10,000 Goodnight Kisses

Trans-Pacific flights + love songs for my better half @ 124 BPM.

Download “10,000 Goodnight Kisses” mixtape (120MB / 256kbps AAC)

Track List

  1. The Afro Soul-Tet — Afrodesia
  2. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Two Against One
  3. Karmon — Feel It
  4. Ultraísta — Smalltalk (Four Tet Remix)
  5. Bonobo — Cirrus
  6. Foals — Big Big Love (Fig.2)
  7. Daft Punk — Giorgio by Moroder
  8. Steve Aoki — Heartbreaker (feat. Lovefoxxx)
  9. Miike Snow — Silvia
  10. The Fort Knox Five — Blowin’ Up The Spot
  11. Panthers — Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Disco Dub)
  12. Al Green — Let’s Get Married
  13. Breakbot — Why (feat. Ruckazoid)
  14. DCUP — I’m Corrupt
  15. Disclosure — F For You
  16. Breakbot — Shades of Black
  17. Classix – All You’re Waiting for (feat. Nancy Whang)
  18. Yelle – Que veux-tu (Madeon Extended Remix)
  19. Flight Facilities – Crave You (Version 2)
  20. Lady Danville – Kids
  21. Gotye – Easy Way Out
  22. Kidnap Kid – Thin Lines (feat. Lotti)
  23. John Newman – Love Me Again
  24. Peking Duk – The Way You Are
  25. Feed Me & Crystal Fighters – Love Is All I Got

Good Design

Pretty gets you 30 seconds.

Usable gets 5 minutes.

Useful gets a customer.

Honey Junket

Honey Junket

Last December, I wanted to see if Bonobo could mix with hip-hop (turns out it does), and work outside my 125 BPM comfort zone. Thanks to the guys at Rap Genius for the inspiration (and the help). This is the result:

Download “Honey Junket” mixtape (256kbps MP4 / AAC) (61MB)

Track List

  1. Atmosphere — The Woman With The Tattooed Hands
  2. KiD CuDi — Maui Wowie
  3. Ming + FS — Is There Honey?
  4. Rhymefest — Mike The Mentor (feat. Michael Jackson)
  5. Common — The People (feat. Dwele)
  6. Apollo Brown — Brag Language (feat. Buff 1 & Magestik Legend)
  7. DJ Danger Mouse — What More Can I Say
  8. Kanye West — Stronger
  9. The Hood Internet — Dr. Dre (feat. Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg) vs Fujiya & Miyagi - The Next Collarbone
  10. Kanye West — Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele)
  11. ydnar — Good Days Ahead (Bonobo vs Big K.R.I.T.)
  12. The Notorious B.I.G. — Ghetto (feat. Akon & 2pac)
  13. Bonobo — Light Pattern
  14. Dr. Dre — Housewife (feat. Hittman & Kurupt)
  15. Anni Rossi — Rude Boy (Rhianna cover)
  16. Ratatat — Party And Bullshit (feat. The Notorious B.I.G.)
  17. Bonobo — All In Forms
  18. Notorious B.I.G. — Big Poppa
  19. Lupe Fiasco — Hip-Hop Saved My Life (feat. Nikki Jean)

Good Days Ahead

Good Days Ahead

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

Download “Good Days Ahead” MP4 / AAC Audio (5.5MB)

Last night…

…I stepped out of John Dory onto Broadway, looked south, and heard a voice behind me “nice hair!” I turned to find two cougars finishing their cigarettes. I thanked them, they smiled and stepped back into the bar.

After which, Sasha introduced me to his friend Tom, who’d taken his first Square transaction earlier in the day—a wholesale batch of his artisanal tonic.

Remarkable territory, this “mid-town.”

A New Decade

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

Download (256kbps MP3)

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)

Hello

Less 365

Starting July 1, and every day for a year, I will get rid of something. I will donate, discard, re-gift or recycle some bit of debris accumulating in my house. Anything non-perishable considered, exempting books and music.

My climbing partner TJ and I hatched this last week on an (overly encumbered) hike to Alamere falls in Marin. It’s one aspect of a larger goal to apply the philosophy of minimalist alpinism to everyday life: light, fast, with minimal protection—your wits, your experience and the strength of your companions.

Backdated to July 1, the first thirteen: two pair headphones, one Maglite, one pair Pumas. Two pillows, one remote-control wand, a coffee thermos and a padlock. A retired pair of glasses, one cable modem and one rain jacket.

July 1, 2011 is the summit. Or maybe base camp.

Update: Follow #less365 on Twitter (thanks Tim and Caterina!)

Dietary Constraints

For two weeks I’ve eaten a vegan diet. It was an experiment to see if this card-carrying bacon abuser could dine & be happy. Ten years ago, this would have been unlikely, if impossible. Certainly living next to Whole Foods and a few blocks from Gracias Madre has contributed.

This continues to be an interesting challenge.

Channeling HST

First big smile of the new year, via Elliot Clowes:

1951

Hunter S. Thompson Self Portrait

2009

Sunrise Office