Spring Into Winter: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series

“Spring Into Winter” was a perfect title for an incredibly productive Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series which yielded 17 one-off tapes for pals and TWO seasonal mixtapes: winter 2023//forces at work and spring 2023//this is the chariot!!!!! Now all this shit is going into a box until I return from the Black Eyes reunion Easter weekend and we’re in the shadow period of the next retrograde, in which I will be working towards my summer 2023 mixtape for Maria Barrios as a delighted returning resident of Cuyahoga County. This is the most mixtapes I have ever made for people during one of these and it was done during a period of time in which everything in my life has basically been on fire, so I am proud of it.

Starting each tape with the title track of the series kind of fell away here as this retrograde became a testing ground for multiple seasonal mixtapes, we’ll see if it returns as a custom. I look forward to sharing the auditory fruits of all of this work with you soon!

Spring Into Winter, Vol. I – 12.12.22 – for Tarra Marie Gimm Sapienza (my first punk friend, who changed my life in eighth grade)

Spring Into Winter, Vol. II – 12.13.22 – for Sarah Verschelde (when punks grow up and meet each other working as stagehands at the Stupidbowl)

Spring Into Winter, Vol. III – 12.20.22- for Kristen Willoughby

Spring Into Winter, Vol. IV – 12.23.22 – for Jason Shanley

Spring Into Winter, Vol. V – 12.21.22 – for S. Boyle

Spring Into Winter, Vol. VI – 12.23.22 – for S.J. Bagley

Spring Into Winter, Vol. VII – 12.24.22 – for Austin Gilbert

Spring Into Winter, Vol. VIII – 1.9.23 – for Nicholas Samuel

Spring Into Winter, Vol. IX – 1.13.23 – for Shane E

Spring Into Winter, Vol. X – 1.15.23 – for Richard Hayes

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XI – 1.25.23 – for Nate Knaebel

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XII – 1.27.23 – for Milo Miller

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XIII – 1.28.23 – for Brad Rose

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XIV – 2.1.2023 – for Rose Lewis

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XV – 2.3.23 – for Joe Briggs

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XVI – 2.4.23 – for Mike Hart

Spring Into Winter, Vol. XVII – 2.5.23 – for Andra Nikolayi (addressed to their mom on accident)

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