss contestant I know that she consider using

(5) for the talent portion of her program. She asked "Well, what would I do while this music played?" I told her I didn't think it mattered much.

(6) was the first song I heard the glorious fever-broken morning after the night I spent in Chama, NM, thinking I was going to die on the way home from my cousin Steve's bachelor party (canoe trip: 5 canoes, 10 boys, 15 cases of PBR, 2 coolers of rapidly spoiling raw chicken; on and often in the I'm-quite-sure-Giardia-laden Gunnison River in SW Colorado). Good times.

(8) Heavy rotation of late.

(9) The novelty of frequent travel to OMA has not yet worn off (It will). Every time I book, this song (and often this version) plays in my head.

(10) Having a dog bark to start your song slightly increases my likelihood of enjoyment.

(11) "Larry"? Really?

(14) I feel like I'm an undergrad again.

Cover image is National Spelling Bee winner (and runner-up) in 1940. Lots of fingerprints on that trophy. Winning word was "THERAPY". Seriously.

Bio

I have an exquisite selection of etiquette books and am a nationally-acclaimed self-taught taxidermist. I recently accidentally purchased a small-game license along with my intended purchase of a fishing license and so have a sudden interest in squirrel recipes that do not involve cans of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup; any help would be appreciated. For Earth Day this year I celebrated the anniversary of my participation in a recently-declassified project creating a completely synthetic planet identical to our own earth that sits directly opposite "our" earth and is thus never visible to us, always hidden by the sun. We are launching a probe to that planet later this year which will carry, among other things, the entirety of the 3MPM archive and the means to play it back, loudly. I was an extra in "Red Dawn" (1984) and "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981). My Philip Glass parody opera should drop in 2013; the Ira Glass parody opera should drop in 2017. Lately, work has taken me on frequent trips to Omaha (Nebraska), where independent record stores continue to thrive for some odd reason. Most of the above are lies.

Mix is up. See you back here or on our members-only Facebook page soon.

Until next week,

XOK