RIP BMW - a requiem mixtape

It’s been a little over a month since my old car was donated. It was my "first car" - a used, 1986 BMW 528e that was handed down from my parents.

It has played a big part of my life - senior year HS, LMU, commuting to internships, joining a band, and starting at Universal.

It was bound to happen though. And to commemorate the old Pimpmobile, I am going to share with you the old mixtape that got me through all the traffic and long commutes between Hollywood and LMU; the summer I worked at RECA and the following year that I interned at Capitol.

You may laugh at this mixtape - oh, and it was definitely an actual cassette - but I loved it. I made it, hoping that it would be a mix that I would never grow tired of. Of course my taste is much more expansive than this little tape but when I listened to it yesterday, it still holds true that I’m not tired of this mix.

Goodbye, BMW. You will be missed.




BMW Mixtape, dated 05/15/04
A side:
MICHAEL BUBLE come fly with me
HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH sugar daddy
PHARRELL frontin’
POSTAL SERVICE dc sleeps alone tonight
SAVES THE DAY nightingale
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS waiting in vain
YELLOWCARD ocean avenue
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE sound of settling

B side:
AMEL LARRIEUX for real
VIVIAN GREEN what is love
N.E.R.D. the way she dances
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE let’s take a ride
THE CURE just like heaven
SADE kiss of life
JOHN MAYER clarity
COLDPLAY parachutes

click here to download my mixtape (in ZIP format)