like a record

I don't own an IPod...so I don't download music (I think I have 6 songs on my computer). I used to buy CD's...but now, I maybe buy 2-3 a year, and more often than not I find myself buying 'best of' collections. I guess I'm just getting old. The things we thought we'd never do...

Anyway, I used to be a real pro when it came to making good mix-tapes, either for myself or others. However, now that cassette tapes have gone the way of BETA, and my terrapin like crawl into the 21st Century continues, I haven't made too many mix CD's since, well, ever. But after getting into a conversation with a 'child of the 90's', and hearing them try to tell me that the music in the 80's was better than the music in the 90's, I had to set them straight with a little 'sample' of the good ol days. It was nice to pull the old milk crate out and try and thread together 12 or 13 songs like I used to...and sure enough, in no time at all, it was like I was 14 again.

The end result was perhaps one of my finer mixes...although I'm not so sure my audience will think so. I tried to give them a little taste from here (that dog, PJ Harvey) and there (Radiohead, Porno For Pyros), but kids these days...I just don't know how it'll go over. Nevertheless, I burned myself a copy (or, I kept the out-of-order one I made on my first try) and have been killing it in the car for the past week. I'm actually tempted to start working on the follow up...