100 Directions

2009-07-23T23:39:00.002-05:00

there's a lack of color here.

please don't worry, lover. its really bursting at the seams.

this is fact not fiction

for the first time in years.

2009-07-18T17:30:00.004-05:00

2009-07-08T19:20:00.002-05:00

its a time-out kind of season.

big things happening.

much to listen to.

things to make.

things to do.

starting.

now.

2009-06-12T11:31:00.001-05:00

this was a weird morning to wake up to.

picnic with friends in 4 hours.

i need to buy wine.

2009-06-11T20:24:00.002-05:00

oh nina! oh feist!

2009-06-05T15:10:00.001-05:00

driving to this today. no where in particular, either.

Video: Micachu & the Shapes,

2009-06-05T15:07:00.001-05:00

Video: Micachu & the Shapes, "Golden Phone"

Shared via AddThis

2009-06-02T23:03:00.005-05:00

i have absolutely no understanding of what this song entails but it constantly finds me in places and moods when i dont expect it. in fact, i have no recollection of how i first stumbled upon the gem that it is (much like most of my music, i constantly cycle--thats a different story, however). regardless, i am hands in the air in love with the feel of this song and what it does to me on the insides. above all, its it french! she could very well be singing about a tortured heart but i wouldnt know it and nor do i want to. what i do know is that with the language barrier and my strong desire to not know what she's saying, ive created a song of my own. and i love it.

for the second time posting the video and the 100th time listening: create your song.

i know i will.

Coeur de Pirate || Comme des enfants from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

2009-06-02T20:59:00.001-05:00

"I believe that freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. My husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” On another occasion he said, “I have worked too long and hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern. Justice is indivisible.” Like Martin, I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. "

-Coretta Scott King

2009-06-02T01:17:00.002-05:00

blogger,

what is up with you sucking and not showing the other half of youtube videos? i dont understand. explain, please?

thanks.

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in the mean time and in between time:

Jack Peñate - Tonight's Today

2009-06-02T01:16:00.001-05:00

if you've got no kind words to say, you should say nothing more at all.

2009-05-31T17:45:00.001-05:00

this time, baby, i'll be bulletproof.

2009-05-30T21:31:00.001-05:00

“Where is home? I’ve wondered where home is, and I realized, it’s not Mars or someplace like that, it’s Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there’s no way I can get there again.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

2009-05-29T21:17:00.001-05:00

listening to 'motorcycle drive by' as loud as i can get it and thinking myself to sleep.

2009-05-29T18:24:00.002-05:00

most terrible headache of my life today. there is plenty of water in my body so i do not understand. mac n' cheese shells for dinner. milk.

staying in tonight.

brainstorming new bike colors.

3.4 for the semester.

my heart hurts.

2009-05-27T17:29:00.001-05:00

this time, baby, ill be bulletproof.

2009-05-27T17:24:00.001-05:00

Here We Go Magic / "Tunnelvision"

2009-05-25T21:48:00.002-05:00

I might like you better if we slept together.

2009-05-23T17:39:00.005-05:00

Discovery

so many indies combined. so many synths. so luxurious!

2009-05-23T13:53:00.005-05:00

I just bought a ticket to see an amazing show a la June 18th. I may or may not lose my shit. Finally being able to see Holly Miranda=a super excited Claire. for reals.

She will blow your mind into tiny pieces.

2009-05-22T21:32:00.003-05:00

White Rabbits killed it on Letterman a few nights ago.

2009-05-21T20:50:00.000-05:00

“ That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

2009-05-21T16:13:00.001-05:00

“ There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

— Irwin Shaw

2009-05-13T14:13:00.003-05:00

dear girl sitting next to me,

im sure you're a nice person and you didnt intend for it to rain because im sure you would have worn more appropriate shoes. however, it is not okay or very courteous of you to take your shoes off in the library and waft your foul smelling feet across my way. the combination of rain, wet, humidity and your sweaty feet smell are making my already sensitive coffee coated stomach churn upside down. so please, help us all out and put your shoes back on.

sincerly,

your neighbor with a nose.

2009-05-08T22:23:00.001-05:00

a video. a song. one take. this video is fabulous, seriously. more people should do this. oh wait, most people cant. im loving the new crop of musicians and artists coming about.

2009-05-08T13:34:00.001-05:00

if you click on one thing for the rest of your life, click on this.

just click it, you'll dig. promise.

2009-05-08T13:29:00.002-05:00

Audio Monkeys, Analogue Primates!

Pics By R▲▲S. Circuit board shots, taken from parts of his tv and computer.

2009-05-08T13:27:00.002-05:00

i understand the amazingness of this but seriously... how much does it make you think of cousin It?

MLR finally moving from derekvincentsmith on Vimeo.

2009-05-08T12:19:00.001-05:00

everyone should get on these guys. holly miranda, too. oh, and so many otherssss. ill make a list soon.

2009-05-03T19:57:00.000-05:00

“ Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

2009-05-03T19:56:00.002-05:00

How we need that security! How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

— Sylvia Plath

2009-05-03T19:54:00.000-05:00

2009-05-02T20:02:00.001-05:00

2009-05-02T19:56:00.001-05:00

“‘Gay marriage’ is not what is at stake. It’s the right to choose to marry, the right to benefits, the right to adopt, the right to access the same set of rights extended to every citizen in the United States of America. Those rights do not extend to homosexuals. And it’s f—-ed up. And you should care, straight or gay, white or black. Canadian or American.” -Sara Quin

2009-05-01T21:05:00.002-05:00

i might have to buy my first man categorized (excluding tour) shirt.

omg. O.M.G

Daniel Johnston, I love you.

2009-04-28T15:10:00.000-05:00

oh. my.

why can't i live in brooklyn for times like these?

2009-04-17T18:56:00.001-05:00

April Seven from The Rentals Dot Com on Vimeo.

2009-04-15T23:29:00.002-05:00

"Every time we kissed you closed your eyes, and I clamped mine open, just to see those short lived moments that I almost let me love you. So lie away, I did, so wide awake, trying to give myself a good reason to forget the empty words from this hollow curse. I can’t shake the weight of what we’ve been through, and I won’t justify the way we never really listen to a goddamn word we claim to. Let’s be fair. Let’s take some order. We’re too much like each other, and there’s no chance in hell that you would change for me. Why would I change for you? But the painful truth exposed here, as you grab your autumn jacket and slowly make your way towards the door, is that in this short lived moment my heart is left unfastened, as the single thing I feared the most just happened." - WB

2009-04-11T00:22:00.003-05:00

i love this band and song with every ounce of me.

lyrics from 'Santa Clara' by The National will be tattooed on my body sometime soon.

2009-04-11T00:17:00.005-05:00

"ill make you smile for the fact that im good at it. ill make you smile so i can sit and look at it"

-atmosphere

2009-04-11T00:13:00.003-05:00

it's an Atmosphere kind of night.

i'll never forget finding this cd in my brothers room.

2009-04-07T20:28:00.001-05:00

2009-04-06T00:06:00.001-05:00

woowee!

2009-04-05T23:16:00.010-05:00

this is what i do on a saturday night when i have nothing to do. soundtrack includes:

motel motel - coffee** //peter, bjorn & john - nothing to worry about** // phoenix - 1901 // the postal service - the district sleeps alone tonight // q tip - manwomanboogie // theophilus london - ultra violet // low red land - dogs hymn // casxio - seventeen // camera obscura - french navy** // the shivers - just didnt need to know**

2009-04-04T18:04:00.001-05:00

there were these really cute kids at work today speaking french and it made me think of this music video i watched a while back. i wish i knew french. so pretty.

Coeur de Pirate || Comme des enfants from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

2009-04-01T13:53:00.001-05:00

“ I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

- j.d salinger

2009-04-01T13:51:00.002-05:00

2009-04-01T13:49:00.001-05:00

“ It’s amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart can take.

-nora roberts

2009-04-01T13:33:00.005-05:00

"there aint nothin to loose. this is my favorite excuse."

The Shivers. My relatively new obsession as of late. I need to figure a way to get involved. somehow. So good.

Also--

Sea of Bees

not quite sure how i feel about her voice just yet but i enjoy listening to this song.

2009-03-31T15:21:00.000-05:00

Post War Kids - whole world on its head

if you like Foals this will give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

2009-03-31T15:16:00.004-05:00

After a couple breaks on the name front Peggy Sue are back to, I think just sticking to the name Peggy Sue now, no more Peggy Sue & The…. Either way their new material and new song ‘The Sea, The Sea’ is beautiful, have a listen below:

2009-03-27T11:33:00.002-05:00

things i am doing before 3:15pm

- re-washing hair. slight breakdown last night. hopefully I can make it look good. oye.

- packing

- eating lots of mango

- updating ipod. yeesh.

- cleaning

- study, study, study, STUDY

2009-03-26T14:39:00.000-05:00

2009-03-26T14:31:00.007-05:00

#385
someone who counts my freckles.
1,001 things i want in a lover

2009-03-26T14:25:00.002-05:00

Extreme Sheep LED Art

this is seriously one of the best things i’ve ever seen.

2009-03-26T14:24:00.000-05:00

so many things i need to do. so little time. but how pretty is this picture, right?

2009-03-24T17:01:00.000-05:00

pure sex.

2009-03-21T21:28:00.003-05:00

2009-03-19T12:04:00.003-05:00

I'm not proud that nothing will seem easy about me.

2009-03-19T12:01:00.001-05:00

“ I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.

— Haruki Murakami

2009-03-19T11:55:00.001-05:00

2009-03-19T11:49:00.000-05:00

on repeat when i get home. it's needed.

2009-03-18T12:49:00.004-05:00

THIS makes me the happiest person on the earth today.

along with the daytrotter love, you can download two eps Young Coyotes have up on itunes. highly HIGHLY recommended.

"I guess the easiest way to describe this would be that every once in a while, or every day depending on who you are, there are these moments of static so jumbled together with confusion and anger and fear and pain and even slight euphoria blanketing everything around you, that it feels inescapable, if only for a moment…the ultimate existential crisis song for those who equally care and don’t care about everything, all at once. "

2009-03-18T11:20:00.002-05:00

this made me bust out laughing during class. BOOP BOOP!

2009-03-17T23:47:00.004-05:00

THIS SONG has me spinning around my room right now. hanging clothes up.

(camera obscura - 'french navy')

2009-03-17T23:27:00.001-05:00

I find it hard to believe

you don't know

the beauty you are,

but if you don't,

let me be your eyes.

- the velvet underground

2009-03-11T23:31:00.001-05:00

as the kids these days would say: OMFG!

Jack White Plays Drums in New Band With Kills Singer

2009-03-10T19:39:00.001-05:00

i miss having this song on my ipod. and, well... songs in general.

2009-03-07T16:22:00.010-06:00

i cannot stop listening to Warpaint today. specifically 'billie holiday'

2009-03-07T16:18:00.002-06:00

2009-03-07T12:05:00.001-06:00

my day today. over and over again and i dont know why. repeat.
also, i have the sad realization that i lost my whole catalogue of these fellas. live beauties, too.
this will do. for now.

2009-03-07T11:55:00.000-06:00

“ Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can’t live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don’t.

— Elizabeth Bowen

2009-03-04T14:39:00.004-06:00

my favorite band out of chicago right now, Company of Thieves.

"we are all our own devil, we are all our own devil, we make this world our hell..."

Carson Daly performance.

song: 'Oscar Wilde'

official video for 'Oscar Wilde':

2009-02-28T03:51:00.004-06:00

POPO

ive basically fallen in love tonight with three brothers. its turning on 4am. this is the latest i have been up in...months. am i un-sleeping my sickness right now?

i dont know. but what i do know is that im looking forward to knowing POPO a little better.

2009-02-28T03:05:00.001-06:00

everyone who knows me knows how much i love party glasses.

2009-02-28T02:17:00.004-06:00

can you handle it? CAN YOU HANDLE IT? you better. lots of buzz coming this bands way. and with a slew of slots for sxsw ohhhh boy. big things poppin'. im excited for them. i just bought their ep on itunes. ive had a couple straggler tracks that ive picked up here and there but this ep had demos. i love demos. i love raw.

Other Lives - How Could This Be - Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.

2009-02-28T01:54:00.002-06:00

really, it's a lie that your parents will never try to hurt you. sometimes that's all they know how to do.

2009-02-28T01:46:00.001-06:00

2009-02-28T01:34:00.002-06:00

insert a couple more faces and of opposite gender and we'd have a winner.

the truly painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.

2009-02-24T19:33:00.004-06:00

"there is a really fantastic documentary-style interview video of CocoRosie that was just recently posted on whitecanvas. The video includes intimate backstage footage as well as some great question & answer material with Bianca and Sierra Casady. "

-touch and go

watch it HERE

2009-02-24T18:07:00.001-06:00

Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project

A nifty short film regarding Do Make Say Think/Broken Social Scene member Charles Spearin's new album.

2009-02-24T18:00:00.006-06:00

i dont know how much more i can take of chicagos winter this year. its dreadful.

songs that remind me of summer:

# 1 The Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake

2009-02-23T10:51:00.001-06:00

im not a pc but i love her.

2009-02-23T10:03:00.001-06:00

“ If for one minute you think you’re better than a sixteen-year-old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

2009-02-21T00:19:00.001-06:00

you cant get any better than this. loves of my life, ra ra riot!
RaRaRiot - Dying is fine - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

2009-02-20T23:58:00.001-06:00

how tight are those backup dancers? i love this songsong.

Ronettes -1965-Be My Baby-Live
by aakira009

2009-02-20T23:11:00.001-06:00

1. im pretty sure blogger has deleted some of my past posts. wtf? im considering tumblr.

2. i love fever ray. and i love this video.

When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

2009-02-20T23:03:00.001-06:00

hmmm, really kanye? even though i like your song better. arent you supposed to be an originator? THE man. leader of the pack. be all end all. musician of the century...

2009-02-15T23:19:00.004-06:00

“ Hey girl. Wanna come over to my house? Cyndi Lauper bought me a blender and I’m really good at making mojitos.

-- s.k.q

2009-02-15T22:42:00.001-06:00

2009-02-14T17:13:00.001-06:00

loch lomond - 'blue lead fences'

2009-02-14T17:03:00.001-06:00

dirty electronic music.

woodhands - 'i wasnt made for fighting.

2009-02-12T21:04:00.001-06:00

this is sick -- in the good way!

new Maccabees track called No Kind Words via The Music Slut

2009-02-12T21:01:00.001-06:00

2009-02-12T09:54:00.003-06:00

i want this. right now.

i seriously laughed out loud just now in the library looking at this.

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i want to own this, too!

2009-02-10T18:18:00.002-06:00

Dream Scream - Death Cab for Cutie

Having dreams about you
I want to scream about you
I’m having dreams about you
I want to scream about you

Everything you’ve done
You were the girl who seemed to own the world
Everything was about you

I took a chance to call you my own
I didn’t know a thing about you
I thought you could love
What a fool I was

It was going on
I was just singing my songs
There was something mad about you

I took it wrong
You liked my song
Why couldn’t I have you

A crazy dream you done me wrong
You left me long
I couldn’t stand a chance with out you
You said that love was dead and in my head
I just couldn’t believe it

And on the phone you said
You never knew me at all
You never knew me at all
I thought there was love
What a fool I was

And everything was in hyper-jinx
Just like an old time movie

You don’t understand
Can’t comprehend

I guess it doesn’t really matter
And every dream a nightmare
And nothing really matters

I thought I was loved
What a fool I was

Having dreams about you
Having dreams about you
Having dreams about you
Having dreams about you

2009-02-10T18:05:00.002-06:00

“ There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there’s not even a word for it. There’s the people who you’ve known forever who know you in this way that other people can’t because they’ve seen you change. They’ve let you change.Angela Chase, My So-Called Life

i love everyone in my life and i love everyone who isn't in it (anymore)--because i dont need you but i need YOU.

2009-02-10T17:14:00.003-06:00

this put me in a really calming mood somehow.

2009-02-10T15:47:00.001-06:00

Exclusive Download: Mirah Mixes Grit With Grace

2009-02-10T15:43:00.001-06:00

if you cant tell, i cant get over saturday night. so much love.

"Tonight" Lykke Li