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you know how i know you’re gay? you like coldplay

October 25, 2009 By in Me, Music Tags: , , 18 Comments

nutty_musingsI’d like to take a quick moment to let you all know that I’m not dead, just very very busy. But I thought instead of telling you why I’m so busy or why being that busy makes me want to shank myself in the face, I would show you. Show versus tell, right? And what better way to show you than through music? So I made you a playlist. I can always tell what kind of mood I’m in by the music that I find myself listening to, and for you to really see how, er, anomalous this playlist is, you should probably know that when I’m happy and sane, I’m more likely to be listening to Ashley Tisdale, Miley Cyrus, the music from Glee, and a random assortment of cheesy 60s, 70s, and 80s pop rock (David Bowie, Billy Idol, and Elton John, I love you) than anything else. You know, bouncy and irritating, that sort of thing. The exact opposite of what I’m about to give you. So, without further whatever, I bring you . . .

THE SMUG HIPSTER PLAYLIST
(Sounds best whilst wearing beret with greasy hair and smoking clove cigarettes.)

1. “Two Weeks,” Grizzly Bear
2. “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare,” Matt & Kim
3. “Piazza, New York Catcher,” Belle & Sebastian (covered by random YouTuber)
4. “Karma Police,” Radiohead
5. “Time to Pretend,” MGMT
6. “The Reeling,” Passion Pit
7. “Hold On, Hold On,” Neko Case
8. “The Rake’s Song,” The Decemberists
9. “Run,” Snow Patrol (from before they sold out, obvious! and whoops, how did that fanvid get in there? i have no idea! let’s try this again! “Run,” Snow Patrol)
10. “No Surprises,” Radiohead
11. “Lonely Ghosts,” O & S
12. “The Funeral,” Band of Horses
13. “The General Specific,” Band of Horses
14. “Rough Gem,” Islands
15. “O Valencia!,” The Decemberists
16. “Australia,” The Shins
17. “Happiness,” Goldfrapp

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Also, before I hit my smug hipster phase or whatever is going on in my brain, I went through a phase where all I listened to was “Black Holes and Revelations” by Muse at top volume in my car. I turned it all the way up to eleven and my ears bled. Maybe if my brain falls out I can make a million dollars and at last, retire and give up this life of crime! I don’t know what I’m saying! I never know what I’m saying!

Whatever, just go listen to my music, hos.

your life can sound like mine

February 26, 2009 By in Music Tags: , 9 Comments

cooloringIt’s Thursday. Thursday and Friday are totally my favorite days of the week because nowadays, my Saturdays and Sundays are mostly spent reading, and not the fun kind of reading either. I’m talking the kind of reading that makes you want to kill people. But yeah, I have one class in the afternoon on Thursdays and I teach in the morning on Fridays. And that’s it. All I have to do on Friday is bake and go to the comic shop. Thursday and Friday have the best TV, also: Bones, The Office, 30 Rock, and yes Grey’s Anatomy. Also, Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica, of course. You know what else is awesome about my Fridays lately? A ton of people I love come over to my house every Friday night, eat junk food, get a little tipsy, and argue about awesome TV. I basically live for Fridays. I’m getting excited just thinking about it (tomorrow is totally a find out what’s up with Starbuck and Boomer episode — OH YEAH).

So, in honor of Thursday and Friday being awesome, I’ve decided to share some music with you. Basically, how I listen to music is that I find a couple of songs that I just become completely obsessed with and then I listen to them over and over and over and over again until I find new songs to be obsessed with. The following list, a mixtape* if you will, is a compilation of what I’m currently annoying the hell out of my roommates with. It is random, but completely awesome.

Boom! Roasted!

1. “You Spin Me Round,” Dead or Alive
2. “Heat Wave,” Martha and the Vandellas
3. “Kiss the Girl,” Ashley Tisdale
4. “Jai Ho,” A.R. Rahman
5. “Let it Rain,” Living Things
6. “Ghost Town,” Shiny Toy Guns (P.S. This music video scares the shit out of me.)
7. “Spaceman,” The Killers
8. “Dawn of the Dead,” Does It Offend You, Yeah?
9. “Gives You Hell,” All American Rejects (Emily says that K.T. Tunstall’s “Suddenly I See” is about her, so in rebuttal I say this song is about me. Just go with it.)
10. “O sauve fanciulla,” La Boheme
11. “Single Ladies,” Beyonce
12. “Right Round,” Flo Rida

*I am incredibly awesome at making mixtapes. It is a high art form**, the likes of which it takes true talent to create. I am not even kidding.
**Remember that time on Lost when Sawyer*** totally made Kate a mixtape? It was SO CUTE.
***I’m totally wearing my “I’d Get Lost with Sawyer” t-shirt right now.

ba-rock the vote: an election day playlist

November 4, 2008 By in Me Tags: , , Leave a comment

NaBloPoMo, Day Four
Cookies Eaten: 2
Cups of Coffee: doubleshot on ice, chai
Vegetables: 0
Naughty Words: 2?
Mexican Food: a bean and cheese burrito (spicy salsa)

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Oh, happy day!  I figured, like, smart people and everything would actually be blogging about the election, but I’ve never felt qualified enough to write about politics. So instead, I maked you a present. And, no matter if your vote is the same as mine or not, this is music everybody should love because I chose it, and I am awesome. Enjoy :)

1. “Baba O’Reilly (Teenage Wasteland),” The Who — “Sally, take my hand / Travel south crossland / Put out the fire / Don’t look past my shoulder / The exodus is here / The happy ones are near.”
2. “The National Anthem,” Radiohead — “Everyone / Everyone around here / Everyone is so near / What’s going on?”
3. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tears for Fears – “I can’t stand this indecision / married with a lack of vision.”
4. “Are We the Waiting,” Green Day — “Skyscrapers and stargazers in my head / Are we, we are, are we, we are the waiting, unknown / This dirty town was burning down in my dreams.”
5. “Electioneering,” Radiohead — “I trust I can rely on your vote.”
6. “A Well Respected Man,” The Kinks — “‘Cause he’s oh, so good / And he’s oh, so fine / And he’s oh, so healthy / In his body and his mind.”
7. “Hoodoo,” Muse — “I’ve had recurring nightmares / That I was loved for who I am / And missed the opportunity / To be a better man.”
8. “Lucky,” Radiohead — “It’s gonna be a glorious day / I feel my luck could change . . . / We are standing on the edge.”
9. “Believe,” The Bravery — “I am hiding from some beast / But the beast was always here / Watching without eyes / Because the beast is just my fear / That I am just nothing / Now it’s just what I’ve become.”
10. “Rise Above This,” Seether — “Call your name every day / When I feel so helpless / I’ve fallen down / But I’ll rise above this / Rise above this.”
11. “The Compromise,” The Format — “So meet me in the middle / Well, come on, let’s make up a dance / And we’ll agree to call it the compromise.”
12. “Heart Attack,” Low vs. Diamond — “All you pretty people standing there / Blood under your nails . . . / Kiss the way we were goodbye.”
13. “Ashes,” Embrace – “Now watch me rise up and leave / All the ashes you made out of me / When you said that we were wrong, life goes on / You blew me away.”
14. “Secret Crowds,” Angels & Airwaves — “If I had my own world / I’d build you an empire / From here to the farm lands / To spread love like violence . . . Let me feel you carry you higher / Watch your words spread hope like fire / Secret crowds rise up and gather / Hear your voices sing back louder.”

Listen! Comment! Vote! Eat a cookie! Hug an old lady! I love you!

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