Liner Notes

# BITSY VERSION 5.2

! ROOM_FORMAT 1

PAL 0
235,185,133
217,80,207
2,140,2

PAL 1
99,173,217
1,7,112
230,255,4

PAL 2
158,137,50
82,25,6
2,35,153

PAL 3
232,124,229
193,255,2
124,91,173

PAL 4
199,199,199
99,99,99
0,0,0

PAL 5
107,74,133
163,135,32
30,48,107

PAL 6
0,0,0
138,254,239
253,255,99

PAL 7
255,228,3
212,2,34
32,87,27

ROOM 0
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 1 3,13
EXT 5,13 7 12,13
PAL 0

ROOM 1
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,k,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 2 3,13
EXT 5,13 0 12,13
PAL 1

ROOM 2
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 3 3,13
EXT 5,13 1 12,13
PAL 2

ROOM 3
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 4 3,13
EXT 5,13 2 12,13
PAL 3

ROOM 4
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 5 3,13
EXT 5,13 3 12,13
PAL 4

ROOM 5
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 6 3,13
EXT 5,13 4 12,13
PAL 5

ROOM 6
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 7 3,13
EXT 5,13 5 12,13
PAL 6

ROOM 7
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
e,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,e
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,l,m,m,m,m,m,m,n,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,p,0,0,0,0,0,0,o,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,q,r,r,r,r,r,r,s,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,a,f
f,a,0,0,0,h,0,0,0,0,i,0,0,0,a,f
g,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,g
b,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d,c
EXT 10,13 0 3,13
EXT 5,13 6 12,13
PAL 7

TIL a
00000000
11111111
10000001
10100101
10000001
10111101
11111111
00000000
WAL true

TIL b
00000000
00111111
01011010
01100110
01100110
01011010
00111111
00000000
>
00000000
00111111
01110110
01000110
01100010
01101110
00111111
00000000

TIL c
00000000
11111100
01011010
01100110
01100110
01011010
11111100
00000000
>
00000000
11111100
01110110
01000110
01100010
01101110
11111100
00000000

TIL d
00000000
11111111
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
11111111
00000000

TIL e
00000000
01111110
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110

TIL f
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110

TIL g
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110
01000010
01111110
01111110
00000000

TIL h
00000000
00010001
00110011
01110111
01110111
00110011
00010001
00000000

TIL i
00000000
10001000
11001100
11101110
11101110
11001100
10001000
00000000

TIL k
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000

TIL l
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00001110
00001000
00001000
00000000

TIL m
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
10101010
00000000
00000000
00000000

TIL n
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
11111000
00011000
00011000
00000000

TIL o
00011000
00000000
00011000
00000000
00011000
00000000
00011000
00000000

TIL p
00001000
00000000
00001000
00000000
00001000
00000000
00001000
00000000

TIL q
00001000
00001000
00001110
00001110
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000

TIL r
00000000
00000000
10101010
10101010
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000

TIL s
00011000
00011000
11111000
11111000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000

SPR 10
00010000
00111000
01111100
11111110
11111110
00000000
00000000
00000000
>
00010000
00101000
01000100
10000010
11111110
00000000
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_q
POS 1 10,9

SPR 11
00000000
00111100
01110010
10110001
01000010
00111100
00000000
00000000
>
00000000
00111100
01001110
10001101
01000010
00111100
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_r
POS 2 6,6

SPR 12
00000000
00001100
00111110
01111111
11111111
01000100
00000000
00010001
>
00000000
00001100
00111110
01111111
11111111
00001001
00100000
00000010
DLG SPR_s
POS 2 9,6

SPR 13
00000000
00000000
00000000
01010101
11111111
11011011
11011110
01111110
>
00000100
00100000
00000000
10101010
11111111
11111110
10101011
11101111
DLG SPR_t
POS 2 9,7

SPR 14
00111000
01000100
10000010
10000010
10000010
01000100
00111000
00000000
>
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_u
POS 3 5,4

SPR 15
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
>
00111000
01111100
10011110
00001110
10011110
01111100
00111000
00000000
DLG SPR_v
POS 3 6,4

SPR 16
00001000
00011100
00011110
00010110
00010110
00111001
01110000
11100000
>
00001000
00011100
00011110
00011110
00011110
00111001
01110000
11100000
DLG SPR_w
POS 3 5,8

SPR 17
00011100
00111110
00011100
00011100
00011111
00100000
01000000
01000000
>
00011100
00111110
00010100
00010100
00011111
00100000
01000000
01000000
DLG SPR_x
POS 3 10,5

SPR 18
11111111
11111001
10111111
11011101
11111111
10111001
10111111
11111111
>
11111111
10001111
11011101
11100111
11111111
11000111
11110001
11111111
DLG SPR_14
POS 5 6,5

SPR 19
11111111
11100111
11011011
11011011
11011011
11011011
11100111
11111111
>
11111111
11000111
10110111
11010001
11011011
11101011
10000111
11111111
DLG SPR_12
POS 5 8,5

SPR A
00000000
00001100
00010100
00100100
00101100
01101100
01100000
00000000
>
00000000
00111000
00100110
00100010
01100010
01100110
00000110
00000000
POS 0 7,9

SPR a
00000000
00000000
01010001
01110001
01110010
01111100
00111100
00100100
DLG SPR_0

SPR b
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_3
POS 0 7,13

SPR c
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_2
POS 0 8,13

SPR d
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_1
POS 1 8,13

SPR e
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_4
POS 1 7,13

SPR f
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_5
POS 2 7,13

SPR g
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_6
POS 2 8,13

SPR h
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_7
POS 3 7,13

SPR i
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_8
POS 3 8,13

SPR j
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_9
POS 4 7,13

SPR k
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_a
POS 4 8,13

SPR l
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_b
POS 5 7,13

SPR m
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_c
POS 5 8,13

SPR n
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_d
POS 6 7,13

SPR o
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_e
POS 6 8,13

SPR p
00000000
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000110
00000000
DLG SPR_f
POS 7 7,13

SPR q
00000000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
01100000
00000000
DLG SPR_g
POS 7 8,13

SPR r
00110000
10110010
11111100
00111000
00111110
00111001
00101100
00100110
>
01000110
00111110
00011100
00011111
00011100
01111110
10010010
00011000
DLG SPR_h
POS 0 5,7

SPR s
00000000
10000001
11100111
10111011
11100111
01100110
00000000
00000000
>
00000000
10000001
01100111
10111011
11100101
01100110
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_l
POS 0 9,5

SPR t
00000001
00000001
00101001
01111111
01111001
01111111
01110001
01111111
DLG SPR_j
POS 0 10,7

SPR u
00000001
00000010
00000011
00000100
00001010
00110001
11001000
00100100
>
00000000
00000011
00000010
00000110
00001001
00110100
11010010
01001001
DLG SPR_k
POS 0 5,4

SPR v
00000000
00011100
10111110
11111011
11111111
10111110
00011100
00000000
DLG SPR_i
POS 0 8,8

SPR w
00000000
00111100
01100110
01000010
01001010
00110010
10000010
01111100
>
01000000
10000000
10011000
10100100
10100100
10001100
01111000
00000000
DLG SPR_m
POS 1 5,5

SPR x
00000000
00101000
01101010
00011100
00011000
01111110
00010100
00000000
>
01000101
11100101
00101000
00001111
11100000
00101110
10101011
10101000
DLG SPR_n
POS 1 8,7

SPR y
01111100
00111000
00011100
00011000
00010000
00000000
00000000
00000000
>
00000000
00000000
01001010
01001010
00001000
00101000
00100000
00100010
DLG SPR_o
POS 1 9,4

SPR z
01000000
01000111
01001000
00101000
00011110
11101001
00001001
00010000
>
00100000
00100000
00100110
10011001
01111001
00001100
00010010
01100010
DLG SPR_p
POS 1 6,9

SPR 1a
11111111
11000011
10100101
10011001
10011001
10100101
11100111
11111111
>
11111111
11000011
10100101
10100101
10011001
10011001
11100111
11111111
DLG SPR_13
POS 5 10,5

SPR 1b
11111111
10101011
11010101
10101011
11010101
10101011
11010101
11111111
>
11111111
11010101
10101011
11010101
10101011
11010101
10101011
11111111
DLG SPR_11
POS 5 5,7

SPR 1c
11111111
10000001
10111101
10100101
10100101
10111101
10000001
11111111
>
11111111
10000001
10100101
10011001
10011001
10100101
10000001
11111111
DLG SPR_10
POS 5 7,7

SPR 1d
11111111
11111111
10000001
11111111
10000001
11111111
10000001
11111111
>
11111111
10000001
11111111
10000001
11111111
10000001
11111111
11111111
DLG SPR_z
POS 5 9,7

SPR 1e
00000000
00000000
01111110
10110001
01000010
00111100
00000000
00000000
>
00000000
00000000
01111110
10000001
01011010
00111100
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_y
POS 5 10,9

SPR 1f
00000000
00111000
01000100
10111010
10101010
10111010
01000100
00111000
>
00000000
00000000
00000000
10000010
11000110
00111000
00000000
00000000
DLG SPR_15
POS 4 7,4

SPR 1g
00000000
01111000
10000100
01000010
01000001
01000001
10001110
01110000
>
01111000
10000100
10000010
01000001
01000001
01000001
01001110
00110000
DLG SPR_18
POS 4 10,5

SPR 1h
00000000
00000000
00011110
00111111
01111111
01111111
01111010
00110000
>
00000000
00001110
00011111
00111111
01111111
01111010
00111000
00010000
DLG SPR_16
POS 4 8,8

SPR 1i
00000000
00000000
11110000
10101000
01010100
10101100
01011000
11110000
>
00000000
00000000
11111000
01010100
10101010
01010110
10101100
11111000
DLG SPR_17
POS 4 5,7

SPR 1j
00011000
00011000
00001010
00111100
00001000
00011100
00100100
00000100
>
00001100
00001100
00001000
00011110
00101000
00011100
00010110
00010000
DLG SPR_1c
POS 6 6,5

SPR 1k
00011000
00011000
00001010
00111100
00001000
00011100
00100100
00000100
>
00001100
00001100
00001000
00011110
00101000
00011100
00010110
00010000
DLG SPR_1b
POS 6 6,8

SPR 1l
00011000
00011000
00001010
00111100
00001000
00011100
00100100
00000100
>
00001100
00001100
00001000
00011110
00101000
00011100
00010110
00010000
DLG SPR_1a
POS 6 9,5

SPR 1m
00011000
00011000
00110100
01011100
00010000
00111000
00101000
00101000
DLG SPR_19
POS 6 9,8

SPR 1n
00000000
00010000
10010100
01010110
01110100
00011000
00010000
00010000
DLG SPR_1d
POS 7 9,7

SPR 1o
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00011100
00110010
00101101
01110111
DLG SPR_1e
POS 7 10,7

SPR 1p
00001100
00000010
00111100
00000000
00011110
00000001
00001001
00000110
>
00010000
00001000
01110000
00000000
00011110
00000001
00000010
00000000
DLG SPR_1f
POS 7 7,6

SPR 1r
00000000
00000000
00000000
00010000
00100000
01110000
01110000
01110000
DLG SPR_1g
POS 7 5,7

ITM 0
00000000
00000000
00000000
00111100
01100100
00100100
00011000
00000000
NAME tea
DLG ITM_0

DLG SPR_0
I'm a cat

DLG ITM_0
You found a nice warm cup of tea

DLG SPR_1
Wavves - Hula Hoop

DLG SPR_2
Guantanamo Baywatch - Baseball

DLG SPR_3
Guantanamo Baywatch - Baseball

DLG SPR_4
Wavves - Hula Hoop

DLG SPR_5
Hella - Women of the 90s

DLG SPR_6
Hella - Women of the 90s

DLG SPR_7
Erase Errata - Suprise! It's Easter

DLG SPR_8
Erase Errata - Suprise! It's Easter

DLG SPR_9
Ty Segall - Skin

DLG SPR_a
Ty Segall - Skin

DLG SPR_b
Thee Oh Sees - Block of Ice

DLG SPR_c
Thee Oh Sees - Block of Ice

DLG SPR_d
The Strange Boys - This Girl Taught Me a Dance

DLG SPR_e
The Strange Boys - This Girl Taught Me a Dance

DLG SPR_f
togetherPANGEA - Blood Blood Blood

DLG SPR_g
togetherPANGEA - Blood Blood Blood

DLG SPR_h
I made this mixtape in February 2017.

DLG SPR_j
Previously I had just crammed whatever songs I wanted to hear over and over onto a CD-R for personal use, bus rides and car journeys...

DLG SPR_k
Or I made fan mixes... like eight songs that represent my favorite RPGMaker art game or Jojo's character.

DLG SPR_i
It was the first time I made a mixtape for someone who was going to make one for me in turn, a reciprocal agreement.

DLG SPR_l
(It's Bruno Buccellati, by the way.)

DLG SPR_m
I think we felt like we had to do something, everything felt so out of control.

DLG SPR_n
Mark Fisher's suicide. 

DLG SPR_o
The 2016 election. 

DLG SPR_p
We had known each other, occasionally sending emails about our main shared interest for a while, but swapping mixtapes represented a new dynamic in the relationship.

DLG SPR_q
When it didn't feel like the world could end at any moment it still felt a lot more openly hostile.

DLG SPR_r
The only love songs that spoke to me were the ones that confessed a deeper neurosis, like ones by The Beach Boys.

DLG SPR_s
I had to manage the tone carefully, nothing overtly romantic for instance, but my general taste in music made that pretty easy. 

DLG SPR_t
My insecurity and misunderstanding my own capacity for attraction had made the dominating romantic streak of any medium of culture repulsive to me. 

DLG SPR_u
I didn't know where things were going, and I didn't want to rush things either. 

DLG SPR_v
There was no denying that exchanging mixtapes was an escalation of the relationship.

DLG SPR_w
I had kind of romanticized what we already had, exchanging lengthy emails 3 or 4 months apart like a friar and a nun at monasteries on opposite ends of Europe. 

DLG SPR_x
Isn't the whole effect kind of ruined if you end up meeting?

DLG SPR_y
Sometimes it's okay to look up, though.

DLG SPR_z
Walking purposefully, looking like you can't be stopped for a chat, blocking out the noise around you.

DLG SPR_10
Letting someone else in means more moving parts to think about, it's overwhelming.

DLG SPR_11
Music can be like a cushion, or like a big duvet all around you muffling the outside world.

DLG SPR_12
To walk along listening to someone else's music is to have them in that space, in a way.

DLG SPR_13
I like where music fits into my routine. 

DLG SPR_14
I like having a solitary life and a routine.

DLG SPR_16
Sharing music was nerve-wracking.

DLG SPR_15
It was also like electricity.

DLG SPR_17
I was sure my tastes would be too weird, or not weird enough, not refined enough, not interesting enough, or somehow just the exact opposite of yours.

DLG SPR_18
I listened to the mix you sent me every day for a while, walking between my house and my desk at grad school, the alleys and shop-lined streets.

DLG SPR_19
When my advisor (so Californian his twitter bio is just "the dude abides") brought me along to a post-conference dinner in a restaurant that would end up costing around 50 bucks a head like it was nothing it was the first time I felt provincial.

DLG SPR_1a
I love west coast music but at the same time I made this mixtape I was feeling so alienated entering a field that seemed to be primarily composed of tech savvy and highly gourmet Californians.

DLG SPR_1b
I have never been to California and anywhere further west than Oklahoma seems unattainable somehow.

DLG SPR_1c
God haha, all of these bands are from the west coast I think, or at leased based out of there.

DLG SPR_1d
Is that the end goal of a mixtape? Or is it more about making these songs exist in this order, and transmitting that to another person?

DLG SPR_1e
Regardless of what could have happened, or will happen, this durational connection over distance can be replayed, what it was at the time. 

DLG SPR_1f
Like, after we swapped mixtapes we met up and after that we started dating. And still are. 

DLG SPR_1g
I guess you can say this mixtape has a happy ending. Not the song, I mean.

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