Confessions of a Media Pusher

[slipjig3]

So the other day, I was burning myself a copy of the mix CD I made for joelle_van_dyne so I could clear the space from my mom-in-law's hard drive (I need to sponge off of others' technology if I want to do the CD burnination thing), and I wondered in passing just how many mixes, cassette and CD, I've assembled over the years. And I discovered that the scary part isn't how many I made; it's that I can remember as many as I do. Keep in mind that some of these I made 12 or more years ago:

General mixes, either for myself or for others (in no particular order)
Truth, Justice, and Other Fruit Flavors
Brigantine Sails
Anna Livia Plurabelle
The Freehand Circle Collection
Esperanto Bumper Stickers
A Box of Crayons and a Bottle of Scotch
Qwakcers! [sic]
Doohickey
Rosencrantz / Guildenstern [2-tape set]
The Young Alchemist's Handbook [4-tape set]
Full of Soup
Epoxied Cheese Puffs
Legerdemain
Cluett's Plonk
The Second-Hand Report
Borrowed Time
Lost in Syracuse
Waltz of the Heretics
Tango Finlandia
Eighty-Six the Hokey-Pokey
Nasty Bird, Thought Jack, But Didn't Say So
Lavondyss Masks
Chansons Innocentes
The Thundering Pickle Three-Chord Express
Cusp of Scorpio
Ungodly Hours
Drive, You Idiot! DRIVE!
Analog
Sloppy Seconds
Tape Decks All Over Hell, Vol. I: Random Potatoes
HazMat
The People's Republic of Lumps in My Oatmeal
Birdsong
North of Elsewhere, East of Tuesday
Thelma / Louise [2-tape set]
Achillea Millefoleum [2-tape set]
Ulysses in a Bacon Press
This Space Intentionally Left Blank
Music to Move Your Worldly Possessions Halfway Across the @&$%#! Country By
Trump in Black / Trump in Red [2-tape set]
Git Off Yer Gluteus Maximus
Zugzwang!
Strangeness in Paradise
Falling Faintly, Faintly Falling
Mercator Projections

Artist-specific mixes
My Bright Jewel of the Alley [Richard Thompson]
Nesmith/Tork/Dolenz/Jones [The Monkees. Shut up.]
The Slant [Ani Difranco, 2-tape set]

Works in progress
Mary
Trois
Dancing with Mr. Tumnus

I know I'm forgetting a lot, and wilfully blocking from memory a few others. And no, they wouldn't make any more sense even if I told you what's on them. Now, ideally, I'd offer to make mixes for anyone who wants 'em, but I am so backlogged on my recording I may never dig myself out. Don't want to make any unkeepable promises, don'cha know.

Comments

I remember some of those titles...

[daev.livejournal.com]

But do you still have copies of any of them? Mix tapes are these personal creations that you labor over, getting the song order just right, and then send them off never to be seen again. Recently I've started saving copies so I can spread my great musical taste to multiple friends.

Sometimes I've snagged old mix tapes back from the people I sent them to -- they listened a few times and then put the tape away for good, whereas I look at the song list and go, "Man! What a lot of great stuff!"

Re: I remember some of those titles...

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

That's right; you had custody of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" for a while. (Thanks again for getting that back to me, by the by.) I have copies of a scarce few of them; I'm trying to get in the habit of duping them as necessary (easier wth CDs). And I still have several of the ones you made me eons ago. Great, great stuff...

Oh, and I love your post on the subject. Been there, done that, got on the mailing list. *grin*

Great Minds think alike?

[prolixfootle.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I was just pondering recreating a mix tape that I made some time ago. The Story od Modern Romance, a two tape set (tape 1 - First Sight to Love, tape 2 - Sex to the Bitter End) circa 1983. And then, maybe updating it for 2003. Hmmm... Maybe...

Re: Great Minds think alike?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

By all means, do it. I've done the revision thing myself: "Ungodly Hours" was version 2 of "Cusp of Scorpio," and I'm seriously considering a version 3 which unfortunately would require hunting down a few songs that I no longer have pristine copies of. *fighting urge to post a track listing*

Scary Mix Tape Fan

[daev.livejournal.com]

OK, Adam - now you've inspired me to write my own Mix Tape article. It's dated today, in my journal. You're just a corrupting influence on today's innocent youth!!