Radio Free Burrito: The Mix tape, Volume 1

Published: July 24, 2007, 1:44 pm

As long as I can remember, my friends and I made mix tapes for each other. We'd grab stuff off the radio, record each other talking, tape tracks from records, and even grab stuff off the television. A few minutes on the Internets revealed that I was not unique at all in this activity, which is as unsurprising as it is totally awesome. I found myself in an empty house this weekend, and I became inspired by a midnight viewing of Videodrome to audio hijack some dialog from the film, drop in some of the weird audio I've scraped off the tubes in the last couple of months, and put it all together just like I did with those magnetic tapes so many years ago. The audio levels are not as equalized as I'd like, but that's the way it was back then, too, so try to think of it as part of the charm, instead of an annoying technical failing on my part. There aren't any show notes for this one, because we didn't bother to make show notes back in the old days. There are some titles embedded in

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