The Holidays are here and in celebration I make my annual mix CD of what has been spinning around in my world for the past year. Since I still have quite a few this year left to pass out, I will not post this year's mix list till early 07 (I don't want to spoil the surprise). Instead, below are the track lists for the past 3 years.

Winter 05-06: Give Me Your Eyes, I Need Sunshine
01. The Bees - Horsemen
02. Spoon - The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
03. Blanks. - Pouncer
04. CYHSY - The Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth
05. Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
06. Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
07. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
08. Frank Smith- Texas Town
09. LCD Soundsystem- Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
10. The Go Team! - Ladyflash
11. The Juan Maclean - Give Me...
12. Mad Man Films - Surgery
13. Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra Leone
14. M.I.A. - Pull Up The People
15. Ambulance LTD - Heavy Lifting
16. Diamond Nights - The Girl's Attractive
17. Maximo Park - Graffiti
18. Zombies - Time of the Season
19. Kings of Convenience - Homesick
20. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Winter 04-05: As Serious As Your Life
01. Nada Surf- Happy Kid
02. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1(Tunnels)
03. AC Newman- Miracle Drug
04. Luna - Speedbumps
05. Ratatat - Seventeen Years
06. Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life
07. BC Camplight - Blood and Peanutbutter
08. Ted Leo - Counting Down the Hours
09. DJ Shadow - ...Meets His Maker
10. The Cure - Killing An Arab
11. Franz Ferdinand - 40'
12. Karate - With Age
13. Akudama - Ba Ba Ba
14. The Main Drag - Admit One
15. Modest Mouse - Bukowski
16. Apostle of Hustle - Baby You're In Luck
17. Devendra Banhart - Little Yellow Spider
18. Chris Warren - Good Morning Love (I'll Go)
19. Benjamin Gibbard - Carolina
20. Elliott Smith - Let's Get Lost
21. Ugly Casanova - Cat Faces
22. The Album Leaf - On Your Way


Winter 03-04: We Want the Death of Rock & Roll
01. Constantines- Arizona
02. TV on The Radio- Staring at the Sun
03. Clearlake- Wonder if the Snow will Settle
04. The Books - Tokyo
05. Dakota/Dakota - I Hope To God I'm Not A Sheep
06. The Velvet Teen - Caspian Can Wait
07. Beehive & The Baracudas - Stuck on the Bus
08. Irving - Turn of the Century
09. Built To Spill- Distopian Dream Girl
10. Why? - Ferris Wheel
11. Aaron, Bernie, Tyler - Jam
12. RJD2 - True Confessions
13. Big Boi - Bowtie
14. The Shins - Fighting In A Sack
15. Akudama - Drive-Thru Memories
16. Elliott Smith - Rose Parade
17. The Wrens - This Boy is Exhausted
18. Calexico - Pepita
19. Basement Jaxx - Tonight

For the past few weeks I have been occupying myself with trying to figure out the next few years of my life. Application to a music business masters program? Look for NYC jobs? In any case there is plenty of paperwork to fill out and plenty of people to talk with.

At the moment I am listening to one of my better purchases in the past few months: 2xLP of M.I.A.'s Arular, this is the way that it is meant to be listened to! At the same time I am making copious copies of my 8th annual holiday mix (just drop me a line if you'd like one).

I am also looking to book Tiny Whales anywhere and everywhere possible. If you or anyone you know is interested in hosting a trio that can put on quite the rock show, please let me know. We are interested in College shows as well, something to keep in mind.

My camera is broken, no photos for this update. Also, I've been too busy putting together the Boston compilation and following up with other pressing issues to post my thoughts on new records as well. Both aspects of Dave's Corner should be up next week or so.

Keep it here. And Speak the Slang now.