i have just mailed out all the October cds tonight, a little behind schedule. i hope they get to you soon.
As a note, i didn't mean for this mix to be so personal, in the sense that i am randomly sharing my life with a group of people that i don't know at all (except for a small taste of your fine musical preferences), but i suppose that all my mix tapes are about mood and feeling and memory. i am not sure though, why i decided to spill so much personal bullshit in the liner notes. So please pardon the over-sharing.
The Badlands is not as emo as the title might suggest. Actually, it is far more literal in the geographical sense, in that i was remembering a trip at the end of this summer through the badlands of the Alberta prairies. And it was a good trip, and a good summer, save for, well, i guess, feelings and emotions, which are not my forte.
The other thing about this mix is that i spent summer traversing the whole of North America for microbial conferences (yay grad school reimbursements!) and other fun life stuff, one of the stops being nxne in Toronto. nxne was a lot of fun and it was a blast running around in the nighttime heat trying to see as many awesome bands as possible with friends, so a lot of the bands on the mix were at nxne. And in hindsight, they are all super good at capturing my state of internal craziness, hence the appearance of so many nxne alumni on the mix.
So i hope you enjoy The Badlands. And thank you for letting me be a part of Eleventilicious.
cy
