I’m a little late posting this. I wrapped up the mix around the 4th of July. Now it’s 2 months later, and it’s the end of the summer.

I wanted a fun mix with something old and something new. Here is what I came up with:

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I find that I like sad songs. I don’t think that I am a sad or melodramatic person. I think the music is pretty and pure. It also taps into real feelings. This type of music is not typically the over-produced mass-marketed stuff you hear all the time on the radio. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that music, so all my friends with Top 10 songs can settle back down.

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I love a good MixTape. It was the Beastie Boys who proclaimed that a good mix tape can put you in the right mood. They were right. I am in the process of wrapping up MixTape 3, but before that I never posted anything about MT2.

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My wife’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago (1/9). Her birthday usually gets sort-of overlooked because of the rush of the holidays and our son’s birthday (1/3). This year I wanted to make a fuss, and I did. One of the things I did was make a mixtape (CD, actually) for her. I love making mix tapes – there is an art to it. I like to create something that captures a mood or a theme, and it has to flow.

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