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Thank god Josh reminded me that today was Monday. Not that I didn’t remember it was Monday, but since I wasn’t paying attention to the calendar, that it was the first Monday of the month. Which means what? Oh, that’s right. Mixtape Monday.

This month’s theme is “Intro to Summer” or begining of summer, how ever you want to say it. It was hard to pick songs for this one because for me, summer is about falling in love and breaking up. In whichever order you choose to do them in. But, eventually, we’ll get around to those themes for mixtapes, so I didn’t want to use all my good material here.

As I flipped through my iTunes playlist, trying to find exactly the right song, I realized that there are a bunch of albums I always wanted but never got. So a side-effect of putting this list together is finding the music I forgot about.

I tried to keep the mix fast-paced. Which took me a lot longer, because I’d add a song to the list, and then five minutes later decide it wasn’t fast enough. I wanted to include Dashboard Confessional, but I kicked them for Fall Out Boy, because FOB knows how to get a party started. And the Beach Boys scream summer. I could have done the entire mixtape with them, but I chose the two songs of theirs I loved the most growing up. California Girls because I am one, and Kokomo because my dad used to play that with his band when I was little.
If you don’t like my mix, make your own! This is my intro to summer. Let me see what yours is.