Mission Statement

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

— Rob Sheffield

Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time is by Rob Sheffield, a writer for Blender and Rolling Stone Magazine. A book that looking at the

cover, one would think it was completely conventional. The cover is made to appeal to the kind of saps that listen to bands like the Smiths, or My Bloody Valentine on repeat. A bright green and blue background with a hand drawn mix tape. The mix tapes ribbons have all been pulled out to make the shape of a heart. Something most above the age of 17 would scoff at.

It only takes one glance at the back cover though, to learn that there might be something more inside. Mr. Sheffield wrote the book about his late wife. Their connection was simple, music. Rob narrates his life through the songs that him and his wife were listening to at the time, and what he, himself listened to after her death.

It was this book that made me realize for my whole life, I have been composing mix tapes in my head. A soundtrack to everyday life. Most of my memories are sound oriented as it is. I can tell exactly what I was doing the first time I heard Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now, by The Clash, or what song was playing when I had my first serious make-out session.

That my friends, is what this blog will be all about. The idea is simple, a mix tape for each day that I write.

A true soundtrack for my year.

Tally ho,

Elizabeth