Friday Mixtape! Music to start the weekend with.
Its currently winter here in Perth, Western Australia. Its cold, wet and windy. Miserable day to some, wonderful day to others. Its als time of the year where its simply fun to just lay in bed and snuggle up in a doona and watch cheesy movies from the 80s whilst jamming your face full of cheezles and jelly babies. However this activity has a slight tendency of increasing the size of one’s ass so I’m suggesting an alternative.
Most people have a soundtrack to their lives, the following is just the foundation to my Friday night and I hope it helps yours out as well.
Tracks 1 & 2 – Orbital & Zero 7
These tunes for the ride home from work. Nice slow, chillout songs meant to help the brain unwind and recompile after a long week of being abused a the workplace. Make sure you’re incredibly generous to the bass on your stereo to ensure that every single gunk of grey matter in your head is vibrated to absolute harmonious bliss.
Tracks 3, 4 & 5 Phoenix, KT Tunstall & CJ Bolland
These songs are dedicated to your arrival at home. Strip off, dump your work gear on your and have a long steamy shower till the hot water runs out. Make sure you don’t have instantaneous hot water otherwise you’ll be there for quite some time. Once done, get dressed and pour yourself a nice two fingers of scotch (or whatever your favourite un-winder is). Consume and repeat. Head to the study, grab your phone/IM/facebook and find yourself 3 friends to start the weekend with. You will need to ensure that one poor sucker is to act act as skipper for the night (as uncle grum does not condone drinking and driving). If need be, bribe him/her by getting everyone to buy him/her dinner for the night.
Tracks 6 & 7 – The Dandy Warhols & Bryan Adams
Time for dinner! Once everyone has arrived, jump in the car and crank the stereo loud to drown out the out-of-pitch shrieking you will be making as the car will suddenly be transformed into a cheesy Karaoke lounge. Make sure you mock anyone in the car who don’t know the lyrics or are unwilling to join in. Head to the local eatery and make sure you get some decent grub into you. Plenty of carbs – none of this salad shit. Your destination should be somewhere familiar but not too crowded like a favourite local pub or out-of-the-way cafe perhaps. The mission now is to ensure that your social group syncs to the same mental level to guarantee a good night. This can be achieved by reminiscing about “the good old days”, talking codshit about sexual encounters that never happened and ensuring a minimum of two pints of beer is consumed per person.
Tracks 8 & 9 – Ram Jam & The Killers
Time to head out to party. By now you should be relaxed, slightly giddy and eager to get out on the dance floor. Jump back in the car and get ready to trip the light fantastic. Re-initialise the car Karaoke and make a beeline to your favourite dancing establishment. Tonight isn’t about picking up – its about having fun with your mates and making new friends along the way. Just be wary about where you go tonight. Match a glass of water with every drink consumed and avoid any social retards like the plague. Don’t stay at the same location for for too long and don’t lose anyone.
Tracks 10 & 11 – Boston & Lynyrd Skynyrd
The night is now over and its time to head home. You’re tired and fragile but you’re still feeling that warm afterglow of having a great night out with your buddies. The night was good, great even and I hope you haven’t gotten into too much trouble. Make sure you text/eMail a quick thank you to any new friends you may have met and then crawl into bed to dream about fluffy poached eggs sitting on some crispy bacon perched on a lightly buttered english muffin and drowned by Hollandaise sauce cos’ thats what you’re gonna treat yourself to in a few hours after you wake up.
Do you have any songs that you start the weekend with? Hit up the comments below!