This playlist began as something that I could listen to before I went to sleep at night, but now has evolved into a sort of all-purpose playlist for winter. I have been listening to music a lot more than usual lately because my room is extremely cold and therefore I am usually huddled in blankets for a good portion of time before I get up/fall asleep.

Current Playlist:

Cat Power - He War (She's playing in Feb. and I kind of want to go, although I usually don't like mellow live shows, the reason why I did not go see John Vanderslice when he played in SF recently, which I sorta regret, partly because he seems like such a cool guy that I want to support him any way I can)

Cat Power - Free (These two Cat Power tracks are off You Are Free, and are probably the tracks that I like best, off of the album that I am most familiar with of hers)

She Wants Revenge - These Things (I kinda don't know why this track is on here, except that I have been listening to a lot of She Wants Revenge lately and so a track made it on here almost by default)

AFI - Morningstar (Some would call this a guilty pleasure, but I don't believe in them, you should never feel guilty about anything that you like)

Gorillaz - Dare (I first heard this song in a pizza place maybe two weeks ago, and since then I have come to think it should have been the first single off the new album over "Feel Good Inc."

Garrett Pierce - Left Side of Space (I can't believe that this is the same guy that I subletted my room to two years ago, Garrett is so talented)

Calla - Swagger (This and the other Calla song are damn good, but are only in this playlist as substitutes for "The Strangler")

Of Montreal - The Party's Crashing Us (I dare you to listen to this song and not feel good)

Lil' Wayne - Shooter (I found this song on a music blog the other day, and it is amazing, the sample is one of the most soulful things I have heard in a long time)

Death Cab For Cutie - Crooked Teeth (I am not even that big a Death Cab fan, but I really like the fact that their major label debut is as good as anything they produced on Barsuk)

Calla - It Dawned on Me (Calla's new album is my current addiction, although I only listen to it at work, if I could find a way to make one of their songs work at Rock It! I would be so happy, but Calla is not the kind of band that anyone would really want to dance to. However, they are excellent for lying in bed on cold mornings)

Smashing Pumpkins - Eye (Kai, this song is also to your credit, I think it sounds very uncharacteristic for the Smashing Pumpkins and that is probably one of the reasons why I like it so much)

Matt Bauer - Window Hill (Kai, I owe you for turning me onto this song, it is silly that I had never listened to this, especially since he plays in Davis so frequently, but now I know, and now I love)

The Stills - Still in Love Song (This is currently my favorite song to dance to, it is not a new song, but my love of it is fairly recent, and while I think it is a great song to dance to, I think it is like the Arcade Fire, or the Walkmen in the sense that they are not dance bands, but certain tracks have so much raw emotion that they become danceable)

Laymen Terms - Verity (I found this CD in Amoeba's bargain bin, every time I go record shopping I make myself buy one CD that I know absolutely nothing about. I buy it solely based on the album art, band name, and other superficial factors, most of the time I get burned and end up with a CD that sounds nothing like what I expected, but this CD is actually quite good and the album art is made entirely up of these really cool looking woodcuts. At least I think they are woodcuts.)