Friday Music - Beach House

Never take vacation before the holiday.  It's never relaxing...

Friday Music - Echosmith

Time to break the van in!

Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays to everyone!

Friday music - Kacey Musgraves ft. The Quebe Sisters

I love when someone tells me they are embarrassed about something they do, and you get to tell them  their 'quirk' actually makes them far more desirable...

Friday Music - Ingrid Michaelson

I unintentionally stumbled upon a smiling linked in image...(sigh)...

...some wishes never come true...

Friday Music - School of Seven Bells

I have five options.  When it rains it pours...

Here's to multiple choice.

Saturday Music - Little Mix

Hey, I cooked Thanksgiving, hosted, got my outdoor Christmas lights up, made the most kick ass soup you've ever had, and ran a 5K.

Sorry it's late...

Friday Music - Morrissey

Well I sure wasn't going to post November Rain...

Friday Music - Marshmello ft. Bastille

I have been letting you go because I want to be happier...

This video will ruin you.

Friday Music - K. Flay

I meant to make her a Friday Music a year ago, but then I forgot.

They brilliantly featured this song in a promo for Sabrina, and so...

October 31st...

October 30th...

October 29th...

October 28th...

October 27th...

Friday Music - Robyn

Stubbornness is not a virtue.

October 26th...

October 25th...

Friday Music - Gully Boys

Meet my new girlfriends...

Friday Music - CHVRCHES

My two favorite bands right now are Mister Wives and CHVRCHES.

The entire CHVRCHES show from the Palace Theater in St. Paul on October 3rd. Amazing show.

Friday Music - The Killers

Self explanatory...

Friday Music - Parquet Courts

What a freaking depressing week.

On a happier note, this song reminds me of my rebellious youth, and the cute lover who should've been there with me.

Friday Music - Built to Spill

Atone for what you need to.  I'm here for your confession...

Friday Music - Santigold

Anytime you want to end your game, feel free.  I get it.  You've got the power.  Quality friendship is the only thing still playing costs.

Friday Music - INXS

I thought being a self made millionaire would be different.  I'm just tired...

Friday Music - Wallows

Another summer, another femme, another crisis...sigh...

Friday Music - Lovelytheband

Broken if you think you'll ever find love looking for one man to pay your bills and another man to service you whenever you need.

Then again, broken are the people who miss you...

Friday Music - Elle King

Five years ago, I got to talk to law enforcement.  It was the most magical of burns!

Friday Music - Badfinger

My Baby blue...

Friday Music - Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston

The trap you created for me captured yourself...

Friday Music - Ana Tijoux

You're being lazy.  Remember Baby, you have to work for it.

Friday Music - The Decemberists

Healing.  No longer the freak...

Friday Music - Pixies

They put an ad in the paper asking for a bass player who liked Peter, Paul and Mary and Hüsker Du.  Kim Deal was the only one who showed up.  She had never played bass before...

Friday Music - Agent Orange

Watching the band, while a blonde tease holds my attention...

Friday Music - Interpol

Back from vacation...102 today...

Friday Music - Childish Gambino

Stopping in while my mind is on vacation...

Friday Music - Jungle

Five years later, the bitter promises are unrealized; only the lessons have been learned...

Friday Music - Sufjan Stevens

Because you can't mail cake...

Friday Music - Alvvays

If I saw you on the street,
Would I have you in my dreams,
Tonight...

Friday Music - Robin Loxley/Vo Williams

I'm so freaking grateful for a three day weekend with no commitments.  F-Yeah!

Friday Music - Daphne Willis

And I'm dumb enough to chaperone an 11 year old birthday party to the Mall of America on a Friday night, after an unGodly busy week...

Upbeat music needed!

Upbeat music achieved!

Friday Music - Beach House

j'ai perdu, l'amour gaspillé pour toi échangé pour quelque chose de nouveau il est difficile de changer la façon dont vous perdez si vous pensez que vous n'avez jamais gagné

Friday Music - Alice Merton

May is just a freaking blur...

Friday Music - Tritonal featuring Riley Clemmons

...exhausted...

Friday Music Part 3 - Prince

...Sigh...

Friday Music Part 2 - Avicii

This was a song which got me through the lost Autumn of 2013...

May he rest in peace.

Friday Music - Big Thief

The title of this song reminds me of you...so does the name of the band...

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Friday Music - The Strokes

My emotions requested this song...

Damn them...

Friday Music - Jenny March

Both rapturous and ascared on whether I'll ever see you again...

Friday Music - Aston Merrygold

A fantastic song to get you into the Easter weekend.  Love the video too.

All my best everyone!

Friday Music - Patty Larkin

The only thing good about the movie Evolution was this song.  Seriously, that movie stunk, but this song is catchy.

Friday Music - The Waterboys

Happy St. Patrick's Day Weekend...

Love this.

Friday Music - Yes

You hate prog rock?

Right in the middle of the latest playlist, a surprise...such a tease

A good music fan's taste is intoxicating

Friday Music - MisterWives

I feel like Connect The Dots by MisterWives was one of the top five albums of last year.  Top to bottom, just great.

Friday Music - Peter Bjorn and John

All the muses pale in comparison to the original ravishing nymph...

Friday Music - Franz Ferdinand

This band is weird...good.

Wishing Does.

It started in youth,
Eternities roulette,
By the shores of Erie,
Where the lake's storms
Never subsided inside.

In the shadows
Of the gilded mansions,
Excess wasted, washed out,
Tempted eyes looking up the hill.
A keen sensitive girl
playing the fool to fools;
Thick, dense and never worthy.
Umbrage gushes...

Creativity abounds.
Exploration awaits.
And searching begins.
A friendly, vicious tryst;
You went into the deep end
And you thought you could swim.
A mature hand pats down the fires,
Picking you up,
Guiding you.

Opportunity.
Beauty spilled while searching;
Complacency in comfort.
Searching for a spark
And you find two.
Both open your eyes;
You search for your
Internal extinguished fire.

Wandering,
A discovery in discovery.
Delusional, past their prime,
Wolves looking for an easy meal.
You lead them to the feast...
Impressiveness less an option.
Lonely and misplaced,
You hold your sparks close.

Lines blur.
Formless color.
A pitch dark forest.
Unable to see the trees,
Or your own hands,
or the occasional path
To lead you free.
Panic, mildly frantic,
Even though the tools are there.

the House
the Rock
the Education
the Facade
the Stumbling
the Faltering

Hold your sparks tight.
Let them keep you warm.
You're Clever.
Find the tools...

Friday Music - Sigrid

The bad of people can be a freight train wave smashing,

Then you find a bright spot...

4 Years...

Four years ago, I stopped drinking.  It was one of the top five decisions in my life.

Still sober, and the desire to drink rarely enters my mind.  I (ironically) did dream last night I was at a sporting event and I started drinking a beer.  It didn't taste good.  It was weak, watered down, in one of those old waxy paper cups, and eleven dollars.  I woke up, annoyed I'd even gone down that road, but my dreams, where I have little control, are about the only place I venture down that path anymore.

It's also been a good year in regards to her, the catalyst to my drinking.  I think of her far less than I did at the beginning of year four.

Once again, no celebrating until year 5.  Then I'll have done something; begun a journey for the better which I'll be on for the rest of my life.

Friday Music - Chvrches

Four years tomorrow.  Have yet to even get close to regretting the decision.

And new Chvrches!!!

Friday Music - The Fall

This was a band from two very specific times in my life.  They helped me figure out where I was going wrong.  I became a better person.  Sad to hear of the passing of Mark Smith.

Friday Music - Mono Mind

"Now officially a millionaire, why do I still feel inept?"

Friday Music - Dessa

When you shared your #MeToo story with me, I knew it was because you trusted me.  I never told anyone.

But we were like a pattern in the snow...

Friday Music - Röyksopp and Robyn

So far this year is cold and lonely...