{"id":8,"date":"2004-10-30T04:27:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T04:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-10-30T04:27:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T04:27:18","slug":"the-art-of-the-mix-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The art of the mix-tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s good to broaden your musical tastes and one great way to do it is to get others to suggest the songs that have soundtracked their lives. Kinda like making a mix tape for your friends.. We’re in high fidelity terrority here!
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\nRob:<\/b> “The making of a great compilation tape like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick it off with a killer to grab attention. Then you gotta take it up a notch but you don’t want to blow your wad. So then you gotta cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway…I’ve started to make a tape. In my head, for Laura. Full of stuff she’d like. Full of stuff that’d make her happy. For the first time, I can see how that’s done.”
(from the movie High Fidelity staring John Cusack)<\/i>
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\nRecently I was forced to come up with a list of songs to be distributed to friends and colleagues over the next few weeks. Here’s what I picked. Not going to comment on them, it’s just like a musical snapshot of my life at the moment and whatever truths are here lie in the ear of the interpreter.<\/p>\n