The Girl

I'm such a sucker for a melancholy love song. You too? Then we're a pair.

Never Underestimate Slow Motion

Ok. I can't express how funny this video is that my cousin introduced me to. They are called literal videos. They take a music video and then rewrite the lyrics to explain literally what is going on in each frame. It doesn't sound awesome, but it is--mind blowingly awesome. I wish I could embed the video here, but it wouldn't let me. Seriously--Total Eclipse of the Heart never looked so good! Watch it! Watch it Now!

To Be With You

These colors are me.

Write About Love

I am so in love with this band. Deep, enduring love. Can't wait for this new album to come out.

All Night Long!

The New Pornographers: Together

If you like music...wait--that can't be right--I mean, everyone LIKES music of some sort don't they? It's not like you meet someone and you say, "Hey, do you like music?" and they ever answer, "Nope, music is a waste of time and space." So, I should be selective: Ahem, if you like the kind of music I like--then you're as happy as any clam that these two new bands are putting out albums soon!

Luckily for me, I write music reviews for this awesome music magazine, so I get most of this stuff far in advance. In fact, I've had these two albums on repeat for sometime now. They have made me very happy.

The National: High Violet

Sometimes, most times, when I make an acquaintance, I like to check out their music and book collections. Those two things can be more revealing than ANY medicine cabinet.

There are some people who like what's popular--their iPods will be full of a few Lady Gaga, that Swift girl, Coldplay, Green Day, Metallica and possibly even some of the Cure. This is not a bad thing--at all--but it does, in my mind, represent the idea that you haven't quite taken music very seriously. You've been satisfied with what society and late night tv performances tell you to like. And you've been just fine with it. I get it. I used to be that girl (along time ago, but it's true--my mixed tapes in high school were comprised of a little too much of The Police, Midnight Oil, and, yes, the ever heartmoving--Phil Collins).

Now, if I get your iPod and I see a little Camera Obscura, The Do, Nous Non Plus, Basia Bulat, Beach House, Great Lake Swimmers, Agent Ribbons, Avett Brothers, Bon Iver, Doves, She & Him, Two White Horses, Swell Season, T. Rex...and some of that colorful stuff--well, then, we might just find things to talk about all night long.

I and Love and You

Thanks to my sweet friend j. I have now listened to this little npr concert about five times through this morning. And if it wasn't clear why I was single as of yet, it is because I am planning and plotting on marrying the Avett Brothers...yep...ALL of them.

Something Happy...

The new volume of She & Him is out. It's good. It makes me happy. It makes me believe in Spring and sunshine and good lighting behind my silhouette at a picnic with a dashingly scruffy man playing the guitar. Yep..it makes me believe in all that...and in the power of the beauty of one white daisy.
I'm very unoriginal in my admiration for Zooey Deschanel. Every man loves her, even the gay ones, all the girls adore her...we're all channeling her somehow. In fact, I thought about her with my FINAL (and it just HAS to be) purchase from Anthro of a very, very, very chic blue dress.
I even have red shoes. How adorable will I be? As adorable as Zooey? Maybe if I purchase a tambourine too? Ah, yes.

True Glamour

I'm gonna tell it to you straight. I'm just not a girl who's into Fergie, Lady Gaga, Beyonce (ok, there was that ONE song...), Pink, or any of those other tough chics with lots of booty action, skanky clothes, hyped up sound, heavy synth, and shallow lyrics. It's true. I'm not an easy sell with modern pop music. It's just not that appealing or glamorous to me. But you know who IS one of the most glamorous women I've ever heard? Rosmary Clooney. This gal can croon and swoon and make any song sound like butter melting into toast. I CAN'T get enough of her lately. I've become a Clooney addict (and most people are shocked when they learn it's Rosmary and NOT George (I don't like George much either)).


Look at the simple dance moves, the awesome boots, the honey and syrup voice of Nancy here! Again, many people will take Frank, but lately, it's all been Nancy for me and my house.



And who can forget one of the most classy and beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen? Doris, you were my hero when I was younger, and you still are.

Music is My Boyfriend

Music helps me deal. Here are some good songs I can't get enough of lately:

Love her lyrics..so.so.so much. Plus I went through a time when I would only read Shakespeare.



Makes me still kind of believe in love...kind of. And I think that maybe I should learn the Ukelele.




Alexi can lure to me sleep like no one else.




Some of the most beautiful sounds ever.



Music, the universal language.