iPad cover showing a crammed bookshelf of 1980s homemade video cassettes, music cassettes, and Atari games

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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again […] A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick it off with a corker, to hold the attention […], and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, […] and . . . oh, there are loads of rules. — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (1995), pp. 88-89 Note: Both High Fidelity the book AND the movie are delightful. If you read/saw one but not the other, I’d give the other a go. The book is setRead More →