the Dalaverse

I'm bored because I actually -- gasp -- got some work accomplished yesterday, so I give you: The Cedar Point Mix. This is the tape that played in my car, pretty much non-stop, from June of last year through this January. It began life as two separate CD mixes, the I Kicked My Midterm's Ass Victory Mix (celebrating Art History spring semester of last year) and the Cedar Point Mix version 1.0, which I made for the car trip to, lo and behold, Cedar Point last summer. I think it works so well for me because by the time I got around to making the tape, I knew which songs from the first mix I'd gotten sick of and could cull, and I only had a limited amount of space for half of the second mix, so I had to pick stuff I was certain I wouldn't get sick of. And you know, I'm still not sick of this mix.

I take my mix tapes very seriously. CD mixes, ultimately, are just a stepping stone on the way to the all-important tape. It's an art form. I wrote a scholarship essay on it once, and won. We'll ignore the fact that nobody else has ever heard of that scholarship so the applicant pool wasn't exactly crowded.

Anyway, on to

"Crush," Mandy Moore (shut up, okay?)
"I'm Afraid of Britney Spears," Bif Naked (I still find the juxtaposition of the first two songs amusing)
"Save Ginny Weasley," Harry and the Potters
"I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love with You," Hootie and the Blowfish (live)
"Ship Song," Heather Nova
"I Take You With Me," Melissa Etheridge
"Breathe," Michelle Branch
"I Got My Mind Set On You," George Harrison
"Anything You Want," Roy Orbison
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World," Israel Kamakawiwoole (it's a testament to how much I love this song that I can spell the guy's name without looking it up)
"Sweet Child O' Mine," Guns'n'Roses
"Laid," James
"Heart of Gold," Peter Salett
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," The Proclaimers
"My Cherie Amour," Stevie Wonder
"Let's Stay Together," (the Reverend) Al Green
"Poor Taylor," Jack Johnson
"Have a Little Faith In Me," John Hiatt
"Jealous Guy," John Lennon
"Gimme Shelter," The Rolling Stones
"Another American Folk Song," Warren Sroka (AKA my favorite song nobody's ever heard)
"Tangerine," Led Zeppelin
"Shame On You," The Indigo Girls

And actually, if you flip the tape over after the Indigo Girls, it cuts in just at the end of Mandy Moore, so there's space for a short song at the end. I have yet to fix this. I ususally just flip it and rewind it for ten seconds.