My 'Terrible' Mixtapes: The Orange Mix

The original idea of this blog, and the idea that I have not yet (until now) pursued, was to take a look back at the various mixtapes and mix CDs that I have lying about from my years of music fandom.  Some would be mixes that I made for myself or other people, while others would be mixes by others that gave them to me.  I am not actually insinuating that my mixes are or are not "terrible."  Self serving and pointless, sure, but whether or not they are actually "good" isn't really the point of this exercise.  With that said, here's the first installment of such a thing:

In 2002 I found myself in art school for most of my time, a welcome change of pace from the myriad of retail jobs I had endured in between my last failed venture to college and then.  As excited as I was to be in a design program that I actually cared about, most of my excitement from that time came from my acquisition of a laptop computer (paid for by my student loans of course).  Having such a current and cutting edge piece of technology in my possession was ridiculously exciting to me, and I spent countless days worth of hours customizing it and exploring it. 

One of the best features of the new computer, I found, was the inclusion of a CD-RW drive, something that I hadn't ever had the pleasure of owning at home - though I had used them in my few month stint working at a college radio station.