{"id":229,"date":"2026-03-02T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=229"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:09:16","slug":"i-made-u-a-mix-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/i-made-u-a-mix-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made U a Mix (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friend Blush Response<\/em> posted in discord this weekend about the power of CDs, and then blogged “Music is a vehicle for human connection. Don’t let streaming strip that power away”<\/a>, a journey through tween-and-teenhood and compact discs and sharing music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between these two posts, I was inspired to finally<\/em> go through the stack of CD-Rs that had lived for nearly 20 years in a giant CD wallet in my car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were three mix CDs included: One titled “Halloween” (no year), one for my 21st birthday (2003), and one for a pair of friends’ 21st birthday “mega-blowout” (their birthdays are a few days before Halloween, so this likely would have been made for a party on Friday, October 31, 2003. It might have been November 1st?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, interspersed between the songs are audio clips from movies and TV shows (Butthead wants a tattoo of a butt, with a butt-shaped tattoo on it, and he wants it right on his butt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try putting THAT on your spotify playlist, where everything has been licensed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(These brief moments of surprise remind of me of James Jackson Toth’s seasonal Patreon<\/a> mixes. He sends them out as one long MP3, and follows it up a few days later with the track list. It’s a really great experience, going along for a ride without knowing what’s next! It lets you get obsessed and go looking for a song!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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