Artist	Song
Stars	Circulatory System
How Many Worlds	Brian Eno
Kelly Watch the Stars	AIR
Spaceman	Harry Nilsson
You Keep On Looking	Gary Wilson
Venus as a Boy	Bjork
The Prettiest Star	David Bowie
The Enchanted Sea	Martin Denny
Subterranean Homesick Alien	Radiohead
Livin' Thing	ELO
Wooo	Vitalic
Oslo in the Summertime	Of Montreal
Planet Queen	T.Rex
I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam...	the Flaming Lips
Mother Mary	Eels
Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy	Mr. Bungle
I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star	The Boy Least Likely To
We Only Come Out at Night	Smashing Pumpkins
Two-Part Invention in B-Flat Major	Wendy Carlos
Planet	Ken Nordine
Journey of the Sorcerer	the Eagles (God help me...oh, God help me...)
What a Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (Reprise)	Neil Hannon

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GUIDE ENTRY ZZ 9 PLURAL Z ALPHA: "The Mix CD"

The mix tape (or mix CD) is very possibly the strangest thing in the Galaxy. Created mainly by ape descendants with poorly cut bangs and ill-fitting tee-shirts, its main uses seem to be a) to get girls to sleep with you, and b) to console you after the girl you wanted to get off with threw (a) out a window the moment she heard the second Postal Service song.

According to some of the planet Earth's greatest scholars, there are quite a few rules one must follow when setting about the arduous process of creating a mix tape. Firstly, you must make an unholy mess of your room and/or apartment, spreading every record in your collection out on the floor even though you know you'll just end up using iTunes and that old copy of "If You're Feeling Sinister." Secondly, you must pretend that the songs you choose have no meaning: it is, after all, easier to justify beginning a mix to your ex-girlfriend with Eminem's "Kim" when you convince yourself it's a sheerly aesthetic decision. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, you must ignore steps one and two. Lastly, you must pour your heart and soul into the small plastic disc that your computer will burn, turning it into the only tangible artifact of a moment in your dreary, unimportant life. After all, who needs conversations or journals when you have a piece of impermanent media to pour your heart out on?

Contrary to popular belief, your computer does not enjoy your choice in songs for your mix tape and/or CD. In fact, he thinks that one Dungen album was way overrated.

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