does anyone have any recommendations for perfect fall-time music?

this summer, i'm doing an internship with superglued.com, a community website based around live shows and finding people who love the music you do. the people i'm working for, rush and lucette, are phenomenal -- they're passionate about music, interesting, and care about bringing people together; so many of my friends have just looked at me and said, "they are your people."

one of the opportunities i'm getting through doing this internship is the option to do a project we're calling "50 in 50," which is essentially just this: i'm going to 50 shows in 50 days and documenting each one. they're all free in the nyc area, since economic times are tough, and rush and lucette wanted to show that there is so much music in nyc to be celebrated without spending lots of cash. the calendar is here, if anyone's interested. there are some seriously great shows on the roster: blonde redhead, soy un caballo, conor oberst & the mystic valley band, the afro-punk festival, built to spill (at siren fest), matt & kim, man man, superchunk, ted leo & the pharmacists, ginuwine, bela fleck, pat benatar and blondie, etc. if you guys are in the nyc area, let me know so we can meet up at shows. my roster is here if you want to see the kind of stuff i'll be going to.

i think i just really wanted to say: this is making me really happy. if you guys have been to shows that you thought were great and want to share the experience, please check out superglued and tell us about how much you love music.

i don't even know, guys. it makes me all wistful!!!

so i started making this mix like a month and a half ago and i finished it yesterday and took it for a test drive! so shut the hell up lvj and have your mix.

01. it's a fact (printed stained) - matt and kim.
02. talk talk talk - mansions.
03. personal space invader - andrew jackson jihad.
04. talking - annuals.
05. the wolf - miniature tigers.
06. the twist - frightened rabbit.
07. i think i wanna die - someone still loves you boris yeltsin.
08. pink triangle - weezer.
09. if i don't write this song, someone i love will die - hello saferide.
10. the facility - other girls.
11. stumble over my - all girl summer fun band.
12. this is not a test - oppenheimer.
13. there will be fields for us - a drum and an open window.
14. story - great northern.
15. tambourine - the happiness hollows.
16. swimming in the flood - passion pit.
17. aside - the weakerthans.

download password: moremayhem.
click the image for download! this is a great spring/summer/sunny in-transit mix.

just back from an all get out/dead confederate/kevin devine/MO show at the northstar! kevin and manchester put on really great sets. unfortunately, it was severely coloured by the girl who a) was taller than me and stood directly in front of the group i was in after having pushed through and b) gave her boyfriend a handjob in front of me during "cotton crush." then they were tongue-wrestling -- literally; this isn't some clever way to say making out because their lips weren't touching -- and she looked me in the eye. i almost cried.

WHO DOES THAT SHIT???