Mixed Music

My very intelligent and thoughtful New Mexican friend Jodi (with whom I've rekindled contact via the blog revolution) has got me thinking about mix CD's (formerly mix tapes) a lot... I used to spend summers after camp making the year's new tape and distributing them to friends, but that tradition has slowly faded. Here's her blog http://jodigwen.blogspot.com/

So, I've decided to at least get back into the process of creating mixes because they are so representative of an era and social or emotional state of being. Mixes are like diaries. Soon I'll start posting occasional songlists that represent what I'm listening to and going through at that point in time, or maybe occasional song lyrics that seem poignant at the moment.

As a side note, it also reminds me of a somewhat more morbid example of when my professor Nora Beck asked each student in a music literature class to create a mix tape that we would want played as a sort of musical eulogy. So, instead of someone speaking at your funeral about your life and the things they loved about you, simply pop in the tape and let that represent your life and personality and any message you want to convey to the people you left behind. Like I said, morbid, but it sure makes you think about what music is most important to you. What would you put into that songlist?