There Are All Kinds Of Mix Tapes.

We All Get As Miserable As Erika M. Andersen Sometimes, But We Rarely Approach Her Musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute Ratio.

But Bringing People Together Is What Music Has Always Done Best.

That's The Secret Of 'true Blood' - All The Creatures That Roam Bon Temps Become A Metaphor For Our Insatiable Lusts And Inner Desires. Humans Craving What They Can't Have And Those Secret Appetites Transforming Them Into Beasts, Or Even Killers.

'the Sopranos' Gets Praised As Novelistic, But It Follows The Most Banal Of Life Patterns, Showing The Sheer Tedium Of Being A Mobster. It Has Dead Spots, Boring Plotlines, Weak Episodes. Characters Develop Slowly, Or Don't. Like Viewers, A Gangster Might Get Bored, Fade Out Of The Action, Then Come Back To Find None Of His Debts Forgotten.

When You Stick A Song On A Tape, You Set It Free.