Mix Tape #002 | Catch-22

So, here’s the Catch-22: My life has been made more, uh, complex by a particular relationship, which I can only characterize as, well, modern. To figure out whether this modern relationship, this new source of complexity, is a good or bad thing, I would actually have to develop it. But I cannot develop it precisely because it is modern. Therefore, I will never be able to resolve the complexity that the said, particular, modern relationship has delivered into my life.

Catch-22, level two: I actually enjoy the complexity—in the most non-logical, childlike, Levinasian jouissance sense. It is only when my precociousness creeps in that the possibility of the complexity being problematic becomes real. Either way—that is, whether I take on an attitude of carelessness or an attitude of caution toward the complexity—my life remains more complex.

Anyway, enjoy!

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Mix Tape #001 | Belated Birthday Blues

UPDATE, 26 September 2009 | I’ve figured out how to make links to downloadable copies of songs, woohoo!

The song titles of each track below serve as links. To listen to a song, open its link in a new tab or window. To download a copy of a song, right-click on its link and select “Save Link As…”

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I’m twenty-five years and forty-six days old, and I’ve decided to make a mix to belatedly “celebrate” this fact. (Hence, the title of this post.)

This mix is the first of the many mixes I intend to put together and record on cassette tapes. (FYI, I actually considered uploading the songs and making them downloadable. But I got too lazy to figure out how to do so. So kebs. Also, I’m pretty sure all of you are more than capable of finding the enlisted songs on your own. So, in lieu of links to downloadable copies of the songs…)

I’ve put together a playlist that will let you, more or less, listen to the mix. You may find it here. (I couldn’t find copies of the first and last tracks, so I included other songs from the artists of the said tracks instead. These “replacements” sound like the songs I wanted to include. Also, some tracks on the playlist are just 30-second samplers of the songs. Hence, the inclusion of “more or less” above.)

Enjoy!

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