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Jun 19, 2008

Cassette from my Ex, a website that posts those old, lovelorn mix tapes, nearly lost to the ages, with short essays that encapsulate the relationship. Martha Bayne writes: What leaps out at me now is how aggressively, hilariously unromantic this playlist is. Most of it is loud, snotty, cynical, depressive, angry, noisy—I mean, the first song is the Descendents’ “Clean Sheets.” There’s not a lot of romantic promise in “Even though you’ll never come clean you know it’s true. Those sheets are dirty. And so are you.”

Cassette from my Ex, a website that posts those old, lovelorn mix tapes, nearly lost to the ages, with short essays that encapsulate the relationship.

Martha Bayne writes:

What leaps out at me now is how aggressively, hilariously unromantic this playlist is. Most of it is loud, snotty, cynical, depressive, angry, noisy—I mean, the first song is the Descendents’ “Clean Sheets.” There’s not a lot of romantic promise in “Even though you’ll never come clean you know it’s true. Those sheets are dirty. And so are you.”

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