Confessions of a Fuck-Up Artist!

Awhile back my good friend, the Magpie, handed me a stack of some of his favorite CDs and asked me to burn him a mix on my then new VDJ program. Several months passed before I got around to it, adding in a few of my own tracks before what finally emerged is not so much a 'mix tape'... but rather a portrait of a close friend as 'drawn' with a collage of songs. It begins with an introspective melancholy that builds up slowly into a burst of sexual bravado and a patriot's sense of cival disobedience. So in this case it's sort of what it's like to go out drinking with the Magpie.

Unfortunately the mix runs at 704mb... exactly 4mb too large for me to burn onto a CD for him. Wauk-wauk-wauk-waaaaa. So the best I can do is post it online and hope he (or someone he knows) can find a way of downloading it.

Download here.

Set list below:

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Nouvelle Vague
Rebel Rebel - Seu Jorge
Whispered Words (Pretty Lies) - Dan Auerbach
Speed Trials - Elliott Smith
Phoebe Cates - The Sads
Coin Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls
Alabama Song - The Doors
Viva Discordia - That Handsome Devil
She's Not There - The Zombies
96 Tears - ? & the Mysterians
Highway 61 - Bob Dylan
Run Run Run - Velvet Underground
Chess, Trout Fishin' & Marijuana - The Chudacek
Hey Boy - Billy Nayer Show
Rolling - Soul Coughing
Verklemmt - Foetus
Get Down Make Love - NIN
Pro-Test - Skinny Puppy
99 Problems - Jay Z

Found this at the Disinfo.com page on myspace (check them out here...disinformation) who got it via a great post by Justine Sharrock over at Mother Jones


"Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, 'prolong capture shock', disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose."

( Bring forth the Pain! )