Untitled mix #3 from deepseadiving on 8tracks.

Another mix! Enjoy, divers.

 Nick Waterhouse

I remember sitting on the floor of my school gym in 2003 for the Battle of the Bands after this guy played the last set as singer and guitarist for the Intelligista. I remember thinking to myself, "this is the best show I've ever seen." And to be honest, in a nostalgic way it's still up there with the best. The show was complete with a keyboardist shaking a tambourine while riding around on the guitarist's shoulders. The drummer ended the set standing atop dismantled drums, hugging one arm around a snare, beating out a slowed tempo. It was raw, youthful energy and pure showmanship that might only be available to those bands whose careers still exist mostly in excited, half-formed dreams. There was a sense of community in that gym, waves of coolness by association sweeping over the place. There couldn't have been much deliberation about the winners.

Cut to 9 years and several incarnations of bands later, and Nick Waterhouse is still playing music. And something (specifically, this track) tells me that his music and shows have only gotten better.  Nick is a fine wine. Go see his show May 4th at the Newport Nautical Museum.

P.S. If anyone from that band ever googles themselves and finds this, it's been 9 years, and I'm still waiting for that Intelligista record I bought from some shady website.

Happy February, people! Get some sleep and treat yourselves right.

New Mix

I haven't been updating lately, because I am crazy busy going to school and preparing for student teaching. But here is something I made for when I need quiet things. Maybe you will enjoy it, too. Hope you are well! Art by James Abbot McNeill Whistler

Symphony in Grey: Early Morning from deepseadiving on 8tracks.

A Deep Sea Diving Christmas Mix

I found out how to use 8 tracks, so maybe I will be featuring more playlists up here. Thanks to Matt for The Ventures and Irene tunes!

happy songs

Lake- Roger Miller
This song is my favorite off of the album that came out earlier this year, Giving and Receiving. How can any English major resist that first verse. And I'm not even a Hemingway fan. ( ;__; Sorry, gods of the American literary canon).

Here is a beautiful description of the lyrics by Ashley Eriksson of Lake:
The experience of art can be so overpowering. I’m the kind of person that starts crying during the trailers before a movie even starts. Once I went to an art museum and cried uncontrollably while staring at a field painting by Morris Louis. Another feeling that people have when they experience art is that the artist has somehow channeled the listener/viewer or that they are talking about the listener/viewer, personally. Rather than feeling “This is like me” they actually think “This is me.”



Acid House Kings- I Just called to Say (Something in Swedish*)
Dare you to feel sad while listening to this. I dare you.

*for those curious and not linguistically inclined, he is calling to say he loves you. yay, google translate!