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response to GOOD magazine and Eric Steuer's post Project 005

The Great American Mixtape/ F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

1. This Charming Man- The Smiths (Gatsby’s Theme)

“[Gatsby] understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that [he] had precisely the impression that, at your best, you had hoped to convey”

2. After Hours- The Velvet Underground
(The Gatsby Parties)

“A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation, the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.”

3. So Rich, So Pretty- Mickey Avalon
(Daisy’s Theme Song)

"I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!"

4. Cinders and Smoke- Iron & Wine

“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…"

5. Speakeasy- Colin James
(Gatsby's fortune)

“Her voice is full of money"

6. Daisy- Switchfoot

"Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"

7. For You- Bruce Springsteen

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion”

8. Street Hassle- Lou Reed
(The Car Wreck and the Death of Myrtle)

“"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"

9. Before You Cry- Camera Obscura

“[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever."

10. Girl- The Beatles

“He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of his vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight, watching over nothing.”

11. O Green World- Gorillaz

"Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock....his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him."

12. Owl Eyes- Devendera Barnhardt
(The Death of Gatsby)

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

13. Keeping the Dream Alive- Freheit
(The End)

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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Commented on June 28, 2007 by - arkatiea