This is not my beautiful life...

Well, for once it freaking is.

top ten songs for today:

10. Ash - Girl From Mars

ah...high school. reminds me of being a d.j. at a radio station that exactly 3 people listened to.

09. Bloc Party - So Here We Are

I'm only indie cause it's trendy

08. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

Could a song be more perfect?

07. Amerie - 1 Thing

I love it. I want to marry it.

06. Weezer - Good Life

I just need to admit I want sugar in my tea. O Rivers, what have you done......(beverly hills???)

05. Kasabian - Cutt Off

Sometimes I love this song, and sometimes I skip right over it. Today I love it. It makes me want to be on a secret mission in some former soviet bloc country.

04. T Rex - 2oth Century Boy

This song makes me want to wear silver clothes and blue eyeshadow and go to concerts. Mostly go to concerts.

03. Hallelujah - (the Rufus Wainwright one)

Has this song always been around? How have I never known about it??? I feel like if any of my super indie friends were here right now they would laugh at me for not knowing this song.

And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

I listen to that lyric over and over. I don't want to know how old this song is, I don't want to know what it is all about. I want to have the mental image of that lyric. Of drawing it out like poison.

02. Flood of Foreign Capital - Burning Airlines

This song is the auditory equivalent of "dover beach" by Matthew Arnold:

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; -on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

01. Following Through - Dismemberment Plan

Travis Morrison is a Rock God. His lyrics articulate so much that I'm unable and unwilling to. Again, I would be afraid to ask him what they meant because my meaning is my own and I could only be disappointed.

I've got this life I've just got to live I'm just following through.

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