Something on a Stick Mix
Hi friends.
I blew it this year! I forgot to do a Valentine’s Day mix. My bad. My next grand plan was to send an Ides of March mix, but then Wikipedia told me many disturbing facts about the ides, and doom seemed an ill-fitting theme for a spring mix…so I decided to choose a more cheerful holiday. I chose March 28, “Something on a Stick” day.
To find the cheer, I reached back though my ska-tastic past, all the way past my blue Dookie cassette and Steve Miller Band days, to find songs that make me smile.
In celebration of the old deep cuts, as well as the jangly new tunes, I present:
You’ve got a smile that can knock me down
Something on a Stick day mix, 2008
Hooray! Download the whole thing…it’ll be fun!
Or download them one-by-one below.
I Tried To Rock You But You Only Roll Leona Naess
Cecilia Simon & Garfunkel
Amsterdam Guster
The Joker Steve Miller
Last Nite Adele
Stand R.E.M.
Buttons Sia
Dustin Hoffman Thinks About Eating The Soap of Montreal
Where’d you go? The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Waiting For The Bus Violent Femmes
Fluorescent Adolescent Kate Nash
When I Wake The Changes
I Don’t Know Why Ben Kweller
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Beatles
Island In The Sun Weezer
Lucky Denver Mint Jimmy Eat World
The Shining Badly Drawn Boy
Mable Goldfinger
Life, in a Nutshell Barenaked Ladies
Just the way you are Maggie Gyllenhal
Film by Feel Good Anyway (FGA) design studio
When I was a kid I loved Something on a Stick Day. The anticipation of what exactly would be on the stick when you came down in the morning, the aroma of marshmallow and hot dog that filled the house. The tears when you realized the dog had eaten it, again, just like last year. Such wonderful memories…
But now, it’s so commercial, and so many have resorted to plastic store bought sticks. We would go out onto the driveway in the rain to find the perfect maple twig or birch branch, sharpen it with our own own pocket knives, and then decorate it with duct tape and glitter glue. Something always tasted better when it was on a stick that you had chosen yourself and then lovingly crafted. Machine-sharpened plastic sticks in all the colors of the rainbow just aren’t the same. Where’s the trace of sap or bitter bark?
Ah well, it probably does no good to wax nostalgic. As long we hold the true spirit and meaning of Something on a Stick Day in our hearts that’s all that really matters.
Stick be With You.
By anonymous on 03.29.08 12:07 am
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