Oh my yed

The fourteen-year-old English girl inside me LOVES this damn song. Even with its painfully forced English accent ("My yed"? C'mon, you're from Cali, dude) and the I'm-so-emo-I-can-hardly-stand-myself lyrics. I'm fully aware that by acknowledging my love for this song, I'm basically aligning my music tastes with the type of suburban white male in his twenties who uses a song like this to demonstrate his deep, sensitive side (because spiders "catching things and eating their insides" is hella deep). But I'm otherwise comfortable enough with my music tastes to be ok with that.

The video for this song is actually very goth-fab but these bitches are so mainstream they disabled embedding abilities. So you just get the song here. Which you probably hate unless you also have a fourteen-year-old English girl living inside you.

Song of the Day - Mumm-ra

Saw "500 Days of Summer" today, which was exactly as indie-licious as I expected it to be, right down to its soundtrack (containing the song I've posted below). It's a little known fact that that movie was loosely based on nearly every relationship I've ever had, all rolled into one. The male and female lead characters actually represent my dueling personalities. Considering the number of cheesy previews leading up to it (one of them was actually called "Love Happens" starring - who else - Jennifer Aniston), the movie itself was remarkably not cheesy at all. It certainly doesn't deserve to be ranked among those typical romantic comedies that make you feel like sticking your head in the oven after watching. At most, there are a few moments when it makes you sigh a little on the inside, because your heart remembers what it feels like.

Song of the Day - Bloc Party (with inspirational contribution from mah boo)

i'm pretty sure (and by "pretty sure", I mean absolutely positive) that i've posted this poem before by mah boo, e.e. cummings (or "eddie", as i like to call him). i think it's a safe assumption that the chorus of this bloc party tune, "ion square", was inspired by (aka "ripped off from") this very poem. which makes me love it all the more.

eddie would have loved this song too, i'm sure.

i carry your heart with me
e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)



(For SF)

Song of the Day - Joe Purdy

I love the rain the most...when it stops.



UPDATE: Decided I needed this song, too.

Song of the Day - The Smiths

Had I been old enough, I totally would have been a Smiths groupie back in the day. And I would have had absolutely no shame.

The Philosopher

The Philosopher
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

AND what are you that, wanting you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?

And what are you that, missing you,
As many days as crawl
I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?

I know a man that's a braver man
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man on my mind?

Yet women's ways are witless ways,
As any sage will tell,--
And what am I, that I should love
So wisely and so well?

Song(s) of the Day - St. Etienne & Roxy Music

So I've been battling my internal perfectionist recently, which is nothing new. The cause of the fight this time is the "new" blog I've been aspiring to create, which has ceased to materialize into something that bitch is satisfied with. Unfortunately for both of us, I haven't had the time/energy necessary to devote to this mini-project of mine, so we're settling with the status quo for now.

Life has been INSANE recently - although to say "recently" would imply it's not usually insane, which - HA! - we all know is certainly not true. My life is generally never dull or anything resembling sane, at least not for very long, anyway. I've actually been told that I'm "proficient at complicating [my] life." I don't even have to try, that's the beauty of it - it just comes naturally.

My keyboard has suddenly decided to sabotage my attempt to write a longer post by delaying my keystrokes, which is somewhat maddening, so I'm going to go back to watching The Tudors so I can lick the screen every time Henry Cavill comes on.

Oh, but first - this is for V: