“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 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.” – Rob Gordon (John Cusack) in High Fidelity. (Thanks to Toby for reminding me of this great quote)
“Over the last twenty-five years the mix tape has become a paradigmatic form of popular expression. It is one part Victorian flower album, one part commonplace book, one part collage, and one part recital. The maker dubs onto cassette or burns onto CD a group of songs by other hands, the selection and sequence intended to compose a billet-doux, score a dance party, prove a point, or simply demonstrate the compiler’s taste and expertise. It is a natural outcome of home-recording technology, and represents a back-porch, scaled-down amateur version of the highly competitive art of the DJ.” Luc Sante from Disco Dreams published in The New York Review of Books
I asked movie bloggers to to use this idea of a mixtape to create a list of movies that fit together in some way, in any way. This is what they came up with:
Toby from blahblahblahgay:
Mixtape 1 – A Tiny Flame to Cup One’s Hand Around and Protect From the Wind
Mixtape 2 – Home Sweet Home
Mixtape 3 – Dude, It’s A Volleyball!
Andrew from a fistful of films:
A trip to the movies with a Movie Mixtape
Anna from Defiant Success:
Mixtape 1
Mixtape 2
Mixtape 3
Mixtape 4
Mixtape 5
Mixtape 6
Brittani from Rambling Film:
Mixtape – Rock Bottom
Alex from And So it Begin
Bergman Not By Bergman Mixtape
Brian Schuck from Films From Beyond the Time Barrier:
Mixtape
Sofia from Rörliga bilder och tryckta ord
Mixtape – The Unexpected Visit
I feel particularly honoured by this entry, It is the first time Sofia from Sweden has posted in English since the last time she participated in one of my blogathon.
Henrik from Fripps filmrevyer
80’s ActionMixtape
Alex from Boycotting Trends.
Childhood Portraits Mixtape
Nick from Cinema Romantico
Lovers on the lam Mixtape
Elwood from From The Depths of DVD Hell
The Suprise Badass Mixtape
Jess from French Toast Sunday
Life Could be a Dream Mixtape
Girls Mixtape
Nick from French Toast Sunday
Captive(8ed Audience) Mixtape
Marc from French Toast Sunday
Cold Hard B!#@h Mixtape
Does That Make Me Crazy? Mixtape
Rich from Wide Screen World
The Trek captains volume Mixtape
My own Mixtapes:
“Cover Songs” Mixtape
Trouble in Mind Mixtape
Fandango Mixtape
Anyone else who wishes to take part or if I have missed you off the list email me fandangogroovers@gmail.com or post a comment below.
Here’s my contribution “The Suprise Badass Mixtape”
http://fromthedepthsofdvdhell.blogspot.co.uk/
or more accuratly this is the link
http://fromthedepthsofdvdhell.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mixtape-movies-suprise-badass-mixtape.html
A lovely blogathon. Great idea!
I had so much fun doing this! It was such a great idea for a blogathon 😀