Rub Paw Press

This Could Be Love    Alkaline Trio
No One’s Gonna Love You    Band of Horses
Love Song    The Cure
This Modern Love (Dave Pianka’s Making Time Remix)    Bloc Party
Space Age Love Song    A Flock Of Seagulls
Lovefool    The Cardigans
I Believe In a Thing Called Love    The Darkness
Why Can’t There Be Love    Dee Edwards
Tainted love    Gloria Jones
Who’s Makin’ Love To Your Old Lady    Johnnie Taylor
Pavlove    Fall Out Boy
Fell In Love With A Girl    The White Stripes
What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding    Elvis Costello

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I do not know how you, the assumed reader, feel about Valentine’s Day. I think I have been in a situation where one could or should formally acknowledge the day with an other about two times. Since then I’ve fashioned a sense of affected obliviousness towards the holiday, to the extent that I no longer notice whether other people are celebrating or whatever. Do you do this? Have you done this? Maybe everybody pays such intense non-attention to the day that, in their cultivated detachment they don’t notice the intense non-attention paid by everyone around them. They/we assume that people are ‘celebrating Valentine’s Day’. I am writing this in response to my internal doubts regarding the existence of Valentine’s Day, besides it having a space on the calendar that, if pointed to would be identified as such.

That being said, it seems to me that Valentine’s Day is as good a day as any to make a mixtape for someone or to just make a mixtape and see if anyone listens to it. So I decided to make a Valentine’s Day mix – the object of my affection being the Internet (<3 y’all). I wanted the mix to be new and edgy so instead of basing my choices primarily on lyrical content or sonic mood I did the following:

1. Opened iTunes
2. Typed ‘Want’ into search window
3. Selected songs
4. Arranged songs

When I was making this mix I thought that I should ask Anna, ‘Kitten in Chief’ at Philadelphia dating blog Shmitten Kitten, if she wanted to post the mix I was making on her site. She thought it was a good idea and made one for me, using a rule similar to the one that governed my mix (watchword: Love). This may mean that we are Internet Dating.

Her mix is above. My mix is on Schmitten Kitten.