LOVE IS A MIX TAPE: A MEMOIR PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Rob Sheffield | 240 pages | 04 Mar 2010 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9780749928759 | English | London, United Kingdom Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield: | : Books She had a solemn look in her eyes. She was wearing a Bob Jones University sweatshirt. I remembered being a kid, standing on the bridge over the Pine Tree Brook, when we would find a wax six-ring holder from a six-pack the older kids had killed. We would touch a match to one corner, hold it over the water, and just watch it drip, drip, drip. Six rings of wax, twisting and contorting permanently, doing a spastic death dance like the one Christopher Lee does at the end in Horror Of Dracula when the sunlight hits him. The minutes dripped by, each one totally bending and twisting my shape. We stopped getting up to flip the tape, and just listened to dead air. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside me that were irreversible. I remembering that we discussed The Towering Inferno that night, the scene with Steve McQueen, the valiant firefighter, and William Holden, the evil tycoon who owns the hotel. And all fires are bad! Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. Love is a mix tape. About the Author. He has been a rock critic and pop culture journalist for fifteen years, and has appeared on various MTV and VH1 shows. He lives in Brooklyn. Show More. Related Searches. View Product. 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Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. Rob and Renee's life together - they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married onl In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. Rob and Renee's life together - they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married only five years when Renee died suddenly on Mother's Day, - is shared through the window of the mix tapes they obsessively compiled. There are mixes to court each other, mixes for road trips, mixes for doing the dishes, mixes for sleeping - and, eventually, mixes to mourn Rob's greatest loss. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Charlottesville, Virginia United States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Love Is a Mix Tape , please sign up. S why so good - apart from the perfect title? Althea Hanson This book is for everybody. And anyone who reads it should be everybody. See 1 question about Love Is a Mix Tape…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Love Is a Mix Tape. Hell, it may be all of that and more to just about anyone. Consider yourself warned. Do you know where you were when you heard that Kurt Cobain was dead? What was the song that was playing the first time you slow danced? Okay, enough. You get it. Confession time: I was a groupie. I was. Duran Duran was my group of choice. Those bastard fans in Wham! We knew how to obsess. There is still a bond among us. Damn Bono. Those bass lines are awesome! I knew I loved John Taylor for more than his bangs and impeccable fashion sense! I never knew that certain instruments made certain sounds. I was just used to the end product. Boys can be so dumb. Maurice actually brought me to my first Duran Duran show. I was so proud of him. How many boyfriends will do that? I may have been a groupie, but Maurice was a full out audiophile. To the point of annoyance.. Zeppelin 4! Did you know that Rolling Stone rated it only 66 out of the top albums! What assholes! And so on. I was concerned. I was somewhat petrified. This guy was a prog rock fan. He mailed me the tape. I was living in Boston at the time, he was in the boondocks of NH. I held it. I read the songs. I put it on my desk. I went out for ice cream. Around day 3, I finally had the room to myself living in a boarding house with 40 other woman, that was a feat and carefully placed it in my boom box. She's a lady, she is mine. Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your flesh. Anyway, this book. This could be Maurice and me. Maurice would probably know… he knew all the rock critics. But, this story… these mix tapes. They spoke to me in a completely sappy selfish way. I see a lot of Maurice in Rob. I had no idea that this was a sad love story.