23 o'clock

I've always been more of a night creature. I hate sleeping, and I often find a second wind between 10 and 11pm. When I was going to uni, I used to function on five hours of sleep; these days, it's somewhat harder to get out of bed in the morning. And though I can lay some blame on the short winter days, of course that's not the full story. Naturally, this means I have trouble getting to sleep at normal hours. I've taken up the mental exercise of imagining my 40-year-old mind time traveling back to my 20-year-old life, like some hackneyed Disney film. I work my way through different decisions and circumstances which led me to my life today. It's not like going through a laundry list of regrets, or anything like that — far from it. I love my life, and I'm very pleased with how it's turned out (obvious exception excluded). No, this really is a soporific practice, because I have to go through and imagine myself today making the same impulsive, foolish and most of all, ignorant choices I made when I was half my age. But one thing, I would have to finish university. How boring! When faced with having to sit through the same classes, sleep looks very attractive. 

Some of my dearest friends are in my life today because of the smallest happenstance of a job, a class, an impetuous decision. I wouldn't live in Australia today if I hadn't been having an affair with my boss nearly two decades ago. Living in the past can be an addiction, I think. I have no idea about Sarah McLachlan's particulars, but I like to think "building a mystery" means living a life. I'm having a go at trying to improve the formatting of the playlist a little bit, but the website's built-in editor doesn't provide a lot of options, so I'm just kind of throwing stuff around to see what holds together. 

If you're coming to this post from Facebook, you might have seen the previous posts floating past in the river of shit which is the main page. Tonight's feature is the first and probably only post I'm actively advertising. I'm not really hoping for a OMG HUEG! following. In fact, I'm staggered to see that I have 19 subscribers. I mean, how do these people find me? What in the world must one be searching for to uncover these humble mixes? 

As always, I hope you enjoy. 

--R

TRACK 01 "Building a Mystery" INDEX: 00:00:00
TRACK 02 "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" INDEX: 04:06:69
TRACK 03 "On the Radio" INDEX: 06:36:48
TRACK 04 "Divine Hammer" INDEX: 09:58:70
TRACK 05 "Le Responsable" INDEX: 12:40:36
TRACK 06 "Bad to the Bone" INDEX: 15:13:59
TRACK 07 "Cool for Cats" INDEX: 20:01:37
TRACK 08 "Loser" INDEX: 23:10:12
TRACK 09 "Dead Eyes Opened Remix" INDEX: 27:05:29
TRACK 10 "Be My Girl--Sally" INDEX: 30:52:71
TRACK 11 "Killing an Arab" INDEX: 34:16:48
TRACK 12 "Enjoy the Silence" INDEX: 36:39:03
TRACK 13 "What Difference Does It Make?" INDEX: 40:48:09
TRACK 14 "The Last of the Unplucked Gems" INDEX: 44:37:00