Tuesday: Some friends want to do a themed mixtape on CD. How high school! I'm totally game.
Still Tuesday: The theme is "Music I'm going to want to listen to in August 2008." That's some high-concept stuff. My August looks like the tail end of a bar trip, moving in (somewhere) and buying lots of business casual clothes. There are a lot of directions I could go here.
Friday: I really have to finish this paper. I think I'll start on that mixtape.
10:20 a.m., Saturday: There's a great audio clip from a movie that I want to kick off my mix, but it's about 2:30, which is just going to kill the excitement of putting on a new CD. I'll edit down to one minute. This should take about minutes.
10:57 a.m., Fifty-eight seconds! Who's the mixtape master? It's me, that's who!
12:07 p.m.: I've downloaded the font I need for the cover art and the photoshopping wasn't all that complicated. It's time to leave the house.
3:12 p.m.: Back home. Do you think I can wedge in some Hold Steady somewhere?
3:15 p.m.: No.
3:48 p.m.: I feel like I'm progressing. I had a New Young Pony Club song in the middle, right as the tempo rises, but although I've spun them to the discerning denizens of the Black Cat, I was never all that in to them and I don't think it really goes anywhere. My other options for this slot are way too long and too hard to chop down in iTunes. Still, it's looking better.
4:12 p.m.: Am I overthinking this? I think not. I don't know the particular tastes of many members of our 15-person mixtape circle and I have no idea of what's generally popular
(when did everybody buy the first LCD Soundsystem album?) so I have no idea what I can include and what I can't. Since so many people will hear it, I have to please a broad audience while being "original." All this stressing over impressions... this really ls like high school.
4:19 p.m.: NYPC is gone and nothing will replace it. If I don't get over myself and put this puppy to bed, I'll never move on.
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