3:00 AM Tape Mix

[satyrblade]

It's odd, the things that make you want to cry at 3:00 AM, when you can't sleep and all you can think of is the rushing pass of time. Arguments you never had with folks you haven't seen in years. Plans you never pursued, now lost in the sweep of opportunity. Good days and bad nights and tearful voices on the phone. Songs you listened to non-stop in

Comments

[mlerules]

Hope you ended up getting to sleep eventually.

I still have just about all my mix tapes. One of the main reasons I bought my current car (the first/only new one I ever bought - 2003 Toyota Highlander) is b'c it has a cassette deck (along w/6-CD in-dash player) so I could listen to 'em. I've also got a l'il boom box and my olde tape-to-tape cassette component that I've never gotten around to hooking up in the nearly four (4) years I've lived up here in the PacNW.

I ground in music, as well as time, and these dozens of tapes serve to take me back to whenever I made 'em. They're an important part of who I am...and how I got here (as in where I am who I now am).

Thx for being articulate and sharing of yourself here (and elsewhere). *hugs*

[satyrblade]

Me too, with the grounding in music.

Thanks! *loves*

Miss you!

*hugs*

[lucretiasheart]

*nodding

[satyrblade]

Yep.

*hugs*

Sorry we missed you this past year. Funds were just not there. You planning to attend again next June?

[lucretiasheart]

Oh HECK yeah!! Since in my Trad the summer solstice was our "Faerie Festival" you can imagine the new date is something I'm totally thrilled with!

[satyrblade]

Cool. We moved less than two months before last year's gathering, so funds were not available. Next year will be better.

[staxxy]

perspective is definitely what comes with age. I know plenty of people who are living proof that age does not bring wisdom

[satyrblade]

I've considered that. Actually, the ruminations post were inspired, in part, by dragging down that box of tapes a few weeks ago in a search for a handful of Gothic mix tapes I had made during my White Wolf days so I could recreate them in digital form. (Those tapes, predictably, were not in the box, and I have no idea where they might have gone.) Also, some of the music on those tapes has not yet appeared in digital format. Trust me, I've looked for MP3s and CDs from Peace Corpse*, The Smarties**, The Ululating Mummies and Group W Bench, but I doubt they'll ever show up. Thankfully, Mp3s have been recently released from the Slickee Boys, The Nails, Coven and G.B.H., among other bands I'd taped long ago but thought I'd never hear again, so anything is possible

[staxxy]

(mmm footnotes... I feel special)

On the 'find your music" front:

USB record players that convert your vinyl to digital are your friend..

And speaking of friends of vinyl -

Bop Street
2220 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 98107
206-297-2232

If you can call before 4:30 you should be able to catch Dave Voorhees, the owner. He has a sort of "Willy Wonka of Music" thing with records and cds and stuff. He knows his stock inside out and is the reason I am as big of a music junkie as I am. Give him a call and ask him about the stuff you are looking for, if he doesn't have it in stock (which he will likely know off the top of his head) he can watch for it for you. tell him I sent you, he doesn't give me kickbacks or anything, but he is always really good to me and passes that to my friends as well. :D

[satyrblade]

Thank you, hon. <3

Stop making me tear up!

[tigerlibrarian]

What you said is so much how I've felt...late at night, or driving in your car alone...and I'm screaming in my head at someone or something I can't fix no matter how hard I try. I call it my hamster wheel...just running and running and running and running...and never getting anywhere. Not good.

Acceptance is a hard process...especially when it involved giving up on people you've loved, laughed and cried with.

It's a b*tch getting older.

Hugs to you. Time to put on "Don't Fear the Reaper" and let the music clear your head.

Re: Stop making me tear up!

[satyrblade]

*hugs* Thank you... and as I've often said, if I write something that doesn't make folks tear up, I feel I haven't done my job right. :)