It’s time for more of my favorite cover songs. Why? Because it’s my blog, and why not? “In the Sun” by Michael Stipe and Chris Martin This song is originally by Joseph Arthur and was re-recorded by Michael Stipe and Chris Martin for a Hurricane Katrina benefit in 2005. One of my best friends put … Continue reading »
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Sunday confessions, vol. 5
I hate when people use the word “y’all” in writing. I see this on blogs a lot, and I don’t get it. It’s not a real word, and there’s really no excuse to use it in writing unless you’re directly quoting someone. It doesn’t bother me as much when it’s spoken–depending on where you’re from, you can get … Continue reading »
Sunday confessions, vol. 4
I have a really loud, obnoxious laugh. If you’ve heard me laugh before you may or may not understand the varying degrees of obnoxiousness that my laughs achieve. It’s like a spectrum, and when I think something’s really funny and I laugh really hard, it’s ear-piercing and terrible. I’m really embarrassed by it at times, like … Continue reading »
Oh My God: on guilty pleasures
Be still my seventh grade heart. What in the fuck are the Madden Brothers even doing? This video is so unbelievably perplexing to me–I’m having a hard time grasping the fact that Joel and Benji Madden still exist in the public eye, and I had never heard of Machine Gun Kelly until I saw this … Continue reading »
when the rain washes you clean, you’ll know
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head for so long that it starts to drive you insane? This happens to me every now and then, and for the past week the song has been “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac. I recently discovered Kiersten Holine on YouTube, and a couple weeks ago I spent … Continue reading »
a collection of covers
When I was in college, my friend Bree and I did a weekly radio show for a while on our college’s radio station. Our shows were terrible because we didn’t know how to work the equipment and had really awkward on-air personas and almost always accidentally played a song with profanity and frantically had to … Continue reading »
fall playlist
I’m moving to Indianapolis in three days. This is what I’ve been listening to while packing. Fall 2011 Montezuma – Fleet Foxes Ready To Start – Arcade Fire Wounded – Third Eye Blind I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light – Brand New Just Another – Pete Yorn Satellite – Guster The War … Continue reading »
I wanna relive all my adolescent dreams
Last Sunday I went to see Guster and Jack’s Mannequin in Columbus. Here’s the thing about Guster: if you don’t like them, you’re trying way too hard to be a hardass and you need to just chill out. Guster is one of the easiest bands to listen to, and I was really impressed with how good … Continue reading »
songs that make me feel good
I’ve been thinking about doing a post on the definitive list of my favorite songs from the past year, but the list I made turned out to be a lot longer than I realized, so instead I’m narrowing it down to a top ten list of my favorite feel-good songs from August 2010-August 2011. These … Continue reading »
what’s my age again?
I finally got around to cleaning out all of the old CD cases that have been living on the top shelf of my closet for the past seven years. I had been putting it off forever because, obviously, cleaning out my closet is always a daunting task, but dealing with the empty CD cases specifically … Continue reading »
