in the movie High Fidelity (which is one of the best quote laden movies of all time), John Cusack’s character gives his advice on the forever defunct, but glorious in its day, Mixtape:
“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.”
I’ve found an incredible website at www.muxtape.com where you can make your own muxtape… the great thing about it? You only get 12. And I know that, like Rob says, I’ve gotta grab your attention… I couldn’t place certain songs next to each other… I wanted to start you off slow, then really kick it up as we got towards the middle, then bring you back down again… and really leave you with a thought provoker.
So… here it is… my way of using someone else’s creativity to show you how much I care and how cool I am.
http://thedibbler.muxtape.com/
oh… and you don’t believe me about High Fidelity? try this one for size…
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?”
how’s your mind? blown?
