A CD for you, from me.

One thing about me that a lot of people do not understand is that I love CDs as if they were invented yesterday. I even still buy some of them. Mostly because I love the idea of having a vintage suitcase strategically placed in my living room to store all my CDs in. I also have a weird anxiety that if I don't purchase the CD of one of my favorite bands that they will somehow find out or they may disappear because of poor sales. Crazy -- I know, I know. 

What I love more than a CD from a store is a CD that someone has made for me. I think the best people you will meet are the people that still have a package of blank CDs that are willing to use one just for your sake. It makes my heart flutter. I have a collection of CDs my friends made me from Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, Tegan & Sara, The Cure, and endless amounts of mixes. Each one of these CDs have a memory of someone attached to them. A story as to why they burned that specific CD for me and which songs I had to listen to. It is just a cute thing to give someone a CD.

The first CD someone ever made me was in the fifth grade. It was my boyfriend at the time and he compiled quite the CD of Michelle Branch and P.O.D. Yup, P.O.D. I still have kept away safely, but now I just skip to the Michelle Branch songs.

The last CD I ever received from someone was last summer and it was for City and Colour's Sometimes album. It has been almost a year and I still refuse to load it on to my Ipod. It is one of my favorite "safety albums" that I pop in during long road trips or rainy days in my car. 

Maybe the fact that CDs from people are few and far between is what I like best about them. Or maybe it is the people who give them to me. Or the songs. Or who knows, maybe  it is just because they are tangible. 

I also miss making them for people. I would make sure to list all the songs on a piece of paper that would be attached. I would also have an explanation for every song because I was so nervous they would hate it. An embarrassing story is that I actually asked out my boyfriend to prom by making him a CD of Death Cab for Cutie songs and bolding different letters in the track listings to spelling out "PROM?" What a dweeb I am.

Nonetheless, I want to make or receive a CD sometime soon.