a better view from inside ep by @indiesarah

Track List

1. The Prize Fighter - The Velvet Teen
2. Measure 3 - Matt Pond PA
3. For the Damaged - Blonde Redhead
4. Fuck This Band - Mclusky

Playlist

Spotify - a better view from inside ep

Description

1. The very first song that always comes to my head when I think "winter".  I think it's the delicate interplay of instruments and a loud, unkept voice.
2. I went to a show of his that was only me, due to a terrible winter advisory.  I was dumb enough to go outside, and I was treated to the most intimate concert ever.
3. My favorite broken, unartful tune of an artsy band.
4. Reminds me of a time I was stuck in my car due to snow.  This was the only CD I had with me, and was the first time I heard it.  Even though the band is disruptively loud, they always make me think of being shut in a vehicle, wondering how to get home (and still happy).

Incomparable EP Winter Songs by @tmtrains

Track List

1. Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
2. Bizcocho Amargo - Si*Sé
3. Here's Where the Story Ends- The Sundays
4. Days Go By - Dirty Vegas

Playlist

Apple Music - Incomparable EP Winter Songs

Description

Probably not what anyone thinks of as winter songs, but growing up in a place where “real winter” never arrives, these are songs more about winter linked to loss.

The Earth turns its face from the Sun by @stevev

Track List

1. Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summer (Album: Oh Perilous World)
2. Jane Siberry - Hockey (Album: Bound by the Beauty)
3. Kristin Hersh - Beestung (Album: Hips and Makers)
4. Bel Canto - White Out Conditions (Album: White Out Conditions)

Playlist

YouTube - The Earth turns its face from the Sun

Description

1816, The Year Without a Summer:  What's more wintry than a year

without a summer?

Hockey:  The Canadian winter pastime.  For anyone who cares, there

are a few f-words in the song, but hey, it's hockey, and Canada.

Beestung:  One of my favorite Kristin Hersh songs, which happens to

be set in winter.

White Out Conditions:  A Norwegian sings about winter.  (The entire

album, of which this is the title track, is great.)

A Wintry Mix by @jimhart

Track List

1. Life In a Northern Town (LP Version) - The Dream Academy
2. Holocene - Bon Iver
3. Silver Leaf and Snowy Tears - Superchunk
4. Coming in from the Cold - The Delgados

Playlist

Apple Music - A Wintry Mix

Description

1 - Life in a a Northern Town - this one’s the phoned-in intro, but it’s absolutely a scene-setter, and among the greatest of broad ice-pop tracks.

2 - Holocene - the sparseness of this song 100% means winter for me. There’s little in the song on its face that makes it a winter song, I’ve always taken a lot from the spareness of the landscape of the video, coupled with the spare sound, to just be a defining winter feeling - cool, remote, empty, beautiful

3 - Silver Leaf & Snowy Tears - in which I pander directly to our current musical proctor. But out here we’re digging in the permafrost, scratching out the lines we never thought you’d cross.

4 - Coming In From the Cold - hopefully in these few songs my penchant for remote vocals as a signifier of winter is clear, and Emma Pollock’s delivery is remote as the music gets increasingly immediate, hitting a mid winter catharsis at the bridge and final chorus where the search for warmth is embraced and then... just held on to as the song resolves without any real close.

Winter Incomparable EP by @Stephen Duncan Jr

Track List

1. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
2. The Ice of Boston - The Dismemberment Plan
3. The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie
4. January Hymn - The Decemberists

Playlist

Apple Music - Winter Incomparable EP

Description

Totally failed at unconventional, but succeeded at submitting something. 😅

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Songs by @kevin

Track List

1. Brick - Ben Folds Five
2. Urge for Going - Joni Mitchell
3. Valley Winter Song - Fountains Of Wayne
4. Skyway - The Replacements

Playlist

Apple Music - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Songs

Description

We got our first big snowfall today and it will now probably be March before we see grass, so this playlist captures my mood.

Winter Songs (with guest host @indiesarah)

I've been given the blessing of the Music Sheriff (@slutz) to solicit an EP from you all - winter songs!

[Please no Christmas music]

Submit by December 1, pretty please. Unconventional winter songs encouraged, especially if you can share why.

Reasonable Seasonal Halloween 2019 by @Kelly Guimont

Track List

1. I Hold Your Hand In Mine - Tom Lehrer
2. Everyday Is Like Halloween - Ministry
3. Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man - Concrete Blonde
4. Red Right Hand (2011 Remastered Version) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) - Pixies
6. No Surprises (Remastered) - Radiohead

Playlist

Apple Music - Reasonably Seasonal Halloween 2019

dig your own grave and save! ep by @indiesarah

Track List

1. Crispy Christian Tea Time - The Robot Ate Me
2. Comet #9 - Helium
3. Freak Out - My Brightest Diamond
4. Wicked Game - Widowspeak

Playlist

Spotify - dig your own grave and save! ep

Description

These are just "mood" songs more than anything categorically Halloween.  But I like that about it.

Creepy heeby jeebies.

"Crispy Christian Tea Time" is a 'come and play with me or I will destroy you, hee hee' song.

"Comet #9" is a bone-rattling instrumental from what I think is a seminal creepy-cool adventure album.

"Freak Out" represents the overpowering allure of the Hysterical Woman™.  Don't get too close.

"Wicked Game" is a cover, but warm and breathy and spare; for me, it's akin to staring through a fire, not socializing.

Spooky Classical by @Andrew McIntosh

Track List

1. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Edvard Grief
3. Funeral March of a Marionette - Charles Gounod
4. Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky

Playlist

Spotify - Spooky Classical

Songs about people getting killed by @JoeV

Track List

1. Wind and Rain - Crooked Still
2. Woman In The Wall - The Beautiful South
3. The Long Black Veil - The Chieftans feat. Mick Jaguar
4. Nature Trail to Hell - Weird Al

Trouble Is Coming by @jsnell

Track List

1. Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing
2. Death for My Birthday - Say Anything
3. Mexican Wine - Fountains Of Wayne
4. Dead - They Might Be Giants
5. In the Lowlands - Crowded House
6. Goodbye-Goodbye (1988 Boingo Alive Version) - Oingo Boingo

Playlist

Apple Music - Trouble Is Coming

Description

I almost did an entire playlist of Neil Finn, because I consider some of the weirder Crowded House tracks to be almost as Halloween appropriate as Boingo. But I went another way.

Also how to pick among TMBG songs? Almost chose Meet James Ensor or Exquisite Dead Guy

Drink To Bones That Turn To Dust by @slutz

Track List

1. One of These Days - Pink Floyd
2. No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
3. Poodleman - Optiganally Yours
4. Car Chase Terror ! - M83

Playlist

Apple Music - Drink To Bones That Turn To Dust

Description

Pink Floyd scored a couple of obscure hippie movies in the late sixties/early seventies. One Of These Days is proof that they could have easily done a horror flick. The wind, the insistent, pulsating bass, the sudden knock on the door, and that single, heavily processed lyric... Creepy and rocking in equal measures.

For this Southern California kid of the ‘80s, Oingo Boingo is synonymous with Shocktober. I could have picked half a dozen great tunes, but I’ve always loved how No One Lives Forever captures the feeling that death is forever hot on your heels.

Of course, there are things in this world that are far worse than death. The dreaded Poodleman, for instance, as related by San Diego’s own Optiganally Yours. I don’t want to spoil the horror, so just listen and let the dread wash over you.

We close with the legitimately chilling Car Chase Terror! from M83. Again, I don’t want to say too much because I think you should make up your own mind as to what exactly is happening here. Suffice it to say, the ending gives me goose bumps.

Spooky Playlist by @muddie

Track List

1. Fear of the Dark (Live In Buenos Aires 7/3/08) - Iron Maiden
2. Zombie Bastards - Weezer
3. Mein Herz brennt (Piano Version By Sven Helbig) - Rammstein
4. Red Right Hand (2011 Remastered Version) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Playlist

Apple Music - Spooky Playlist

Description

Fear of the dark is a great song that goes a long way to expressing the strange fear that I have even as an adult that something is always watching me.

I chose this live version because it really is the ultimate singalong Iron Maiden song. Have a listen the crowd even sing the guitar parts.

This was the standout song from Weezer’s latest album for me. It’s gong to be my go to song for when the Zombie Apocalypse happens.

I know Mein Herz Brennt is all in German but trust me it’s as spooky as it gets. Here is just a sample of the lyrics in English.

They come to you at night

Demons, ghosts and black elves

They crawl up from the cellar rows

And will take a look under your blanket

I chose the piano version rather than the original because it ups the spooky factor an entire order of magnitude.

Red right Hand because I have always been intrigued as to why the subject had is red and if it controls him more than he it. Also it’s from the king of spooky.

An October Project by @stevev

Track List

1. "Colder", Throwing Muses (Album: House Tornado)
2. "First Snow", Emancipator (Album: Soon It Will Be Cold Enough)
3. "Lay Me Down", Happy Rhodes (Album: Warpaint) 
4. "Bury My Lovely", October Project (Album: October Project)

Playlist

YouTube - An October Project

Description

It's getting colder and spookier.

Incomparable Halloween 2019 by @kevin

Track List

1. A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
2. Frankenstein - Aimee Mann
3. Werewolf - Fiona Apple
4. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) [Extended Version] - Concrete Blonde

Playlist

Apple Muisic - Incomparable Halloween 2019

Description

My Halloween EP

The cemetery is my home, I’ll read poetry to the stones by @jimhart

Track List

1. Nightcrawler - Graveyard Club
2. Graveyard Girl - M83
3. The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! - Doleful Lions
4. Halloween - The Dream Syndicate

Playlist

Apple Music - The cemetery is my home, I’ll read poetry to the stones

Description

Graveyard Club is a Minneapolis band who early on really leaned into "spooky synth" as a gimmick and I think this one does a good job setting the stage here

That's mostly lead-in for Graveyard Girl. Say what you will about Midnight City or the like, this is the best song M83 has recorded, full stop. It perfectly nails and skewers the aesthetic. I just want to quote it at great length, I'll refrain and just say you cannot ignore the spoken word part.

Doleful Lions is another band with kind of a horror/esoteric/occultic vibe, which can be a bit much. They have a song which is just a monologue from Halloween III with a spooky synth bed. But this just takes the horror movie tropes and builds a love song around them. "But that's okay my sweetheart, 'cause I love you / I wanted to be the one in the end" is a decent enough love song lyric, but then you realize he means the end the end.

This is all just lead in to the absolute killer jam that is The Dream Syndicate's "Halloween", which it totally not just me phoning it in and just googling a song called "Halloween". Keep in mind, this is only the third best song on The Days of Wine and Roses

Incomparable EP Halloween Themed 2019 by @tmtrains

Track List

1. Fascination Street - The Cure
2. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
3. New Dawn Fades (2019 Master) - Joy Division
4. Waiting for the Night - Depeche Mode

Playlist

Apple Music - Incomparable EP Halloween Themed 2019

Description

Fascination Street, The Cure. It doesn’t feel right to put together a Halloween playlist and not include a Cure song. It’s about 2 and a half minutes until we hear Robert Smith’s voice inviting us out to some seasonal festivities.

Bad Romance, Lady Gaga. If you need a costume for a Halloween party, it’s hard to go wrong with something from Lady Gaga. Also, the video for Bad Romance seems a great fit for the season.

New Dawn Fades, Joy Division. Joy Division is here to remind you that the thing scarier than ghosts and zombies is existential dread. This song has bits and pieces that you hear in many subsequent songs that borrowed from it to invoke darkness in their work. (edited) 

Waiting for the Night, Depeche Mode. Sure, let’s welcome the coming of the night. What could go wrong?

AJ Incomparable Halloween 2019 by @antony

Track List

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Haunted - Type O Negative
3. A Doomed Lover - My Dying Bride
4. Take Me Down - Paradise Lost

Playlist

Spotify - AJ Incomparable Halloween 2019

Description

Seeing as I normally spare Incomparable ppl my more metallic tendencies, I figure I might as well let some doom loose here instead 😉

Shocktober 2019

Hey you music monsters!

It’s ShocktooooooOOOOoooober! What better time to make an EP of your favorite spooky (or at least, seasonally-appropriate) tunes?

The usual rules apply. Assemble 4 tracks fit to rattle your chains to. Post your ghoulish goulash, along with a title and explanation, to this channel on Saturday or Sunday.

And then we’ll talk about them! Or at least, grant them passing acknowledgment before getting on with our lives.

As before, I’ll archive everyone’s track lists to http://incomparableeps.blogspot.com.

And by the way, if you’re missing summer right about now, it’s a great time to check out any of our Summer EPs you might have missed.

"Summer on the Deck" by @kevin

Track List

1. Fake Empire - The National
2. Lake Erie - Wild Pink
3. Up All Night - The War on Drugs
4. Fear and Trembling - Gang of Youths

Playlist

Apple Music - Summer on the Deck

Description

Another weak theme, but these are songs that I think are great for laying on a recliner on my deck with a beer.

"Cruel Summer" by @kevin

Track List

1. stay - pronoun
2. Superbike - Jay Som
3. dead girl in the pool. - girl in red
4. Vacation Town - The Front Bottoms

Playlist

Apple Music - Cruel Summer

Description

Theme is ‘the end of things’.

"A Summer Mood" by @Stephen Duncan Jr

Track List

1. June Hymn - The Decemberists
2. Lemonworld - The National
3. High of 75 - Relient K
4. The Cheap Seats - Alabama

Playlist

Apple Music - A Summer Mood

Description

Fairly weak on any theme beyond Summer, but all songs that came to mind (and at least I held out from using Lana Del Rey’s Summertime Sadness which came to mind but I don’t actually identify with).

"Summer EP" by @tmtrains

Track List

1. Summertime - The Sundays
2. Casa Abandonada - Julieta Venegas
3. Wandering Star - Portishead
4. You Look So Fine - Garbage

Playlist

Apple Music - Summer EP

Description

One Summer Day voiced by women

• Summertime, The Sundays. This song just sounds like how you'd wake up at a quarter to noon on a summer weekend day. The sound is bright and optimistic, cutting against the lyrics.
• Casa Abondonada, Julieta Venegas. A wonderful song to blast out as you make your rounds driving around in the afternoon.
• Wandering Star, Portishead. Many Portishead songs can be a soundtrack to a summer evening, but this song feels ideally suited to it. It turns any space at night into a swanky lounge.
• You Look So Fine, Garbage. This track is like having the credits roll. I imagine it back when the piers and beaches were open all night. The chill of the ocean night breeze as the conversations wind down and it's time to head home.

"Dreamy Summer" by @stevev

Track List

1. Summerhead - Cocteau Twins
2. Delius (Song of Summer) - Kate Bush
3. Midsummer Night's Dream - Noe Venable
4. Would That I Could - Happy Rhodes

Playlist

YouTube - Dreamy Summer

"Wasting Time" by @slutz

Track List

1. Summer's Cauldron/Grass - XTC
2. Cannonball - The Breeders
3. Fat Old Sun - Pink Floyd
4. Wasting Time - The Judybats

Playlist

Apple Music - Wasting Time

Description

First of all, yes, I totally cheated by including five tracks.  But I've long thought of Summer's Cauldrdon/Grass as a single song with two distinct parts.  Anyway, I couldn't just do Summer's Cauldron because it would cut off abruptly, and there was no way I wasn't going to include Summer's Cauldron.

Anyway, I am a bad person and I feel bad.

So this EP chronicles an idealized summer day, of the sort I vaguely remember having before work came and summer turned into nothing more than The Slightly Uncomfortable Months.

We begin, as most days do, with Morning (Summer's Cauldron). You wake up, and it's already damned hot. But you don't mind. In fact, you step outside and bask in it for a while, a whole day of loafing stretching out in front of you.

As Noon approaches, you head to the park (Grass), where you run into some people you know, including that Potential Summer Fling who's been on your mind lately. Turns out the feeling is mutual. Some light canoodling ensues.

But now it's Afternoon, and it's time to meet up with some friends at the pool. There is much splashing and horseplay (Cannonball). You probably should have put on sunscreen, but what the hell. You're immortal.

And then it's Evening (Fat Old Sun) and you're walking home from the pool as the sun descends, synchronized to a symphony of lawnmowers and kids shouting as they hurl footballs at each other. The sky is a translucent Spin Art of honey and cotton candy, backlit by a single thousand-watt bulb.  How could it get any better than this?

Here's how: When you get home, your Potential Fling is waiting out front with a four-pack of wine coolers. You go inside and light some candles as the Night falls.  Maybe you talk for a while about the ephemeral nature of all this. But not for long, because there's nothing for it but more Wasting Time.

"Sounds Like Sunshine" by @Kelly Guimont

Track List

1. Need You Tonight/Mediate - INXS
2. The Way to Your Heart - Soulsister
3. Party and Bullshit in the USA - Notorious B.I.G. and Miley Cyrus
4. Black Leather - Kings of the Sun

Playlist

YouTube - Sounds Like Sunshine

Description

1. I like the video but I adore the FULL song. Yes it's all one unit.

2. I have loved this song forever, I don't know how it made it to the wilderness but it always feels like a sunnier day when I hear it.

3. The intersection of two summery songs, and I love the mashing that happens.

4. This band played Water Follies one year (look it up) so they played it a LOT before that. It always reminds me of the hottest part of Eastern Oregon Summer.

"A Summer Wasted" by @jimhart

Track List

1. Summertime - Girls
2. Constructive Summer - The Hold Steady
3. That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman
4. Indian Summer - Beat Happening

Playlist

Apple Music - A Summer Wasted

Description

These all evoke either the promise or loss of summer - we don’t experience it here as much as we anticipate it or remember it.

“Summertime”, off Girls’ Album (least googleable release ever) is all summer ephemera - just letting it pass by wasting time in the sun

The Hold Steady’s “Constructive Summer” is the self deception of kids going nowhere, convinced this summer is going to be the big one.

Jonathan Richman’s “That Summer Feeling” is wrapped up in spending your life chasing that down - it’s gonna haunt you one day in your life

And closing out with Beat Happening’s “Indian Summer”, similarly wanting always to get back to the Summer experience, knowing how fleeting it is.

"the windows down, tangly hair ep" by @indiesarah

Track List

1. Saints - The Breeders
2. Go Wild in the Country - Bow Wow Wow
3. Punkrocker - feat. Iggy Pop - Teddybears
4. One in the World - Tapes 'n Tapes

Playlist

Spotify - the windows down, tangly hair ep

Description

These are songs that capture the silly buoyancy and school-less anarchy of summer.  Take that, Lisa's beliefs!

"Summer Holidays Theme Songs" by @muddie

Track List

1. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
2. Run to Paradise - Choirboys
3. Koala Sprint - Midnight Oil
4. Summer - Buffalo Tom

Playlist

Apple Music: Summer Holidays Theme Songs

Description

All these songs were the soundtrack to very specific summers in my past.

First up we have Cruel Summer by Bananarama.

The year is 1984, I have literally just turned 14 a few days before and we are on our annual Summer holidays trip. For several years in a row we went camping at Rainbow Beach which is a remote section of the Queensland coastline only accessible by 4x4 (see attached photo). We would camp there on the beach for 3-4 weeks straight. Leaving usually right after my birthday and staying over Christmas and New Years and going back home some time in the New Year. I loved these trips and would always make up mix tapes to play in my WalkMan to listen to while I walked along the beach or the Rainforest or while I was fishing trying to catch our dinner for the night. This song in particular stands out in my memory though because that year there was a girl who was also camping up there who was about my age who I fell totally on love with. I spent a good part of that trip working up the courage to talk to her. I thought she looked like Siobhan from Bananarama and so would listen to that song over and over to work up courage. To tell you the truth it probably made things worse. Anyway I finally plucked up the courage and she was a lovely girl who I became friends with for the few weeks we were there. We never had any contact after that Summer but every time I hear that song now I am transported back to that carefree time all those years ago.

Second we have Run to Paradise by Choirboys.

The year is 1989, I have just graduated High School and me and some of my mates all decided to go camping at a caravan park up on the Sunshine Coast over New Years. 6 of us bundled into my mates old EH Holden Station Wagon and off we went. One of the first songs we played was this song and it became kind of the theme song for the trip. We had some awesome memories made that trip. New Years Eve we went to see The Devinyls at a pub and it was one of the best concerts I’ve been to. The photo I have attached here was taken by a mate of mine who scanned it in and sent it to me a few years back after we reconnected on Facebook. It is outside the pub just before the concert. I believe I was off my tree at the time. That was the last time we would all be together as we went off to Uni (College) etc after that and started moving away but it was a Summer I will always remember and this song brings me back.

Third we have Koala Sprint by Midnight Oil.

This song is about the pilgrimage Australian surfers make up the Pacific Highway over the Summer/Christmas break to Queensland (Queensland is the California of Australia) to soak up the sun and the waves. It talks of a 20 hour drive from Melbourne up to Brisbane. Luckily for me it was only a 2 hour drive because I already lived in Queensland and just needed to get up to the Sunshine Coast. While I was going to Art College we would have a 4 month break over the Summer and me and my best mate, who was at the same College, would jump in his car and travel up to the Sunny Coast to crash at peoples places and generally bum about for months on end. This song was our road trip song to get us in the mood for the easy carefree times ahead. There were a few places we could sleep under some people houses (most of them old wooden beach type houses up on wooden stilts). We would hitch rides all over the place and usually ended up doing “Roadie” work for some band or other to make some cash to survive the Summer. (The attached photo is of me goofing around backstage at some gig or other.) If you don’t listen to any of my other songs please listen to this one. This song is so special to me. It begins with the most beautiful poetry and ends with the fade out of a heartbeat bass line, soft guitar and haunting keyboards that truly transports me back to watching the sun come up on the beach as the previous nights fire is nothing but glowing coals. Those were magical summers.

Lastly we have Summer by Buffalo Tom.

The year is now 1995, I have moved to the Sunshine Coast, the place I have spoken about visiting in the previous two stories. I was drawn to the place and wanted to move where it was Summer most of the year around. I now have a job, a wife and our first child had just been born. This song took hold of me at that time. It came to represent the change in my life from a carefree youth to a responsible adult. Summer had gone for me, or at least what it had come to represent. It wasn’t so much a lament, as a recognition. I was, and still am, deeply in love with my wife. I had discovered a whole new meaning to the word ‘love’ with our child. Holding her in my arms that first time made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack. I didn’t think I had the capacity to hold all that love in my heart. So these were wonderful times don’t get me wrong. And yet, this song took me at that time and I guess in a way helped me transition from what was, to what was to come. (The attached photo is of my wife and I with our precious new born first child.)

"Brian's Summer EP" by @brianhamilton

Track List

1. Empty Threat - CHVRCHES
2. Stop the Clocks (Single Edit) - Enter Shikari
3. The Louvre - Lorde
4. Run Away with Me - Carly Rae Jepsen

Playlist

Apple Music: Brian's Summer EP

Description

These are all songs that I discovered this summer, save for Lorde

"The Summer Disaster EP" by @jsnell

Track List

1. Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü
2. It Must Be Summer - Fountains Of Wayne
3. Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
4. Earthquake Weather - Matt Nathanson

Playlist

Apple Music: The Summer Disaster EP

Description

Mine is all kinds of broken songs about summer. Celebrated Summer is about a summer that is not celebrated. It Must Be Summer is a song where nobody is around and the sun "keeps beating me senseless." Grapevine Fires is a very California song about disastrous fires. And Earthquake Weather is an angry song about failed relationships set in a Bay Area Indian Summer.

Summer

Hey, @channel! It’s been a while since we made those Cure EPs, so whaddaya say we make another one?

Assemble an EP of four tracks that fit a common theme. Then, post the results here for all to enjoy.

The theme this time out: Summer! Unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case your theme is: Winter!

You have a couple of days to get it together. Post your EP, along with a title and explanation of why you chose what you did, any time on Saturday the 31st.

Again, the only rule is four tracks. Get as creative (or not) as you want to with the theme.

Have fun, and stay cool.

Or possibly warm.