Ode to the Compilation

Candidate for project of the year?

I don't know if I enjoyed this project just because of my love for music or if I...yeah that was pretty much it. It was kind of like assigning an avid sports fan a Sunday afternoon television watching assignment. I am not saying that my project is going to be better than those of my classmates, I am just saying that I likely enjoyed the process more than they did. Maybe because I spent the majority of my Thanksgiving break compiling the anthology.
The most difficult task to achieve was coming up with a theme--not that it was alien to me but that I had so many ideas to chose from. I did not want to simply chose a playlist from my itunes, that would be cheating. Instead, I decided to compile a grouping of songs from what I am into right now. I titled it "Toasting Bagels In My Underwear" because I like to play such songs during my morning routine, one that commonly includes the aforementioned task. I wanted to do a themed mix that focused a collection of songs on a single word or idea but doing so would have excluded many songs that I wanted to share. It would have also lacked proper transitions and flow. Mixing like writing is difficult because, no matter how much time you put into it, it can always be improved upon. I am going to regret, after I turn it in, that I did not include certain tracks or transition something a certain way. An essay or research paper is just a string of "tracks" that need to be tweeked on the ends to flow into the next idea or song.
This project was truly an enjoyable one and I look forward to seeing what my fellow mixers bring to the table.

My Cutup

Taken from the Onion "Thanksgiving Won't Be the Same This Year Without a House"

I still do not know if I understand the idea of write-ups after several attempts at learning both the process and the meaning behind it. I especially do not know how someone could make a living off of it. I feel that it was just a scrambled up mess that was a lot less creative than the original work. I know one thing, I am not a very good cut-up artist.