Sir I Do Not Have Time To Listen To Your Spin Doctors Mix Tape

Tonight the missus and I went to see Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist (thanks for the recommendation Tara). It's a good movie, much better than I was expecting. It got me thinking though about the mixes I've made for people in my life.

I've been making mixes for people as long as I can remember. At first it was the old fashion mix tape. Me sitting there pressing the record button and waiting for the right moment to hit the stop button. Just out of curiosity did anybody hit the pause button really quickly to edit out swear words so you could play the mix in front of your parents and not get in trouble? As technology progressed CD burners that took an hour to burn a CD were the new awesome. Now a days you could just make a playlist and put it on an ipod but there's no fun in that so I still make CDs.

Getting back to the main point. I've made tons of mixes for friends, for birthdays, holidays, seasons, girlfriends (they were very few, girlfriends that is), and I'm currently working on one for my wife (side note new blog). I'm happy to say though I've never made a mix to get a girl back and I'll never have to.

I think the reason I love making mixes for people is it's fun. There's an art to it. You just can't randomly throw some songs together and call it a mix there has to be some structure. I like sharing with people the music that I'm listening to at the moment. I feel that if I'm enjoying it why should I hog it to myself. I'm going to say though I don't just make mixes for random people so if you've received a mix from me it's because I like you. I really don't know where I'm going with this but it's been a bit since I've made anybody a mix so I'm in a mixing mood. Plus if anybody has the desire feel free to send a mix my way. I'm always looking for new music.

And yes for those of you who are saying to yourselves wait didn't Rich put up a post like this a couple months ago the answer is yes. I just realized it now.