tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72973382315444279402024-03-13T14:03:15.613-07:00a mixtape doesn't mean that i'm in love with youGuy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-54770186674511930222018-05-09T18:42:00.001-07:002018-05-09T18:42:41.152-07:00Mixtape #6: Great Party Tape -- Informational Pictograms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don't go to many parties, usually because I'm invited by one friend and the party is with friends of theirs. Large groups of strangers make me uncomfortable. I can be pretty gregarious and social if I have something in common with a few of the other guests but, once they start talking about things I have no knowledge of or interest in, my attention begins to wane, I start to feel out-of-place and I feel the urge to jet. It doesn't matter if it's a family event, either, as I don't really know many of my relatives and have always felt like an outsider around large groups of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Also, I'm a terrible dancer. The only thing I do worse than dancing is playing any kind of sport that involves a ball. That said, my idea of party music is a little different. Being a nerdy record collector I tend to want to engage in conversations about what people listen to in their everyday lives. Most people I know don't listen to music outside of what's hot on the radio and don't go out of their way to discover anything new. Occasionally, a friend or relative will ask to hear what I think is fun music and I'll throw in a tape like this one. sometimes I get a polite "That's <i>interesting</i>..." or I get the full on gas face.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Well, here's the track list for my tongue-in-cheek "party tape" and, be warned, there's nothing here to do the Cha Cha Slide to...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Recorded May 30-31, 1985: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A1 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/material/bustin_out___over_and_over.p/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nona Hendryx & Material - Busting Out</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A2 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/heaven-17/_we-dont-need-this-fascist-groove-thang/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A3 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the_clash/rock_the_casbah___mustapha_dance_f4/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Clash - Mustapha Dance</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A4 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-special-a_k_a/in-the-studio-1.p/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Special AKA - Nelson Mandela</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A5 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/various_artists_f2/seize_the_beat__dance_ze_dance_/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A6 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/wall-of-voodoo/mexican-radio-call-of-the-west/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A7 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/talking-heads/girlfriend-is-better-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A8 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/heaven_17/penthouse_and_pavement/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heaven 17 - Penthouse & Pavement</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A9 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_clash/give_em_enough_rope/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Clash - Safe European Home</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">B1 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/alphaville/big-in-japan-seeds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alphaville - Big in Japan</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B2 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/greg-phillinganes/behind-the-mask-only-you/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greg Phillinganes - Behind the Mask</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B3 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david-bowie/lets-dance-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Bowie - Modern Love</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B4 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/scritti-politti/wood-beez-absolute/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scritti Politti - Absolute</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B5 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/ministry/all_day___everyday__is_halloween_/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ministry - All Day</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B6 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/gang-of-four/i-love-a-man-in-a-uniform-the-world-at-fault/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B7 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/lets_active/blue_line/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Let's Active - Blue Line</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B8 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-beat/i-confess-sole-salvation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Beat - I Confess</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">B9 | <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/lloyd_cole_and_the_commotions/rattlesnakes___sweetness_f1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes</a> </span>Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-47390298274674905982012-06-20T15:42:00.000-07:002012-06-22T21:31:29.321-07:00Mixtape #5: Take Back the Streets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">collage on card</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">c.1985 ©StudioMONDO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I've lived in the city all my life with the except one brief stay in a sprawling apartment complex in Atlanta that was like a buffer zone between the the city and the suburbs. It was close enough to downtown to have good bus service and close enough to the suburbs to be close to a mall and be near dead silent at night. I loved living in the city, though. Cities are for social people who like to go out and make new friends because gathering places are many and, often, the options are within walking distance of each other. The suburbs tend to be for those with families who already have a core group of friends and neighbors to socialize with. As I've gotten older I've started think about a third mode of living: the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br />Now that i have a car (which, for those that know me, is a fairly recent development) the country's lure of quiet solitude beckons me and i think i could be comfortable with intermittent/molasses slow Internet (i have Verizon DSL now so how much worse could it be?), lame TV reception (i have a digital box that barely works anymore but i don't watch much TV anyhow). My Mom lives in the country and is very content to have satellite TV but she also has her sewing hobby and lots of family and friends to visit. I wish i had more time to go and visit her except i don't know how many more times i can spend the night sleeping on, what may be, the same bed i had when i was 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br />Still, for right now, i love living in the city.<br /><br />The <b>Take Back the Streets</b> mixtape:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">A1 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fear/the_record_f3/" target="_blank">Fear - I Love Livin' in the City</a><br />A2 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/living_colour/vivid_f1/" target="_blank">Living Colour - Open Letter (To a Landlord)</a><br />A3 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nina_hagen/fearless/" target="_blank">Nina Hagen - New York, New York</a><br />A4 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grace_jones/inside_story_f1/" target="_blank">Grace Jones - Barefoot in Beverly Hills</a><br />A5 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/simple_minds/themes_for_great_cities__definitive_collection_79_81/" target="_blank">Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities</a><br />A6 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/seventh_wave/things_to_come_f2/" target="_blank">Seventh Wave - Metropolis</a><br />A7 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_motors/tenement_steps.p/" target="_blank">The Motors - Metropolis</a><br />A8 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/eurythmics/touch/" target="_blank">Eurythmics - The City Never Sleeps</a><br />A9 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/randy_newman/little_criminals/" target="_blank">Randy Newman - Baltimore</a><br />A10 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/elvis_costello/get_happy___f11/" target="_blank">Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam</a><br /><br />B1 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/the_platters/everest_golden_greats/" target="_blank">The Platters - Harbor Lights</a><br />B2 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david_and_david/boomtown_f2/" target="_blank">David & David - All Alone in the Big City</a><br />B3 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/10_000_maniacs/in_my_tribe_f3/" target="_blank">10,000 Maniacs - City of Angels</a><br />B4 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/frankie_goes_to_hollywood/welcome_to_the_pleasuredome_f22/" target="_blank">Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Do You Know the Way to San Jose</a><br />B5 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/rufus_and_chaka_khan/ask_rufus/" target="_blank">Rufus feat. Chaka Khan - Hollywood</a><br />B6 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/flash_and_the_pan/flash_and_the_pan_f4/" target="_blank">Flash & The Pan - California</a><br />B7 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/siouxsie_and_the_banshees/cities_in_dust_f9/" target="_blank">Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust</a><br />B8 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/talking_heads/fear_of_music_f11/" target="_blank">Talking Heads - Cities</a><br />B9 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/the_b_52s/mesopotamia/" target="_blank">B-52s - Mesopotamia</a><br />B10 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_silencers/a_letter_from_st__paul/" target="_blank">The Silencers - Letter From St. Paul</a><br />B11 <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_lounge_lizards/the_lounge_lizards_f1/" target="_blank">The Lounge Lizards -Harlem Nocturne / Do the Wrong Thing </a></span></div>
<br />Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.8951118 -77.036365838.7962463 -77.1942943 38.993977300000005 -76.8784373tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-87666753318632477102011-12-26T20:14:00.000-08:002011-12-26T20:14:46.770-08:00New to Me Music: Twink "Itsy Bits & Bubbles"I don't remember how I discovered <a href="http://twink.net/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Twink</b></a> (aka Mike Langlie, a very nice guy f.y.i.) but I'm glad I did. Twink's music is composed for and played on toy pianos and other odd things ranging from kitchen utensils to music boxes to 8-bit video game samples. He often collaborates with other musicians to make music that can be hyper-cute (in a good way, mind you) to oddly spooky. I have a copy of his limited edition version of "<a href="http://twink.net/info_toybox.html" target="_blank"><b>A Toy Box</b></a>" which is incredibly entertaining. As I get more disposable income I will definitely add more Twink to my record collection.<br />
The latest collection of Twinkiness is called "Itsy Bits & Bubbles" and, after you listen to the widget below, how can you not want to have it to brighten up your day on a regular basis?<br />
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Si j'avais une lance-roquette...<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Side One:</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol><li><b>Ministry</b><i> - Thieves</i></li>
<li><i>- Just Like You</i></li>
<li><i>- All Day</i></li>
<li><i>- Stigmata</i></li>
<li><b>1000 Homo DJs - </b><i>Apathy</i></li>
<li><b>Front 242</b> - <i>Agony (Until Death)</i></li>
<li><i>- Angst</i></li>
<li><b>Ministry</b> - <i>Twitch (Version 2)</i></li>
<li><b>Cabaret Voltaire</b> - <i>No One Here</i></li>
<li><b>Front 242</b> - <i>Geography II</i></li>
</ol></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Side Two:</b><br />
<ol><li><b>Front 242 - </b><i>Funkahdafi</i></li>
<li><b>The The</b> - <i>Gravitate to Me</i></li>
<li><b>Nine Inch Nails - </b><i>Terrible Lie</i></li>
<li><b>Big Pig</b><i> </i><b>- </b><i>I Can't Break Away</i></li>
<li><b>The Fall</b> - <i>Copped It</i></li>
<li><b>The Weathermen</b> - <i>Poison</i></li>
<li><b>Age of Chance</b> - <i>Kiss</i></li>
<li><b>Neon Judgement</b><i> </i><b>- </b><i>Chinese Black</i></li>
<li><b>Chris & Cosey</b> - <i>Exotika</i></li>
<li><b>Borghesia</b> - <i>No Hope No Fear</i></li>
<li><i> </i><b>Front 242</b> - <i>Geography II</i></li>
</ol></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-17482998561260984042011-02-09T21:56:00.000-08:002011-02-09T21:56:07.126-08:00Mixtape #3: Cafe Flesh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AHC3e6bv5ZU/TVNlGeQOHWI/AAAAAAAAASo/CccBnZHPnHw/s1600/cafe+flesh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AHC3e6bv5ZU/TVNlGeQOHWI/AAAAAAAAASo/CccBnZHPnHw/s400/cafe+flesh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Move Over, Bambi </i>by Guy Mondo, collage on card</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used to be a regular patron of the local repertory and art house movie theaters here until they started going under due to competition from the multiplexes</span>, cable TV and home video. People no longer had to wait for a favorite vintage or foreign film to occasionally be scheduled for small screens anymore. Many of those theaters fell victim to developers when the owners could no longer afford to stay in their buildings. Long gone are my favorite movie houses like RKO Keiths, The Town, The Ontario, the Circle Theater chain, The Georgetown, The Key and The Biograph. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> A few of these theaters tried to draw in audiences with special midnight showings of cult films. The Key<i>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</i> for several years while ran late shows of The Georgetown had moderate success with Bob Guccione's attempt at high-brow porn, <i>Caligula</i>.<b> </b><a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theater/800/"><b>The Biograph</b></a> also ran cult movies and annually hosted the Spike and Mike animation festivals which spawned the likes of <i>Ren & Stimpy</i> and <i>Beavis and Butthead.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"> One of the movies to make the midnight rounds at The Biograph was <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/movies/oc/cafe.html"><b><i>Cafe Flesh</i></b></a>, an unlikely combination of dialog that references 1940's gangster-movie slang, deadpan acting, minimalist chiaroscuro sets and lighting, Red Scare atomic paranoia all wrapped in a surprisingly accessible Avant-garde package. The big surprise here, though, is that this is a <i><b>porn</b></i> film! It was written by <i>CSI: Las Vegas</i> scriptwriter Jerry Stahl who's life of addiction was was the subject of the film <i>Permanent Midnight. Cafe Flesh's </i>plot (yes, it does have one!) involves a future where 99% of the population has been rendered incapable of having sex without becoming violently ill. To assuage their stifled libidos, the remaining 1% are required by law to perform sex acts for their benefit.<i> </i>One of the venues for these shows is Cafe Flesh where a smarmy MC taunts the audience while introducing the performances that border on the surreal. The soundtrack was written and performed by Mitchell Froom (ex-husband of singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega).</div><div style="text-align: left;"> As much as I like Froom's original score I figured I could give the film a different ambience with music from my collection. The result was a tape I played in my Walkman on my bus ride to work on a regular basis. Tracks in <i><span style="color: blue;">BLUE</span></i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"> are bits of dialog from the movie.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Tracks:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Welcome to Cafe Flesh</span> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Hungry So Angry - </i>Medium Medium</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>All That I Wanted - </i>Belfegore</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: blue;">Gushers</i><i></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Sensoria - </i>Cabaret Voltaire</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - </i>Dominatrix</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Pleasure is a widow maker...</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">Contort Yourself - </span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">James White and The Contortions</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Need is the destination</span></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Hot Doggy - </span></span></i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Colourbox</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Ask the Angels - </i>Patti Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The skull in the cage</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Faith Healer - </i>The Sensational Alex Harvey Band</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Max outs Angel</i></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>No apologies</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>The Uh-Oh Squad - </i>Robert Ellis Orrall</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>She's in Parties</i><i> - </i>Bauhaus</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Angel's debut</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Angel Face - </i>Shock</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything - </i>Rough Trade</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Max is back on top (my turn to laugh)</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Duel - </i>Propaganda</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Revenge - </i>Ministry</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Moms, Max and the Poem</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Let Me Cry - </i>Yello</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i style="color: blue;">Uh-oh, trouble in Paradise</i><i style="color: blue;"> </i> </span></span><i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i> </span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Big Time - </span></span></i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Peter Gabriel</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Imagination - </i>Belouis Some</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><i>The legendary Johnny Rico</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Talk to Me - </i>I Am Siam</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Will's Mood - </i>Doug E. Fresh</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Intro - </i>Skafish </span></span><i><span style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></div>Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-34067732995199941442011-01-12T22:20:00.000-08:002011-01-12T22:20:18.545-08:00Mixtape #2: Pop is a Weasel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TS6L2m5dbyI/AAAAAAAAARo/Rvyf2A5fD8g/s1600/The_Mirage_by_StudioMONDO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="387" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TS6L2m5dbyI/AAAAAAAAARo/Rvyf2A5fD8g/s400/The_Mirage_by_StudioMONDO.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"The Mirage" by <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Guy Mondo, collage on card</span></i><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i>A lot of the time I have a theme in mind when i record a mixtape. It's like having my own version of my favorite radio stations from my youth like WGTB-FM and WHFS-FM. Sometimes that theme gets sidetracked by my looking through my collection for songs, looking through my piles of clippings for the cover collage, cooking dinner, etc.</div><div style="text-align: left;">That's probably what happened with the first side of this tape. I think I had some kind of "good-bad-ugly" side of romance theme going before i lost track of what i was doing. Maybe I just lost interest in looking for more songs in my collection. Whatever happened I bounced around differing subjects until I was running out of space. I hate to have long stretches of silence at the end of a tape so, if there's not enough time left for a full-sized pop song, I like to fill that little space with odd, short song samples or bits of dialogue from movies and TV, hence, side one ends with <i><b>"Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) - Scene 1" </b></i>performed by The Chinese Academy of Peking Opera.<br />
Side two finds me exploring a more left-of-the-dial indie-style playlist with the theme being danceable world pop.<b> </b><br />
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<b>The Tracks:</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;">A1 Main Source - Looking At the Front Door</div><div style="text-align: left;">A2 Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity</div><div style="text-align: left;">A3 Howard Hewitt - If I Could Only Have That Day Back</div><div style="text-align: left;">A4 Talk Talk - Pictures of Bernadette</div><div style="text-align: left;">A5 D-Mob - That's the Way of the World</div><div style="text-align: left;">A6 Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn</div><div style="text-align: left;">A7 Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra - Deep in Vogue</div><div style="text-align: left;">A8 Janet Jackson - Escapade</div><div style="text-align: left;">A9 Black Box - Everybody</div><div style="text-align: left;">A10 Kane Gang - Don't Look Any Further<br />
A11 The Chinese Academy of Peking Opera - Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) </div><div style="text-align: left;">B1 Black Uhuru - Brutal</div><div style="text-align: left;">B2 Bad Brains - I and I Survive</div><div style="text-align: left;">B3 Dr. John the Nighttripper - Walk on Gilded Splinters</div><div style="text-align: left;">B4 Ray Lema - Kamulang</div><div style="text-align: left;">B5 Desmond Dekker - Israelites</div><div style="text-align: left;">B6 Ofra Haza - Taw Shi</div><div style="text-align: left;">B7 Les Negresses Vertes - Danse des Negresses Vertes</div><div style="text-align: left;">B8 Mandingo Griot Society - I Haven't Seen My Lover</div><div style="text-align: left;">B9 Augustus Pablo - Pablo Meets Mr. Bassie</div><div style="text-align: left;">B10 The Specials - Message to Rudy</div><div style="text-align: left;">B11 Bad Brains - The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth</div>Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-30404649083224717442010-12-30T12:20:00.000-08:002010-12-30T12:58:29.142-08:00Mixtape #1: Jesus Swept<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TRzvF4VzXGI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/lt_c4z2sWOM/s1600/Jesus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TRzvF4VzXGI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/lt_c4z2sWOM/s400/Jesus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556578924570565730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >"Jesus Swept" ©</span><span style="font-size:85%;">Guy Mondo, collage on card c.1987</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">About the title/cover:<br /></span>Legend has it that, before he got famous, Jesus was a carpenter in his step-dad's shop. I guess, like any employee, he had to do a lot of different things around the shop so i'm pretty sure he had to sweep up all the time. I bet Joseph probably had to give his "Son-O-God" stepson a reality check every now and then, too, along the lines of "I don't care who your <span style="font-style: italic;">daddy</span> is, you work or you don't eat! Now, get t'sweeping before I put my sandal up your ass!"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Tracks:</span></span><br />A1 Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - I'm in a Different World<br />A2 Soul II Soul - Keep on Moving<br />A3 The Call - Jealousy<br />A4 David Sylvian - Let the Happiness In<br />A5 Cherrelle - Everything I Miss At Home<br />A6 Black - You Don't Alway Do What's Best for You<br />A7 The Sugarcubes - Planet<br />A8 Stan Ridgeway - Mission in Life<br />A9 Shreikback - Faded Flowers<br />A10 Peter Gabriel - Of These, Hope (Reprise)<br />B1 Berlin - Sex (I'm a...)<br />B2 The Fixx - Saved by Zero<br />B3 Guadalcanal Diary - Where Angels Fear to Tread<br />B4 Skid Row - 18 & Life<br />B5 Concrete Blonde - It'll Chew You Up and Spit You Out<br />B6 Faith No More - Falling to Pieces<br />B7 Klark Kent - Don't Care<br />B8 Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygene<br />B9 Public Image Ltd. - Like That<br />B10 Guesch Patti - Etienne<br />B11 The Police - Nothing Achieving<br />B12 Dick Orkin - Empire Carpet adGuy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297338231544427940.post-23417168225407089902010-12-27T09:01:00.000-08:002010-12-27T09:07:29.543-08:00here we go...!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TRjHoaHglRI/AAAAAAAAAQY/YAQWmjKpMec/s1600/Clipart%2BCassette%2BTape.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M3M5CZI8MdU/TRjHoaHglRI/AAAAAAAAAQY/YAQWmjKpMec/s320/Clipart%2BCassette%2BTape.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555409637381018898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">I used to make a lot of little collages as covers to mixtapes I'd made for friends and for my own personal enjoyment. Every now and then a recipient got the wrong idea as to the "meaning" of the content of the tape. Sometimes I hoped for something that wasn't what I'd hoped for. So, now, I've started this blog of my playlists and, maybe, I'll tell some related stories, too</span>.Guy Mondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356036286362975036noreply@blogger.com1