Sparkwood & 21

I Don't Have to Like This to Love It

It is science that causes the fractured mind. It is mere biology that is responsible for it all.

Just vessels. Just filters of energy.

But, oh, it's everything.

I don't have to like this to love it.

Sad, White Girl Music

I haven't loved an artist this much in a long time:

Bon Iver - Towers (Official Music Video) from Bon Iver on Vimeo.

Call Your Girlfriend, I've Found My New Boyfriend

This:

Now this:

Thank you, Matthew Baldwin, for making my Friday.

You Turn Me On to the Idea of Growing Old

Shitty Songs That Have Played at this Coffee Shop So Far

• "Baby, Baby" - Amy Grant
• "Desperado" - Eagles
• "Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
• "More than Words" - Extreme (On a church youth trip to Panama City Beach, I sang this song to a bunch of stranger boys around a campfire. They applauded after. True story.)
• "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston (If it had been Dolly, it would not be on this list.)
• "Endless Love" - Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey (I sang this with my HS boyfriend in a talent show. We won. Did I mention I used to think myself a singer?)
• "Footloose" - Kenny Loggins (I waited on him once. He was wearing a lot of makeup, and asked to be seated facing the wall so he would not be noticed.)
• "Even the Nights are Better" - Air Supply
• "The Game of Love" - Santana with Michelle Branch

I Heard This for the First Time Today

It's Up To You

Formerly Scary

via www.youtube.com

The first time I ever heard Marilyn Manson I was in my car Tennessee, in some random parking lot, waiting for a friend. The cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)" came on the radio, and at first I thought it was a woman singing. I was thoroughly creeped out, and really got off on how that song made me feel in a mostly empty lot in the dark of night.

This video above for "Beautiful People" was compared today on the internet to Lady Gaga's newest video. I'm not here to comment on that comparison, but to remark upon how awesome it is to be suddenly thrust back into a time long ago when old shit was so, so new.

I Heart iheartradio

iheartradio is a free iPhone app that allows you to listen to streaming radio stations from all over the country. Commercials included.

This is a terrific trip of nostalgia if you wanna listen to Nashville's Y107, or whatever it is called now, and hear commercials for auto body shops and restaurants and dry cleaners you forgot even existed.

Riding Backwards: A May Mix

I made yet another mix for you.