I think the mix landscape is irretrievably changed by iTunes.
It still takes some doing and thinking and CRAP that reminds me I have some doing and thinking wrt gift mixes. Argh.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 16, 2005 10:11:54 am PST #2673 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Dec 16, 2005 10:12:08 am PST #2674 of 10002
I never knew mixes were so loaded!
I'm getting a little high here. Someone is using a whiteboard nearby and man, is that marker pungent. My eyes are watering.
Allyson - Dec 16, 2005 10:12:43 am PST #2675 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I know it can only result in heartbreak. I want ANYWAY.
But, you know, can't have. 3000 miles. There's no reality there.
aurelia - Dec 16, 2005 10:13:21 am PST #2676 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
But he's sending me a mix, ita. HE'S SENDING ME A MIX.
Oh dear.
I think the mix landscape is irretrievably changed by iTunes.
Things must have been simpler when they had to write poetry.
Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:13:46 am PST #2677 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Then there are guys who make you mixed tapes who have no interest at all!
Yeah, the mix tape is not an unambiguous signal. I'm making mix CDs for my family for Christmas, and maybe some friends, with no innuendo attached.
Is Hil around? I'm busting with mathiness that I want to share before it all drains out of my head. I'm really bummed that I can't take the second half of this class -- all this information is just going to go to waste.
Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:15:59 am PST #2678 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
But, you know, can't have. 3000 miles. There's no reality there.
Well, are you finding it ego-soothing and reminding of your essential lovability? That is to say, ability to be loved, not... lovable-ness, which is what puppies have.
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2005 10:16:46 am PST #2679 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I've received chaste mix tapes.
And there is the existing mix/created mix factor to consider.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:20:14 am PST #2680 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It still takes some doing and thinking
But at minimum, you can set up bulk burning of the same playlist for multiple people, maybe switch out one song with really little effort.
When I was making krav mix CDs, they took about five minutes to assemble, and burned unattended.
It's not that you can't spend a million minutes fine tuning. It's that it's really easy not to.
Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:23:09 am PST #2681 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Whoa. I ordered some mirrors for my father yesterday and went to try and find them on the site just to look at them again and couldn't. Which is when it occurred to me -- given that they're handmade, they're not there anymore because they've been sold. To me. I don't know, somehow that seems all significant -- these are the only ones like that!
flea - Dec 16, 2005 10:23:14 am PST #2682 of 10002
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I think the two 2-hour phone calls are more alarming than the mix tape, myself. I mean, if I had a boyfriend, I would wonder what he was thinking there. I thought he was Old Flame, not Best Buddy From Grade School.