I'd never thought about the relationship between mix tapes and samplers much before, but now it seems significant. Last night and this morning, while I was driving around in Old Red -- finally back in action, thanks to my exertions of yesterday afternoon -- making sure the battery stays charged, I listened to a mix tape made for me by my best friend during the first part of my year as an exchange student, before I moved to Southern Germany -- Hans Eberhard Mohrl, are you out there? -- and was struck by the inclusion of three Housemartins tracks, all three of them at least somewhat Christian in orientation. Oh, and We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It. Boy, do they bring back specific memories. There was plenty of good music in the mid-1980s, actually, even if it required a lot more excavation to find than is the case in this era of Pitchfork taste preferences. Here's hoping that the mid-2000s turn out to have the same political developments as the mid-1980s. We could use a little erosion in the Republican Party's principles, not to mention a repeat of Robert Bork's fate.
"Cause It's a 1-9-8-7 on a. . ."
I'd never thought about the relationship between mix tapes and samplers much before, but now it seems significant. Last night and this morning, while I was driving around in Old Red -- finally back in action, thanks to my exertions of yesterday afternoon -- making sure the battery stays charged, I listened to a mix tape made for me by my best friend during the first part of my year as an exchange student, before I moved to Southern Germany -- Hans Eberhard Mohrl, are you out there? -- and was struck by the inclusion of three Housemartins tracks, all three of them at least somewhat Christian in orientation. Oh, and We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It. Boy, do they bring back specific memories. There was plenty of good music in the mid-1980s, actually, even if it required a lot more excavation to find than is the case in this era of Pitchfork taste preferences. Here's hoping that the mid-2000s turn out to have the same political developments as the mid-1980s. We could use a little erosion in the Republican Party's principles, not to mention a repeat of Robert Bork's fate.
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