“Let’s Run Away Together” by Melanie Jones
Side A
1. New Goodbye – Hey Rosetta!
2. Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
3. Everlasting Light – The Black Keys
4. Shakin’ All Over – Wanda Jackson ft. Jack White
5. Jackson – Johnny Cash & June Carter
6. Stickshifts and Safetybelts – Cake
7. Light Enough to Travel – The Be Good Tanyas
8. I and Love and You – The Avett Brothers
Side B
1. Crazy Love – Van Morrison
2. Skinny Love – Bon Iver
3. Go Places – The New Pornographers
4. Winter Winds – Mumford & Sons
5. Girlfriend – Phoenix
6. Skyscrapers – Fred
7. The Beat Stuff – Hannah Georgas
8. Keep the Car Running – Arcade Fire
9. Tomorrow Never Knows – Bruce Springsteen
Liner Notes
- Buster?
- Yes, Midge.
- Let’s run away together.
- Where?
- I don’t know. But, I guess that’s the thing with running away. You don’t really know where you’re going. You just know you’re leaving.
- Yeah, but we should probably have some general idea.
- Where did you always dream of going? You know, as a kid?
- Uh, Disneyland? Or maybe space.
- Okay: space. We can work with space.
- We can?
- Mm hmm. I say we follow the weirdest thing that comes up. Maybe we see an ad for Zanzibar and we go there. Or we see an arrow that points left and we do. Maybe we pick a compass heading or coordinates like in spy movies. Or we hit a garage sale and, um…I don’t know where I was going with that. Omigoodness! See the old lady with the alligator handbag? Let’s follow her and—
- Midge?
- Mm hmm?
- You’re crazy.
- I love you, too.
Melanie Jones used to be Calgary’s leading authority on dating. They even put her on TV. As such, she was a perfect candidate to compile the pre-Valentine’s mix tape. Next week, I’ve asked one of her exes to make one. (This is the most clever thing I’ve done with 52 so far. Respect.)
Editor’s Note: Melanie is a cheater. Both sides go over 30 minutes. This created an quandary for me. My options were (1) Make her cut a song from each side. (2) Make the last song suddenly cut off at the 30-minute mark, which would have been the most authentic things to do. (3) Just leave it alone. I opted for the third, but I really did struggle with that decision.
Buy some of these songs via the iTunes mix.
Meh, just cut the crazy crashing part at the end of ‘New Goodbye’ and trim the utterly unnecessary 5-10 second silences at the ends of the songs.
Problem solved.
Bugs and fishes,
The Cheater
Trim the silences between songs? HAVE YOU EVER EVEN LISTENED TO A FUCKING MIX TAPE?!?
Wow. Not a lot of love happening THIS Valentine’s season, huh?
I thought we had clearly established that I’m always mean to you? In exchange, you can keep doing that thing where you insist on hugging me literally every time you see me.
Oh. Right then. Back to our regularly scheduled programming:
*BIG JUICY BEAR HUG WHERE I SUDDENLY ACQUIRE SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH ENOUGH TO PICK YOU UP AND SPIN YOU AROUND WHILE YELLING ‘WHEEEEEEEEE!’*
Hate.