If you were at the "How I Learned To Make a Mixtape" show tonight, thanks for coming! If you won a "Music From The How I Learned Series" CD, well, I really hope it works. I run a very professional show. Track listing is below. Fuck it, anyone can just replicate this on Spotify. Who makes mix CDs anymore anyways? But we had fun, didn't we?
1. White Mice - Mo-Dettes
2. I Get Lifted - George McCrae
3. Do It Clean - Echo and The Bunnymen
4. Transmission - Hot Chip
5. Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
6. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
7. Monkey Man - Rolling Stones
8. Uptown Ranking - Althea and Donna
9. Dog Eat Dog - Adam and The Ants
10. Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
11. Disparate Youth - Santigold
12. Science Friction - XTC
13. Little Bitch - The Specials
14. Age of Consent - New Order
15. Jeepster - T. Rex
16. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
17. Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and The Banshees
18. Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
19. Happy Ending - The Strokes
20. Float On - Modest Mouse
21. Kiss Me, I'm Drunk - Valley Lodge
Since 2009, How I Learned has featured some of the best live storytelling, comedy, and readings in New York City. It all happens a couple of times a year, and sometimes more than that, which basically means you'll have the best night of you life on those nights, repeatedly.
YOUR HOST:
Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a Brooklyn-based writer and the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned, which has been a thing for a super long time. She has performed at The Moth, RISK!, Mortified, Literary Death Match, and many other shows. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Midnight Breakfast, VICE, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, two anthologies, and in several other places a long time ago that don't even exist anymore, and are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. She also teaches creative nonfiction to other so-called grownups. Learn how to pronounce all three of her names at blaiseallysenkearsley.com.