No enjoyable! (a mixtape) – Austin Kleon

Here’s one other new month-to-month mixtape comprised of a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I bought for 99 cents. I taped over the cassette’s safety tabs after which I taped over the music after which I taped over the paintings. (Faith Hill’s Breathe.)

This one is form of a sequel to “The October Country,” besides I wished it to form of seize the distress of October in Texas — a dusty, scorching October Country of torture, the place you watch everybody else take pleasure in Autumn whereas Summer continues to rage.

I additionally wished it to be just a bit bit spooky and within the minor key, because it’s spooky season and all.

SIDE A
— The Stooges, “No Fun”
— The Kinks, “Nothin’ in This World Can Stop Me Worrying About That Girl”
— Althea & Donna, “Uptown Top Ranking”
— Joy Division, “Isolation”
— Suicie, “Ghost Rider”
— Frank Ocean, “Ivy”
— Mazzy Star, “Fade Into You”
— The Castaways, “Liar, Liar”

SIDE B
— The Make-Up, “Grey Motorcycle”
— Desmond Dekker, “Fu Manchu”
— Marty Robbins, “They’re Hanging Me Tonight”
— Outkast, “SpottieOttieDopaliscious”
— The Slits, “I Heard it Through The Grapevine”
— The Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)”
— The xx, “Infinity”

Side A of the particular mixtape ends with a line from Ian McKellen reading The Odyssey:

…the recklessness of their very own methods destroyed all of them,
the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun
and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return.
Launch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus,
begin from the place you’ll—sing for our time too.

And Side B ends with the primary strains of Giamatti’s ode to baseball, “The Green Fields of the Mind”:

It breaks your coronary heart. It is designed to interrupt your coronary heart.

You can hearken to the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.