Welcome to the Mixtape Corner

 
 

This is a cozy little section of the site dedicated to playlists.

While I’m still critical of Spotify and all that the streaming model entails, I am not immune to a good playlist. I guess when you spend all day listening to music (regardless of platform), your brain just automatically starts to categorize and sequence things in a way that makes sense.

I have around 600 playlists on Spotify, and if that sounds like a lot, you’re right! I don’t use them all, but they have each served a different role in my music fandom at one point or another. Some playlists are decade-spanning compendiums of an artist’s work organized chronologically; others are goofy jokes based on some superficial connective tissue. Some of these I listen to every week, others are an attempt to capture a specific time and place in my life. The point is that my Spotify sidebar is long and full of playlists, so I created this as a place where I can share some of my favorites and discuss them in short form.

 
 
 

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Mixtape #9 - New Years Mixtape
Mixtape #9 - New Years Mixtape

So, this is the new year. I’m writing this on January 5th, but so far, it feels like things have still been drudging along, suspended in limbo and carried over from the last year. Even though I think resolutions are a bit silly, I’m still changing behaviors to try and be a better, happier, more productive, and helpful human. In an effort to shake off the doldrums of January, I present my New Year's Mixtape, a one-hour collection of songs I listen to at the beginning of every new year from albums I also find myself drawn to every time we turn the page on a year. It’s full of energy and optimism and aspiration and nostalgia. I hope you find some drive and inspiration in these songs. 

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