it's all happening - february 22, 2009

Those who regularly monitor Torrey and I's mixes on Cassette Shelf have, most likely, come to be sure of one thing above all others: Torrey's mixes will be a fun, witty mix of indie rock and pop, and mine will be depressing, or at the very least low-key and mellow. Today, dear readers, is the day that this changes. I had one of those weeks where good thing after good thing happens; I got startled by my own genuine happiness, a friend fell in love, intelligent friends received copious amounts of monetary validation. good things, in short.

So this is a genuinely happy, ecstatic, euphoric mix. This is the music that erupts out of your stereo when things seem to be going right in all the most unexpectedly right ways. Don't confuse this with manic happiness, or the happiness that comes from one extremely good thing happening, but only to you. This mix is for pervasive happiness; for when good things seem to come in fives and sixes and to you and everyone you know, when you become convinced that there are high pressure zones of good karma moving into low pressure zones and everyone you love is right in good karma's path. Put more simply, in the immortal words of Penny Lane (yes - immortal, deal with it), it's all happening.

original track list
01. "Mr. Blue Sky" - E.L.O. (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OST);
02. "Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love" - Coldplay (Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends);
03. "The Crane Wife 3" - The Decemberists (The Crane Wife);
04. "My Slumbering Heart" - Rilo KIley (The Execution of All Things);
05. "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope);
06. "T-Shirt Weather" - The Lucksmiths (T-Shirt Weather);
07. "Scenic World" - Beirut (The Gulag Orkestar);
08. "Get Lost" - Patrick Wolf (The Magic Position);
09. "Elevator Love Letter" - Stars (Heart);
10. "60B (Etown Theme)" - Nancy Wilson (Elizabethtown);
11. "Quiet Houses" - Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes);
12. "Old Old Fashioned" - Frightened Rabbit (The Midnight Organ Fight);
13. "Major Label Debut (Fast)" - Broken Social Scene (Broken Social Scene);
14. "The Year in Review" - Her Space Holiday (Xoxo Panda and the New Kid Revival); *
15. "Chariot" - Page France (Hello, Dear Wind);
16. "Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel (In Good Company OST);
17. "Fresh Feeling" - Eels (Souljacker);
18. "Dry the Rain" - The Beta Band (High Fidelity OST);
19. "Agoraphobia" - Deerhunter (Microcastle);
20. "Sweet Darlin'" - She & Him (Volume One);
21. "Oh Heart" - Jill Barber (Oh Heart);
22. "Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters" - Elton John (Almost Famous OST).