Category: Music
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Mixtape Monday: The Crush Mix
Welcome back to Mix Tape Monday, the blog series that celebrates all things mix-related. Today we’re talking about the whole reason Mix Tapes were invented–The Crush Mix. You know the drill. You’re so head-over-heels in love with someone that every song you hear reminds you of them. You savor the music that played on the […]
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Mix Tape Monday: The Apology Mix
There’s a lot more to making a mix than just throwing a bunch of songs onto a Spotify playlist or a CD. It’s about creating a mood or emphasizing an emotion, playing to a theme or singing what you can’t speak aloud. You don’t make someone a mix unless they’re really important. So I have a […]
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Why I Don’t Leave Negative Reviews
I have friends that leave reviews constantly. Liked the restaurant we ate at? Write a review on Yelp. Hated the movie we saw? A full rant is up on Facebook that night. The phrase “Everyone’s a Critic” has never been truer. Between Amazon and Yelp and, I dunno, MoviePoopShoot, everyone can tell you exactly […]
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What The Heck Is #RecordSaturday?
I love sharing music with people. It compliments both my generous and my bossy nature (“Seriously, you’ll like this Steely Dan song, I swear….”) and for years, it’s what propelled my love of making mix tapes. To be able to give someone a song that reminds you of them is a profound gesture, a portable party, […]
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The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For….
The Big Rewind is OUT! Buy it at your local bookstore! Buy it on Amazon! Buy it at Barnes & Noble! Buy one for yourself, and another for someone you respect and admire! And if you love it, spread the word. If you don’t, well, here’s hoping you find something ELSE you love and can […]
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On Missing Girls & Why I Can’t Listen to Eric Clapton
The Back to the Future soundtrack is the sound of happiness. If you don’t love “The Power of Love” than you are an inhuman monster and we have nothing to talk about. But on a weirder, darker note, I can’t listen to Eric Clapton’s “Heaven is One Step Away,” on the A-side. It’s a halfway decent […]
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The Night Belongs to Mona
As I mentioned in my last post, my crime writing notebook, Gail, is nearly full. She had an interesting life; early character sketches became Stella and Miles in “Narc” (forthcoming in The Big Click) and “Rough Night in Little Toke” (featured in Hanzai Japan,) as well as the home for the starts of three possible novels. Mona was […]
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Steely Dan, New Notebooks, and Other Dark Sarcasm
Let me start by saying that I’m listening to a lot of Steely Dan as I write this, so if it comes off as rambling, dark and sarcastic, I apologize. Every time I put on a Steely Dan record, I find myself thinking why am I not spending every minute of every day listening to Steely […]
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Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
I hate Jimmy Buffet. “Margaritaville” is one of those songs that gets stuck in my head for days on end, driving me nearly to madness. The very strains of “Cheeseburger in Paradise” make me want to go vegan. I do NOT wish I had a pencil-thin mustache, thank you. So you may wonder then how […]
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Jem is a Bitch
In a weird fit of Nostalgia For Things I Barely Remember Existing (I get these sometimes), I went back and watched JEM on Netflix. I didn’t get very far because I am a Grown-Ass Lady with Things To Do, like losing at computer chess or fretting about wedding plans. But in re-watching the pilot, I […]
Libby Cudmore 