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  • Tandem bikes: for the active codependent.
  • All public restrooms should have locks that indicate whether they're vacant or occupied.
  • I would pay extra for an edition of the New York Times with no opinion pieces.
  • Evite should run reviews and ratings from party guests.
  • Prius drivers are the worst.
  • Someday I'd like to have a washing machine that's not at knee-level.
  • Train travel is better in the abstract.
  • Artists should have websites indicating where their works are on display, the way musicians' websites list upcoming shows.
  • Why is stand-up comedy in movies always so terrible?
  • Nothing kills the vibe at a restaurant bar like a laptop.
  • Is a "knowledge base" ever useful?
  • Houseguests are like newborns: Great pains should be taken to keep them asleep.
  • Sometimes I think everyone I know is on the spectrum.

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  • Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise
  • I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
  • Time is like a clock in my heart
  • Walk beside me, not behind me. Feel my unconditional love
  • You always knew you were tired, but then where are your friends tonight?
  • It's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light
  • This may come as some surprise, but I miss you
  • I walked home smiling—I finally had a story to tell
  • I kissed you in a style Clark Gable would have admired. I thought it classic
  • If you knew how I felt now, you wouldn't act so adult now
  • Under the kitchen light, you still look like dynamite
  • The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball
  • I was dreaming when I wrote this, so sue me if I go too fast
  • I never wanted to be your weekend lover
  • Sometimes I wish for a mistake
  • Downstairs the party is going full swing. The people we came with haven't noticed a thing
  • It’s not safe to go out, it’s not right to stay home. Listen, my advice is to carry a gun
  • And anyways I'd rather listen to Coltrane than go through all that shit again
  • Up to Lexington, 125—feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
  • Whoever brought me here is gonna have to take me home
  • I hear you knockin', but there ain't nobody home
  • What's practical? What's logical? What the hell, who cares?
  • I don't know what I knew before, but now I know I want to win the war
  • Tell me something that you mean, not just what comes to mind
  • I don't know my future after this weekend, and I don't want to
  • I see you driving sports cars, ain't hitting the throttle, and I'll be down to do a hundred, top down and goggles
  • Sing me another love song, but this time with a little dedication
  • You got a look in your eye when you're saying goodbye, like you want to say hi
  • I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need

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10 January 2016

The 365-Song Mixtape (#317-#329)

317. Time & Space (A New Refutation Of) by Digable Planets
Despite the evidence in this series of Mixtape posts, I do like hip-hop now and then, even if my taste is for a more laid-back era.

318. Fade Out Lines (The Avener Rework) by Phoebe Killdeer/The Avener
No clue what she's singing about and don't tell me.

319. Roxie by Renée Zellweger
Zellweger isn't a singer, and it's not clear whether she's a dancer—the edits in Chicago could induce a seizure—but she certainly put this song over. Watch it on video: There's poison in that sugar. I just wish the soundtrack included the full intro vamp.

320. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore by Prince
Yet another B-side classic.

321. I Need Love by Luka Bloom
What seemed like a gimmick—Irish folksinger covers LL Cool J—has proved to have legs.

322. It Ain't Me Babe by Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon
I still don't know how Phoenix and Witherspoon managed to sound so good, so right, as Johnny and June Carter Cash; their "Jackson" is at #104, but I prefer this cover of Johnny and June covering Bob Dylan. Then again, I might just like everything the two actors did in that movie. The proposal scene is possibly the best ever.

323. Baby I Love You So (12") by Colourbox
I never noticed this song much—it came out in 1983—until the last few years, when something about the groove resonated. Lorita Grahame sings the lyrics as if they're a standard, while the music does its space-cowboy thing.

324. Here by Alessia Cara
Only a teenager could care this much about a bad party.

325. Sometime Around Midnight by the Airborne Toxic Event
I like this song, with its schmaltz and propulsion, until he sings "You just have to see her" five times in a row—and then I love it.

326. Wave Goodbye by Kelley Stoltz
Heaven for us fans of the one-note piano riff.

327. Cowboy Junkies Lament by Cowboy Junkies
Townes Van Zandt wrote it for them. Another one that wouldn't have made my top 10 for years after it came out.

328. Our Love by Rhett Miller
I can never quite shake the impression that he was dared to include the word mezzanine in a song.

329. Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress by Maria McKee
Maria McKee doesn't cut loose—in her music—nearly enough.

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