The door of Room Five is made of glossy stained planks of knotted oak, its top perfectly arched. This is a door you know very well. Or anyway, the pop-culture savvy American television watching parts of you do. It's the door through which you can expect Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt to come barreling through with pigtails and bell bottoms to greet a sheepishly charming John Ritter at the behest of a cheery theme song. In brass, the number five is screwed into the door, a fixture taken from the address of some house in an upscale neighborhood. This is Dean's room.

Inside, the set of the old show Three's Company. The light is dim, pooling with a gauzy, bare quality like that of the stage where the show was filmed, like any sound stage once its audience has gone home.

Dean is an organizational master, gathering together everything we produce as a House and collating it all in one place. He's the only reason we've been able to keep our things straight enough to present them how we do. This includes mixtapes, his favorite of all things to collect and sort.

mixtape of the week

In Gray House, our own words can fail us miserably, especially in the magical situations we find ourselves. For this reason, music has become an integral part of our communication and emotional processing. Sending songs can be as powerful as sending a letter or having a text conversation and something we engage in daily. And like with everything else, you're invited to join in that with us. Just make mixes or collaborative playlists on Spotify and send us the links, and we'll start talking to you through music.