Ugh, two weeks until Christmas and then one more week of faking my way through a bullshit customer service job. This has been a good experience for me, all things being equal, but I have learned some very valuable things from it. One is that I am happier when I am doing something that has a tangible product to it. Desk jobs with projects that last forever and then end suddenly only to be replaced by other projects don't interest me so much. I like fixing a theater of seats, or taking a carpentry project and seeing a thing at the end of it and saying, "fuck yea" that is what I did today. So tomorrow at 1530 Eastern time I will be telling my mentor at work that I am leaving at the end of the season. I think he already knows some of it but it is going to be hard because I would actually follow him to the ends of the earth, but I can't do my job anymore... Oh well.
So to get through this time of year, a friend of mine and I who are both working ridiculous hours have talked about making mix tapes (or playlists I guess they are called now) for each other. I have started to work on it and I have just had a really hard time doing it. Mostly because music is probably the most important thing in my world. I listen to music when I do everything. I love finding new bands and I love listening to albums or songs until the grooves on the CD/LP are worn down. So when I make a mix for someone I have to be careful; my disposition is towards the cheesy and romantic and so I have a set of songs that are my go to happy pop songs, but they carry a certain gravity to them and it gets really daunting trying to keep the tape from being laden down with sentimental bullshit. I also put a lot of thought into the theme and flow of an album. It isn't enough to through 20 songs onto a CD and hand it to someone. A good mix should tell a story in and of itself, if it doesn't then why fucking bother.
So the mix that I am whipping together for my friend is filled with songs that are intended to get you moving and dancing, some of them are silly some of them are hard, but they are all songs you can shake your ass to. I have the bulk of the mix done at this point. But I am paring it down from 50 to about 20 songs now.
I will post the finished album when I am done with it.
So to get through this time of year, a friend of mine and I who are both working ridiculous hours have talked about making mix tapes (or playlists I guess they are called now) for each other. I have started to work on it and I have just had a really hard time doing it. Mostly because music is probably the most important thing in my world. I listen to music when I do everything. I love finding new bands and I love listening to albums or songs until the grooves on the CD/LP are worn down. So when I make a mix for someone I have to be careful; my disposition is towards the cheesy and romantic and so I have a set of songs that are my go to happy pop songs, but they carry a certain gravity to them and it gets really daunting trying to keep the tape from being laden down with sentimental bullshit. I also put a lot of thought into the theme and flow of an album. It isn't enough to through 20 songs onto a CD and hand it to someone. A good mix should tell a story in and of itself, if it doesn't then why fucking bother.
So the mix that I am whipping together for my friend is filled with songs that are intended to get you moving and dancing, some of them are silly some of them are hard, but they are all songs you can shake your ass to. I have the bulk of the mix done at this point. But I am paring it down from 50 to about 20 songs now.
I will post the finished album when I am done with it.