Let's get analog!

Well, it's called Tapes and Tapes, yeah?

Strangely, this task took me a while to get done because of that. I wanted to use cassette tapes. Once I got that idea in my head, nuthin' else would really do.

Those are pretty hard to find, as it turns out. Well, hard for me to find.

While I was looking, I put together the list you see below. It's weird, but sometimes when you're putting a mix tape together the impulse can lead you to be a bit of a show off, to get real cool. That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. All I wanted though was just a fun bit of music, something a random listener could enjoy having a listen to. I wanted to avoid looking like I wanted to dazzle, and blow their minds with how cool my music collection is. Which it isn't.

Inside of each case, I left a short note explaining this to the potential listener. As well as asking them to do the same thing if they enjoyed it. I left my email address inside, as I wanted to also know if they liked it.

Here's the playlist, tested out by me. It works great, I can't have a bad time listening to this.

I also left my email address if they want the track list that I didn't supply, which goes like this:

• Livin' In the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight - Tiny Tim


• Debra - Beck


• Sleepwalk - The Chantays


• Breakfast at Denny's - Combustible Edison


• Derrick! - Derrick Harriot


• Rain From the Skies - Delroy Wilson


• Jocko Homo (acoustic) - Devo


• Beautiful World - Twink


• Ode to Joy - City of Prague Philharmonic


• Angelina/Zooma Zooma - Louis Prima and the Witnesses


• Overture from "A Few Dollars More" - Ennio Morricone


• Hawaiian War Chant - Billy Mure


• I Will Go Sailing No More - Charlie Louvin


• Honeysuckle Rose - Harpo Marx


• Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael


• Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole


• Jesus Was Way Cool - King Missile


• Jet Pack - Jill Sobule


• I Think I Need a New Heart - Magnetic Fields


• Flying Saucer Attack - The Rezillos


• Excerpt from Slaughterhouse Five - read by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

There are things that I've always enjoyed drawing.  These are light bulbs, eyeballs, and rocket ships. So that is what I used to decorate the labels.


 

I made three tapes, because, well, I just like the number three.

The Music Section of Barnes & Noble in the Americana mall. 
I slipped it into the "T" section, for "Tapes.  I wanted to see if someone would snag the tape.  So I slunk off to a safe peeping distance to watch that happen, but I was so good at it that I completely missed it happen.  It disappeared after a few minutes.
     

Glendale Public Library - History of Los Angeles Section.
I sat myself down in a chair where I could watch the shelf where I'd left the tape, but as it got closer to closing time, I realized that it wasn't going anywhere in a hurry.

   

The stairwell by the men's room at work, on the fourth floor.
I know that this one's going to be there for a while.  There's a soda can next to the water pipe, it's laid there for almost a year.  Even maintenance doesn't seem to come in here.  I liked the idea of leaving a little musical time capsule.
     Anti-climactic Update:
10/10/08 - I went from checking the stairwell every other day, to every friday, and then the last time I checked was two weeks ago.  I just went to have a look, and the tape is gone gone.  Still no contact from the recipients of the tapes.