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newcritics: Life Is a Mix Tape

  • Kevin Wolf · 2 years ago
    I definitely have a mix tape mindset. Still do, really, and still have a lot of old tapes. Guess I should look up this book.
  • mike lewis · 2 years ago
    I couldn't agree more with your review. I thought it was a great book for anyone who loves music.

    i wrote some more thoughts i had about it on my blog here:
    http://sideways8.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/love-...
  • Claire · 2 years ago
    Ooh, that book looks totally up my alley. I'll definitely check it out. Some of my happiest memories as a teenager were spent obsessing over a mix tape track list. I loved the process when you were taping, listening to the tracks play, thinking and weighing the next song.
  • Tony Alva · 2 years ago
    I never did the mix tape thing (I can certainly attest to the quality of a Wilson mix tape though since Fred's brother was a master mix tape creator), but I recognize Rob S. as one of the few worthwhile things left at Rolling Stone Magazine. I just picked this book up at Amazon. Thanks for the tip.
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Tony, did you use our handy Amazon.com links? (Yes kids, you too can buy books through newcritics!)
  • Kit Stolz · 2 years ago
    You might want to take a look at the movie "Morvern Callar" (sp?) Story about a young woman who wakes up to find her boyfriend dead of suicide next to her. He left a novel ms. and a mixtape for her (back in the day when they still were actual tapes). The story that follows is on the gloomy side, unsurprisingly, but it does put you in that emotional space where everthing seems to depend on the next song. Anyhow...here's my question. Why is it that mixtape people never end up with each other?
  • Athones · 1 year ago
    Nice...