Aug 25, 2005 15:06
"With love, Brian, 11/13/00."
Re-reading Letters:
Side a: Ranier Maria - Pin Cushion. Duster - Untitled 73. Lush - The Invisible Man. Wheat - I Don't Hold You. Superdrag - Annetichrist. Sweeder - Bells Lament. Evergreen - Freight Trains and Windsongs. Movietone - 1930s Beach House. Slint - Washer.
Side b: The One AM Radio - 99 100. South - Smoke. The Clientele - Bicycles. The Cardigans - Celia Inside. The Lucksmiths - I Can't Believe It's Not Better. The American Analog Set - Dim Stars (The Boy In Your Arms). Mojave 3 - Tomorrow's Taken. Embrace - My Weakness Is None Of Your Business. Archers of Loaf - Chumming the Ocean. Radiohead - How I Made My Millions.
I haven't been in touch with this person since mid-2001. We met on the Internet and had a very satisfactory letter-writing friendship for about a year, the sort of thing where I was on the lookout all of the time for interesting things to send him. Our speciality was hijacking the free postage on art gallery fliers and using them to write to one another.
I gradually lost touch with him for various reasons. When I was moving, I found a packet of things I collected and never sent him, as well as the case to this tape. I'm going to remake it; I know for a fact that R. has most of this stuff on vinyl.