• The Soggy Bottom Boys sing "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" for the first time in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (runner up: when the siren washerwomen sing "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby")
• Scarlett Johansen walks around Kyoto alone while, appropriately enough, "Alone in Kyoto" by Air plays
• Abigail Breslin dances to Rick James's "Superfreak" at the end of "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Mitzi, Bernadette, and Felicia perform "I will Survive" in the Australian outback in crazy bellbottom drag while accompanied by didgeridoos in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"
• The slow motion montage at the end of Donnie Darko to "Mad World"
• The "I Love Candy" montage from Sofie Copalla's "Marie Antionette".
• Shoshanna puts on her makeup to David Bow...

• The history of the city of New Orleans
  • Marie Laveau
  • The Ursuline nuns
  • History of the French Quarter
  • Voodoo and it's connection to New Orleans
  • The pirate Jean Lafitte
• How to cook the cuisine of New Orleans
  • gumbo
  • beignets
  • pralines
  • red beans and rice
  • bread pudding
• Foraging for food in the wild
  • edible wild plants
  • how to tell edible from poisonous mushrooms
  • hunting tips for someone who knows nothin...

• The New Pornographers - Moves
• Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass
• Air and Rhymefest - Alpha Beta Gaga (Mark Ronson vocal Mix)
• The B-52's - Rock Lobster
• Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man
• Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
• Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
• Three Dog Night - Shambala and Joy to the World
• Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
• The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
• Steve Miller Band - The Joker
• Queen - Bicycle Race
• Presidents of the United States - Peaches
• New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
• David Bowie - Fame
• David Bowie - Starman
• Feist - I Feel It All
• Gang of Four - Natural's Not in It

You can listen to a shorter version of this mix on 8tracks here.

• The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
• Laura Veirs - Fire Snakes
• Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes (Layo & Bushwacka Mix)
• Jimi Hendrix - Fire
• Portishead - It's a Fire
• They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)
• Tori Amos - Muhammad My Friend
• Sarah Vaughan - Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket
• Poe - Center of the Sun
• The Venus in Furs - Baby's on Fire (Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack)
• Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
• The Dandy Warhols - Burned

You can listen to the shorter version of this mix on 8tracks here.

• Astrud Gilberto - The Gentle Rain (RJD2 remix)
• Morcheeba - The Sea
• Radiohead - In Limbo
• Cat Power - Moonshiner
• Tori Amos - Liquid Diamonds
• The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
• Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
• Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (Postal Service remix)
• Massive Attack - Teardrop
• Air - Mer Du Japon
• Belle and Sebastian - Ease Your Feet in the Sea
• Joanna Newsom - Swansea
• Thome Yorke - And it Rained All Night
• Rasputina - Sweet Water Kill (The Ocean Song)
• The Beta Band - Dry the Rain

• peanut butter cups
• red licorice
• violet pastilles
• Godiva dark chocolates
• candy canes
• sour straws
• rock candy
• tootsie pops
• kit kats
• any form of chocolate mints
• Trader Joe's Jelly Beans
• Haribo Gummi Bears
• Perugina Baci hazelnut chocolates
• Hershey's Kisses
• Cadbury Mini Eggs and Cream Eggs
• rum cordials
• Bubble Yum (do they still even make it?)

• baking bread
• outdoors after a rainstorm
• fresh basil leaves
• earl grey tea
• walking into (or even just past) a Lush shop
• pine needles
• gingerbread
• candy canes and starlight mints
• dried lavender
• tomato plant leaves
• hyacinths
• melted chocolate
• my grandmother's cologne
• masala tea
• Cathedral incense
• ripe mangoes
• clean clothes
• apples and cinnamon (in any form)
• garden dirt, the scent of the earth
• pineapple and coconut

• The Sugarcubes - Delicious Demon
• The Vaselines - Jesus Don't Want me for a Sunbeam
• Tori Amos - Sweet Dreams
• Spoon - Don't you Evah
• Belle and Sebastian - You're Just a Baby
• The Velvet Underground - Beginning to See the Light
• The Beatles - Rain
• The Roots - The Seed (2.0)
• Radiohead - 15 Steps
• The Decemberists - The Days of Elaine
• Liz Phair - 6'1"
• David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
• Beck - Devil's Haircut
• The Rolling Stones - Happy
• Blind Melon - No Rain
• Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
• Gorillaz - Re-Hash
• Led Zeppelin - Out on the Tiles
• The Shins - Turn a Square

• Velvet Goldmine
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Dark City
• Labyrinth
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Fight Club
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Charade
• How to Steal a Million
• THX-1138
• Blade Runner
• Wall-E
• Up
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Run Lola Run
• Amelie
• Lost in Translation

• Mint
• Fennel
• Ginger
• Licorice Root
• Hibiscus
• Lavender
• Cloves
• Orange Peel
• Cinnamon
• Honey
• Rooibos
• Cardamom
• Vanilla

Flavors I have made in the past:

• Earl Grey Tea (a favorite)
• Orange spice (clove and cinnamon)
• Lemon
• Grapefruit
• Cherry
• Mixed berry
• Lime mint (mojito!)
• Lavender mint

Flavors I would like to try making:

• Vanilla Bean
• Blueberry
• Strawberry
• Blackberry
• Coffee bean (though that is getting close to Kahlua)
• Anise (licorice flavored...though I'm not sure what to mix that with)
• Sweet Tea (I just had this idea today when sniffing some sweet tea scented perfume...

Estrogen suggested that I created another Elemental playlist for Aether (also spelled ether), known as the fifth element. The idea was so interesting that I had to take her up on it. Because in some spiritual traditions, the fifth element - as represented by the fifth point of the pentagram in neopagan practices - is considered to be "spirit" or the collective unconscious, I will be including aspects of both in this mix.

I have posted the majority of the tracks...

• Delirium - Serenity
• Blonde Redhead - Elephant Woman
• The Beatles - Within You and Without You
• XX - Infinity
• Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin
• Muse - Starlight
• M83 - You Appearing
• Patti Smith - Gloria
• Rasputina - Wish You Were Here
• Raised by Swans - Violetlight

You can listen to a shorter version of the mix on 8tracks here.

• Bjork - Hyperballad
• The Raveonettes - Somewhere in Texas
• David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
• Patti Smith - Land
• Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
• The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
• The Kinks - Big Sky
• Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
• Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
• Mazzy Star - Into Dust
• Credence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou
• Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground
• Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
• U2 ft. Johnny Cash - The Wanderer
• Cut Chemist - The Garden
• Laura Veirs - Spelunking

• David Bowie - Let Me Sleep Beside You - Awesome old school Bowie video made when he was 19. Amazing combination of goofy and sexy. And tight pants!
• Patti Smith - Horses - Fantastic live performance from the 70's
• Tori Amos - Spark
• Bjork - Bachelorette
• Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
• David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
• Nine Inch Nails - Closer
• Blind Melon - No Rain
• Radiohead - Just
• Bat For Lashes - What's a Girl to Do
• Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
• The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
• Laura Veirs - Galaxies
• Sara Bareilles - Fairytale
• OK Go - White Knuckles
• Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass Rube Goldberg Machine version and Marching Band Version
• Janelle Monae - Tightrope

• A crisp chill to the air
• An abundance of fresh apples
• The kaleidoscope of changing leaves
• dry, crunchy leaves underfoot
• The light smell of woodsmoke in the air
• The smell of clear autumn nights
• The sound of migrating birds overhead
• Harvest festivals
• Apple cider
• Pastries made from pumpkins and apples
• Wearing warm sweaters and tights
• Wearing lovely new jackets and gloves
• The start of new seasons of Glee and Fringe
• The much-rumored (and confirmed to be happening) "Rocky Horror Picture Show" episode of Glee
• Going to a corn maze and getting hopelessly lost
• Coming up with a clever Halloween costume

• raindrops on the roof while half asleep
• train whistles in the distance on cold winter nights
• the flame of a struck match roaring to life
• dry leaves crunching underfoot
• wind chimes
• seagulls in the distance
• early morning birdsong
• waterfalls
• fountains
• river rapids
• ocean waves
• campfires and fireplaces
• cats purring
• snow falling at night when it is still and quiet out
• echoing voices inside cathedrals and museums
• biting into an apple
• distant church bells

• Feist - My Moon My Man
• Thom Yorke - Analyze
• Cat Power - Nude as the News
• David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
• The Kills - U.R.A. Fever
• Morphine - Buena
• Fiona Apple - The Way Things Are
• M83 - Skin of the Night
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - Greenwich Mean Time
• Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
• Gotan Project - Epoca
• The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
• The Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
• The Raveonettes - Somewhere in Texas
• The Doors - LA Woman
• Bonobo - Noctuary
• Radiohead - You and Whose Army?
• M83 - We Own the Sky
• Greg Laswell - Your Ghost
• Goldfrapp - Voicething

• Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
• Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
• This is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood
• The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
• Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
• Wild Nights - Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
• This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

• AC/DC - Back in Black
• Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
• Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
• Courtney Barnett - An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)
• Joy Division - Transmission
• Modest Mouse - Dark Center of the Universe
• David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
• Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
• Dressy Bessy - This May Hurt a Little
• Nirvana - All Apologies
• Black Sabbath - Iron Man
• Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
• The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
• Blind Melon - No Rain
• Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
• Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
• The Who - Pinball Wizard
• The Kills - Superstition
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich

• Portishead - Mysterions
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
• Elbow - I've Got Your Number
• Beck - Paper Tiger
• Led Zeppelin - Ramble on
• Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl
• Cat Power - The Coat is Always On
• Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons
• David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
• Air - Once Upon a Time
• Belle and Sebastian - The State I am in
• Gravenhurst - See My Friends
• Interpol - Hands Away
• Nick Drake - Cello Song
• Noveller - Almost Alright
• The Radio Department - Pulling Our Weight
• Radiohead - I Might be Wrong
• Tori Amos - Take to the Sky
• The Venus in Furs (From the Film "Velvet Goldmine") - Baby's on Fire

• the first warm day after a long winter
• walking through a carnival midway at night
• savoring a bite of really good chocolate
• food order arriving at at restaurant
• cooking something from scratch then eating it
• new Netflix envelope arriving in the mail
• finding a moment of calm in a busy place
• seeing a famous work of art in person at a museum for the first time
• an impromptu gathering of friends
• sitting down to watch a new episode of a favorite tv show
• a cup of tea and a place to sit by a window
• seeing trays of pastries in the window of a bakery
• the perfect cupcake
• when just the right song comes on at just...

• Shangri-L.A.
• Villa Villekula
• Pemberley
• Hogwarts
• Narnia
• Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs
• Wonderland
• Discworld
  • Ankh-Morpork
• Thursday Next's universe
  • BookWorld
  • The Well of Lost Plots
• The Marchs' House

• old apothecary bottles
• sea glass
• polished stones
• dried flowers
• pictures of angels
• books about fairies
• candles
• perfume bottles
• paper dolls
• porcelain dolls
• BPAL oils
• sunflowers
• postcards
• zines
• OPI nail polish
• Books by Louisa May Alcott and Francesca Lia Block
• cardigan sweaters
• knee socks
• blank books
• old how-to books

• Alice Paul
• Dan Savage
• Amy Sedaris
• David Sedaris
• Ira Glass
• Sarah Vowell
• Madam C.J. Walker
• Terry Pratchett
• Francesca Lia Block
• Nina Simone
• Patti Smith
• The writers and publishers of Bitch and Bust magazines
• Diablo Cody
• Jon Stewart
• Tina Fey
• Amy Pohler
• Bea Arthur
• Betty White
• Janelle Monae
• Zoe Keatig

From a project I did some time ago of making song mixes for the four elements (air, fire, water, earth). You can listen to some of the tracks on the the 8tracks version of the mix here.

• Bjork - All is Full of Love
• Lamb - Angelica
• Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
• Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby
• Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver
• Elbow - Flying Dream
• Thievery Corporation - Holographic Universe
• Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
• Goldfrapp - Fly me Away
• Air - Once Upon a Time
• Tori Amos - Caught a Light Sneeze
• Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
• The Beatles - Flying
• Fiona Apple - Waltz (Better than Fine)
• Led Zeppelin - That's the Way

• Birch tree forests
• Meadows in the early morning
• Waterfalls
• Shenandoah National Park in Autumn
• The rocky coast of Maine
• The green coast of Oregon
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Cloisters
• Cupcake Bakeries
• Tea shops
• The Jefferson Memorial at Midnight
• Portland OR (The Japanese Garden, Powell's Books, Rimsky Korsekoffehouse, the city is filled with magic!)
• Stonehenge
• The Hermitage in St. Petersburg
• Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona
• Central Park (Alice in Wonderland Statue, Strawberry Fields, the castle)
• The top of the Empire State Building

• David Bowie
• Amanda Palmer
• John Lennon
• Nina Simone
• Robert Plant
• Thom Yorke
• Cat Power (Chan Marshall)
• Patti Smith
• Lou Reed
• Nico
• Jim Morrison
• Laura Veirs
• Allison Goldfrapp
• Colin Meloy
• Kazu Makino and Amedeo Pace (Blonde Redhead)
• Bjork
• Adele
• Alison Mosshart
• Iggy Pop