the sound of you working

i went to bed not too long after that post last night.
this morning i woke up a little after 5am. bizarre.

there are a couple albums/artists that i have been playing a shit ton lately...city & colour, bess rogers, jenny owen youngs. and i need to change my Now Playing song, so one of these lovely people will be getting that spot. i'm not entirely sure who will be getting it though (but it's not city & colour, because i'm not that depressed right now)

both jenny & bess are great, but i think this one is going to go to the lovely Bess Rogers. her new EP is great. i downloaded it off itunes the other day, but i need to get a physical copy of it.

in other music news, today i have acquired some tickets for concert experences:
august 9th - blink182/falloutboy/takingbacksunday at jones beach (totally lol-worthy)
august 11th - kevin devine at the note in west chester, pa
october 31st - the get up kids/kevin devine at irving plaza (boo. i wanted brooklyn)
november 28th - brandnew/glassjaw(!!)/tba special guests at nassau colesieum

there are a bunch of shows coming up the next couple weeks too. there is a little thing in the side bar for the whole list. i totally forgot about planning for the blondie/pat benatar show. tina reminded me when we were on the phone. i am getting excited again for it (even though i would like to be at the tori amos show maybe a little more). i guess that means more vacation days at work are being taken off.

telling strangers personal things

uploaded a new now playing song.

this song always feels perfect, but the parts that sound perfect are always different. i don't know, like sometimes i relate to the first verse the most. then months later it won't mean the same thing as it once did and i'll spend my time singing the 4th verse in my head.

regina's new album comes out in a couple weeks or so. it is called far. but i hear she calls it fart. i must say that she is my kind of woman.

It's sad but it's true

new Now Playing song is up. the new lily allen record isn't as good as the first one, but it is pretty rockin' at times. this is a good track. kind of makes me want to die, but what else is new?

(stolen & altered from a softer world)

i had a long talk with LD yesterday morning. it really wasn't a long talk for most people, but when it comes to me - anything is pretty lengthy since i never talk about things. it reopened some things, but it wasn't terrible. one good thing was that it made me feel like i should write here more. the original goal was to make this a music blog, which failed. then it was to write in here about every other day, which i have been failing at. so even if it is trivial, i want to make sure i keep leaving my mark.

familiar hand on my shoulder

left my house at 6:30pm
back home a little before 3am

it was a queens college kind of night
dinner with one group.
then drinks with another.

i don't really drink but if i did, i would be fucked up right now.
never before has a street corner made me want to drink till i forgot.


oh. and i changed my now playing song. it is perfect for right now.
"You never get used to it. You just have to live with it "

sparks that ring and bullets fly

so i didn't do it yesterday but i changed the song now. it isn't really happy & joyful as per Betty's request. however it was on my computer & it makes me fucking dance.

so. things? they have been alright. i feel lately my mood is entirely different from day to day. this past week has been good and silly and nuts and crazy. but it has been fine. life is actually pretty good. i could list more than one reason why i should be going a little wacky right now, but i am not. i feel like i am stronger than i have ever been.

something "fun" from this past week was a book signing at the store. jeff kinney was there. he wrote the books in the "diary of a wimpy kid" series. over 3,000 people showed up. this is sharkey holding back the mob:

i was on the cashwrap trying to keep people smoothly to each register. i don't know why they kept the short music seller up there, but i think i did alright for myself. tomorrow is mary pope osbourne. there is a 1,000 people limit on wristbands. oh and she broke her wrist, so her & her people are going to be stamping books with her signature. there are going to be a lot of pissed off parents.

we're totally at odds

i have been toiling the last couple days when my shuffle came on my ipod over what i should put here for a new song.

i finally picked one

When you're close to me
Something stirs in me
Oh, the beast is free
But I know you'll never be

it is 'chase' by leona naess. her new cd was on the instore play list at work and it sparked me to get more into her again lately. this song is off her first cd, which i have had since it came out. it is my life in a song. enjoy it.

the wind talks back

today went really fast. i was helping out and teaching all day in a 2nd grade classroom. i think it is my last day in that room. i did enjoy them, but i am happy to be able to get back to my kids and my room. it is so different. i think i definitely transforming into a 3-5th grade teacher. i don't think that i can handle the younger ones. but then again, i'll take whatever job someone offers me once i am done getting my degree.

a new Now Playing song:
My room seems wrong.
The bed wont fit.
I can not seem to operate
and you my love are gone.

So glide away on soapy heels and
promise not to promise anymore
and if you come around again then
i will take the chain from off the door.

i have listened to this song more times than i care to admit in the last 36 hours. i am totally in love with it.

i have so much work to do, and i have no desire to do any of it.

humming all the notes you heard

it feels like a sunday but it isn't.

i spent my day today watching tv on the internet. i tried to watch more of the office & some 30 rock. but i failed. however i got a chance to watch sarah palin being ridiculous with katie couric. and then saw tina fey on last week's snl making fun of her yet again. it was great. tina fey is my favorite funny lady.




& i feel like i made no progress at all today.
i felt kind of lonely. but that is nothing new
daydreamed way too much for my own good



i've been listening to a lot of music today...not that is something abnormal. but today it was all about new music. i got the leona naess back catalogue which was exciting since her middle two albums aren't available to order at work. i also got inara george's record which is what i have been listening to most of the day. i heard her doing guest vocals on an instore play cd at the store. i looked it up and it sounded nice. so after listening to the whole thing, it is delightful.


Inara George - An Invitation
take a listen and i know you'll love it too


however, if you don't want to download it without getting a little bit of a listen, a song off the cd is my current 'Now Playing' song - Don't Let It Get You. so - listen, realize you like it, and then get the whole thing.

yes? yes. good.

this isn't something i would do

i quit the carnival and moved next door
thought i'd had enough but i wanted more
so now i'm sneaking out at night
i clean my face and shine my shoes
and go where i'm not supposed to

new song on the side bar.

wish i had the version from bowery the other night, but this one will have to do in the meantime.

temporary fix

i'm home.


it was nice to see all my family but i had much less distractions than i need in my life. take away the family things, all i did this weekend was read 'watchmen' and listen to basically five albums. i don't know why, but i restricted myself to adele - 19, archer's of loaf - icky mettle, death cab for cutie - narrow stairs & all songs i have by gregory and the hawk (on the way home, i put on pablo, b/c staten island inspired me? and i haven't really listened to them in a long time)

i listened to the adele record the most. there are a couple songs on it that i totally fell in love with this weekend. granted, it is for all the wrong reasons, but whatever. one of those songs is "best for last." it is my new "Now Playing" song on the side of my page. enjoy.


so summer ends & real life officially begins on thursday. i start student teaching again bright & early on thursday. friday i have class and write out a check for $655 to pay for health insurance. joy. but other than the lack of money in my life, i am happy for my life to be busy again. my mind has never been ok when i have enough time to think about all the reasons for me to be unhappy. lately, more of them have been coming to life/resurfacing. hopefully four busy months spent in elementary school will keep my mind somewhat on track.

also tina is home from los angeles for a bit. she is going away with her family at the end of the week but then she stays home again for while before going back to the west coast. after that, laura comes home from oxford for good. it will be nice to have friends that live 5 minutes away from me again.

Now Playing

Now Playing: (Added on 7/24/09)
Bess Rogers
"Travel Back"
website :: lyrics

Previous Songs:
2009/06/09 - Regina Spektor "Summer in the City" [website :: lyrics]
2009/04/16 - Lily Allen "22" website :: lyrics
2009/02/13 - Motion City Soundtrack "Broken Heart (Acoustic)" [website :: lyrics]
2009/01/19 - Neutral Milk Hotel "Holland 1945" [website :: lyrics]
2008/12/21 - Jessi Robertson "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" [myspace]
2008/11/30 - Leona Naess "Chase" [myspace :: lyrics]
2008/10/27 - Ingrid Michaelson "The Chain" [myspace :: lyrics]
2008/10/04 - Inara George "Don't Let It Get You" [myspace :: lyrics]
2008/09/20 - Kevin Devine "Carnival (Demo)" [myspace :: lyrics]
2008/08/24 - Adele "Best For Last" [myspace :: lyrics]
2008/08/08 - Gregory and The Hawk - "The Bolder Thing To Do" [myspace :: lyrics]