To me a mix is still a fairly personal thing you make for someone—like building yourselves a tender anxious little room. Like holding space in a mean jangling city. The best mixes are childish and hopeful. Runways, runaways. They’ll reach for you in the middle of the night.
Bernadette Mayer writes “So what who cares songs of one and / Experience of this is a case like / Whole and I am not from there I write / To you.” Sure my classrooms and my environments are cases “like / Whole” (hopefully whole) and so demand new faces, different entrances, distance of a certain kind, but if I’m making you a SEX AND POWER mix (which I did!) it’s going to be personal. Otherwise, what’s the point? “songs of one and/ Experience” are better than William Blake, sometimes. That said, don’t be boring and assume this is just about making out, not (for example) cities. I never feel more powerful than when I’m walking home alone by the river at night.
Anyway, this mix is something for you to loop that next morning while you walk, towards away or home, through gold October leaves. I won’t write too much about these songs because I’d rather you just listened first. I still believe doing that can change your whole life.
Dicks Mix by Thenewinquiry on Mixcloud
TRACKLIST
- Men Urinating, Laughter – Men’s Recovery Project
- Chemical Factory – Old Time Relijun
- Tax Dollar – Erase Errata
- Find Your Way – Ann Steel and Roberto Cacciapaglia
- Second Chances – Dick Hugo, read by Mairead Case
- Love and Space – Akron/Family
- Gone B4 Yr Home – Le Tigre
- Your Love – Frankie Knuckles
- The Sun Is Down! – Plastic Ono Band
- Age of Consent – New Order
- Come On Up to the House – Tom Waits
- Give ‘Er – Peaches
- I’m Not In Love – Talking Heads
- Ghost Rider – Suicide
- Gwan a School – Sister Nancy
- Something About Us – Daft Punk
- Sheela Na Gig – P.J. Harvey
- Be Your Boyfriend – The Ramones
- Creeper – Baptist Generals
- Nineteen – Tegan and Sara
- Phranc - Lifelover
- Flirted with You All My Life – Vic Chesnutt
- Take the Skinheads Bowling – Camper Van Beethoven
- Free Money – Patti Smith
- Cast Iron Arm – Peanuts Wilson
- In Spite of Ourselves – Prine and DeMent
- Lord Let It Rain on Me – Spiritualized
- Uh Oh Plutonium – Anne Waldman
- The Origin of Love (reprise) – Jonathan Richman
- Do You Believe in Rapture? – Sonic Youth