I have known Matt for a long time. He was in my first improv class at the Annoyance theater in the summer of '97. I was in college on my summer break between my sophomore and junior year. I learned a lot that year and had a great time. I joined ComedySportz (where Matt was already a member) a few years later - then was added to one of the best teams ever at iO, SPACE MOUNTAIN (which Matt was also already a member of)... Our lives always seem to come together. I'm pretty sure the main reason is because we're friends and we enjoy each others company. I respect Matt a great deal and I'm very happy I have had the chance to get to know him and keep him as a close friend. Making a mixtape for Matt is nothing new. I think I've shared more music with him than anyone, but it has been a while. So this one is for you, Mr. Larsen. Please enjoy this mixtape. ALSO - HE'S GONNA BE HAVING A BABY SOON AND THAT IS CRAZY! Congratulations to you and Brandi!!!
download: Mr. Larsen's Mixtape
My preferred order to listen to this mixtape:
Foreign Born - blood oranges
Christopher Francis - one
the Welcome Wagon - half a person
Viva Voce - the center of the universe
the National - lit up
Zeus - I know
the Builders & the Butchers - slowed down trip to hell
Zee Avi - bitter heart
Pinback - concrete seconds
Woody Allen - the great renaldo
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - killers
the Phenomenal Handclap Band - dim the lights
They Might Be Giants - hot dog
Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down - big kids table
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - the chronicles of a bohemian teenager
the Dodos - men
Frightened Rabbit - old old fashioned
the Sound of Sea Animals - room for two
Bon Iver - Brackett, WI
the Bony King of Nowhere - losing gravity
(the picture above is from when Matt and his lovely wife Brandi came to Portland while we were still building the theater. They left their marks on the wall behind the bar, so they're a part of the theater permanently.)
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Oh, wow, Bob, I just stumbled on this and... wow. You bet we're friends and we're going to stay friends, I hope. Forever and ever. Yep. It's hard to come up with funny things to write when you're this overcome with emotion, but suffice it to say you've warmed my heart to the point where I think I might be a fire hazard. Thank you so much for this mix tape.
I'm downloading and listing more to IndieFeed podcasts and thinking of you, hoping beyond hope that at some point I'll have enough time to catch up to your impossibly huge knowledge of indy music, but that dream, like the hopes of the Republicans ever again taking Congress, seems to recede ever more quickly into the distance.
I hope the theatre is doing well. I'm looking forward to Labor Day (as well as, later, labor day) when I can come out again. Depending on your schedule, we should consider the possibility of putting together a 24-hour movie.
It's probably dumb to put this in a comment, so I'll propose this again in an email and probably also on the phone.
Take care! Give Stacey a squeeze from me!
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