mix tape

while we were in half price the other night, my sweetie picked up a slim volume entitled mix tape: the art of cassette culture, edited by sonic youth guy/rawk scribe thurston moore. when we met, pert near all of the music she owned was on mix tapes she'd received or recorded herself o'er the yrs, and of course, being _that kind_ of high fidelity music nerd who attempts to use toonage as a tool o' seduction, i started making her tapes straightaway. even now, one of the funnest things i do musically-wise (besides playing in stoogeaphilia) is making mix tapes for her to blast on her walkman at the gym or in her vw that still has a cassette player instead of a cd (my saturn is similarly equipped). i do the same thing with cd's for various of her friends 'n' coworkers, altho curiously, not so much for my friends (except in the context of "here's the next batch of songs we wanna cover"). in re: industry paranoia over taping/downloading, thurston has this to say: "trying to control sharing through music is like trying to control an affair of the heart -- nothing will stop it." amen, bro.