Happiness is All the Rage

Something to make you smile from a girl who is quite aware that this is all one big vanity project.

Via Seattle.

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What started as an exchange of annual mixes between dear friends continues each December with what is now a compulsion to craft an aural memory of each year before it ends. I really didn’t feel like doing it this time around, for a few reasons, but I’m a gal who is seriously respectful of deadlines. I’ll be darned if the 31st comes and goes without me sucking it up and putting some thought into the eighth installment of my favorite annual tradition.2011 will perhaps be my year of what could have been, in a couple of instances: I got a job offer in Portland (which I turned down). I fell in love, and was loved in return (but as my luck would have it, love isn’t all you need. THANKS BEATLES). I don’t regret a thing, but I do wonder. Now it’s almost over, and what I’m left with is how it all felt: Valentine’s Day karaoke, flying on a trapeze, walking around Austin in the sun without a map, Kurt in a museum, gazing over the Gorge at sunset, two arms interlaced, the Woods stage at Pickathon, feet sore from too many nights in a row at rock clubs with concrete floors, standing five feet from the President, the actual taste of an oyster, cold noses on warm cheeks, doing the right thing, frozen yogurt and sprinkles, being alone again, and all the bits in between. It’s a feeling. These 25 tracks are what will always remind me of what happened in each and every month of this past year. Regardless of what I’ve said here or am classy enough to keep to myself, I’m well aware of the charmed life I lead. I’ve got great friends, generous enough to support and make my first annual holiday toy drive for Treehouse for Kids a crazy success. I’ve got a fat cat, my health, this city that I love, a cocktail by my side, and music. Now and forever, the best bits are colored in. xo 2011: It’s A Feeling 1. Wye Oak - Holy Holy2. Bobby - Sore Spores3. Little Dragon - Ritual Union4. Shabazz Palaces - Are you… Can you… Were you? (Felt)5. Youth Lagoon - Cannons6. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best7. Bon Iver - Michicant8. Pageants - Edible Rust (radio edit)9. Caveman - Thankful10. Starfucker - Astoria11. Slow Club - Two Cousins12. Telekinesis! - Car Crash13. Say Hi - Take Ya’ Dancin’14. The Dodos - When Will You Go15. St. Vincent - Cheerleader16. Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes17. Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten18. The Drums - Money19. Austra - Lose It   20. The Coathangers - Go Away21. Other Lives - For 12  22. Snorri Helgason - Mockingbird23. Bryan John Appleby - The Rider. The Horse. The Land.24. The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep25. Shelby Earl - Made of Sand Download 2011: It’s A Feeling here if you like.
What started as an exchange of annual mixes between dear friends continues each December with what is now a compulsion to craft an aural memory of each year before it ends. I really didn’t feel like doing it this time around, for a few reasons, but I’m a gal who is seriously respectful of deadlines. I’ll be darned if the 31st comes and goes without me sucking it up and putting some thought into the eighth installment of my favorite annual tradition.

2011 will perhaps be my year of what could have been, in a couple of instances: I got a job offer in Portland (which I turned down). I fell in love, and was loved in return (but as my luck would have it, love isn’t all you need. THANKS BEATLES). I don’t regret a thing, but I do wonder.

Now it’s almost over, and what I’m left with is how it all felt: Valentine’s Day karaoke, flying on a trapeze, walking around Austin in the sun without a map, Kurt in a museum, gazing over the Gorge at sunset, two arms interlaced, the Woods stage at Pickathon, feet sore from too many nights in a row at rock clubs with concrete floors, standing five feet from the President, the actual taste of an oyster, cold noses on warm cheeks, doing the right thing, frozen yogurt and sprinkles, being alone again, and all the bits in between. It’s a feeling.

These 25 tracks are what will always remind me of what happened in each and every month of this past year. Regardless of what I’ve said here or am classy enough to keep to myself, I’m well aware of the charmed life I lead. I’ve got great friends, generous enough to support and make my first annual holiday toy drive for Treehouse for Kids a crazy success. I’ve got a fat cat, my health, this city that I love, a cocktail by my side, and music. Now and forever, the best bits are colored in. xo

2011: It’s A Feeling

1. Wye Oak - Holy Holy
2. Bobby - Sore Spores
3. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
4. Shabazz Palaces - Are you… Can you… Were you? (Felt)
5. Youth Lagoon - Cannons
6. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
7. Bon Iver - Michicant
8. Pageants - Edible Rust (radio edit)
9. Caveman - Thankful
10. Starfucker - Astoria
11. Slow Club - Two Cousins
12. Telekinesis! - Car Crash
13. Say Hi - Take Ya’ Dancin’
14. The Dodos - When Will You Go
15. St. Vincent - Cheerleader
16. Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
17. Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
18. The Drums - Money
19. Austra - Lose It  
20. The Coathangers - Go Away
21. Other Lives - For 12 
22. Snorri Helgason - Mockingbird
23. Bryan John Appleby - The Rider. The Horse. The Land.
24. The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep
25. Shelby Earl - Made of Sand

Download 2011: It’s A Feeling here if you like.

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