The Sampo Method
(Last Played is in the last 7 days, Date Added is in the last 2 weeks, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.)
- TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me”
- Midlake “Roscoe”
- Built To Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind”
- Built To Spill “Mess With Time”
- Built To Spill “The Wait”
- Peeping Tom feat. Norah Jones “Sucker”
- Built To Spill “Liar”
- Built To Spill “Wherever You Go”
- Psapp “Curuncula”
- Built To Spill “Traces”
The “That Was So Last Week” Method
(Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by leasy recently played.)
- Sister Machine Gun “Influence”
- Sasha “Immortal”
- KMFDM “D.I.Y.”
- Blonde Redhead “Melody”
- Morrissey “Seasick, Yet Still Docked”
- Meat Beat Manifesto “Edge Of No Control, Pt. 1″
- Soundstream “Let’s Break”
- Delerium “Fallen”
- Monster Voodoo Machine “Defense Mechanism”
- Julius Papp “Warm Chill”
The Most Immediate Method
(Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most recently played.)
- Lamb “Gorecki”
- The Pipettes “Dirty Mind”
- Gus Gus “Gun (Schizoid - Man Remix)”
- Kobayashi “Release”
- Candy Bars “The Birthday Song”
- Gus Gus “Cold Breath ‘79 (Craze)”
- Starecase “Vapour Trails”
- Hybrid “Theme From Wide Angle (Dark Skies Remix)”
- East West Connection “Once I’ve Been There”
- Wilderness “Monumental”
Observations and Other Notes: Soundstream’s “Let’s Break” (I’ve noticed) seems to show up in all sorts of unexpected playlists; I think iTunes is trying to tell me something. I can’t believe The Pipettes made it in there; I’ve been trying to avoid them (I don’t care what you say, they’re freaky). Lastly, somehow I managed to not run a Sampo Method report while The Dining Rooms’ “Pure & Easy” was still eligible; shame on me.
currently playing: Pop Shuvit “Conversations (Shiloh remix)”
There’s some kind of reunion of St. Mary’s College students in this large outdoors area. We’re having a group picture taken on this particularly steep hill (which reminds me of the hill near the house my folks owned when I was really little). We’re all carefully positioned “just so” as though we spell out something in the wide-angle shot (or maybe our shirts are the individual pixels in some larger image). After the couple of shots are taken, we’re told that we can break and I move quickly to flee down the hill. I’m slightly claustraphobic around this many people and (frankly) I’m trying to distance myself from a number of them. Before I can get free though, someone grabs my arm. “Not so fast.” There are more pictures to be taken of a cadre of Honor’s students as well as some Q&A. I receive disdainful looks from several of the other surviving Honor’s students. It’s obvious that they don’t want me here. That I don’t fit in. No one makes any deriding remarks though. I do my best to sit still but the first chance I get, I spring down the hill, bounding away.
Once at the bottom of the hill, things have cascaded into a big party but people are spreading out into clusters and some have drifted back up the steep hill. I pause for a moment to consider how rude I’ve just been to the Honor’s students at the top (my supposed peers) and I bound back up the hill at a rate that’s nearly super-human. (It’s certainly quite a fast ascent for such a steep hill.) A feeling creeps over me as though the others feel like they’re being provoked and I wonder if I’m not provoking them intentionally but sub-consciously. Maybe they deserve it. Maybe they’ve had things too easy.
QUICK CUT: We’re away from the gathering and A. is just returning from a long trip. She’s quite late but explains that she could have been much later. She had to rent a car to get home because the person that was supposed to pick her up (the husband of a friend) created a great deal of extra work for himself and went to the wrong airport to pick her up. An airport that was 3 extra hours away.
