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There is a Leverage Models song about the holidays below. hometapes: the never ending beginning :: a hometapes holiday album We made you something. Collections of Colonies of Bees “Jolly Olde St. Nicholas” Doug Paisley “Winter Days” Matt White “Mary Had A Baby” Zorch “Last Christmas” Ormonde “Angels We Have Heard On High” Ape School “Cold, Cold Christmas” Andrew Fitzpatrick “Toyland” CYNE “Boxing Day” Breathe Owl Breathe “Snow Blow” Roberto C. Lange “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” Jon Mueller “Hallelujah” Slaraffenland “Feliz Navidad” The Caribbean “What Child Is This” Brad Laner & Lauren Kinney “Numen Lumen” Sunless “Here Come Those Bells” Oh! Pears “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” Jon Minor & Jim Schoenecker “Happy Xmas (War Is Not Over)” Leverage Models “Celebrant” All Tiny Creatures “Deck The Halls (Mannheim Steamroller Cover)” Shedding “There’s Always Tomorrow” Keith Sunset “Star Shepherds” Featuring cover art by FRIENDS WITH YOU. FREE DOWNLOADClick Buy Now and feel ok about entering $0. That said, we set this up so you have the option to make a charitable donation this holiday season: 100% of proceeds collected will go to benefit Heifer Project International, an Arkansas-based organization that’s near and dear to our heart. __________________________________________ How do you see the calendar in your head?Is it a string of days or a series of boxes? Does it loop, one year into the next? Is it a wide, flat expanse? Or a mountain range of peaks and scattered canyons? Is it tethered to your memories of a paper datebook, something you fill up and file on a shelf? Do the months live in clusters of seasons, talking to each other in the shape of suns and falling leaves and the way it sounds when you can’t hear a thing but the wind? Something about the month of December seems to make us all stand at attention. Everyone is feeling something. Everyone gets a little more honest, if not to each other then, maybe, to ourselves. Sitting in the dark by the light of a tree strung with bulbs, we can think. Or drink. Look our friends in the eye. Gather our memories in a box, worn down puzzle pieces that fit together to form a picture of our lives. Every time we pour it out onto the floor, the puzzle changes. You can put it together however you want, and, every year, you try. There’s no image on the box to mimic, just the ever-shifting landscape of what you want life to look like for yourself and the ones you love. This year, we asked Hometapes’ family and friends to make a song for the holidays — whatever that meant to them. This is our third year doing this, and, undoubtedly, the most remarkable one yet. Over the past couple weeks, Adam and I have opened over twenty gifts: songs that push what it means to feel, and to feel Right Now. Not just those December vibes, but the experience of where we all are right this second: a world that’s somehow more infinite than it’s ever been. Maybe this has to do with our age (we’re getting older) or the nebulous nature of our geographic borders (thanks to the machine you are reading this on). Adjacent to the tools that enable us is the perspective we carry — and our lens is polished, daily, by these artists. And it has been for a decade. And before that, it was the music on the radio, the LPs in our parents’ record bin, the shows in that belvedere by the river that changed our lives, the views out the tour van window. And after this, as we swim through that dark pool between December 31 and January 1 (yeah, I see a dark pool), we’ll dry off, take a deep breath, and keep running. Happy holidays. We hope you get exactly what you want. This can be your soundtrack. - Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes

There is a Leverage Models song about the holidays below.

hometapes:

the never ending beginning :: a hometapes holiday album

We made you something.

  1. Collections of Colonies of Bees “Jolly Olde St. Nicholas”
  2. Doug Paisley “Winter Days”
  3. Matt White “Mary Had A Baby”
  4. Zorch “Last Christmas”
  5. Ormonde “Angels We Have Heard On High”
  6. Ape School “Cold, Cold Christmas”
  7. Andrew Fitzpatrick “Toyland”
  8. CYNE “Boxing Day”
  9. Breathe Owl Breathe “Snow Blow”
  10. Roberto C. Lange “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
  11. Jon Mueller “Hallelujah”
  12. Slaraffenland “Feliz Navidad”
  13. The Caribbean “What Child Is This”
  14. Brad Laner & Lauren Kinney “Numen Lumen”
  15. Sunless “Here Come Those Bells”
  16. Oh! Pears “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”
  17. Jon Minor & Jim Schoenecker “Happy Xmas (War Is Not Over)”
  18. Leverage Models “Celebrant”
  19. All Tiny Creatures “Deck The Halls (Mannheim Steamroller Cover)”
  20. Shedding “There’s Always Tomorrow”
  21. Keith Sunset “Star Shepherds”

Featuring cover art by FRIENDS WITH YOU.

FREE DOWNLOAD
Click Buy Now and feel ok about entering $0. That said, we set this up so you have the option to make a charitable donation this holiday season: 100% of proceeds collected will go to benefit Heifer Project International, an Arkansas-based organization that’s near and dear to our heart.

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How do you see the calendar in your head?
Is it a string of days or a series of boxes? Does it loop, one year into the next? Is it a wide, flat expanse? Or a mountain range of peaks and scattered canyons? Is it tethered to your memories of a paper datebook, something you fill up and file on a shelf? Do the months live in clusters of seasons, talking to each other in the shape of suns and falling leaves and the way it sounds when you can’t hear a thing but the wind?

Something about the month of December seems to make us all stand at attention. Everyone is feeling something. Everyone gets a little more honest, if not to each other then, maybe, to ourselves. Sitting in the dark by the light of a tree strung with bulbs, we can think. Or drink. Look our friends in the eye. Gather our memories in a box, worn down puzzle pieces that fit together to form a picture of our lives. Every time we pour it out onto the floor, the puzzle changes. You can put it together however you want, and, every year, you try. There’s no image on the box to mimic, just the ever-shifting landscape of what you want life to look like for yourself and the ones you love.

This year, we asked Hometapes’ family and friends to make a song for the holidays — whatever that meant to them. This is our third year doing this, and, undoubtedly, the most remarkable one yet. Over the past couple weeks, Adam and I have opened over twenty gifts: songs that push what it means to feel, and to feel Right Now. Not just those December vibes, but the experience of where we all are right this second: a world that’s somehow more infinite than it’s ever been. Maybe this has to do with our age (we’re getting older) or the nebulous nature of our geographic borders (thanks to the machine you are reading this on). Adjacent to the tools that enable us is the perspective we carry — and our lens is polished, daily, by these artists. And it has been for a decade. And before that, it was the music on the radio, the LPs in our parents’ record bin, the shows in that belvedere by the river that changed our lives, the views out the tour van window. And after this, as we swim through that dark pool between December 31 and January 1 (yeah, I see a dark pool), we’ll dry off, take a deep breath, and keep running.

Happy holidays. We hope you get exactly what you want. This can be your soundtrack.

- Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes

“we are killing people. There is no other way to see this,” Fletcher said in sorrow, standing paralyzed in his realization. “We fill the earth with the bones of those who beg simply to live out an average life: seventy years and the chance to work, but for many even that is not possible. This must change,” Fletcher burned, looking at Bill whose lungs had filled with asbestos — Carole Maso, Ghost Dance

yvynyl: Cat’s Cradle - a yvynyl mixtape Time tangles some mighty webs, don’t it? You blink yr eye and all of a sudden you’re in a completely new world, new skin, new haircut, new seersucker suit. This weird journey we’re on, the surrealism of it all keeps yr mouth agape and full of wonder.  And this, friends, is just a small soundtrack.  Original artwork by Philadelphia-based artist Jesse Hale Moore who is also in a band called Ladies Auxiliary. Follow him on Tumblr here. Used with permission. Please support the artists represented in this mix! Buy their music, and go to their shows. I’ve provided you links here to discover more of their work, and you should. Tracklist: M83 - Midnight City Jape - The Oldest Mind Field Mouse - You Guys are Gonna Wake Up My Mom Princeton - Clamoring for Your Heart COOL RUNNINGS - The Fool The War on Drugs - Come to the City Adam Taylor Young - Hold On Summer Camp - Better Off Without You fthrsn - Hysteria Leisure - Follow Me Sin Kitty - Only When (I’m Lonely) Teen Daze - The Harvest Tommy Toussaint - Summer USA TOPS - Turn Your Love Around Violetness - The Coal Night Shining - Faces Elephant - Assembly Mood Rings - Promise Me Eternity The Bilinda Butchers - Half Open Leverage Models - Fleeced (Before the Lord) Black Brick - Gracely High Highs - Flowers Bloom Jessica Jalbert - Necromancy Download directly here: http://bit.ly/sGewR7 Stream it here: http://8tracks.com/yvynyl After downloading the mix folder, please create a new playlist in iTunes and then click and drag the folder to import, thereby maintaining track order. Check out more yvynyl mixtapes here.

yvynyl:

Cat’s Cradle - a yvynyl mixtape

Time tangles some mighty webs, don’t it? You blink yr eye and all of a sudden you’re in a completely new world, new skin, new haircut, new seersucker suit. This weird journey we’re on, the surrealism of it all keeps yr mouth agape and full of wonder.  And this, friends, is just a small soundtrack. 

Original artwork by Philadelphia-based artist Jesse Hale Moore who is also in a band called Ladies Auxiliary. Follow him on Tumblr here. Used with permission.

Please support the artists represented in this mix! Buy their music, and go to their shows. I’ve provided you links here to discover more of their work, and you should.

Tracklist:

  1. M83 - Midnight City
  2. Jape - The Oldest Mind
  3. Field Mouse - You Guys are Gonna Wake Up My Mom
  4. Princeton - Clamoring for Your Heart
  5. COOL RUNNINGS - The Fool
  6. The War on Drugs - Come to the City
  7. Adam Taylor Young - Hold On
  8. Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
  9. fthrsn - Hysteria
  10. Leisure - Follow Me
  11. Sin Kitty - Only When (I’m Lonely)
  12. Teen Daze - The Harvest
  13. Tommy Toussaint - Summer USA
  14. TOPS - Turn Your Love Around
  15. Violetness - The Coal
  16. Night Shining - Faces
  17. Elephant - Assembly
  18. Mood Rings - Promise Me Eternity
  19. The Bilinda Butchers - Half Open
  20. Leverage Models - Fleeced (Before the Lord)
  21. Black Brick - Gracely
  22. High Highs - Flowers Bloom
  23. Jessica Jalbert - Necromancy

Download directly here: http://bit.ly/sGewR7

Stream it here: http://8tracks.com/yvynyl

After downloading the mix folder, please create a new playlist in iTunes and then click and drag the folder to import, thereby maintaining track order.

Check out more yvynyl mixtapes here.

Did you ever feel betrothed in your youth to the heat of your present-tense reality, to the slippery and sliding focus on trying to talk — something like that? At yet another intersection, I had a sense of falling, of losing mental control, and my eyes blurred in the all-ways-dimensional now, the mind’s and the world’s great sea, the afternoon light. Real eyes really real. It is impossible to think your way through moments spent with someone else.

—Harold Brodkey, Religion

today while birdwatching in an american wood i saw this specimen flitting about everywhere, like a switch. all of us, from fund managers to associate analysts, might take a moment to reflect on how bright americas brightlight is shining today.

Debut show, Tues, Nov 22nd at Union Pool in Brooklyn. With Colin Stetson/C Spencer Yeh/Nate Wooley/Ryan Sawyer, Soldiers of Fortune (Mexican Summer). Joined onstage by mems of Light Asylum, Warm Ghost, Yeasayer, Helado Negro, others, etc. Party tunes in celebration of a bankers’ demise at the edge of the end of the world. join us. Help spread words, please. Click this Internet hyperlink on the world wide web HERE for details. We’re on first. Then I will flee the city as soon as I can pack. Goodbye.

Debut show, Tues, Nov 22nd at Union Pool in Brooklyn. With Colin Stetson/C Spencer Yeh/Nate Wooley/Ryan Sawyer, Soldiers of Fortune (Mexican Summer). Joined onstage by mems of Light Asylum, Warm Ghost, Yeasayer, Helado Negro, others, etc. Party tunes in celebration of a bankers’ demise at the edge of the end of the world. join us. Help spread words, please. Click this Internet hyperlink on the world wide web HERE for details. We’re on first. Then I will flee the city as soon as I can pack. Goodbye.