tonight may be an important night:

this is the first time i've ever heard The Smiths in a public establishment, anywhere.

how strange… it was a weird kitschy Jimmy Buffet-themed restaurant, called, yes, Cheeseburger in Paradise.

yes, it came on – The Boy With the Thorn in His Side – and during the intro i thought "wait a minute… i know this… it's a song i absolutely love… what is it?"

see, i didn't even recognize it in a restaurant… because i've never heard it outside my headphones, car speakers, or locked bedroom… how strange.

then when i did…

so last night was the coolest, most goth rainstorm in a while. i was smart, i left for my night classes before the rain began, but i packed Disintegration because i knew i'd need it on the way home.

oh man, was it a beauty. the inside of the bus, on the way home, was all wet and the moisture clung to every smooth surface, and the streetlights coldly ripped through the rivulets down the windows.

and somehow it was timed perfectly: i ran from the bus stop to my apartment, slashing rain attacking my face and the rain eating…

today, on the bus and then in the quad, i listened to all of daydream nation, in its entirety, from start to finish, on headphones. i've never done that before in my life.

christ.

has anyone ever tried that?

sonic youth

i remember buying remain in light in 9th grade, of course for the inimitable and incomparable once in a lifetime. and i remember being quite nonplussed by the rest of the album, but trying to make myself appreciate the repetitive basslines and unchanging song structures. it's sort of been on the back burner since then: it's stayed on my cd shelf out of respect because it is "the most influential album of one of the most influential bands of their era."

and i mean the talking heads are the kind of band whose famous songs are so easily likeable,…

i want your opinions!

who are the most worstly overrated artists/bands ever?

you know the ones! the ones that EVERYONE ALL THE TIME IS ALWAYS RAVING ABOUT AND BLOWING LOADS over, and you just want to stop them all and say "that's really a bit excessive."

who are yours?

is there anything more beautiful than girl from the north country?

bob dylan

my highway mix! the aural counterpart to ACKthehack's more introspective road mix. for mine, i went almost strictly on feel and mood. i wanted it to be like you snuck out in your car with three or less people that you really love, and you're basically kicking your lives' asses as you careen down the big 4-lanes.

so yeah, all these songs (except one or two) are songs i've celebrated in the past on the highway with people i've found beautiful.

also, i suppose you could say theoretically it's supposed to last exactly one night. but itunes tells me it's…

i love you.

belle & sebastian

here is a band that reached right the hell through all the crotchety new-music bashing of which i've been accused. i'm serious! i did not even have to double check my love for these songs. i laughed out loud at every one - the lyrics are brilliant because, rather than trying hard to be humorous, they just are.

please, do yourself a favor, if you want to convince yourself that good people don't die and hyperbole kills, pirate a copy of 69 Love Songs (disc 1). hell, they may even restore my faith so much that i'd realistically recommend…

i was just reminiscing about the most exciting show i went to last year, at the vox populi art gallery in philadelphia. it was a noise show, headlined by a kim/thurston side project. christ, i can't even remember what they called themselves. i want to say mirror/dash.

well, as luck would have it, my friend , i don't even know how this was arranged, but it was arranged that thurston would be using his friend's amp, and that got him and 4 of his friends into the show early and free. can you see where this is going? haha i…