Project Mixtape #2

Okay, so finding an actual cassette tape?  It’s goddamn impossible.  I have a pack of blank cassettes that it took me literally forever to find (I traveled back in time to when I emerged from the womb and have been hunting relentlessly ever since), and gotten the dust off the tape recorder.  But still not so much with the tape-making.  I haven’t been home a lot, haven’t been seriously thinking about playlists.

Remember how I said that making a tape for a girl you didn’t want to sleep with was harder?  Well, now that I’m right in the midst of doing it, making a mixtape for a girl that you want to sleep with who has the exact same musical taste is maybe the hardest thing in the world.  I luckily got to spend part of Saturday night paging through the girl’s My Music folder, so I know exactly where we don’t Venn.

But then, the right tape isn’t just “this is music that’s new to you.”  It tells a story.  It communicates feelings.  A good mixtape is a like a kiss you experience with your ears.  Some of it should be new and exciting, but part of it needs to be timeless and familiar.

I should have the list finalized soon, and I’ll post it in its entirety then.