| Sunday, May 08, 2005 |
| Annie are you ok? Are you ok, Annie? |
Leave Michael alone, we're robbing HIM of his innocence.
Spring has been great so far now that everyone's bizzacck from school. Had a fione week/end with friends from quizeens, the pixelboardians, longtime goodtime friends adamn and woo, and ETCBC Illuminators. Thanks friends =)
A project that I am currently working on right now is a summertime mixtape that doesn't fit into the cookie cutter hiphop mixtape circuit (with loud obnoxious background shoutouts coloured with the pleasant sound of gunshots every time a bass beat kicks in). I mean I love 50 cent-imental and little jonathan as much as the next (wo)man but what i really miss are the songs that dominated the airwaves back when I was at a more impressionable age. And toronto only got an urban radio station, what, in the last 5 years, so it was a hodgepodge of pop, rnb, rock, and whatever fits in between those edges that i listened to back in the day. The CHF1 morning show back in grades 3-6 was what my dad listened to (or tolerated) at the time on the drive to school from north york to aurora so, not surprisingly, easy listening pop and to a lesser extent, soft rock, is what i grew to love. So this mixtape which I'm currently compiling together and will publish online for ppl to grab (does anyone have webspace they're willing to share?) will pay tribute to many of those songs (note: they'll all be uptempo and very "wedding danceable"). I'm fortunate enuf to have stumbled upon a goldmine of records dating from the 60s-80s which include some of my faves of the time so hopefully i can string enuf of these gems for the tape.
Now here's where u come in: If there's a song u really want on the tape and i have it on vinyl, i'll try to put it on for u (but keep in mind the theme of this tape). Here's a list of songs which I've already included on the tape to give u an idea of what this might actually sound like:
Whitney Houston: I wanna dance with somebody
Madonna: Holiday
Michael Jackson: Smooth Criminal
And those are just some of the many goodies that'll be on here (with some bangers that are on the radio now: so i guess it's not a tribute tape in the pure sense). This'll be something that you, your mama, and your baby cousin can get down to.... Holliiiddaaaayyyy bum bum bum... bum bum...Celllleebbraattteee! |
posted by DarrenGene @ 6:52 PM  |
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hey darren!
haven't seen you for a looong time. it's good to see what's been going on with you lately.
sarah joy (from the days of old AY)
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can't wait to hear it. i was trying to think of an old school song, but none has come to mind. how about some of Deborah Cox's old stuff?
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hey darren!
haven't seen you for a looong time. it's good to see what's been going on with you lately.
sarah joy (from the days of old AY)