How many of you out there are old enough to remember painstakingly making a mix tape--yes, an actual cassette tape--as a gift for your first love, as background music for healing a broken heart, as the inspirational soundtrack to play in your Walkman on a jog to keep you in shape for boffing? There was something so creative and zen-like and pride-inducing about the process.

Not too many years ago (okay, maybe like ten years ago), Lo made a mix tape for sex. It was so good that the musician she christened the tape with couldn't concentrate on the lovin' at hand, he was so distracted by the cool tunes--either that, or he just wasn't that into her. When he popped open her cassette deck the next morning, he discovered she'd written "Music to Screw To" on one side. Busted. That's a lesson for all you iPod addicts out there: don't actually label your sex playlist as such--it's gauche.

Now, there's a cool site called Muxtape that's beautiful in its simplicity...