mostly listening..

once more, i choose to invoke the power of the high fidelity script, to tell you what i have been mainly doing:

Rob: The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.

me: a lot of rules doesn't even begin to cover it. its a complex business, and yet
its also highly enjoyable. its a passtime in itself. and there was i saying no-one has passtimes any more....i couldn't do this on a regular basis though, i'd go nuts

so anyway, you may or may not know that a certain friend of mine, who may or may not be connected to the valentine's tale, is currently laid up in hospital with a stupid amount of broken bones

prior to his leap into the abyss (i'm working on the theory that there is no connection..) we had recently become email buddies. my other feelings for him, such as they are, (ie, fictional, mainly..) remain, but we had been becoming friends, in a blizzard of emails over the course of a work-less, fun-filled week.

and now he lies, motionless, waiting for himself to mend

and so here is the mix-tape to end all mix-tapes
the one where you want him to learn to new music
the one where you want him to see how you've paid attention to his already-stated musical preferences, and taken them somewhere
the one where you want him to be surprised by that feeling of hating a song at the start, but loving it by the end
the one where you want him to suddenly wish he had a laptop with him so he could jolly well get on th'amazon and buy all the associated albums
the one where you're mildly flirting..through someone else's lyrics..
the one where you don't want to inadvertently declare some sort of undying love through someone else's lyrics..

so many potential pitfalls!
fun though xxx