Me: HEY I am making you a mixtape.

Z: Hooray!

Me: I am going to call it “Music You Will Hate When We Break Things Off.”

Z: Ha ha!

Z: :(

ETA 6/21/09: HELLO VOYEURS. I have been given special dispensation to post mixtape. This is aimed at someone who has rock/electronica sensibilites. And I think the order may be off, but it is all G in the H. Oh yes I did. No Hall & Oates, WISEACRES.

DeVotchKa “The Clockwise Witness” [from A Mad and Faithful Telling]

Dengue Fever “Tiger Phone Card” [Venus on Earth]

Sufjan Stevens “To Be Alone With You” [Seven Swans]

Kings of Convenience “Gold for the Price of Silver” [Versus]

Amy Winehouse “Just Friends” [Back to Black] (Glastonbury ’07 was her last good concert, I think.)

Los Campesinos! “My Year In Lists” [Death to Los Campesinos!]

Neko Case “Lion’s Jaws” [Fox Confessor Brings the Flood]

Andrew Bird “Armchairs” [Armchair Apocrypha]

Beirut “Cliquot” [The Flying Club Cup]

Brazilian Girls “Pussy” [S/T]

Sufjan Stevens “They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhhh!” [Come On Feel The Illinoize]

Space/Catatonia “The Ballad of Tom Jones” [?]

The Whitest Boy Alive “Courage” [Rules]