- Upon waking up at 6:43 a.m. this morning my first thought was not ‘fuck my alarm won’t go off for another forty-five minutes’ it was ‘goody, now I can finish Love is a Mix Tape.’
- Renée loved The Replacements and Alex Chilton and the Meat Puppets. So did I. (page 3)
- It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving. (page 24)
- The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it life like an old mix tape. (page 26)
- I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me. (page 29)
- But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles — it was like being a glam-rock roadie for God. (pages 40 – 41)
- I used one of my favorite rhyme schemes — stolen from the James Merrill poem “The Octopus,” though he’d stolen it himself from W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror — rhyming the first syllable of a trochee with the final syllable in the next line. How could she resist? (page 60)
- The entire chapter ‘Sheena was a man’ which will make your heart ache with longing and make you wish someone loved you like this.
- If I had my way, the story would end here. Renée was always braver. She always wanted to know what happened next. (page 86)
- I hear the noise in his voice, and I hear a boy trying to scare the darkness away. I wish I could hear what happened next, but nothing did. (page 130)
- Page 147 which made me cry so hard that I had to put down the book and go find some Kleenex.
- Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying. (page 190)
- I also assumed I’d never be able to take listening to The Replacements again, but then I made a new friend in the summer of 1999 who wore a rubberband around her wrist with Paul Westerberg’s name written on it. (page 205)
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Hi there…I got here from technorati. I love books and the Replacements too, do you want to be my internet friend?
I once tried to get Alex Chilton to write a jingle for a grocery store chain, but that’s another story…
I loved the book, too, even though I was expecting something totally different.
David
(who loves books, the Replacements, and a warm puppy)
I thought the book would be more music and less Renee. I still dug it even though I think sometimes the writing felt a little forced. Sheffield really hit his stride about mid-way through and the stuff that came off forced (toot. toot. beep. beep) was really natural and deed on towards the end.
I’ve really gotta get me a warm puppy. The book is on order…
i loved the fact that this read like a Rolling Stone article. short chapters and easy language, but i agree – i thought it was going to be different too. i liked it, but wouldn’t let it get to second base.