Soundtracks of Lost Loves

November 9th, 2009

As someone who made more than his share of mix tapes over the years, I think this books sounds interesting.

“Cassette from My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves shares sixty hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking stories all about crushes and mixtapes.”

They were into you, so they made you a tape. Today you don’t have a cassette player, but you still can’t toss that mix. We share the stories and the soundtrack to your earliest loves.

I crafted countless mix tapes over the years but can’t for the life of me remember the songs on any of them that I gave to prospective fraus. Despite this, there’s not a shred of doubt in my mind that most, if not all, of them had some prog rock on them. This was an act of brutal honesty on my part as I was telling the young lady, “Look, I really dig you but I also want you to know that I’m a total dork.”

If any ex-girlfriends of mine are reading this, please submit the tracklistings of any mix tapes I may have made for you. These would not doubt be good for a laugh. (I can say this because I know that none of my exes read this blog nor care about me in the least.)

In this same vein, I recommend the BBC radio documentary “The Disappearing Art of the Mix Tape” which gives a fun look at this former preoccupation of many of us music geeks.

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