solipsistic NATION No. 2: End of Summer

Ah, summer comes to an end.

I’ve been living in San Diego for the last five years and to be honest, it’s always been summer to me. Natives and long time residents of San Diego can tell the differences between seasons but I’m only vaguely aware of them. As a consequence, all the months and years I’ve live in San Diego have blurred together. There’s only an endless “now.”

While today’s show is a celebration of the passing of the summer it’s more of a salute to my summers in Boston, where the days are hot, humid and lazy and the nights are sultry. I wouldn’t trade the weather in San Diego for anything but I do on occasion miss those New England days where the heat would bake into your bones.

Another thing I do miss about living in Boston are my seasonal libations. In the fall and winter my drinks were whiskey and scotch and in the spring and summer my drinks were gin & tonic and rum & coke. As I said, it always feels like it is summer in San Diego so I have to go out of my way to drink my whiskey or scotch.

That said, I raise a gin & tonic in honor of the summer of ’06!

Photo credit: sk8master

Steelzawheelz “Discotron”

Effecctive “Tulsa Riots Pt. 3”

Vinroc “Wine Country”

Sure Shot “Sleepy Strings”

Shad “Last Cigarette”

Madrid De Los Austrias “Buscando (Karuan vs. Circus Remix)”

Mark de Clive-Lowe “State of the Mental”

Wintermute “Chillstorm”

Autolect & His Meltdown Movement “Open Road”

Urbs “So Weit”

Cj_Harder “Mothra”

Cling “Slipping Away (Of The Darkness Remix)”

Chimp Beams “Menina”

Bombay Dub Orchestra “Mumtaz”