fare thee well

i finished my moving mix! it’s very specific. it’s about living in califonia my whole life, deciding i want to try someplace new, making plans to move away with pete, choosing portland, finding a new home with him, a bit about adjusting to the new weather, and optimism about the future, with tints of sadness about leaving my family (a feeling which has greatly increased over the last week). it was interesting to watch the mix evolve, i’ve been gradually putting it together for over a month… oh, and i shoved in as many bands as i could from portland (or the more general pacific northwest), sticking to songs that fit.

1. california – mates of state
2. california uber alles – dead kennedys
3. why you’d want to live here – death cab for cutie
4. let’s get lost – elliott smith
5. motion suggests itself – pavement
6. here we go – jon brion
7. goodbye california – jolie holland
8. goodbye song – the moldy peaches
9. portland, oregon – loretta lynn
10. movin’ on up – the jeffersons
11. portland – rainer maria
12. a place called home – pj harvey
13. i feel like going home – yo la tengo
14. far away, by my side – peter bjorn and john
15. you’re my only home – the magnetic fields
16. where love goes – the robot ate me
17. and it rained all night – thom yorke
18. come wind come rain – vashti bunyan
19. modern girl – sleater-kinney
20. float on – modest mouse

(the cover is a photo i took in the stumptown coffeeshop, with an added “moving to portland” coffee, priced 8.07 as in august ’07)

i can’t make music, but i can make mixes!

goodbye, goodbye, california
goodbye to your waving trees
to you succulent wind
and all my friends
fare thee well
goodbye

-jolie holland