My friend Nancy, whom I love dearly, pointed out, via Facebook, that I haven’t posted anything new in a month, and that she’s bored. So.
As a tribute to Nancy, a filmmaker and mixtape-maker, I offer this little tidbit from Newsweek:
Philips first unveiled its cassette in 1963, but the durable plastic has long since been replaced by the MP3. Still, what’s old is always new again eventually, and the cassette tape has a burgeoning cult following that, like the vinyl obsession of generations before, has made it hip again among the audio underground. “Cassettes are the last refuge of the music nerd,” says Jay Cook, a New York DJ and cultural marketing specialist.
(Nan, I’ll try to do better.)
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1 NanMel // Apr 13, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I meant to comment earlier, to say “Thank you” and such. It sat on my to-do list for a few days. And then, whilst sitting here with a nice dose of writer’s block, I ventured over to see what the “good writer” had to say, and my-oh-my, have you been busy. That, by the way, a horrible run-on sentence. It’s why I write screenplays and not novels.
Moving on, I have not come across this cassette comeback yet, but I am interested to see it. Mixtapes rule!
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