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LAST THREE SONGS

Life is hard, music is the answer.

Here's the last three songs I'm obsessed with.

  

DOWNLOAD: DENIECE WILLIAMS "CAUSE YOU LOVE ME BABY"

  

DOWNLOAD: M5 "THIS SUMMER'S GONNA HURT LIFE A MF"

 

DOWNLOAD: ABOVE & BEYOND "PEACE OF MIND"

 

May 12: Leaving California

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Every year for my anniversary with Adam (aka Bloghungry) I do one of these "May" mixes. A collection of love songs, relationship songs, that tell our story.

This mix is the same and very different, well, there is a lot going on with us this year. 

The news is we are leaving Los Angeles and relocating to Florida. It was a really tough and tricky decision for me, leaving behind pieces of my identity: my city, my career, my people, my found family, all things that I spent my lifetime working to create for myself.

But life changes, unexpectedly, and the storyline twists and turns.

That storyline is represented in this compilation, my most personal in years.

There are two sides to every story, this one is mine.

I thought about not sharing it at all... It was crafted between March and early May, a rocky dark time for me. But it's a time capsule and I'm proud of it, so here goes...

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MIXTAPE: "Patron Shots & Pina Coladas"

DOWNLOAD Patron Shots & Pina Coladas HERE!!!!

"It's been a while, I know I shouldn't have kept you waiting, but I'm here now." - Britney Spears

Sooooooooo, the husb and I had a little Dadz Gone Wild week around New Years. The lil girl was staying with her Grandparents and oodles of relatives throwing presents and love at her, so we decided to gift ourselves a bit of wild boyz break.

We never partied much before becoming parents, always chose take-out and tv over nights-out and shots. And we sort of looked down on gay dads who whooped it up... then we became parents.

The nonstop, day after day, heavy weight of responsibility and selfLESSness can lead to NEEDING to GO WILD, well, to just feel human again (and not a Dad-bot). You have to know it to get it.

SImply put, bitch gotta cut loose once in a while.  MORE AFTER THE JUMP ------->

MAY 10

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10 YEARS with @bloghungry.  Can you believe it? 

Every year I do a "May" mix to honor my man, our relationship, and the wild ride of true love.

olive u woo.

Madonna Remember.

Madonna, remember.  Madonna... REMEMBER???  Remember Madonna?

DOWNLOAD: Madonna Remember.

Last week I watched that youtube concert from Paris and it was pretty much my Madonna Rock Bottom...  I guess it had been coming on for years, as it does.  I just couldn't bear that self-help 101 speech about 'pointing the finger at yourself'... she does it in every tour, I know I know, but I just couldn't believe my eyes. I crashed.

The weekend came and I decided to TRY and make a mix of songs I WANTED to hear from her.  Not hits (neccessarily), not boom boom remixes, but b-sides, album cuts, pre-boom boom remixes, radio remixes... And you know what, I became somewhat obsessed with the it as a mixtape!

And why not share it??? 

I can't say it has me buying tickets to MDNA Tour (no thanks), but it did bring back some beautful Madonna memories that span my entire life - which is saying something.  Hope it does the same for you!

DOWNLOAD: Madonna Remember. [zip]

May 9

DOWNLOAD: "MAY 9" [zip]

Took some time off PopMuse, sorry boys and squirrels.

But wanted to come back to share a new mixtape.  I do these every year to celebrate my anniversary to Bloghungry (who still posts like a maniac, if you are looking for delicious recipes).

I work on the "MAY" mixes all year, so you are going to hear some older tracks that were stashed away and saved for this mix. 

These are concept mixes, where each song tells a little piece of a greater story.  I labor over every track and the song order more than you should know.

There are some liner notes hiding in the mp3 notes, if you care.

It's about love and the amusement park that is a long term relationship.

Proud of us for holding it together this year sometimes with nothing more than a steak sandwich and a dream. 

olive u

SuperGirlfriend

 

I was bored.

1. Superbass.  I haven't stood in front of a TV and tried to learn music video choreo since my teens, something about this little bit of choreo kills me.

2. Musically this little break in Call Your Girlfriend is TOO exactly on my sweet spot to be believed.  It's Brit's Piece Of Me break, times 10.  Worship.  The choreo is very ROBYN but works so well in this one take environ.

"May 8"

8 years ago today a producer met a pizza boy, they kissed and their lives were changed forever.

Every May I do a mix to commemorate my love affair with Bloghungry.  It's a journal entry mix, a bunch of songs that tell the story I want to tell at this moment in time, reflective of this time in our lives but also looking back, forwards, sideways...  Oh, and this is not a Boom Boom compilation, there is dance music on here, but you're going to have to feel the slow build to get there, this is an Concerto in 3 Movements and song order and pacing is vital to the story.

Happy 8th Papa, love u.

DOWNLOAD: "MAY 8" [.ZIP]

For the Liner Notes (my thoughts on the tracks, click below...)

Robyn - Hang With Me (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)

 Let's take a minute and appreciate Drop Out Orchestra's remix of Robyn's "Hang With Me" (my favorite track from Body Talk).  This mix has been around a while, and thanks to @ifoxalot for sending it to me originally.  I've already had my fan worship moments for Drop Out Orchestra and this mix in particular on Twitter, but it came on again recently and inspired a strange and funny stream of consciousness email I sent to myself, cause I'm nuts and this is what I do when I'm in the cell phone lot at LAX playing disco music too loud at 8am...

 Download the track by clicking the down arrow on the player below.

Robyn - Hang With Me (Drop Out Orchestra Rework) by Drop Out Orchestra

 

3 is Family

 One of my all-time favs popped up on shuffle just now, Dana Dawson's "3 Is Family" (Dancing Diva Mix) and I thought I would share it with you loyal readers (D'Load link above).

Personal significance is a bit obvious, but I loved this track long before a family was on the brain.  (I just love a churchy handclap what can I say.) 

And speaking of family, lil miss Lily has been blowing my mind with the cuteness these days.  I'm sure every parent feels like this, but damn she is adorbs.  She was doing a little pose for the camera now click click last night in her new Hello Kitty Nightgown, see below.  I think she was mimicking the girls on Drag Race actually, which is really the best place to learn how to be a woman isn't it?

3-22-11

 

sometimes i'll just turn on the camera in a moment in the car that seems unexpected or important to the day, kind of journaling with my iPhone.  this is not safe, but it is comforting to know I can go back and watch later and remember the moment.  here's two moments.  the one above was on way home from work.  one below was after picking up lily from daycare. both so filled with layered meaning for me.

 

Download track from Video One below (I found it on Lofie's amazing mix Laylo).

Agnes Obel "Just So"

If you don't have the song in the background from Video 2, well, what is wrong with you?

FF Mixtape

https://www.yousendit.com/download/bFlIRFFjTkw5eFh2Wmc9PQ

An alien abducted my body one night back in October and when I returned to earth I had pieces of this mixtape on my computer.  For months and months I worked on it, tried to make sense of it, put it away, then brought it back, added something, then put it away and on and on, until now.   Finally I'm ready to release it back to the universe from which it came.

This is a "Mixtape", in the R&B / Hip-Hop definition not the Boom Boom smooth DJ Mix style.  It's choppy, messy, raw, and  nsfw.  Shit I'm not sure it's safe for the world.  It's not all R&B though, it's a club mix for sure, just jumping genres more than usual.  It features some truly epic moments from 2010 and 1986 and everything in between.  There are liner notes but they are on each mp3 in the INFO > COMMENTS field or you can read them below.

Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, it's a mix about Sex.