“Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but the mitigate the remembrance of death.”

-Francis Bacon (via)

School of Language “Marine Life” from Retread Sessions on Vimeo.

Apple is busy updating the Store for me … you know what that means, right?

I will finally purchase an iPhone. I’m stoked to see what the data transfer specs are on Version 2. Incidentally, Wired had some hilarious fan projections (and jokes) about what to expect with the second generation: Gallery: From Mind-Blowing to Mockery — The iPhone 2 Mocked Up.

Also, read more about Jobs’ talk at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference here, and why other cell phone producers aren’t worried.

This mix represents the last few months of my life fairly well, there’s a little bit of everything: gloomy, happy, loving, excited and full-on rockin’. There’s a nice mix of new and old, too. I hope that you enjoy it — it’s a lot less esoteric than the last handful of mixes I’ve made, and there are individual tracks this time too (though it’s better listened to in iTunes or on your iPod than in Winamp).

Mixtape (zip): Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me

01 Baltic Fleet “Baltic Intro”
02 The Mae Shi “The Potential”
03 Castor “Moving Backgrounds”
04 Squeeze “Another Nail in My Heart”
05 Adem “Loro”
06 John Phillips “Drum”
07 Goldmund “To”
08 Ruby Suns “Oh, Mojave”
09 Mount Eerie “Appetite”
10 T. Rex “Monolith”
11 Sun “Mosquito”
12 Tindersticks “Yesterday’s Tomorrows”
13 Fleet Foxes “Mykonos”
14 Roxy Music “2HB”
15 Lambchop “Being Tyler”
16 Nick Lowe “What’s Shakin’ on the Hill”
17 David Grubbs “Show Me Who to Love”
18 John Cale “You Know Me More Than I Know”
19 Pretty Things “Grass”
20 The Kinks “Strangers”