THIS IS A TIME WARP

I am in 1995. Escape to 2016, or 2000 if that's easier.

I am learning bold new things and how to lean into the wind.

Here's what my soul looks like:

Here's what you should combine to make a really dynamite peanut dressing:

• 2 tbsp all-natural peanut butter
• 2 tbsp miso paste
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 2 tbsp tahini
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

Then adjust ratio for balance.

If you have found a cassette tape in the greater Glasgow and/or Edinburgh area and are looking for more, you are on the right track.

Here they are in order:

• SMOOG001 The Shivers - Do You Got The Shivers? (Criminally ignored NYC rock and roll / blue eyed soul from a dyed-in-the-wool Queens crooner. The real deal.)
• SMOOG002 The Afghan Whigs - I Keep Coming Back (A collection of their mid-'90s output, including most of the still-excellent Motown covers.)
• SMOOG003 Something Else Has To Happen Before We Can Begin (Just some shit to listen to while you grocery shop or eat fondue or whatever it is you're into.)
• SMOOG004 Beauty Pill / Preoccupations (I made this tape for a friend and then just kept making it. Two current bands who deserve a bit more attention.)
• SMOOG005 It's Either This Or Go Outside (A bunch of fried art-rock, sloppy pop, depressing punk rock, and unclassifiable garbage. Just pure good tunes.)
• SMOOG006 The Tape That Ate Paris (90 minutes of French psychedelia and soundtrack music from the swinging '60s.)
• SMOOG007 Nearly All Creators Of Utopia ...(A collection of mostly damaged pop tunes and arty post-punk from the relatively modern era.)
• SMOOG008 What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am? (Late '60s/Early '70s Southern Soul from down Muscle Shoals way. All fire.)
• SMOOG009 Office - Busy With Other Things (R.I.P. Office. The smartest, sharpest-tongued pop to come out of Chicago in decades.)
• SMOOG010 Jo Schornikow & Scott Rudd (Friends of mine who used to make music and are now ... old)
• SMOOG011 Constantines - We Desire Disorder (The best band Canada ever produced and quite possibly the world's best live band. Just 90 minutes of Constantines.)
• SMOOG012 Stunt Rock - Selections from REGRET Instruction Manuals 1 & 2 (When you need to kind of tap your fingers while you kill yourself.)
• SMOOG013 Let Me Bang Your Box Volume One (Sex jams from 1914-1954)
• SMOOG014 Ka - Born King NY (Brownsville's best. The only rap cassette you can put on to fall asleep to.)
• SMOOG015 Restiform Bodies - Principles of Easy Listening (Avant hip hop/experimental/new wave from their self titled 2001 LP.)
• SMOOG016 Shilpa Ray (If you don't love Shilpa Ray we cannot be friends. A quick 45 minute primer on the queen of the rock harmonium.)
• SMOOG017 Gutz - Is You A Lady? (The BK by way of CT pop/soul/gay/party band of the millennium. R.I.P. Gutz. You are missed.)
• SMOOG018 The Causey Way - Light of the World (The Causey Way was not a cult. All hail Causey and may you walk in His light.)
• SMOOG019 Nothing But A Heartache (Girl Group jams from the '50s and '60s. Pure, unadulterated saccharine bliss.)
• SMOOG020 Hako Yamasaki (90 minutes of mid-'70s Japanese folk/psych from the painfully underrated and madly melancholy Hako Yamasaki. Great.)
• SMOOG021
• SMOOG022