Tues, May 11 - 7:40 P.M.

Driving home listening to the radio.

The new black eyed peas song comes on.

short stack, black or white
long as you do what you like
body out of sight
body, body out of sight

They say short stack.

Cue intense pancake craving.

Currently stuck in my head

Oooh baby do you know what that's worth?

Oooh heaven is a place on earth

no idea why

haven't heard this song in ages

Can't. Stop. Listening.

I LOVE YOU MR. SHU!

Thank you

100.7 FM

for playing The Police's "Don't Stand Too Close to Me" at exactly 6:35 a.m. when my radio alarm goes off, therefore waking me up to the glorious image of Mr. Schuester in Glee dancing and singing to the aforementioned song.

What a lovely way to start the day.

I go to extremes

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens

And if I stand or I fallIt's all or nothing at all

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

- Billy Joel

*so good for car belting

**please note that while googling lyrics for this song, when I typed in "Why do I..." (as in, "...go to extremes"), the search box automatically suggested "...fart so much")

Is there anything better...

...for an early morning drive to work

than blasting Billy Joel classics?*

I think not.

*belting it out and bopping along really gets the blood pumping

The Weather

And the wind and the snow and the rain that blows

none of those would matter much without you

and as long as its talking with you

talk of the weather will do

- Built to Spill

Fool to Think

You make a mess of me
I'll dance a thousand steps for you
If you say yes to me
I'll be whatever gets you through

- Dave Matthews Band

Pig

come sister, my brother
shake up your bones, shake up your feet
I'm saying open up
and let the rain come pouring in
wash out this tired notion
that the best is yet to come
but while you're dancing on the ground
don't think of when you're gone

- Dave Matthews Band

The Background

and the plans I make still have you in them
cause you come swimming into view
and I'm hanging on your words
like I always used to do
the words they use so lightly
I only feel for you


- Third Eye Blind

new favorite

when the anxious is the present
unwrap your gifts take your time
everything you've imagined
needn't be stuck in your mind

- Pearl Jam


(thank you lil bee. you are wise!)

Just Dance

Hot damn.  

This girl is freaking unbelievable.

(When I said "obsessed" you perhaps thought I was kidding?  Silly Internet.)

Don't Stop

This song gives me goosebumps to begin with, and hearing it from a bunch of AWESOME groovin' acapella 5th graders makes it that much better.

I am now obsessed with the PS-22 chorus.  (And the adorable inspirational director.  That has to be the greatest job ever, no?)

(Thanks Jaya!)

Goosebump-inducing...

...to realize that that music is coming from the mouths of those little kiddies.

{thanks Jenny! via Perez}

Chinese

I don't want anything more

than to see your face when you open the door

you'll make me beans on toast and a nice cup of tea

and we'll get Chinese and watch TV

- Lily Allen

Listening to...

Seventy-six by The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Take it off! Take it off!
Yeah, get what you came for
This is summer time
Drink it up

This is what we're made for

I only very recently started listening to The Dreamer and the Sleeper (you know, as soon as Jared sent me the album, because once again, he is my music god) and they are totally blowing my mind.  Their entire CD is so catchy and happy and peppy and I can't help but bop around the minute I put them on.  In short, I highly recommend giving them a listen if you are in need of a smile.

Listening to...

Love Story by Taylor Swift

Seriously, I'm kind of ashamed.  But I just can't help blasting this song every time it comes on in the car and singing it at the top of my lungs and it's been permanently stuck in my head for the past six days and please oh please make it stop.  It makes me feel like a preteen schoolgirl who should be gossiping with her girlfriends about her super huge crush who still hasn't asked her to the snowflake dance.  And yet it is so so good.

Listening to...

Better Than Good by Tom Vella and the Wayside

Another brilliant Jared find.  Obviously.  (You think I can actually pick my own music?  Dead wrong.)

Anyways, Jared discovered this New Jersey musical greatness back during freshman year of college, when we were all young and fun and more alive, and we have since gone to see them play a zillion times and they are always fantastic.  If you're in the tri-state area, you should try and catch them live.  Their songs are ridiculously catchy and it's a shame that they haven't blown up... yet!

Listening to...

NY Song by Modern Skirts

Jared introduced me to this peppy Atlanta-based band a couple of years ago (because, really, has any of my music NOT come from Jared?), and we've since gotten to see them perform in New York (fun) and in New Brunswick (really awkward).

The NB awkwardness was rooted in the fact that, seeing as it was mid-summer and Rutgers was not in session, the bar was completely and totally empty and me, Jared and a couple of friends were THE ONLY PEOPLE THERE and felt extremely sad that more people were not present to witness the goodness of their music.  The band was really sweet and came and chatted with us afterwards, and yet we somehow managed to continue the awkwardness and be super lame because they asked us approximately ten times "so, what is there to do around here?" " and "what are you guys doing tonight?" and instead of being normal and cool and saying "hey, we'll take you for a Fat Darrell" we said "uh, going home?" and we left and they waved goodbye and we have ever since regretted our complete lack of coolness.

But, yeah, you should give them a listen.  Because even if I'm not cool, they very much are.