Pavement - “Cut Your Hair”
Earlier tonight this song made me run and hum. :D
at 11:31 pm
March 20, 2011
November 16, 2010
8tracks: The Thrill of the Chase
Another one of them mixes with mostly jazz tracks. For moderate to fast-paced running.
- “Secret Meeting” - The National
- “Anthem For The Earnest” - The Bad Plus
- “Flite” - The Cinematic Orchestra
- “Rose Rouge” - St. Germain (for the groove that feels quite ticklish, teehee)
- “I’m A Cuckoo” - Belle and Sebastian (reminds me always of the music video with Stuart Murdoch running; yes, quite a literal reference)
- “Witness (Walworth Road Rockers Dub)” - Roots Manuva
- “Let Your Conscience Be Your Guidance” - Space Jam
- “Mistaken For Strangers” - The National
EDIT: Will add more soon! And for the necessary cool-down:
- “Tokyo” - The Books
- “Two Moons” - Toe
at 2:26 pm
November 9, 2010
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“Flite” - The Cinematic Orchestra
I have been playing the background track in this website long and hard enough that if it were a disc it would’ve been over-scratched and broken by now. It was only today that I discovered about this being a masterpiece by the wonderful Cinematic Orchestra. I should’ve known! :)
I’m working on another running mix, this time it’ll mostly have instrumental tracks (just like this one) and I promise to keep myself from adding too many jazz tracks to it. But thanks to the odd time signatures, the beautiful jazz beats work perfectly as ‘step signals’ while running (I made up the term for cues for that fragment of time when your foot lands on the ground. In this track, I try to follow the bass lines.) Beautiful, beautiful! Yes, I am overusing that word appropriately, I believe so.
And because this month began with going back to the running habit and with the idea of running away.
at 8:09 am
October 25, 2010
8tracks: Run with the Sun
In the following order (8tracks plays tracks randomly on second run though):
EDIT: Added some tracks and arranged the order, with seamless transitions and tempo in mind.
- “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” - U2
- “Cello Song” - The Books and José González
- “Moth’s Wings” - Passion Pit
- “Run Run Run” - Phoenix
- “Spitting Games” - Snow Patrol
- “Typical” - Mute Math
- “Keep The Car Running” - Arcade Fire
- “Change (Extended Version)” - Tears for Fears
- “Zero” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Sweet Disposition” - The Temper Trap
- “Modern Drift” - Efterklang
- “Summer Running” - Marc Johnson with Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, and Pat Metheny
- “Throw It All Away” - Zero 7 feat. Sia (moved this here for cooling down :)
I’ve had this since late last year but this still is a list-in-progress. I shall have more added soon. Might arrange the tracks according to running tempo, too. Happy running! :)
at 12:42 am
June 12, 2010
Saturday
“Running everyday is kind of a lifeline for me, so I’m not going to lay off or quit just because I’m busy. If I used to being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.” - Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, page 73.
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Thoughts this morning (thanks, Dad):
- Discipline begins with the will.
- Always have the end goal in mind. If you keep thinking of the process and how potentially difficult it can be, you will end up tossing your plans out the window.
- So with that in mind (and heart), I desire for things to go back on track today. No day but today!
- I’m keeping my reasons ‘nicely polished’ and in tow every single day.
- 12 June 2010 is Day 1.
at 10:03 am
October 10, 2009
My last login was 3 months ago but it has been 5 months since made a full run. I remember the last time was a sweet 5k night run with a good friend (We were both once wannabe triathletes.)
I miss hitting the pavement.
at 2:42 am
