I work for my college newspaper, the CPJ. Last week at about 2am we realized we had a full page of A&E to fill up. A few poems and a music review later, I had a half a page to play with, so I wrote an article entitled "I Hate Valentine's Day (but I love mixtapes!)". It was quite fun. I wrote about how much this holiday sucks if you're single, how great a mixtape can be for a gift, and how a mixtape can also be great therapy if you're 'as bitter about this commercialize holiday as I am'.

After a bit of ranting and raving and explaining how to make a perfect mix tape, I put the "I'm sorry Casey" mixtape in the paper as an example of a 'drink, think about exboyfriend, listen to music, smile, cry, drink more' mixtape, and then concocted a slightly more bitter one.

Titled simply the 'anti-valentine's day mixtape', the titles themselves show a nice story line (I elaborated a bit with an entertaining personal narrative in the details box). It's all the type of music you wouldn't expect to hear on a loving, affectionate mixtape. Since it's fairly short, and I was using a 90 minute tape when I put this together, I put some Sunn0))) and Merzbow on the B-side to 'calm your nerves'. (The A side was mixed together, fitting into the 45 minutes I had to play with).

I made this tape and am giving it out to quite a few of my single friends for Valentine's day. I also got allot of positive comments from readers of the CPJ regarding my article, I think I may have inspired a few more people to start making them!

The cover art is my friend Andy, with a bit of chocolate syrup on him.
I figure the whole "shot through the chest" photo works with the anti-heart day mix.