cassette tape party

I have a major post coming up on the Washington State Fair, which was epic.  But I have some deadlines to meet so I'm gonna do a shorter post until I can get around to it.  Trust me nonexistent audience, you will love it.

Anyway, last week Natalie and I had the fantastic idea to pull out our old cassette tapes and give them a listen.  Tapes are awesome.  I used to spend so much time (as did Natalie) making mix tapes.  I'd also request songs on the radio and wait til they came on and tape them.  Damn, I seem old, but I'm also just generally a very late adopter of any sort of technology so I was into tapes well after a lot of people had moved onto cd's.  I dated this guy who had a tattoo of a cassette tape and it said "mix tape my heart" under it.  I probably liked him just for that tattoo.  Anyway, we waited til Odette was in bed, then opened some wine and sat on the porch.  Unfortunately I could only find two tapes!  I was so bummed!  I know I have more around somewhere, and I didn't look all that hard.  Natalie had a whole pile (see above).  So here's what we decided to do: pick two mix tapes (both, as close as we can estimate, circa 1999 or so), listen to two of her songs, then two of my songs, and make a supremo Natalie/Katie cassette tape mashup playlist.  It is kind of hilarious, but only I guess if you are kinda familiar with this music and the hilarious contrast between our tastes.  Basically Natalie's music sounds like she wants to punch someone and mine sounds like I want to sit in a tree drinking cheap red wine and writing in my journal.  So...here it is!

N:
Reagan Youth (its a wonderful time for a barbecue)
The meatmen (toolin for anus)
K:
Jeff Buckley (so real)
Rachel's (handwriting)
N:
The Plasmatics
Harry Belafonte
K:
Indian Summer
Al Green (What a wonderful thing love is)
N:
crappy techno song by Natalie's crazy ex-boyfriend
The Ramones (I wanna be whipped)
K:
Philip Glass (opening)
Rainer Maria (Half Past April)
N:
Zuzu's petals
Martin Denny
K:
Elliot Smith (Angeles)
Leonard Cohen (who by fire)
N:
Huggy Bear
The Jesters of Newport (You're stormy)
K:
The Sea and Cake (?)
Tori Amos (don't remember what song this was.  this is the song I am most embarrassed of. It was not even one of the Torio Amos songs that you could argue is actually pretty good.)
N:
The Jesus Lizard
Boss Hog
K:
Flashpapr (first song on that record that has a picture of a bunny on the front)
Zbigniew Preisner (Lacrimosa) (yes, this is opera.  eat it.)
N:
***NATALIE CHANGED TAPES (though I thought this should be against the rules)
Los Catalepticos (Portungese rockabilly band...)
Astrid Gilberto
K:
The Secret Stars (Life of Submission/Eyelashes)
Bonnie Prince Billy (nomadic reverie)
N:
X
The Wire
K:
Patti Smith (Because the Night)
Edith Frost (Telescopic)
N:
Atari Teenage Riot
Aphex Twin
K:
Red Stars Theory (Parts per million)
The Smiths (some girls are bigger than others)

There you go!  Did anyone actually read all that?  Probably not.  OK, the big point here is inventing games of silly fun to pass the time with friends is awesome.