I Love Icelandic Singers.

With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly.

Those words, roughly translated from the albums title, are completely what this album, Sigur Ros' newest, sounds and feels like. I HIGHLY suggest you buy it off iTunes or Sigur Ros' Website a-saaap.

Here is a video (slightly explicit, but I think you can handle dancing naked people right? hahha) for their song "Gobbledigook". I really just put it up for the song, it's not like "HERE, WATCH SOME PORN!" Just listen if you must. Watch if you like.

More Summertime Listenings.

So, as the days go by, more and more wonderfully summery music makes its way to my iTunes and dives right into my heart. (I could get cheesier, just ask.)

And since the last post of the perfect summer music, I have discovered yet another 29 songs that fit the bill! It was hard to narrow it down, since I like most music most of the time and to dub a song merely for summer is quite the task. But I did it. Applaud... NOW. Thank you, thank you, you're far too kind. And I also have to admit, this one might have a few more oldies than the last. We shall see.

Enjoy:

1. "I Hear Them All" by Old Crow Medicine Show

2. "All Around Me (Acoustic)" by Flyleaf

3. "We Rock" from the Camp Rock Soundtrack

4. "Pocketful Of Sunshine" by Natasha Bedingfield

5. "Do The Panic"by Phantom Planet

6. "Horses" by Broken Social Scene

7. "Each New Day" by Rose Melberg

8. "Jump" by Van Halen

9. "Gobbledigook" by Sigur Ros

10. "Love Love Love" by The Mountain Goats

11. "Funny Little Frog" by Belle & Sebastian

12. "Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop" by Landon Pigg

13. "The Yellow Ones" by Pinback

14. "Fire" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

15. "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner

16. "Your Song" by Elton John

17. "The Tide Is High" by Blondie

18. "Bicycle Race" by Queen

19. "One Clock" by Julia Nunes

20. "Solta o Frango" by Bonde Do Role

21. "Where There's Gold" by Dashboard Confessional (yes. I know.)

22. "Faces Going Places" by Jose Vanders (thanks nora!)

23. "Who's Gonna Know Your Name (666)" by Fembots

24. "Pursuit Of Happiness" by Nuno Bettencourt & Suze Demarchi

25. "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile" by Peter Marshall

26. "Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight" by Tiny Tim

27. "Creep" by TLC (I think I've liked this song since...forever)

28. "Goodbye Girls" by Broadcast

29. "My Beautiful Rescue" by This Providence

There you have it. Start Listening.

Oh! Yes, and if you don't have a Last.Fm account, I highly suggest you get one, and download the program. Opens your eyes to lots of new music and enables you to find others who like the crap you do. 

You Think You'd Know Me By Now

Okay, I have to admit. Life has been better lately. May days haven't been so disastrous and I realize how much I have to thank God for. Its...a lot. I feel like I've hardly spent any time with Him lately, and this breaks my heart into a million little pieces. Which is coincidently 

the book I am currently reading. The dedication page says this:

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.

I broke something, Old Man

How badly is it broken?

It's in a million little pieces.

I'm afraid I can't help you.

Why? 

There's nothing you can do.

Why?

It can't be fixed.

Why?

It's beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

I've just had a down day, as some people like to put it. I cant find time to do the things I want to anymore, I just do homework. I guess I'm irresponsible and selfish with my time. Yeah, that's probably it. But I spent a total of 6 hours on homework today attempting to finish a long assignment for Geology and trying to focus on work rather than wishing I was doing something else (ADD?) So my plan is to feverishly work in the next few days and get ahead in my homework so I have nothing to worry about for a little while and can do things I wanna do! Here's what I hope to do in the days to come:

-finish sketching and drawings from the san diego trip

-get my new lens and take pictures somewhere

-start a new painting with my acrylics. 

-Start another painting with my watercolors!

-journal more

-finish A Million Little Pieces and start Twilight

-go to Seaworld (not really soon...)

-get my monroe again

-get a new hair-do

-write letters to people that I've promised to write letters to.

-buy a huge pack of polaroids from amazon since they are all disappearing..

-get my gym membership renewed

-start my video blogs! (I will keep this one too.)

-finally visit Petco.

-FINALLY go bowling...

Thats about it. Not too much to ask, right? I think not. But I kind of just want today to be over. I want to be joyful tomorrow and I know God will have a huge hand in making that happen. :) So, here is what I want to do right now. I am going to go to bed, after reading a little in my book, and fall asleep listening to "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the movie Once. But first I will tell you about Julia Nunes.

I found her on YouTube tonight, and she is brilliant! Portuguese, amazing vocal skillz, and hilarious. I immediately bought her album on iTunes, literally, right now. Here she is singing "Falling Slowly". Watch all of her videos! She's so talented, and like Andrew Bravener, I wish I knew her. I will keep you posted as I find new talent and effing cool people on the tube. Subscribe if you have an account!

I Want To Shoot Something.

I miss my cameraaa!

I went to target with courtney the other night to get a new memory card for it since THAT was broken, and looked my lens...and its bent. Bent so much that it cant focus. So, since there is not one soul around here who can fix it, I am getting a new one. That sounds good to me anyway, I'm just really impatient about waiting for it to get here and shiz. I miss taking pictures with it. I miss a lot of things. Thing I cant think about or my lungs seem to get smaller and allow trace amounts of life giving oxygen in.. That can't be good.

I am listening to Matt Costa and keep thinking to myself that I want to change it. And then I wonder why, because I love Matt Costa. And then I realize. It makes me think about those things I don't wanna think about for fear of suffocation and death. Matt "Costies" makes me think of school time and Liz and Ben and Courtney and Steffanie. The same sad song I've been singing for a while now. Sorry for being such a broken record...

I dont like summer school and wish to never do it again. Unless it's like my Watercolors class. That one is enjoyable. Especially with good ole Claire B. in there! Yesterday (meaning Thursday..), both of our art classes took a field trip and spent all day in San Diego going basically everywhere there is to go and seeing all the sights. We sketched things as we went along and I got some pretty dang good drawings done. Everyone said they really liked how I saw the world and that my sketched were really fun to look at (so says Mel Sparkles.) The most interesting part of it was how I realized that all of these people, every single one of them, besides Claire, I would have never ever known in life if it weren't for the curse of summer school at IVC. That just seemed so strange to me. I like the people though, they accept one and all types of people, no judgement...since I'm sure they've experienced enough of their own in life. Like mine. I'm so stupid sometimes.

And I would also like to leave you the link to Dick Blick's Art Store! The coolest Art store I have ever been in in my life! And in little Italy too, how much better could it be to get all kinds of art supplies and then have gelato right after? Well, Claire and I can confirm that it couldn't get better, and that no one should try. I will post pictures of my sketches later when I can take decent pictures of them. 

Tomorrow: 

-order new lens

-call Skip again

-call mother.....

-finish geology homework

-finish book

-Take film to Rite Aid for development

-transfer "arbortorium" sketch to watercolor paper

-attempt to use iMovie 6...

-Email Courtney W. back

-print out course syllabi to mail on monday. 

Peter who?

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I Was Made For You.

I was. I know it, probably now more than when you were around.

I told stories about you last night and remembered how great of a person you were then.

I'm pretty sure we would be perfect together if it weren't for your complete lack of respect for women (when you're done using them.)

It makes me sad how all those millions of reasons why I love you are now only reasons why I LOVED you and seem more like a checklist of things to never be again. Maybe that's it. Maybe I should have never given it to you.

Maybe we could have met later in life and everything would have come to life and felt right. But, now, it can never happen. Thanks to you, really.

On a lighter note....

HahahhahahhahahhahahahahahHAhahHAhahAH.

But really. It is very early on a saturday morning. and I am awake. As I usually am. I have accomplished so much this night that I can hardly remember it all. But now the time has come for me to shower and prepare myself for a lovely day in Palm Desert! Wish Marybeth and I luck, it's supposed to get up to 117 degrees there today.....

I Can Hear the Music Again!

MY IPOD IS BAAAAAAACK!

(I lost it, just incase you didn't know.)

And now it is back thanks to my friend, COURTNEY STEWART.

Oh man, what a glorious moment that was. 

And now I am updating it with all the latest music and it feels right. 

P.S. Last night, during the whole supposed bowling escapade, we actually went to Denny's and then saw IRON MAN (yet again. Still good.) And Evan didn't go, unfortunately he had some previous arrangements with his parents for dinner, and this happens quite often apparently. Bobby came instead and make the night definitely more memorable. Thank you Brett, for not letting us die.

ALFEETERSANE.

Baby Mine.

Okay, I am going to admit this.

I just watched this and cried. A lot. Not just a whimper and a tear here and there.

No, I went right into the "cry face". You know. The scrunched up droopy mouth and purple/red face with the whole wrinkly forehead action with the tears tap-tapping on your shirt. That was me for this near three minute time segment. I found it on another girls blog and she admitted to crying every time she's watched it. And I felt like I could handle it. No, wrong. I don't know what I feel when I watch it. Like all the sadness in the world just fills me up.

And it makes me miss my mom. I kind of know how dumbo feels.

Discount Meals Are Warm.

Something Nora just wrote for me. Over instant messaging.

But I had to.. "journal" it. Really, I had to.

THE POWER OF WORDS COMPELS YOU.

okay, surry.

It doesn't have a title, so I just drew that picture you see there.

Here is what it says:

Carolyn, or Evelyn.

Or even Gwendolyn. Wait!

Jocelyn, Katelyn, Marilyn, and Lewellyn.

(Had to ask Google for the spellin')

Where have you been?

Oh, dont tell me.

BERLIN!

Course, with your violin, of course.

And then.

This is when we begin to look within.

I'm not seeking a trash bin or a bowling pin.

Or a potato skin rolling on your shin.

Brooklyn. 

Did I reply?

Swim your seas but don't forget me.

Madelyn, Jaquelyn, Roslyn, Huckleberry Finn.

Continue.

Continue to search within.

Let whispers grab hold and laughter let go.

Abandoner.

Entrepreneur.

Sha Sha Shatter, hey.

HEY!

What's the matter?

Mix me up like pancake batter, I'll keep running back as you spin the platter.

But wait...

Do you remember?

You cant fly now.

Please.

Please hold on to your feather.

Wagner.

Did you run too fast?

In contrast, this is incredibly unsurpassed.

And it's our last.

Last chance to open it up.

Steady your painted cup.

And dive.

Everything you want is coming alive.

He's Treating Me Right.

Mates of State...

A Band. 

A Marriage.

A Legend.

These two crazzzayy folks have changed the way I hear music. Ever since I first heard them two summers ago thanks to my friend Timmy, no duo has quite come close to this one. I just can't imagine the beauty in being a part of a marriage that is so musical. I would love to have this kind of bond with my husband. To have our voices blend just so like theirs do. Thanks Timm.

My itunes hasn't seen this kind of Play Count since the dawn of the song "Maybe It's Maybelline" by Relient K many-a-year ago. Those days.. Oh. Those days. I think, within the last few days, the song "Blue and Gold Print" is up to a 99 count.. almost there.

And they have come out with their best album yet. I can't think of a song on it that isn't perfect. It is GOLDEN. Its called Re-Arrange Us and its available on iTunes. Buy it now.