Happy VD, assholes

This is my first Valentine's in a long time where I haven't had a little sweetheart to do something with. Instead, I've spent today making out with a bottle of cheap wine and listening to Hungarian fiddle music. (Thank god the office was closed today; I could get used to this four-day workweek thing.)

So since I have no pretty little gal to hunker down and watch Harold and Maude and drink by the fireplace with, I decided to do something special for you, my loyal reader(s). I made a full-on Valentine's Day mix, already sequenced and sized to fit on a single compact disc. So, burn it and play it when you burn your ex's clothes. Some of them might not make sense, but it covers most of the girls I've loved or at least really liked, not to mention all the crap re: my love life past and present that's been bouncing off the walls of my skull as of late.

You know, it's kinda funny. Everyone who knows me knows me as full of bluster, a liquored-up loudmouth who isn't afraid to insult people I don't like. (Ian recalls the time I shut down some vainglorious PETA yuppie who was fishing for compliments on her rich-white-city-girl outfit.) The truth is half the time I'm so cripplingly shy that strangers assume I have a speech impediment, on the rare instance when I get the courage to chat someone up.

Honestly, though? I think it's helped me. There was a time in my life where I felt like I had to be with someone to be happy. While not all the way there, more and more I'm accepting of my singledom and not actively looking. Which, of course, means I'll meet someone relatively soon. Seems it's like the way this shit always works.

Anyway, if you're in love, good for you. If not, well, let's get drunk together.

01. The Murder City Devils - Somebody Else's Baby: http://www.mediafire.com/?2n4zenwj43q

02. The Weakerthans - Watermark: http://www.mediafire.com/?6yliwmzmtti

03. Richard Hell - Love Comes in Spurts: http://www.mediafire.com/?emqymeoz3yt

04. Matthew Good Band - Rico: http://www.mediafire.com/?5dnjd2ildoj

05. Mountain Goats - Woke Up New: http://www.mediafire.com/?5qunyqqjjdy

06. Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes/Always: http://www.mediafire.com/?ayghmoizwyn

07. Billy Bragg - This Saturday Boy: http://www.mediafire.com/?1hqtitdlnbb

08. Sonny Rollins - You Don't Know What Love Is: http://www.mediafire.com/?6w2nmnyewwn

09. Jolie Holland - Adieu, False Heart: http://www.mediafire.com/?0zyyigxnnuo

10. Hank Williams - Nobody's Lonesome For Me: http://www.mediafire.com/?4mmoyatwmy2

11. The Futureheads - Skip to the End: http://www.mediafire.com/?32omm2nyzin

12. The Descendents - Cheer: http://www.mediafire.com/?5z2kgzd2ydj

13. The Ergs! - Pray For Rain: http://www.mediafire.com/?cy1y4j1yw1c

14. Jawbreaker - Ashtray Monument: http://www.mediafire.com/?cnuuztntymm

15. The Lawrence Arms - The Raw and Searing Flesh: http://www.mediafire.com/?5oaamtnnmow

16. Phil Collins - Don't Want to Know: http://www.mediafire.com/?fmllnzmmyyk

17. The Zombies - Whenever You're Ready: http://www.mediafire.com/?dyjzhzmgrr5

18. The Pogues - The Broad Majestic Shannon: http://www.mediafire.com/?e4muojzmndm

19. Johnny Cash - Remember Me: http://www.mediafire.com/?2y2mojwtm22

20. The Hold Steady - First Night: http://www.mediafire.com/?dgmzmovrrj4

21. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Attack: http://www.mediafire.com/?dlywmmqqyyk

22. Lucero - Ain't So Lonely: http://www.mediafire.com/?arlylhnmymr

23. The Silver Jews - Honk if You're Lonely: http://www.mediafire.com/?djyjmzwmm2z

24. Against Me! - Cavalier Eternel: http://www.mediafire.com/?9nyzhnmtkrf

25. The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely: http://www.mediafire.com/?2gt5jgommum