Everything here evokes something of the other, a string instrument, the timbre of a beat. This list will carry your night into another world, close to this one but comfortably far away.
Music
Playlist: The Morning After
If your special dinner guest stayed a bit longer than anticipated, you're now dealing with a different kind of entertaining. This is the type you do in sweatpants and glasses, unshowered, and definitely unkempt. Let's assume you had a great night with this extended guest, and now you want to send him home with a little extra love. Here's the jam for his toast.
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Playlist: Practice Date
We're probably not going to agree on what kind of music best accompanies a date: should it be tender? Hot? Sweet? Aggressive? Why not try a little bit of everything? My list is a funky collection of dirrrrrrty grooves and loving tunes. Ready to start your night? Just press play.
Playlist: PDX Sounds
A fun collection of beards, beats, bass, and pop. Open the wine and laugh at the table together. Good times ahead.
Playlist: An Italian Winter
With an unforgiving Winter this year it seems only appropriate to pepper this list with songs of longing (for another human, another season). I opened the evening with the theme song from Under the Tuscan Sun because I'm masochistic (but seriously, we all love that movie, right?).
Playlist: Dinnergeddon 4
Hyde requested a western-themed meal, so I'm presenting some western-themed sounds. I'll leave it "western-themed" because this isn't all music of the cowboys. It's a little bit old and a little bit new.
Playlist: Dinnergeddon 7.0
This list started off with some South American flavors and then I fell into a black hole listening to the outrageous Rhythms Del Mundo discography. These musicians prove the value of a cover. Pairing with some of your current favorite artists (Bruno Mars, R.E.M.), they replay old favorites with a devastatingly new spin.
And, of course, I had to finish the list with Shakira. Hips don't lie folks.