Popcorn Noises

I Made You a Mix Tape

Because I like you. But also because I wanted to try out this Spotify thing everyone’s so keen on. Plus, I needed a mental break from year-end list things. The songs on this mix are ones I’ve enjoyed recently that—for the most part—are either older than one year or aren’t really in consideration for listing / blurbing. A few songs here border on cheese (Huey, Alessi), but that’s because I have a soft spot for certain brands of sincere goofery. Besides, “Heart and Soul” is far more poignant and existentially conflicted than people want to give it credit for, and “Oh Lori” was sampled by Cities Aviv so that makes it sort of cool.

Anecdotally, it’s a mix about this: the windows in my apartment face south, so in the mid-afternoons the sun makes its way across them and throws a blinding glare in our eyes and against any and all computer screens. We each have our own way of dealing with this. Roommate 1’s solution is to stay in his room, Roommate 2’s is to tilt his hat to the side to at least get it out of his eyes, and mine is to wear just the hood of my hoodie, letting the rest hang over the back of my chair, also to keep the sun out of my peripheral vision. Curtaining the windows has not occurred to us. Some time between 3:30 and 4, the light evens out and the glare goes away.

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