Which song do you listen to when...
you feel like 1982?
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
you try to stay up for more than 24 hours?
Burial - Etched Headplate
I think I could listen to this song for more than 24 hours straight.
you come home from the club?
Mike Galasso - In The Mood For Love
you take a bubble bath?
Silver Jews - Trains Across The Seas
you ride a bicycle?
The National - All The Wine
Sounds good with wind in your hair.
you camp in the desert?
Colleen - Floating In The Clearest Night
Beautiful song, and quiet enough so I can listen for animals around me.
you go to a club?
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
It puts a strange spin on the evening.
you cook?
Wild Nothing - Live In Dreams
you run naked through a cornfield?
Angelo Badalamenti - Theme From Twin Peaks
This song can make literally anything seem surreal.
you eat a cucumber?
Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
I see no relation to the cucumber but this is a killer song.
you prepare for an important date?
The Radio Dept. - Sleeping In
My favorite band to listen to in almost all situations.
you are in a depressive mood?
Smog - You Moved In
It's so heavy and maudlin, it makes me feel at ease with the depressing qualities of the world.
you want to disturb your neighbours?
Pavement - Hit The Plane Down
Although it would bother me too, I really can't stand it, especially as it's the only bad song on an otherwise almost perfect album.
you drive a car late at night?
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
My favorite driving song, long and full of changes and nostalgia.
you drive into the country?
Arvo Paert - Fratres
One of the most perfect pieces of music I've ever heard.
you go fishing?
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Seems like the most incongruous song I can think of.
you are on a football field?
Pantera - Mouth For War
I don't play football but seems like it would take it to a new level.
you jog?
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - For Kate I Wait
I probably need to go jogging more.
you are love sick?
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
you meet your parents?
Faith No More - Epic
I don't know, it just reminds me of being at high school and living at home.
you play ping-pong?
The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child
you sit in a plane?
Eluvium - New Animals From The Air
Helps me drift and forget that I'm thousands of feet in the air.
you sell crack cocaine to teenagers?
Clipse - Ride Around Shining
An obvious choice, but damn what a song.
you smuggle diamonds?
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
Would lend an air of intensity to the proceedings.
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
Geto Boys - My Mind Playing Tricks On Me
you are stoned?
Digable Planets - Black Ego
To be honest, I am not a smoker anymore, but I think I would put this on first.
you sit in the subway?
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
Makes it all feel like a dream.
you surf the internet?
Deerhunter - Helicopter
I listened to this five times in a row earlier while doing so, so I guess that's the answer.
you wake up?
Stars Of The Lid - The Atomium, Pt. 3
you wash your hair?
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission
you need to get work done?
Out Hud - The L Train Is A Swell Train
Or really anything that has a beat and no vocals and changes a lot.
5 favorite books
David Mitchell: «Cloud Atlas» / David Foster Wallace: «Infinite Jest» / J.K. Rowling: «Harry Potter series» / Richard Dawkins: «The God Delusion» / Cormac McCarthy: «Blood Meridian» / John Williams: «Stoner» / Nicholson Baker: «Human Smoke» / Denis Johnson: «Tree of Smoke» / Joseph Heller: «Catch 22» / John Kennedy Toole: «Confederacy of Dunces»
5 favorite drinks
Coca-Cola fountain drink with crushed ice / Wheat beer with lemon / Black coffee, hot or iced/ Slurpee with equal parts Coke and Cherry / Cherry Limeade
5 favorite movies
«2001: A Space Odyssey» by Stanley Kubrick / «The Best of Youth» by Marco Tullio Giordana / «There Will Be Blood» by Paul Thomas Anderson / «Naked» by Mike Leigh / «Casablanca» by Michael Curtiz
5 favorite records
Bedhead - What Fun Life Was
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
The Books - Lost And Safe
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Metallica - And Justice For All
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
5 favorite TV shows
Mad Men / Sopranos / Friday Night Lights / The Wire / Freaks and Geeks
Questions answered by: Mark Smith