Date Machine: Rate My Pick-Up Lines

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vix_en25 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:59:34 GMT

a friend of mine made me a mix cd that ONLY had songs he knew I liked. now thats love. A boyfriend made me 7 mix cd's and I have only listened to them once after we broke up and never since

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amboabe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:31:13 GMT

I make a fair amount of mix tapes for friends, but I've only made one mix tape for a woman I liked (the cheerleader from one of my earlier posts). In the end I think I liked listening to it more than she did, but it's always that way with mix tapes, you're just playing your own songs to tug at your own heart strings.

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Toluca_86 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:48:08 GMT

yeah that's kinda creepy

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Thea — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:54:43 GMT

Right. Actually mixtapes are adorable... just not 5 cd's all wrapped up in my mailbox the day after someone gave me a ride home. The other creep factor I forgot to mention about these premature mixes is they were all ambient music. Not all from the same person either.

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amboabe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:09:44 GMT

Marge Simpson said "Music is none of my business."

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Toluca_86 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:28:30 GMT

aww... I think once you know someone a little, mixtapes are great. It's a good way to learn about new music -whether or not you like every single song on the mix isn't the point.

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Thea — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:45:43 GMT

I have always found it creepy when men give me a mixtape, especially really early on. What am I supposed to do with it? If I don't like it I can't help thinking they're idiots, and hopelessly deluded ones for getting my tastes wrong. Am I supposed to give a critique? share my associations with the songs? I'm not surprised this friendly little overture of yours went flat.

How about you up the ante by recording an original song based on something you project onto the next woman you're idly curious about? And then put in on myspace. This didn't work either but when I was sad it would always cheer me up to play the song and laugh at it.

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anathema_teatime — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:24:13 GMT

There's that Leonard Cohen line, from the grossly overplayed but still well-written "Hallelujah," . . . "but you don't really care for music, do ya?" I said, casually, to my husband (a musician), "That's such an odd concept. I mean, how could someone not care for music at all, as opposed to for some genre of music?" He swears he's met 'em.

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amboabe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:17:36 GMT

dlgallian: I know flattery of other people is the recommended route in flirting, but I'd rather just have fun with someone than feel like I've got to play up to them. So I thought it would be sporting to instead share something that was currently amusing me. Musical taste is almost entirely irrelevant to personal affinity with people, so I wasn't really trying to communicate something deep and meaningful about myself, just passing along something that was making me happy and that, hopefully, would function the same way for the other person. You know, like flowers.

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dlgallian — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:15 GMT

I think the fundamental flaw of a pick-up attempt like that is that it only has to do with YOU. Picking someone up is all about flattering THEM, showing them that you think THEY are special, not "oh look how special I am." Your move probably came off as too self-centered, too "look how cool and deep I am, I use someone else's art to express myself."

P.S. Read the goddamn profile. You're such a misanthrope.

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Toluca_86 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:10:41 GMT

I do like the Proclaimers. But I think when you do manage to find someone who's a freak in the same ways you are, the bond is stronger than with someone you share more normal interests with... I just think it might help to get to know someone a little first, before letting it all hang out, so to speak.

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vix_en25 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:55:34 GMT

that video is creepy. i wouldnt respond to you either if you sent it. good song though.