The Future Freaks Me Out

Well, I'm sure you've all been waiting with great anticipation for this playlist. The "Megan is Graduating and Scared/ College was Nice and Memorable" playlist is here at last!

• "TwentySomething" - Jamie Cullum (I've posted this song before - it's amazing. "I'm an expert on Shakespeare and that's a hell of a lot, but the world don't need scholars as much as I thought. . ."
• "College Kids" - Relient K
  
• "The Future Has Arrived" - All-American Rejects (also "Move Along," which is less annoying to me, but this one fits the bill a little better even if it is from a Disney movie.)
  
• "Best Days" - Graham Colton
• "The Future Freaks Me Out" - Motion City Soundtrack
• "My Apartment" - Ben Kweller
• "Sleeping In" - The Postal Service
• "Campus" - Vampire Weekend
• "Still" - Ben Folds (with "Still Fighting It" hitting the long list)
• "I'll Follow the Sun" - The Beatles
• "Winter" - Joshua Radin ("I should know who I am by now")
  
• "To Be Surprised" - Sondre Lerche
• "Without Reason" - The Fray
• "My Song" - Brandi Carlile
• "Breathe In Breathe Out" - Mat Kearney
• "People Get Ready" - The Frames
• "Keep Breathing" - Ingrid Michaelson
• "To Go Home" - M. Ward
• "Stumbling Through the Dark" - The Jayhawks
• "Stable Song" - Death Cab For Cutie
  

I'll add to it if I think of more, but here are the beginnings or so. Enjoy.

All-time Favorites

So I was thinking the other day that this would be a fun post, and since I don't want to do the other things I should be doing and feel guilty watching another episode of Lost right now, I thought now would be the time. At least I'll be thinking and writing instead of just vegging, right? (Right. Of course.)
I was driving back to Provo from home last night, and I was thinking that it would be fun to create a list of all-time favorite songs. I figure that needs a little bit of clarification though, because there are a lot of songs that I really love right now, but who's to say that I'll still like them in a year? I was thinking I'd make it a one year requirement (I have to have known and loved the song for a whole year) but then I remembered that it was only a year ago that I started listening to The Fray, Muse, Rogue Wave, Feist . . . that wasn't that long ago. You can't judge endurance by one year - artists are still practically new to you then. I mean, it's been almost a year since I started listening to Glen Hansard! So I made the requirement a two-year minumum of adoration of the song, and I also decided that I have to have some kind of reason for why I love it, even if that reason is just the feeling I have consistently got every time I listen to it. So here goes.
In no particular order, the songs that are the most meaningful to me:

• "American Tune" by Paul Simon - I don't know why I have loved this song so much for so long, but I can't even tell you how many times I've been doodling in class and I've written, "Many's the time I've been mistaken, and many times confused; yes, and I've often felt forsaken, and certainly misused. Oh, but I'm all right, I'm all right - I'm just weary to my bone. Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant so far away from home . . ." I think the lyrics to this song are so beautiful and ring so true when things are hard are confusing ("I don't know a dream that's not been shattered, or driven to its knees . . .") and it has meant a lot to me for years - junior high at least.
  
• "The Longest Time" by Billy Joel - My first memory of this song is of Spence and Ty singing it in the car on the way to the MTC (I was 6) and of my mom crying when it came on the radio for the next two years. After that I began to love it for itself - it's happy and catchy and poetic and the kind of thing I would like have said to me. My favorite part is that bit at the end - "I want you so bad, I think you ought to know that I intend to hold you for the longest time." Sigh.
• "Matthew" by John Denver - Yeah, some of you may be shocked that I include John Denver, but what may surprise you the most is that I had a hard time picking just one. I also considered "Wild Montana Skies" and "High Calypso." I think the reason I stuck with this one has something to do with the chorus - "Joy was just a thing that he was raised on, love was just a way to live and die . . ." Yeah. Lovely. I always tell people that my first musical love was Paul Simon, but it was probably John Denver. We listened to the Wildlife Concert on every road trip ever when I was little, and we always sang along, even Clark, who was a cool teenager at the time. We even yodeled to "High Calypso."
• "The Way I Am" by Martin Sexton - I distinctly remember the first time I heard this song. I was in 7th grade and we were in Clark's room - Ty was playing it because he was trying to talk my parents into going to the concert. We all fell in love with it because of the pseudo-yodel in the chorus, and I didn't get to go to the concert because I was going to my very first 7th grade birthday party that night, but I have listened to Martin ever since and loved him ever since. My other favorites are "Caught in the Rain" and "Freedom of the Road."
• "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2 - I'm not sure why this is the actual pick from U2, but I do adore this one. I very distinctly remember sitting in Spence and Ty's room listening to them when I was little (just as I remember watching Ty's Talking Heads video - big suits), and when I went to the U2 concert a few years ago the songs were all incredibly familiar - I knew every word to songs I hadn't listened to in years.
• "Lady Be Good" as sung by Ella Fitzgerald - I remember stealing Treb's Ella Fitzgerald Best of the Songbooks CD when I was probably 5 or 6. This one has stuck with me because my freshman year the words seemed especially poignant: "Listen to my tale of woe, it's terribly sad but true; all dressed up, no place to go - each evening I'm awfully blue. I must win some handsome man - can't go on like this. I could blossom out I know with somebody just like you." Laugh it up, but then think about what you were like as a freshman, and remember that I had 5 roommates get married that year. Besides the BYU freshman appropriateness, it's a lovely song and brings back memories of being a young jazz efficiando (efficianda?) because of my oldest brother.
  
• "Paper Doll" by The Mills Brothers - This song makes me think of my dad almost as much as "Side by Side" (which we always used to sing together) because it always seemed like he sang it all the time. I'm not sure why he liked it so much, or why I do, but he did and so do I.
  
• "Your Smiling Face" by James Taylor - This song makes me think of cleaning the house with my mom on summer Saturdays. I think it was the first one on one of her many James Taylor CDs, so I remember waking up to it on more than one occasion. I swear that I can always smell lemon Pledge when I hear it. It's also a lovely song. :)
• "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" sung by The Limeliters - every road trip ever - I loved the harmonies on this song so much it made me want to run somewhere.
• "Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants - This song makes me think of Clark, especially one day when he was in college and we'd gone to a funeral or something. I don't remember where my parents went, but they left me with Clark and we listened to They Might Be Giants and drove up to Aspen Grove in the snow and then drove back down. I'm honestly not sure why I remember that day, but They Might Be Giants has had a special place in my heart for years because of Clark. Also, "There's only one thing that I know how to do well, and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you, be what you're like, be like yourself." Magic.
• "Delicate" by Damien Rice - Note that I say this one rather than "Grey Room" because I've only known the latter for a few months. Ty played me this song in the kitchen on a holiday - Thanksgiving or Christmas or something - and I stood in the middle or the hustle and bustle and proceeded to have my mind blown with "Why'd you sing hallelujah, if it means nothing to you?" and so a couple of months later when I listened to the whole CD on a choir trip to San Diego, it entered my consciousness forever. Really.
  
• "Blue" by The Jayhawks - I don't even remember a time when I didn't know this song although Ty takes credit for bringing the Jayhawks to the family, but it has gradually morphed from a pretty song that my brothers all seem to like into something that really speaks to me at this point in my life. "Where have all my friends gone? They've all disappeared. Turn around maybe one day - you're all that was there." It's lovely and I turn it up every time I hear it start.
  
• "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkle - Need I say more? When I was in 5th grade I listened to our S&G cassette every night while I "fell asleep." I'm not sure I ever actually fell asleep to that tape, and I almost always turned it over. I love all of the songs, but wow. That one . . . yes. I also have an intense love of "America" because of the line, "'Kathy I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping. 'I'm empty and aching, and I don't know why.'" I don't know why either, but I love that line. And I love "Bridge Over Troubled Water" too. :)
  
• "I Am Ready, I Am" - by The Format - What can I say? A line from this song is the description of my blog. This song is me once you get past the line about "I'm nicotine." "I need a reason to let go, an intervention, a lullabye, something to cure me . . ." "I'm not bitter, no, it's just I've passed that point in my life . . ." It's wonderful.
• "Moon Over Bourbon Street" - by Sting - Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles was my first "real" CD. (Read: not the soundtrack to Annie or Kenny Loggins.) I got it on Treb's recommendation, and I love people's reactions (at least real music people's) when I tell them I got this CD in about 7th grade. It's not exactly Hannah Montana. The reason I love this particular song so much is that I thought it was so cool that it was a song about a vampire! It had never occurred to me that normal artists could write about such cool things in such poetic and beautiful ways. My favorite part was toward the end: "How could I be this way when I pray to God above? I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love." So cool.
• "Testimony" by The Actual Tigers - Love this song. I think it was Ty who introduced me to this still not well-known band, but all of the Winegar children latched on pretty quickly. This song reminds me a little of "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," but it's fantastic in its own right as well. "I was standing on the corner - you use a public phone you gotta pay. Yeah, the day I find someone who's worth my quarter, I was thinking, "That'll be the day."
• "Raining in Baltimore" by The Counting Crows - Despite Treb's assertions that the lead singer sounds constipated, I have always loved Counting Crows. I especially love this song, and I think I truly fell for it during my junior or senior year of high school. I know because I put it on a CD for my boyfriend and he didn't like it. I should have known right then that it wouldn't last. This song is so achingly beautiful - and really, what would you change if you could? (That's a lyric in case you aren't familiar with the song.)
  

That's all for now because I need sleep. Today was crappy and I am tired, but I imagine that I'll be adding to it later.

Oscar followup

For the record, the only Oscar I really, really cared about turned out exactly the way I wanted it to. Despite being up against three songs from Enchanted (Really? Three? Is that entirely necessary? Wasn't there anything else to nominate? It was good and all, but three?) and one from August Rush, "Falling Slowly" took the Oscar. Once was a little snubbed at the Oscars overall, I thought, and I'm very glad that it got at least a little recognition. I'm sad that I didn't get to see the performance - I only ended up seeing the last hour of the Oscars because I went to a very amazing fireside with Truman G. Madsen, which was worth it, but made me miss the part of the show I most wanted to see. Oh, the sacrifice . . . (Yes, that was completely tongue-in-cheek, especially since the fireside was about Joseph Smith and really, it was no sacrifice at all. But a little bit. :P)
In honor of this occasion, I offer the following video - in case you have no idea how amazing this song is, it is here for your viewing and listening pleasure:

They like me! They really like me!

First, I love postsecret. How amazing is this secret? Second, I love the Oscars. I don't understand why no one ever wants to watch them. What's not to love about several hours of movie clips, ridiculous clothing, people who are too full of themselves, and great moments in movie history remembered? This doesn't even touch on the musical numbers sure to come, and by the way, I know that there are about 80 songs Enchanted nominated this year, but I very much want "Falling Slowly" to take the prize. C'mon people. You didn't give Once any other nods; get the song award right.
Alas, I am afraid that yet again I will end up missing the Oscars or only watching some of them because no one ever wants to watch them with me, and let's be honest: how long can you monopolize the TV with that kind of thing without making your roommates mad at you? So if anyone has any exciting Oscar plans . . . invite me?

Hold on, there's a hole in my heart!

Can we take the next hour and talk about me?
My very favorite band is calling it quits.
Sam and Nate! Please come to your senses! What will I do without you? Don't you realize how much you have influenced my life? Don't you realize that the title and subtitle of my blog both come from you? That I have multiple Giant Journal pages that revolve around your lyrics, and that I have an entire page dedicated to you? That the first song I could really play on the guitar was "A Mess to be Made?" I need a reason to let go. An intervention, a lullaby - something to cure me.
Please believe me.
I'm sure that Sam and Nate will both do some amazing things with their musical careers, but I just can't imagine not having them out there putting out amazing stuff for me. And no warning!
I'm quite undone.
In memoriam, a few of my favorite quotes from this band, may it rest in peace (realize that my very favorite is the subtitle of the blog, from "I Am Ready, I Am"):

• "My love is not a bank statement." - from "A Mess to Be Made"
• "If I fail, well then, I fail, but I gave it a shot." - from "On Your Porch"
• "I'm falling in love with you, balloons or no balloons. Sometimes I forget the past and just learn to love what I have, 'cause I love waking up to your laugh." -from "Janet"
  
• "I've just gotta get myself over me. You know me, or you think you do - you just don't seem to see I've been waiting all this time to be something I can't define." - from "The First Single"
• "Life is not a play, it's what we make of the people we love." - from "Snails"
• "That's a metaphor- no wait - a simile. I'm still learning but I think I'm getting better." - from "Career Day"
• "We'll take our chances, we'll rise above, we'll last until the end." - from "Inches and Falling
• "You know it's such a drag to live your life for a heart attack - to never get a second chance to say goodbye." - from "At the Wake"
• "If you can't dance, there's someone else in line." - from "The Compromise"
• "I think it's safe to say I've only got myself to blame." - from "Dog Problems"
• "I scream as loud as anyone, but when asked to make a point I tend to whisper." - from "If Work Permits"
• "I started sending you a note on how I hope that you're happy - I hear you're somewhere near the sand - and how I wish I was an ocean; maybe then I'd get to see you again." - from "Oceans"
• "Why am I scared from what she did to me? Why can't I trust anyone - no, not even me?" - from "Oceans"
• "Don't tell me when it's coming (don't) I just want to see it for myself. Don't breathe, don't make a sound, 'cause the song won't stop 'till the tape runs out. The melody has nothin' to hold - I'll be the last sound that you hear as your eyes close." - from "Wait, Wait, Wait"
  
• "Let's make a list of who we need, then we'll throw it away 'cause we don't need anyone." -from "The First Single"
• "Don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late - it's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate." - from "For You"
  
• "Sometimes, when sailors are sailing they think twice about where they're anchoring. And I think I could make better use of my time on land." - from "If Work Permits"

Let's cause a scene.

People Get Ready

This week I discovered something. It explains a lot.
I was driving in the car with my brothers, Ty and Treb, and I realized that the music was turned up pretty loud. And that rather than turning it down, we were all yelling over it. At least talking very loudly. And I realized that this is what I always want to do and can't because courtesy doesn't permit it. Suddenly I remembered that the night before, Treb and I were swapping music and he put on some Mingus and it was also loud - a little too loud to comfortably talk over, but not loud enough that it bothered me because I wanted to be able to actually hear the music.
So I brought it up, and we came to the conclusion that we are a rare breed of people for whom time in the car is sacred music time. We are willing to be a little inconvenienced in the conversation department (and believe me, we still talked plenty - although I think part of this has to do with the fact that we are quite often talking about the music) because unless you have it at a certain level you can only hear the drums - sometimes you can't even tell what key the music's in, if you know what I mean. And as Treb pointed out, you can always talk quietly over dinner.
Of course, over dinner (actually over dessert after the movie the next night) we talked about the suckiness of country music today - not the kind my dad brought us up on (although even some of that is a bit much for me) like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash - but the sappy crap that was going at the steak house. (Treb: "The difference between what Dad brought us up listening to and this is like the difference between Coltrane and Kenny G." Well said, big brother.)
Anyway, Treb, Ty and I hit I Am Legend and Juno on Wednesday, and the whole fam (minus Spence and family, since they were in CA) went to see The Great Debaters on Thursday night. I still haven't seen The Golden Compass or The Kite Runner, but I guess there's still time for that. I Am Legend was seriously creepy, but I was really impressed with Will Smith. Juno was funny and sweet even if the feeling was a little Napolean Dynamite-esque at first - I liked it more by the end that I thought I was going to at the beginning. The Great Debaters was quite wonderful all around - I think I can recommend that one to anyone.
Today traded the copy of Pirates 3 I got from Santa for a Brandi Carlile CD and Double Indemnity. A good trade, I thought. Also, staring at the two books I got for Christmas and thinking about the huge stack that's sitting upstairs. I wish that I wasn't always so anxious to read everything. Almost done with Dragonhaven, but then will I read one of the new ones (Saturday, Tender is the Night, The Bridge of San Luis Rey) or one of the older ones (The Kite Runner, Thunderstruck, The Road . . .) or finally finish Dracula? Hard question.
The following video is one I found of an amazing song Ty played for us in the car the other night. It's kind of a cool video, and the song is WOW. "People Get Ready" by The Frames. Amazing.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year, etc.

So true it's almost scary.

So I've been thinking about all kinds of things lately and freaking out a little about graduation - the evidence lying in the fact that I've thought about going to Ghana and Cambodia and Thailand and London and anywhere that isn't Provo. Anyway, I was talking to Nate Kartchner (click on the link - I promise it will be worth your time) about it today and he sent me this song, which seemed incredibly accurate (except for the parts about beer) so instead of posting any more I'll just post the lyrics.

"TwentySomething" - Jamie Cullum
After years of expensive education,
a car full of books and anticipation,
I’m an expert on Shakespeare and that’s a hell of a lot
but the world don't need scholars as much as I thought.

Maybe I'll go travelling for a year,
finding myself or start a career.
I could work for the poor though I’m hungry for fame
we all seem so different but we're just the same.

Maybe I'll go to the gym, so I don't get fat,
aren't things more easy with a tight six pack?
Who knows the answers? Who do you trust?
I can't even separate love from lust.

Maybe I’ll move back home and pay off my loans,
working nine to five answering phones.
Don't make me live for my friday nights,
drinking eight pints and getting in fights.

I don't want to get up, just let me lie in,
leave me alone, I'm a twenty something.

Maybe I'll just fall in love that could solve it all,
philosophers say that that’s enough,
there surely must be more. Ooooh

Love ain’t the answer nor is work,
the truth eludes me so much it hurts.
But I’m still having fun and I guess that's the key,
I'm a twenty something and I'll keep being me.

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I’m a twenty something.
Let me lie in, Leave me alone.
I’m a twenty something.

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Songs of the Year

Since it's the end of the year, I thought it was about time to start a list of my top songs for the year, the ones I really fell in love with. Since I fall in love with songs every day, this could be quite a list, but I'm going to try to keep it to the ones that have continued to work for me - these are winners, folks. If you haven't checked them out yet, please do so immediately. (Note: these songs did not necessarily come out this year - I just discovered them this year.)
In no particular order:

• "A Comet Appears" - The Shins
• "Australia" - The Shins
  
• "Grey Room" - Damien Rice
• "Falling Slowly" - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
• "Let It All Out" - Relient K
• "Don't Stare" - Pilot Speed
• "Grace Kelly" - Mika
• "The End's Not Near" - Band of Horses
• "Funeral" - Band of Horses
  
• "Paper Doll" - Rachael Yamagata
• "Baby, It's Fact" - Hellogoodbye
• "Starlight" - Muse
• "Butterflies and Hurricanes" - Muse
• "Don't Go to Pieces" - Hope of the States
• "The Fear You Won't Fall" - Joshua Radin
• "Honey and the Moon" - Joseph Arthur
  
• "Breakable" - Ingrid Michaelson (this one is recent, but I really think it's going to stand up to the test of time)
• "Love's Lost Guarantee" - Rogue Wave
• "Are You On My Side" - Rogue Wave
• "Hamburg Song" - Keane
• "Waiting For A Superman" - The Flaming Lips
• "A Little's Enough" - Angels and Airwaves
• "Crown of Love" - The Arcade Fire
• "Intervention" - The Arcade Fire
• "The Sound of Pulling Heaven Down" - Blue October
• "Love Me Like the World is Ending" - Ben Lee
• "Falling" - Ben Kweller
• "Still" - Ben Folds
• "Learn to Live With What You Are" - Ben Folds
  
• "Halo of Eyes" - Happy Cactus
• "The Crane Wife 3" - The Decemberists
• "Another Believer" - Rufus Wainwright
• "Made Up Love Song #43" - Guillemots
• "Lost On Yer Merry Way" - Grandaddy
• "DOA" - Foo Fighters (How did I miss this song in all of the time I spent living in the same house as Spence? How?)
• "Please Forgive Me" - David Gray
• "All the Same" - Sick Puppies (really)
• "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" - Bob Dylan
• "The Story" - Brandi Carlile
• "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
• "Winning A Battle, Losing the War" - Kings of Convenience
• "Save" - The Rocket Summer
• "What Light" - Wilco
• "Chinese Translation" - M. Ward
• "People Get Ready" - The Frames
• "Vienna" - The Fray
• "For You" - The Format
• "Dry the Rain" - The Beta Band
• "Two Weeks in Hawaii" - Hellogoodbye
• "Sleeping With the Lights On" - Teitur
• "Cold December" - Matt Costa
  

(I'll be adding to this when I don't have a paper to write. Enjoy.)

Lest any of you thought my taste in music was NOT well-rounded, I offer the following proof: Today I was walking home with my iPod playing its songs in order, and I went from "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" by Bob Dylan to "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse. :)

The General Specific

Stuff you should probably check out (because I have recently, and you know you want to be like me):

• Band of Horses new CD, Cease to Begin. Fantastic. I particularly like "No One's Gonna Love You" (not depressing, but it sounds like it's going to be, yes?" and "Islands on the Coast."
  
• Ian McEwan's Atonement, which I just finished. The whole book is worth it for the effect of the last page. It was so good, and I actually got my blog's new name from it! McEwan is a lot of fun to read(I have to admit, though it may ruin my credibility, that I enjoyed imagining Robbie as James McAvoy, since he's playing him in the movie. But that doesn't mean I didn't recognize the actual merits in the book - it's kind of like the way To Kill a Mockingbird got better when Atticus became Gregory Peck.)
  
• Enchanted. Adorable, made fun of Disney without really making fun of the good things about it, had two very attractive men. (I'm sorry Jennie, but I think James Marsden is great, and he was hysterical in this one.)
• Let It Snow, Baby, Let It Reindeer - Relient K's new Christmas CD. This is why: "What's a partridge? What's a pear tree? I don't know, so please don't ask me - but I can bet those are terrible gifts to give." Also, the Narnia reference that is track 9.

Things you shouldn't check out:

• Next, starring Nicolas Cage. Sorry friends, but there's a reason you didn't hear about this movie when it came out earlier this year. Just don't even bother.
  

So we have a CD, a book, a movie, and a Christmas CD, plus I steered you away from a waste of time - I think we've covered our bases for today. Yes? Good? On we go.

Did someone sabotage your car, or were you really listening to your music that loud?

That's what my dad asked me this morning when I came down for breakfast, because unfortunately I had pulled a lovely late night parking job and turned my car off in the middle of a song climax. ("Trust Me" by The Fray - "When you're older, you might underSTAND...") When he went to move it this morning he about blew his socks off.
I have to admit, I love to turn my music up good and loud. Driving at night with my windows down and my volume way up is one of my absolute favorite things to do. Last night it was up so loud that I couldn't hear myself singing along at the top of my lungs, which is the correct way to listen to both "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)" by the Plain White T's and "Two Weeks in Hawaii" by Hellogoodbye.
I love loud music for the same reason I love going to concerts. It's a total adrenaline rush when you can actually feel the build. And I guess I'd better cut back a little so that feeling isn't the only way for me to enjoy music in the future, but there must be some sort of compromise for me. I really just can't give up those nights of shouting "Off with their heads!" when I'm driving down the road listening to The Shins' "Sleeping Lessons," and hearing the shrillest highs and lowest lows with the windows down when "Such Great Heights" is guiding me home.
My guess is I'll listen to loud music until I become curmudgeonly (read: have children and have to drive around listening to whatever crap kids are listening to by then) and the whatever hearing I have left will be preserved for the rest of my days.
But I'd better start saving up for hearing aids just in case, because I'm going to need the best.

Another Playlist . . . Why Not?

Here's the playlist of the week. The only theme was songs that get really BIG. You know those songs that just explode and when you listen to them on your headphones they just feel like they're filling up all of the empty space in your head? Or the build is just fabulous and while you're driving down the road it makes you want to be running and jumping instead?
Maybe that's just me.
Anyway, here's the new list. I call it "Off With Their Heads." Don't read too much into that.
1)"Intervention" - The Arcade Fire
2)"Oh What a World" - Rufus Wainwright
3)"Sleeping Lessons" - The Shins (This song is where the name came from.)
4)"If Work Permits" - The Format (The part where it gets huge and he says "Tell all the folks back home - hey, hey I'm doing alright, yeah I'm doing just fine . . ." Brilliant.
5)"Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance (yeah, yeah. Don't freak out too much. I think this song sounds very Queen-esque. Also, "Carry on" is a great lyric, always.)
6)"Your Heart is an Empty Room" - Death Cab for Cutie
7)"Landed" - Ben Folds
8)"Into the Ocean" - Blue October
9)"Swallowed in the Sea" - Coldplay
10)"Bird on a Wire" - Rogue Wave
11)"Halfway House" - The Actual Tigers (you have to wait until the very end for the build, but it's so worth it.)
12)"Do You Realize?" - The Flaming Lips
13)"Let Go" - Frou Frou
14)"Last Goodbye" - Jeff Buckley
15)"Vienna" - The Fray
16)"Vienna" - Billy Joel (That's mostly for fun.)
17)"Starlight" - Muse
18)"Here (In Your Arms)" - Hellogoodbye
19)"Open Your Eyes" - Snow Patrol
P.S. This week's picture is another of Dain's. I hope that's okay with him.

The Compromise

I saw this on Lindsey's blog and it looked like fun, so indulge me.

Pick a favorite band and answer using only that band's song titles.
Band: The Format
Are you male or female? She Doesn't Get It
Describe yourself: I Am Ready, I Am
How do some people feel about you? A Mess To Be Made
How do you feel about yourself? I'm Actual
Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: Give It Up (or Dead End. It's a toss up)
Where would you rather be? On Your Porch
Describe what you want to be: Even Better Yet
Describe how you live: If Work Permits
Describe how you love: Wait, Wait, Wait
Share a few words of wisdom: Let's Make This Moment a Crime