All These Things I’ve (Not) Done

Things I Said I Would Do This Year and Didn’t

• Complete a 30 Day Challenge (and rightly so)
• Buy books and actually read them (I still haven’t started either of these books, and I have about ten other unread books on my bookshelf. One day…)
• Learn to do all the things a Perfect Gentleman can do (I think I can do less than I could do before!)
  
• Use the dull winter season to become a super-chef (I think I may have cooked twice. I also didn’t save any money over winter)
• Get through the A Song of Ice and Fire series before winter was over (At the moment, I am nearly finished with A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow. It’s a pretty lame effort but I am still committed!)
• Enrol in a postgraduate course for 2013 (There is currently no way that this is happening. As it turns out, I need honours to do a postgraduate degree, and I don’t have the marks high enough to do honours. I’d have to do a bit of work, which I would gladly do if I actually knew what I wanted to study. But I dont. So, no uni for now)
• Join a gym (I’m the worst)
• Make hollowed-out books for at least two of my friends
• Make mix cds (with personalised, decorated cd cases) for a bunch of my friends (In my defense, I have been collecting magazine cut-outs and cereal boxes for the cause. I will just give them out as Christmas presents. I finished putting together the actual mix months and months ago, and it’s good. Look out, friends!)

Mixtape: Looking Down at the Earth

Super proud of this one, I put it together a couple of months ago but I’ve only gotten around to posting it now.

Looking Down at the Earth Track List:

1. The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing
2. New Navy - Zimbabwe
3. Grimes - Vanessa
4. SBTRKT - Something Goes Right
5. LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit
6. Pixies - Hey
7. Warpaint - Stars
8. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
9. Florence + The Machine - What The Water Gave Me
10. Lykke Li - Get Some
11. An Horse - Postcards
12. Tegan & Sara - The Ocean
13. The National - All The Wine

Seriously though, give it a whirl.

The Con

I’d like to update and say something interesting, I really would. But the truth is I’ve been mostly working and sleeping for the past couple of weeks.

I did make the best mixtape ever though; I burnt it onto a couple of cds, and then handmade some cool cd covers. What a productive, creative day it was. I should upload the mix to Mediafire. Later. Soon. It really is awesome, I was shocked at the time.

One other amazing thing that happened recently is this: me and two of my work friends (Tevai and Libby) have booked our flights to Brisbane next month. We arrive on the 20th, leave on the 25th, and we can’t wait! I am so excited to see my friends and the city and the nice tall buildings and just everything.

Ok, I think that might be it.

Wait, I also got robbed. My accounts got hacked into and about $1000 was stolen from me. That was pretty shit.

Mixtape: Influenza

I’m sick. I don’t really know if I have the flu or not, I think it’s a bit too early to tell. That’s not what I’m claiming on Twitter though, seeing as I’m hashtagging my sickness as #kihastheflu. Ha, I bet I’ll feel better tomorrow and this entire debacle will be short-lived.

I’ve made myself a sick playlist (ha! Get it! Because I’m sick?! Shit, I’m hilarious). It’s themed, the songs aren’t necessarily about being sick, but the titles seem relevant. I like it a lot, I’m feeling a bit sorry for myself because everything hurts, but making this mixtape made me laugh. You can get it here.

Influenza Track List:

1. Saves The Day - Diseased
2. Stillwater - Fever Dog
3. Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
4. Takka Takka - Fever
5. The White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
6. Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick
7. The Kills - U.R.A Fever
8. Matchbox 20 - Disease
9. Bee Gees - Night Fever
10. The Smiths - Still Ill
11. Carly Simon - Haven’t Got Time For The Pain
12. Bonobo - The Fever
13. The Perishers - Get Well Soon
14. Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine

Mixtape: Throw It Out The Window

I made a new mixtape, you can get it here. Enjoy the cover art. I worked really hard on it*! It’s all the stuff I really wanted to be listening to last night/this morning as I drove home from work, I was on high from having such a fun night.

*Extreme sarcasm.

Throw It Out The Window Track List:

1. Foster The People - Call It What You Want
2. Alpine - Heartlove
3. The Hood Internet - All of the Lights (Ellie Goulding x Portland Cello Project x Kanye West)
4. Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
5. Warpaint - Beetles
6. Death in Vegas - Dirge
7. LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
8. Friendly Fires - Show Me Lights
9. The Kills - Nail In My Coffin
10. Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands
11. Maximum Balloon - Tiger feat. Aku Orraca-Tetteh
12. Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
13. Apartment - Fall Into Place
14. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home

Mixtape: My Inside is Outside

I don’t know if anyone really cares about these mixtapes that I put together, but I like making them, so I’ll continue to do them regardless. It can’t hurt! You can get this one here (for the individual tracks) or here (for the RAR file).

My Inside Is Outside Track List:

1. Blur - To The End
2. Kasabian - Cutt Off
3. Oasis - Cast No Shadow
4. The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work
5. Supergrass - Alright
6. The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
7. Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight
8. Travis - Writing To Reach You
9. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
10. Oasis - She’s Electric
11. Kasabian - Processed Beats
12. Hard-Fi - Livin’ For The Weekend
13. Mark Ronson featuring Paul Smith - Apply Some Pressure
14. The Strokes - The Modern Age
15. Razorlight - Can’t Stop This Feeling I’ve Got
16. Travis - Driftwood
17. Blur - No Distance Left To Run

And yes, I know the cover art is highlarious and terrible. But it was necessary! If anyone does choose to download it, let me know if it works!

Mixtape: Let’s Go Smash Out Every Light

I can only take partial credit for this. I have the albums on my computer, but iTunes Genius is the one who created this wondrous playlist. It’s based off Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare by Matt & Kim, and it’s really worth a listen. You can download it here (hopefully, if WinRar and MediaFire did their jobs right! I’m a mixtape-sharing-virgin).

(Yes I know my cover art is lame. I never said I was an artist! Also, you’ll need to download WinRar if you don’t have it — it’s a small price to pay!)

Let’s Go Smash Out Every Light Track List:

1. Matt & Kim - Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare
2. Passion Pit - Little Secrets
3. Phoenix - Girlfriend
4. Vampire Weekend - White Sky
5. Miike Snow - Animal
6. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
7. Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes
8. Passion Pit - Make Light
9. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
10. Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor - You Don’t Know Me
11. White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
12. Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned
13. Animal Collective - My Girls
14. Band of Horses - Our Swords
15. Phoenix - Lasso
16. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
17. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
18. Passion Pit - Moth’s Wings
19. Vampire Weekend - Run
20. Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
21. Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
22. Band of Horses - The General Specific