Great Card From A Friend :)

 

My sweet friend Heather sent this card to me and I just love it so so so much :) It made me so nostalgic to see it. Remember mix tapes? I do! God, I used to make SO many mix tapes. It was the ULTIMATE gift to give and get to friends and lovers back in the day. To pick the perfect songs for that perfect person. Or to make a themed tape. I remember my very favorite mix tape was one that I made to write poetry too :p Of course it was very angsty...I was 16 and it had lots of Tori Amos and The Cure and My Bloody Valentine and Led Zeppelin on it. I loved that tape. I lost all of my mixed tapes in Hurricane Katrina and it made me so sad :( Not that I even have anything to play them on anymore but still...And then there were the tapes of songs recorded off of the radio...remember making those? When you sat by the radio just WAITING for the channel to play the songs you wanted and hitting record in time to get the song and then stopping it just in time so that it was perfect? :p As Heather says in her card, this new generation doesn't even know what a tape is :/ Sad, lol. Heather says she wonders how long it will be before CDs are extinct...Honestly, I'm not all that bothered about CDs going away, though I will miss the fact that I can't make mix CDs for people when that happens. I still like making mixes for friends. It's one of my favorite things to do! But these days, my favorite way to listen to music is either on vinyl or MP3s. Thanks Heather for the awesome postcard :) 

 

Card From France

So this one TECHNICALLY isn't a postcard, but I'm about ready to call it the coolest thing I'll EVER receive from Postcrossing :D It comes from Dorine in Brittany and it's her first ever Postcrossing card :D I feel so lucky. In addition to that, this card is full of awesomeness. First of all, I loved the stamps right away. I have the same Miles Davis stamps in the US edition and they come with Edith Piaf stamps too which I thought was cool seeing as Miles Davis is from here in New Orleans and Edith Piam is from France :)

Then there's the card. We share the same music tastes down to some of the same favorite songs!! One of her favorite songs is The Middle East's "Blood" which is pretty obscure and is one of my favs too. She gave me some recommendations for some great French songs which I'll look up as well :) THEN she put the postcard ID inside of that neat little pink box in the corner AND included a little silver key for me because she saw my postcard box here on the blog with the keys on it!! Isn't that sweet?? AND the piece of pink paper underneath rolls out to give the link of a youtube video which she thinks I'll like that I haven't watched yet. Off to see that soon. SUCH an awesome card :D