Since I’ve come to Buenos Aires, I’ve had a few different living situations. I’ve stayed in a corporate hotel (which I don’t recommend) in Recoleta, in a friendly bed & breakfast in Boedo, in an apartment by myself in Palermo Soho, and with roommates in Monsterrat and San Telmo. Now I’m back on my own, this time in Las Cañitas (which is phenomenal).

Yesterday, I mentioned that the buses in this city run all night, a fact I discovered during my two-week-long stay in Montserrat. My apartment was on a street called Santiago del Estero, a block and a half away from Avenida de Mayo (which leads to the building that houses the Argentine Congress), and three or four blocks away from Avenida 9 de Julio (one of the widest streets in the world, in the middle of which you will find a miniature Washington Monument.)

The place was cheap, the building seemed nice, and my two roommates – a 33-year-old British woman in love with Argentina and a 24-year-old Australian man traveling the world in search of ideas for his next invention (though he would never reveal any of his previous ideas) – were welcoming.

But the sound of passing buses literally shook my room day and night. A can of Coke left on my nightstand for more than ten minutes would have exploded for sure if you opened it too soon after picking it up.

The speakers on my computer weren’t up to the job of drowning out the sounds of the street, and it seemed rude to be wearing headphones whenever I stayed inside.

I did have one blank CD, though, and we did have a stereo (without an auxiliary input). In retrospect, it might have been worth the few pesos it would have cost to buy a few more blank discs, but I never got around to it, and the songs listed below were played so often over the course of those two weeks that I’ll probably never play any of them on purpose again.

So I pass them on to you! They work really well for blocking out unpleasant noise, and, unlike just about anything else in life, work a lot better if used in moderation.

Like my last playlist, the only song not on the iMix is a mashup by The Hood Internet, and is linked to a free download. It’s replaced on the iMix by the original versions of the two songs that were mashed together.

1. “The Best of What’s Around” by Dave Matthews Band
2. “New York, New York” by Ryan Adams
3. “American Girls” by Counting Crows
4. “A Murder of One” by Counting Crows
5. “Summer of ‘69″ by Bryan Adams
6. “You Might Think” by The Cars
7. “Oh Yoko!” by John Lennon
8. “Two Points for Honesty” by Guster
9. “Beat It” (feat. John Mayer) by Fall Out Boy
10. “Lyric” by Zwan
11. “Hands of Time” by Groove Armada
12. “Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz
13. “Tambourine Reckoning” - Eve (feat. Swizz Beats) vs. Radiohead by The Hood Internet
14. “Paper Planes” by M.I.A.
15. “Stop and Stare” by OneRepublic
16. “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers
17. “Kids” by MGMT
18. “Breathe Me” (Mylo Remix) by Sia
19. “What You Got” (feat. Akon) by Colby O’Donis