Rob Sheffield - Love is a Mix Tape (2007)

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Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

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But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

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I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

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It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

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If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.

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Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did.

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Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

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It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

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You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

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The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

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Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

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One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

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I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

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A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

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I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

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Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

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The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

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Some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

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In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

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Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

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I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

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I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

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The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

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The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

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She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free.

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There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

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