The Perfect Music Mix

I'm making a CD for a friend. I've never done this before, in all my years being a music lover and receiving mix tapes from people. i've never made one for another.

I started by gathering some of my favorite songs, the ones that meant the most, that moved me the most. After bringing them together I realized so many of them were about God. It was a funny realization for me, I mean i love God, I'm a religious woman, but I had never realized how the songs that sound to me like they could be about God.

And so now an odd predicament. Do I give someone a mix CD of my quasi religious music? In the face of the cultural reality that no one in their right mind listens to religious music in Canada? And to be honest, this is for a friend, that I feel "more then friend" feelings for. So hence the trepidation.

Another trepidation...songs that aren't about God. Are about love...so I worry which songs will be read into. What will he think if he hears this song? that its my personal letter to him? Maybe thats not a bad thing.

IN the end fuck it, i figure, thems are the facts. these are the songs I like and these are the songs he gets.

Some of the selections include Aretha Franklin, Squeeze, The Streets, and Patti Griffin. Really, only the best and I'm even obsessing about lineup and how to arrange the songs so they flow and it all makes sense and hopefully moves my listener.