Death or Glory

There’s nothing better than driving with the windows down on a nice day with the music blaring.
Yesterday I made a mixed cd for my car and it’s a great summer playlist.

Here are the tracks:
Matt Costa – Mr. Pitiful
Sublime – What I got
Nofx – Bob
Kings of Leon – Sex on fire
Third Eye Blind – Jumper
Rise Against – Hero of War
Gob – Soda
Goldfinger – I need to know
Unwritten Law – Cailen
Lagwagon – Brown eyed girl
Joel Plaskett Emergency – Work it out
Good Riddance – Always
Tegan and Sara – Fix you up
Mary J. Blige – Love is all we need
Adele – Chasing Pavement
Bob Marley – Is this love
Rancid doing nofx – Stickin’ in my eye
Saves the day – I melt with you
Catch 22 – American Pie
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – So sad to say

There are a few personal rules I have regarding mixed tapes.
1. You can’t have the same artist twice. I kind of bended the rules a bit for this one because I had Nofx and Rancid doing Nofx, but more on why that’s okay later.
2. Any summer mix must include Rancid, Bob Marley and Sublime
3. Genre-specific mixes suck. It’s not a mix unless you mix things up.
4. The more covers, the better.
5. Be prepared for sing-a-longs.

In keeping in my rules, I had to put a Rancid song on the cd… however, after getting my computer wiped I haven’t uploaded all of my cds yet. When I made the mix yesterday, the only Rancid cd I had on this computer was my Rancid/Nofx split album where they covered one another’s songs.

This has since been fixed; I now have all of Rancid’s albums on my computer, including the new one!

Expect many more mixes and posts about them. I’ll be driving a lot because of work and my radio doesn’t work.

I just realized that my last two posts have been rather down in nature. I thought that perhaps I should post an upbeat happy post. After all, I am generally an upbeat kind of person.

As previously mentioned, I went to see Rancid on Sunday night. It was such a good show! Rancid was one of those bands that I got into when I first started listening to punk music. I’ve seen them several times over the years and they always put on a good show.

To see just how much fun I had, please refer to Exhibit A:

Also, please note the awesomeness that is my batman shirt.

In other news, I’ve added some new sections to my blog. There is now a Playlist section where I’ll be writing about what music I’m currently listening to. There’s also a reading section where I’ll talk about books and a movie section where I’ll, you guessed it, talk about movies. This page won’t update with those posts, so you’ll just have to randomly click on the links.

The past week I’ve been listening to a lot of Rancid. Partly because they’ve always been one of my summer choices and mostly because I’m going to see them tonight.

I’ve seen Rancid three times and tonight will be my fourth. I love seeing them live, they always put on such a good show. Although, last time I saw them Tim wasn’t overly friendly with the audience. But according to people who went to the show last night, that’s changed.

The Creepshow and Sick of it All are also playing tonight. It’s gonna be a good show!

Suggested Listening:
Salvation
Roots Radical
Arrested in Shanghai