Seattle Thus Far (Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the City)

This move is perhaps the best decision I've ever made, period. It's been less than 24 hours here and already I'm feeling great about the city. My apartment is incredibly nice and the view of the Cascades and Mount Rainier is unbelievable, I cannot even begin to describe it. I'll be posting photos really soon. I miss my friends back home and wish that they could all be here. I'll be owning this town very soon.

My Driving Out of this God Forsaken Town Mix

I haven't had the time to actually compile this for you guys but here's what I'll be blasting as I leave Missoula on Friday:

"Glock Nines (Ratatat Remix) - Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z
"Skip Town" - Aesop Rock
"Collapsing At Your Doorstep" - Air France
"Asleep" - Album Leaf
"Maybe You Can Owe Me" - Architecture in Helsinki
"Since I Left You" - The Avalanches
"Haterz Everywhere" - Wes Fif & B.o.B
"Race-In" - Battles
"No Sleep Til' Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys
"The Golden Age" - Beck
"Black Grease" - The Black Angels
"Dirty Hands" - The Black Lips
"Insomniac Olympics" - Blockhead
"North By Northwest" - Blue Scholars
"Terrapin" - Bonobo
"Roads Must Roll" - Boom Bip
"The Plan (Live Version)" - Built To Spill
"Rudie Can't Fail" - The Clash
"Hello New World" - Clipse
"Black Panther" - Crystal Castles
"Close To Me" - The Cure
"Far Away" - Cut Copy
"Rollin' and Scratchin'" - Daft Punk
"11h30" - Danger
"Fa-Fa-Fa" - Datarock
"Changes"/"Oh! You Pretty Things"/"Eight Line Poem"/"Queen Bitch" - David Bowie
"If We Don't Make It (We'll Fake It)" - Death From Above 1979
"Summer's Gonna Hurt You" - Diplo
"Song 2" - DJ Krush
"We Are Rockstars" - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
"Chalo" - Esau Mwamwaya
"Glass Danse" - The Faint
"Twenty Three"/"Parks"/"Leila Came Around and We Watched a Video"/"Everything Is Alright"/"You Could Ruin My Day"/"Hilarious Movie of the '90s (Koushik remix)" - Four Tet
"Five Four Child Voice" - Fridge
"Sweet Love For Planet Earth"/"Bright Tomorrow" - Fuck Buttons
"Ankle Injuries" - Fujiya & Miyagi
"Easier"/"Lullabye"/"Knife" - Grizzly Bear
"No Regrets"/"Keep Your Eyes Ahead" - The Helio Sequence
"Milkshake"/"The Pulse"/"Lovely Allen (Live on dublab)" - Holy Fuck
"Look After Me"/"The Warning" - Hot Chip
"Iron Clad Lou"/"Pinch & Roll"/"Stars" - Hum
"Desert Sea (Live)" - Jawbox
"Love Will Tear Us Apart"/"Disorder" - Joy Division
"Stress (Live verson)"/"One Minute to Midnight (Promo mix)"/"Phantom Part III (Pragmatic mix)" - Justice
"Day 'n' Nite"/"Dat New New"/"The Prayer"/"Man on the Moon" - Kid Cudi
"Goodnight Bad Morning" - The Kills
"Sex On Fire" - Kings of Leon
"Heartbeats" - The Knife
"All Of My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
"Let the Beat Build" - Lil Wayne
"So Low, So High"/"Liquid Sugar" - Maps
"Good Fucking Bye" - Matt Skiba
Everything by Megasoid
"Shadows" - Midnight Juggernauts
"Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset"/"Custom Concern (BBC Sessions version)" - Modest Mouse
"Sine Waves"/"You Don't Know Jesus"/"Acid Food"/"Auto Rock" - Mogwai
"Great Escape" - No Kids
"Our Life is not a Movie or Maybe" - Okkervil River
"Goblin City (Holy Ghost! remix)" - Panthers
"Up Against the Wall" - Peter, Bjorn and John
"High and Dry"/"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"/"How to Disappear Completely"/"The National Anthem"/"Reckoner"/"15 Steps" - Radiohead
"Ghostwriter" - RJD2
"I Wonder" - Rodriguez
"Divine" - Sebastian Tellier
"Svefn-G-Englar"/"Staralfur"/"Se Lest"/"Sæglopur" - Sigur Ros
"Sleep Deprivation" - Simian Mobile Disco
"Paper Tiger" - Spoon
"That Dress Looks Nice On You (Cinematographer Remix)" - Sufjan Stevens
"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)"/"(Nothing But) Flowers" - Talking Heads
"I Won't Be Found"/"The Gardener"/"This Wind" - The Tallest Man On Earth
"Fahrenheit Fair Enough"/"Map of What is Effortless"/"Nothing's Worth Losing That" - Telefon Tel Aviv
"Breathe (Extended Mix)" - Telepopmusik
"A Pillar of Salt"/"An Ear For Baby" - The Thermals
"The Eraser (XXXchange remix)"/"Black Swan"/"And It Rained All Night" - Thom Yorke
"Bursting With Tears, I Commit To Destroying You" - Timeout Drawer
Everything by TV On The Radio
"Int'l Players' Anthem (I Choose You)" - UGK (RIP Pimp C)

There it is. It's been fun Missoula but you're like an inappreciative girlfriend. The "Players' Anthem" says it all. Between packing and cleaning I had the time to upload this Kid Cudi track "Man On The Moon (The Anthem)", whether it appears on his upcoming LP Man On The Moon is up in the air. Enjoy. And again, good fucking bye Missoula!

Billings: Or Why I'm Getting Even Further Away From Montana

Ugh. There is really only one or two things I can say I truly love about Billings: My parents and their home, and a handful of close friends that I never get to see anymore. I wish I had a camera here so I could show you the extraordinary large amount of backwards hats, collared polo shirts and failure that exudes from my peers at Hooligans. While I cannot judge them all and I can't say that they're all bad, it seems like a large majority have never left or have left and returned to Billings...despair. Billings is a place that you move back to, or live in, at our age in order to 'lose' at life. The airport isn't international, the city is so spread out that you must have a car (I think there are like three buses throughout the entire city), there are more disgusting casinos than there are trees literally in the same capacity as trees (right next to one another and across the street from one another, I shit you not) and as Ryan said, "[Billings] has seventy thousand shitty little businesses." Thus, I am making my exodus to Seattle.