And yet, the swan song of the tape just won't quit.
I used to make collages on the covers of my mix tapes, carefully cutting out the perfect image or phrase that could add to the whimsical whole. I still have a major thing for collage art, and it's completely due to my old mix tape covers. The last true mix tape I ever made? "Love, Loss, and Lust: Valentine's Day 1998." I made one for each of my girlfriends, and the covers were a funky mix of pink and red hearts, ironic given that folks like the Smiths and Dylan lived inside.
A year ago, T and I read Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song At A Time together. I say "together" because we read it one after another, but during both spells took to reading from it aloud. This story captures the beauty and terror of falling in love, and in equal measure the terror of having that love torn away from you, and the quiet beauty that comes with healing. All set to music, of course. To the couple who takes to speaking to each other in "High Fidelity" quotes, this memoir cut right to the heart, quite literally.
So in honor of Rob and Renee (and also to the other Rob, and to Laura, Barry, and Dick), I offer Micah and Ruth. When I saw this wedding invitation suite, I stopped in my tracks, completely floored. This might be the longest preamble in the history of wedding invitation preambles to say, very simply, that I want to be friends with this couple. Micah and Ruth rock.
Studio on Fire: Mix Tape Letterpress
6 comments:
love love LOVE! and man, me and my Boom Box used to make some jammin' mix tapes... the best was when you'd wait for THAT song to come on the radio... my mom would always yell at me b/c I'd cadipult (sp?) off the bed whilst doing homework to press Record quickly enough to catch the opening lyrics. Le sigh. Kids these days just don't realize...
wow. now I feel kind of old.
Awesome invites. Oh man... mixed tapes remind me of way back when i used to have a crush on someone, and i'd make them a scary mix tape. lol.
I love those invites!
RelentlessBride
I still have the Valentine's Mix from 1998 as well as the mix tape you made me our senior year...of high school! LOVE that particular collage! Yay for mix tapes. And what an incredible wedding invitation suite.
those are such fun invites, completely different from the standard white ones.
More pretty paper!! These are great!
Man, do I ever miss the mixed tape. How do junior high boys let girls know they like them anymore? Wait, don't answer that . . . let's just stick with the invitations being so fun.
As for the "High Fidelity" reference, (tangent warning!) have you read the book? Fantastic stuff; liked it better than the movie, and given my Cusack love, that is saying a lot.
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