Tag: Mix CDs

• October 4, 2016

  So It Appears That I’m Living the Dream

  Binghamton, 2006.  I’m 23, living in a fire-trap basement apartment in the ghetto.  I’m that kind of art-poverty broke where I live on black coffee and scrambled eggs and dinner is paid on for on a rotating basis between whichever one of us got paid that week.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do…
• March 21, 2016

  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…
• November 10, 2014

  Old Sad Bastard Music

  PLAYLIST: October Project: “Bury My Lovely” “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” the Magnetic Fields “CALL ME CALL ME” The Seatbelts feat. Steve Conte “Letters” Stroke 9 “A Murder of One” Counting Crows I’ll write about the amazing Writer Unboxed conference another day — I’m still unpacking, literally and figuratively! …But a bit ago,…
• June 21, 2014

  Sad Songs (Say So Much)

  Jason and I are doing this MixCD thing pretty hard.  It’s a language we always spoke, a means of communicating what neither of us were very good at saying aloud.  In the two months since we’ve been back in touch, we’ve made a total of seven albums, (four from me, three from him).  It’s a…