mix cds from my musicology class

the couple music classes (and these were classes about music not like learning actual music) I took in college were some of the best I had

MIX THREE

1. Some dynamic TV theme-type music for 17 seconds.
2. Beck – “The Golden Age”
3. Neutral Milk Hotel – “Holland, 1945”
4. Death From Above 1979 – “Romantic Rights”
5. Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1”
6. Pedro The Lion – “When They Really Get To Know You They Will Run”
7. Sonic Youth – “Teenage Riot”
8. The Tallest Man on Earth – “The Drying of the Lawns”
9. Symphonic music I’ve heard before but it was in 8bit-ish form – maybe a symphonic version of something from a Zelda?! ...The music from the Kakariko Village, but played by an orchestra!!!
10. Jeff Buckley – “Mojo Pin”
11. Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
12. White Stripes – “My Doorbell”
13. Thrice – "The Great Exchange"
14. Sara Watkins – “All This Time”
15. Tallest Man on Earth – “King Of Spain”
16. Sufjan Stevens – “Barn Owl, Night Killer”
17. Radiohead – “Pyramid Song”
18. Not sure – maybe a Chopin nocturne?
19. Sounds like synthesized spaghetti western soundtrack music. Not sure.

(Went to class and came back while listening to this one – a guy from class was also checking out CDs and said “oh, don’t give me #3, it’s mine". we talked for a while. A quiet, mousy guy. I am instantly more forgiving of his CD because he is an enthusiastic but quiet gay sweetheart and it would be wrong for him NOT to listen to this kind of stuff probably. 90% the songs are super romantical and about longing for lost love lol)

this class is really fun and cool tbh but there's no accounting for the taste on these CDs!! my friend who has a degree in musicology told me that this project was the most fun he ever did in undergrad! maybe his class was different. i'm sure everyone is equally tortured by the project, though. maybe that's part of what he's trying to teach us??? like i think everyone went into this project thinking "wait'll they get a load of ME" but no one actually cares about anyone else's musical taste and just wants to hear responses to their own shit, not listen to anybody else's CD

was so excited to hear "teenage riot" start tbh esp after enduring CD two

what is the purpose of the exercise?

listening to as much radiohead as possible

mix two sounds like pure torture

MIX FOUR

1. Amadou et Mariam – “Avec Toi Cheri, La Vie Est Belle”
2. El Guincho – “Bombay”
3. Sufjan Stevens – “I Walked”
4. Joanna Newsom – “Good Intentions Paving Company”
5. Santana ft. India Arie and Yo-Yo Ma - “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (cover)
7. Phosphorescent – “Wolves”
8. Tears for Fears – “Mad World”
9. Amadou et Mariam ft. K’naan – “Africa”

i had to email grady to ID song #2. is song 5 postable in whiney's cultural study under these conditions?!

1. Van Halen – “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”
2. Not sure, sounds like an overture to a musical. Lots of tuba.
3. Busta Rhymes – “Break Ya Neck”
4. Gorillaz – “Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version)”
5. Black Sabbath – “Crazy Train”
6. Daft Punk – “Digital Love”
7. Queen – “Don’t Stop Me Now”
8. The Beatles – “Eleanor Rigby”
9. Chris Brown – “Forever”
10. Deadmau5 – “Ghosts N Stuff”
11. Imogen Heap – “Hide and Seek”
12. Def Leppard – “Hysteria” (...Maybe this guy just put his iTunes on shuffle?)
13. Bob Marley – “One Love”
14. Huey Lewis and the News – “Power of Love”
15. Dimmu Borgir – “Progenies of the Great Apocalypse” (OMG)
16. Elvis Presley – “Return to Sender”
17. Sam Cooke – “Tennessee Waltz”
18. Michael Jackson – “Thriller”

sorry ^MIX FIVE

is that one yrs

lolling at that last one

seriously like what is that

don't write anything just print out this thread and turn it in

13. Bob Marley – “One Love”
14. Huey Lewis and the News – “Power of Love”
15. Dimmu Borgir – “Progenies of the Great Apocalypse” (OMG)

fire^

MIX SIX

1. Gorillaz – “Hillbilly Man”
2. Paramore – “Here We Go Again”
3. Yellowcard – “View From Heaven”
4. The Pierces – “Secret Lyrics”
5. Death Cab for Cutie – “Soul Meets Body”
6. Something Corporate – “Me And The Moon”
7. Dave Melillo – “Knights of the Island Counter”
8. David Allan Coe – “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” (John Prine cover)
9. John Mayer – “Neon”
10. Jack Johnson – “Better Together”
11. Jason Mraz - “Curbside Prophet”
12. Alexandra Burke – “Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen cover)
13. 311 – “You Get Worked”
14. AWFUL EMO “WONDERWALL” COVER
15. Miranda Lambert – “County Road 233”
16. Jack’s Mannequin – “American Love”
17. Alanis Morrissette – some kinda REMIX of “You Oughta Know”!!!
18. Gym Class Heroes – “Under The Bridge” (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover)!!!!!!!
19. Lil Wayne ft. Nicki Minaj and Young Money – “Young Money Salute”
20. Brad Paisley – “I’m Gonna Miss Her” (Seriously a country song about having to dump your girlfriend because you love to fish. What a closer.)

mix five was the most genuinely perplexing one

good lord

first rap song is some random young money thing?

there are other trout in that lake out back

i was excited about this project bc there are a couple metalheads and noize bros in my class and one guy who only listens to north indian classical music and some jazz guys...who the fuck is making these mixes???

xpost first rap song was busta tbh

oh true

yeah i was gonna ask--any metal-ish mixes?

u shoulda slipped in my old bm mix!

i would submit a girl talk album or maybe one of those now thats what i call music comps, an old one

my mix has satanic warmaster, beherit and dark ages xpost

or maybe the new radiohead album

\m/

...x-post

are you supposed to make assumptions about the person based on what they put on their cd? Like is it about self-presentation?

i dont think youre SUPPOSED to make certain assumptions about the person

assumptions will be made and examined imo

oh sorry you didnt say "certain"

i mean, isn't that kinda the function of the mix cd though? to use a collection of songs to "say something" about yourself to the other person, assuming it's a cd you're making for another person. i totally think you should make assumptions about the people.

is the point of the class for one person to romance the whole class

or is it more like speed dating

like i think i'd make up stories about the people and those would be my responses.

one person romancing = mix 3 guy iirc, he is obv trying to!

yes, to sarahel but the mixes are anonymous so its odd
and i dont think we're really supposed to try to figure out what the stuff is (titles, artists) - i just did that. oopz

xpost again: once i figured out mix 3 guy was who he was my idea about the person was totally BLOWN - i totally thought i had the person's number and i was way off. the only mildly interesting thing so far in this project so far was meeting that guy while listening to his CD and having my perception of it completely shift.

like, that's the only thing im certain im going to write about thus far

mix 3 is the best so far

i wld h8 2 have been in this class, honestly i wld just fail this assingment

all told and even though i hate 1/2 of it mix 4 is my favorite so far because it introduced me to something i like tbh (el guincho), i also like amadou so

its also short

last mix for today:

MIX SEVEN

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
2. Some kind of instrumental oompah oompah thing with lots of trumpet and shaker
3. Jimi Hendrix – “Fire”
4. Carpenters – “It’s Going to Take Some Time”
5. Very fast&jazzy skiffle-ish instrumental w/palm-muted ukes.
6. Beck – “Go It Alone”
7. Lauryn Hill – “Everything is Everything”
8. Instrumental: mid-tempo jazzy fiddle number.
9. Some kind of German (?) arena rock band with lots of clapping and hand drums.
10. Michael Buble & Nelly Furtado – “Quando Quando Quando”
11. Some kind of Italian (?) operatic pop. Male singer.
12. “Written in the Stars” from the Broadway musical Aida
13. Elvis Crespo – "Suavemente"
14. Sarah Vaughan – “It’s Magic”
15. Les Escrocs – “Assedic”
16. Very simple piano – maybe a standard but I can’t recognize it.
17. Barbra Streisand – “Where Is It Written” – HELL YEAH
18. Earth, Wind and Fire - “Got To Get You Into My Life” - ABOMINABLE
19. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – “Walk Like A Man”

really like that les escrocs song tbh
have a strong feeling this CD is by the girl in class who is a first year vocal major and chooses to go by the name "Liza"

a couple of these seem like they are struggling to be diverse - mine can/will be accused of that more than any of them though im sure

i mean mine has krayzie bone, beherit and mbuti pygmies lol

sorry classmates at least its short

i like "mad world"

i think where you were saying ppl only really want to know what ppl think of their mixes, and not really to listen closely to other ppl's, wld be my own secret wish. but id feel really guilty about that & also unsure of what 'my mix says about me' & not want to make anything.

i think mix one wld be so much better if it wasnt radiohead.

i think mix 1 is kinda perfect that it is radiohead actually

i like mad world too

xpost i was just about to say, i think it is perfect and esp that it was the FIRST ONE

ayo I had to do a dumb mixtape project like this in high school, except the gist of it was to write a paragraph about how each song related to my life. I filled it with righteous shit like Candlebox, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Default, Barenaked Ladies, P.O.D., System of a Down, and FASTBALL — carefully culled from my collection of ≈ 15 CD's and tapes. I don't pity my teacher though, because she made the class sit through her favorite Indigo Girls and John Mellencamp songs while she reminisced about ex-boyfriends and dying grandparents. ugh.

haha i had to do that as well in high school, w/ the writing about how it was to do with me/my life - we also had to present one song from it w/ a short speech, i thought i was some kind of huge rebel playing some shitty pop punk song iirc

jesus x @ your teacher tho

lol, but with that approach at least there was no hiding the fact that it was all about ME ME ME ME ME toddlers trying to impress each other and construct identities out of Offspring songs. on the other hand your anonymous mixtape swap is just baffling. I mean are you at least allowed to go into the sociology of college kids' musical tastes as long as you don't get too judgmental about any particular classmate/mixtape? if your professor expects a musicological analysis of fucking John Mayer, then I feel bad for you, bro.

oh man i had to do this with a philosophy of musical aesthetics class that i fucking hated and i was such a bastard w/my mix. it was a class that was half music majors and half upper level philo dudes and it was just terrible, it was supposed to be our fun end of semester project and it went on for a week of evening classes, and we did our best to get horrifiyingly drunk before class every night and then just unload horrors on all the classical composition dudes, the last night my friend adam snuck off in the bathroom of the bar and took so many muscle relaxants that we had to go lay him down in the backseat of his car. i wonder if i still have the tracklist somewhere.

hahaha MIX FIVE!!

lol yeah damien rice is a slightly indier jack johnson imo

xpost or care a lot about shitty music imo

LOL yes LB you're right, I was.

MIX FIFTEEN

1. The Dear Hunter – “Red Hands”
2. Pierce the Veil – “Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)”
3. Tides of Man – “Western Scene”
4. Black Lillies – “Two Hearts Down”
5. Guns n Roses – “Sweet Child O Mine”
6. Time of Man – “Dreamhouse”

MIX SIXTEEN

1. Celine Dion – “The Power of Love”
2. Celine Dion – “Because You Loved Me”
3. David Crowder Band - “How He Loves Us”
4. Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors – “Hung the Moon”
5. “Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen cover, female voice.
6. Lady Antebellum – “Perfect Day”
7. NeedToBreathe – “Something Beautiful”
8. NeedToBreathe – “Washed By The Water” (acoustic)
9. NeedToBreathe – “Lay ‘Em Down”
10. “Be Thou My Vision” – Acoustic version with male voice.
11. Ryan Long – “Give My Heart To My Brother”
12. Ryan Long – “Love Immeasurable”
13. Ryan Long – “Dance With Me”

MIX SEVENTEEN

1. “It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” – acapella group – mixed – HIGH female voice.
2. “Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb” – male acapella group
3. Ray Charles - “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”
4. Rufus Wainwright – “Hallelujah” – Leonard cover.
5. R+B cover of Leon Russell’s “A song For You.” Piano accompaniment.
6. Joan Osborne – “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” (Jimmy Ruffin cover)
7. Journey – “Faithfully”
8. Beatles – “Eleanor Rigby”
9. Billy Joel – “Captain Jack”
10. Earth, Wind and Fire – “Serpentine”
11. Something with modern, minimal production, very clean, voice is male – Spanish lyrics.
12. A pop track with male vocals – again Spanish lyrics. More modern rock than the last.
13. Another version of previous song. More mid-tempo.
14. Coldplay – “Lovers in Japan”
15. Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton – “Big Yellow Taxi”
16. Damien Rice – “9 Crimes”
17. Radiohead – “15 Step”
18. Jonny Lang – “Bump in the Road”

MIX EIGHTEEN

1. Eisley – “A Sight to Behold”
2. Florence and the Machine – “Cosmic Love”
3. Fleetwood Mac – “The Chain”
4. God Help The Girl – “Come Monday Night”
5. Rasputina – “Gingerbread Coffin”
6. Thursday – “For The Workforce, Drowning”
7. Instrumental emo/post-rock odyssey.
8. Against Me! – “Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart”
9. Tegan and Sarah – “Call It Off”
10. It’s Sigur Ros, but I can’t figure out which song
11. Eric Whitacre – “Sleep” - Acapella mixed choir – I think this might be the “virtual choir” assembled via internet from people all over the world
12. Skip James – “I’d Rather Be The Devil”
13. Seryn – “We Will All Be Changed”
14. Sigur Ros – “Staralfur”
15. Jaydiohead – “Air Roc"

ppl lovin "Hallelujah"

These are so fucking bad.

That Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton cover reminds me of being somewhere I don't want to be.

Like the dressing room of a Marshall's in Ocala, Florida or something

MIX NINETEEN

1. Ani DiFranco – “Rush Hour”
2. Avett Brothers – “When I Drink”
3. Belly – “Judas My Heart”
4. Blue Oyster Cult - “Don’t Fear The Reaper”
5. Bruce Springsteen – “The River”
6. Timbaland ft. Chris Cornell – “Scream”
7. Cutthroat Shamrock – “S.S. Sorrow”
8. Dave Matthews Band – “Gravedigger” (Live)
9. Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again”
10. Fuel – “Hemmorhage”
11. Indigo Girls – “Closer to Fine”
12. Iron and Wine – “Naked As We Came”
13. Kenny Wayne Shepherd – “Blue on Black”
14. Kings of Leon – “Be Somebody”
15. Pearl Jam – “Just Breathe”
16. Lifehouse – “Through These Times”
17. 10,000 Maniacs – “Noah’s Dove”

MIX TWENTY

Mix is one 9 minute track of compiled song snippets in a cut-up style.

“Because you are a woman” - Ave Maria – “This woman’s work” – a piece of a song about being sung lullabies, mothering – a piece of a song about sacrificing and giving up yourself for love – pieces of Tori Amos’s “Silent All These Years” – “What gave you the right to tell me who I should be” – “realize I can be all these things you project on me because I’m beautiful to me” – “When she dances she goes and goes” – “I want my money back!!!” – “Cause I’m a woman, phenomenally” – “I’m not the average girl from your video…because I am a queen” – skipping on “something’s gotta change” from previous song and “sing a haunting refrain” from another song – “Cause I’m a woman, phenomenally…phenomenal woman, that’s you…and you…and me.” – “This woman’s work” over and over – Ave Maria – “Will the circle be unbroken” by a group of women’s voices and someone yelling “Quiet!”, then the song finishes out the mix.

lolling

crying

I wonder if that person was a woman...

I wonder if that person was a god...

MIX TWENTY ONE

1. Might as well be Dream Theater or Yngwie or something. Something with really tasteless and boring shredding.
2. Crappy mall metal.
3. Aesop Rock – “Alchemy”
4. Del the Funky Homosapien – “Video Tapez”
5. Kings of Leon – “Ragoo”
6. Nas ft. Damien Marley – “As We Enter”
7. Outkast – “B.O.B.”
8. Sounds like Whitechapel.
9. Tung Twista – “Ratatatat”
10. Purple Ribbon All-Stars ft. Big Boi - “Kryptonite” LOL
11. Notorious B.I.G. – “Party and Bullshit”
12. Wu Tang Clan – “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”
13. ODB – “Brooklyn Zoo”
14. Nas – “Rewind”
15. Mastisyahu – “King Without a Crown”
16. more mall metal

That mix could have been fun as hell. And yet

:/

i have to listen to 11 more today.

That Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton cover reminds me of being somewhere I don't want to be.

― corey, Monday, May 2, 2011 7:20 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

named whiney's worst song of the 00's!!!

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2009/12/the_50_worst_so_43.php

Ha, that article was great.

ive now lsitened to all of these and written 6000 words on them

this was a horrible day

have a strong feeling this CD is by the girl in class who is a first year vocal major and chooses to go by the name "Liza"

I was wrong btw

She made the famous MIX FIVE

MIX TWENTY TWO

1. Coldplay – “Shiver”
2. Ingrid Michaelson – “The Chain”
3. Iron and Wine – “Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car”
4. Jane’s Addction – “Jane Says”
5. Animal Collective – “In The Flowers”
6. Arcade Fire – “My Body is a Cage”
7. Avett Brothers – “I and Love and You”
8. Big Country – “Big Country”
9. Bon Iver – “Skinny Love”
10. Brandon Heath – “Give Me Your Eyes”
11. Cartel – “Let’s Go”
12. Death Cab For Cutie – “Brothers On A Hotel Bed”
13. Too mumbly to discern actual lyrics. Mumbling and strings.
14. Imogen Heap – “Speeding Cars”
15. Incubus – “Just A Phase”
16. Mumford and Sons – “Awake My Soul”
17. NeedToBreathe – “Something Beautiful” – Why must I be familiar with this song?
18. Paper Route – “Dance on Our Graves”

MIX TWENTY THREE

1. Blind Melon – “The Pusher”
2. Funkadelic – “One Nation Under A Groove”
3. Curtis Mayfield – “Billy Jack”
4. Galactic – “Paint”
5. Instrumental flamenco-ish, sometimes bossa nova-ish fingerstyle guitar track with shakers and flute.
6. Instrumental, skiffle-ish track with guitar and violin.
7. Very clean studio instrumental with country guitar and fiddle, very slow-moving.
8. Instrumental piano, modern composition, not sure what it is.
9. Sitar and tablas – instrumental and intense.

MIX TWENTY FOUR

1. Weezer – “My Best Friend”
2. Queen – “You’re My Best Friend”
3. Rembrandts- “I’ll Be There For You”
4. “With A Little Help From My Friends”
5. U2 – “With or Without You”
6. Cake – “Friend is a 4 Letter Word”
7. Taylor Swift – “I’d Lie”
8. Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat – “Lucky”
9. Incubus – “Dig”
10. Mumford and Sons – “White Blank Page”
11. Avril Lavigne – “Complicated”
12. Natasha Bedingfield – “Wild Horses”
13. Colbie Caillat – “I Never Told You”
14. The Calling – “I’ll Go Wherever You May Go”
15. Sarah McLachlan – “I Will Remember You”
16. Dandy Warhols – “We Used To Be Friends”

MIX TWENTY FIVE

1. Southern Culture on the Skids – “Too Much Pork”
2. Cranberries – “Salvation”
3. Beck – “New Pollution”
4. Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”
5. Beatles – “Mean Mr. Mustard”
6. Junius – “A Word Could Kill Her"
7. The Black Keys – “Psychotic Girl”
8. Devandra Banhart – “Now That I Know”
9. El-P – “How to Serve Man”
10. MeWithoutYou – “January 1979”
11. The Cure – “Just Like heaven”
12. Interpol – “Obstacle 1”
13. Cat Power – “Metal Heart”
14. Broken Social Scene – “7/4 Shoreline”
15. Instrumental, quiet-quiet-loud, post-rock/ post-punk.
16. Old rock and roll, “Drinking All My Troubles Away.” Don’t know who.
17. Johnny Cash – “Big River”
18. Smashing Pumpkins – “1979”

MIX TWENTY SIX

1. Mum – “Green Grass of Tunnel”
2. La Bionda – “Wanna Be Your Lover”
3. track with female harmonies and angular, sparse guitars. Keeps saying “no more fiction.” Synthesized sax at the end.
4. School of Seven Bells – “Half Asleep”
5. Kleerup ft. Lykke Li – “Until We Bleed”
6. Fever Ray – “If I Had A Heart”
7. Glass Candy – “Digital Versicolor”
8. Bowie/Iggy Pop – ‘Nightclubbing”

cool mix tbh

MIX TWENTY SEVEN

1. Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
2. “Lithium” (Nirvana cover) – female voice and piano. Weird cover.
3. Classic rock-sounding instrumental with drum solo.
4. Very fast jazz number – trio. Bass, drums and piano.
5. The Bird and the Bee – “Preparedness”
6. Instrumental jazz with saxophone, guitar and soft drums.
7. Classical piano, sounds Bach-ish and familiar, lots of flourishes.
8. Ministry – “Jesus Built My Hotrod”
9. An English version of “Waters of March” with a female voice.
10. Elis Regina and Carlos Jobim – “Waters of March”
11. Instrumental electric funk.
12. Coldplay – “Fix You”
13. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing”
14. Rick Astley – “Never Gonna Give You Up”
15. Rage Against the Machine – “Testify”
16. Jazzy instrumental with drums bass and sax.
17. Bessie Smith – “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”
18. Blossom Dearie – “Corcovado”

MIX TWENTY EIGHT

1. Electronic instrumental, sounds like Fourtet.
2. Instrumental with phasing 8-bit noises and synthesized bird sounds.
3. It’s Godspeed You Black Emperor, but I don’t know what track.
4. Modern disco, really detached and minimalist.
5. Sounds like a Norah Jones song with no vocals. High pitched guitar accents, pinch harmonics.
6. Matisyahu – “King Without a Crown”
7. Instrumental with TONS of Hammond B-3 and phase-y guitar.
8. “Mystery Train” cover – not sure who? Sounds new.
9. Michael Jackson – “Rock With You”
10. Gorillaz – “Dirty Harry”
11. Steve Miller Band – “Jungle Love”
12. Van Morrison – “The Way Young Lovers Do”
13. Modest Mouse – “All Nite Diner”
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Suck My Kiss”
15. White Zombie – “Thunder Kiss ‘69”
16. 311 – “Speak Easy”
17. Muse – “Space Dementia”

My teacher's cd had Ice Cube on it. I didn't write down all the tracks.

Mix 26 seems fun but if it was me I'd have used the Grace Jones version of Nightclubbing

track 3 on that one sounds like Essential Logic?

24 is kinda wtf

24 is horrible, just a thematic cd "about being friends"

MIX THIRTEEN

1. 30 seconds of guitar noise and human wailing
2. Proscriptor
3. 19 second Napalm Death song, not sure which one
4. Bleeeeak black metal, no vocals real drums, it's badass
5. G.G. Allin – “My Revenge”
6. Khanate – “Torching Khoroviev”
7. CANINUS – “Human Rawhide” – excerpt from the track. Grind w/ dog on vocals, if you haven't heard of this!
8. Ludicra?
9. a midi with goregrind vox – horrible and I don’t recognize it
10. SO.D. – “The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix” – controversial!
11. Annoying as fuck electro-grind with hiiiiigh pitched shrieking
12. Sounds like the Locust
13. Vreid – “Black Diamonds”
14. Swans - "Freak"
15. Agoraphobic Nosebleed??

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 5:21 PM bookmarkflaglink

I'm bumping this thread because I remembered it and this whole stupid class and experience while thinking about Ethan, who made this mix. Taking this class together put us on each other's radar. Later, his band started playing shows at my house, and "tall grindcore guy" turned into "Ethan." He moved to DC a few years ago——we'd always run into him at Deathfest, and crash with him when we played in town or went to a show up there. I found out a few days ago that he was very sick with an aggressive brain tumor; before anyone could process even that news, he died. He was honestly SO like this mix: hilarious and surprising. A relentlessly uplifting and interesting person to be around. So missed.