I've decided that first dates will begin with the trading of mixtapes

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I know it wasn’t a date, but I still swooned when I found your playlist in inide lo-fi type­writ­ten let­ters, wrapped with chem­istry notes. It only makes sense that a col­lec­tion of songs be my new stan­dard for a first impres­sion on any roman­tic endeavours.

This became my bat­tle cry. The BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM of the toms that com­pel my body to heave when I’m pre­tend­ing to sing those har­monies to an empty sky.

mixtape playlist front

 

I can trace moments of my past through your music; sum­mer days spent with a Girlfriend’s Dog, a hope­less infat­u­a­tion with auf der Maur’s Celebrity Skin, tinny speak­ers blast­ing Porno Mouth in the room where I lost my vir­gin­ity on a soft sin­gle bed that seemed a huge can­vas to our naked bod­ies. Maybe that’s why you already under­stood so much of me. It’s like we’re dif­fer­ent land­scapes rep­re­sented using the same cartography.

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