Untitled Tape 2007
Since this will be the last post for a while, I wanted to end on a positive note. This is a tape that someone made for me in April of 2007. She has made me many tapes since, but I felt this was an apt tape to share today.
At the time I received it, she and I were still getting to know each other. Simultaneously, we were still trying to figure out our own selves as well. It was exciting, it was terrifying. It was an incredibly difficult point in life where I had absolutely no idea what to do with myself. All I knew in that moment was that I had never met another person who seemed to speak the same language as I did through music, and suddenly here they were in my life sending me incredible tapes, talking directly to me through songs. It made me feel like someone understood me even when I was at my worst. It made me feel like someone cared about me at time in my life where I felt incredibly alone. In spite of distance and a multitude of obstacles, in spite of self-doubt and the looming doubt from others, we made it work.
Today we celebrate 10 years of being married. This week also marks 15 years of friendship. Our connection has blossomed to encompass many things of course, but above all and most consistently through those 15 years our bond has been through music. To this day she continues to impress me with her knowledge, regularly turning me on to new musical discoveries and educating me on the history of the old. I still make her tapes too. I also try my best to please her with my DJ skills around the house. In fact, I already have a stack of records to play tonight while we celebrate our Silver Anniversary in the midst of a global health pandemic, eating mac and cheese and drinking wine.
T’ESTIM MOLT LAURA
A tape by Laura Morphine. Circa 2007.
Side A
Side B