Current mood:	complacent
Current music:	All of the above

My love is music, I will marry melody
Haven't had a week this traumatic, for about 57 different reasons, in a long while. How have I been retaining sanity and functioning properly at work and such? There's been some wine, yes (though saved for apres-work). But more importantly, there has been the soothing power of music. Music that makes you remember, music that helps you forget. Music that lets you feel something different than what you're feeling, and music that helps you tune out everything else.

I was describing my perfect date to someone recently, well my perfect way to spend a significant moment with someone I care about. He was saying the usual: dinner + have whatever cliche discussion + fall into each other's arms and so on and so forth.

Without having such a prompted answer, I told him something slightly truncated (and more economical), to the effect of: lay down in a dark room, light some candles...wait for it, this is going somewhere else...have a fantastic stereo system nearby to loudly play an audibly orgasmic playlist of music that's so captivating you are on the bring of tears, no matter how many times you have heard the song.

I remember I did this with someone at Rollins when I played him "Angel" by Massive Attack and it was nothing short of perfect. Such to the extent that I forget the fine details of so many first dates, so many important emotional moments that I probably shouldn't. But this? Never.

When I described this scenario, it was totally lost on him. To hell with him. I just want someone to listen to music with and to just shut up and enjoy what we already know to be good.

Righto, so I've been on a constant loop of a few songs through the good, the bad and the goddamnridiculous this week has shown. So what's been giving me life? And what are you all being moved by?


-Land of Talk - "Sea Foam" to capture the ecstatic yet moping around, confused tone as of late. I want these girls to follow me around and play this when I get home and kick off my shoes and hang up my coat in a self-defeating way.
-The Rosebuds - "Boxcar" for when you want to shout I FUCKING LOVE THIS ALL
-Critical Bill - "My Suicide Girl" because we love the 90s and trying to be badass
-Tin Hat Trio - "Willow Weep For Me" to allow music to let life feel like the end credits of a film
-Rinocerose - "Cubicle" for when I am feeling quirky sitting in my cubicle
-The Black Ghosts - "Full Moon" because we all need a good song that is beautifully performed by our cars' stereos whilst sitting in traffic
-Jace Everett - "Bad Things" for the positive association with vampires and the rockabilly awesomeness. I'll dance to this, and that says a lot. Now, to find a place to play this, besides my ipod/Mini/Mac...
-Death in Vegas - "Dirge" since sexiness and despair always seem to go hand in hand
-Does it Offend You Yeah - "Dawn of the Dead" because we all need to think of someone out of reach
-Supertramp - "Goodbye Stranger" for the literal and figurative beauty of this classic track
-Silversun Pickups - "Well Thought out Twinkles" because we sometimes need to listen over and over and over and over...
-Three Days Grace - "Animal" for the best way anger can be expressed through neo-altrock
-Beyonce - "Single Ladies" for when we all feel like a sellout for being victim of stupid catchy pop
-Semisinic - "Singing in My Sleep" since we all need to just have a good smile now and again
-The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name" when people mistakenly call me Lindsey (happens once a week)


Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.