you are gay prom king, hells kitchen class of '10

• Tape 1

((You actually do experience peer pressure; or rather, there are strong forces in your life that compel you to act certain ways and make certain decisions, you’re just confused by the fact that you ultimately seek your parents’ approval over that of your stoner friends—and honestly, they like you even though you don’t smoke with them, they just think it would be funny if you of all people got high))

Ready or Not – Fugees
All Apologies (Live) – Nirvana
Never Let Me Down – Depeche Mode
Quiet Dawn – Archie Shepp
No One In the World – Anita Baker
Always Be My Baby – Mariah Carey
Walking in Memphis – Cher
Save The Children – Marvin Gaye
Not Yet Free – The Coup
Sinnerman – Nina Simone
Save Tonight – Eagle-Eye Cherry

• Tape 2

((Badges for your boy scout shirt))

Rasputin – Boney M.
100% Pure Love – Crystal Waters
Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat
I Know You, I Live You – Chaka Khan
Givin' Up Food For Funk – The J.B.'s
Just My Imagination – The Cranberries
Ai No Corrida – Quincy Jones
Aquemini – Outkast
Precious Box – George Michael
Love Kills – Freddie Mercury
I Need You – Sylvester

• Tape 3

((You should seriously consider the possibility of feeling and acting on desire for someone who isn’t a white boy, and also the ramifications of the fact that you are not nor will you ever be a white girl))

Your Best American Girl – Mitski (with temporal apologies)
Real Love – Mary J. Blige
Miss World – Hole
Dress – BUCK-TICK
Foolish – Ashanti
I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince
Banquet – Bloc Party
Time (Clock Of The Heart) – Culture Club
Super Freak – Rick James
R.I.P. Burn Face – CocoRosie
America – Tracy Chapman

• Tape 4

((If you go for a fifteen minute run or ********** you will feel at least a little better, i promise))

Red Rain – Peter Gabriel
Lorelei – Cocteau Twins
Daniel – Bat For Lashes
Drowning Lessons – My Chemical Romance
She's Lost Control – Grace Jones
Even Sharks Don't Kill For Fun – Night Kills The Day
Haunting – A.R. Kane
Psychobabble – Frou Frou
Cars and Trains – George Michael
Rain King – Counting Crows

• Tape 5

((I want you to let what blood you need, to grow through the cracks in the pavement))

Gracias A La Vida (Live) – Mercedes Sosa
Faithful – Meshell Ndegeocello
Red Beans – Faye Wong
I Fell In Love with a Dead Boy (Live) – Antony and the Johnsons
No Ordinary Love – Sade
Hyperballad – Björk
Disenchanted – My Chemical Romance
Bound For The Floor – Local H
Papa Was a Rodeo – The Magnetic Fields
Hyaena – Kemistry & Storm [Goldie]