i'm leaving today

to move into my new apartment/chapter/abode.

songs that i know that i love (that don't make a big deal about themselves)

-new slang by the shins : turn me back into the pet that i was when we met/i was happier then, with no mindset/ but if you'da took to me like a gull takes to the wind/well, i'd'a danced like the king of the eyesores and the rest of our lives would'a fared well.

-no surprises by radiohead: no alarms and no surprises, silence

-missed the boat by modest mouse: of course everyone goes crazy over such and such and such/ we made ourselves a pillar/ but we just used it as a crutch/we were certainly uncertain/at least i'm pretty sure i am/well we didn't need the water/ but we just built that good, goddamn

-kiss off by the violent femmes: behind my back, i can see them stare/ they treat me bad, but i don't mind/ they treat me bad/ they do it all the time

-nowhere man by the beatles: he's a real nowhere man/sitting in a nowhere land/ making all his nowhere plans for nobody/ doesn't have a point of view/knows not where he's going to/isn't he a bit like you and me?

-i'll make a man out of you from the mulan soundtrack : mister, i'll make a man out of you/ tranquil as a forest, but a fire within/ once you find your center, you are sure to win/you're a spineless, pale, pathetic lot and you haven't got a clue/somehow i'll make a man of you.../you must be swift as a coursing river (be a man)/ with all the force of a great typhoon (be a man)/with all the strength of a raging fire/mysterious as the dark side of the MOON!
....you gotta love that song! it has an a cappella breakdown!

-between love & hate by the strokes: never needed anybody/i never needed anybody/i never needed anybody/i never needed nobodyyyy.

-defending the paint by the soft drugs: well, i heard it was you/ those guys don't know/just how thorough/ a plan can be/ but now they're working for me


-she's fantastic by sondre lerche: all the girls that i know/suddenly seem so-so/suddenly no one quite can compare to her/why? she's fantastic/ i don't know what to do/what is a guy to contribute?/ all the girls my own age/ have me turning the page/ there so eager to try/ she don't do nothing/ why? she's fantastic!

-i know there's an answer by sonic youth: i know so many people who think they can do it alone/ they isolate their heads and stay in their safety zone/ but what can you tell them?/ and what can you say that won't make them defensive?/ i know there's an answer/ i know now but i have to find it by myself.

-myla goldberg by the decemberists: this song reminds me of becca for some reason. must be the jewish-ness.


-everything i want to be by save ferris: i find myself, i'm just a-wasting my time away/ no matter what i do, it always ends up the same/ one minute moves into the next/ my life was simple but now it's complex/ and it doesn't seem to mean anything at all/ and everything i wanna be/is just another silly dream, you see/ but i keep dreaming just the same!

-the way you look tonight by frank sinatra: someday, when i'm awfully low, when the world is cold, i will feel aglow just thinking of you-- and the way you look tonight.

-all of the time by locksley: because everywhere she is i want to be/when i'm holding her, it makes me weak/we've got a kind of love that's hard to see/but your lies are tearing her away from me

-all my life by the foo fighters: this song was one of the first songs i listened to when i started listening to real music.

-intervention by arcade fire: you say it's money that we need, as if we're only mouths to feed


-walk away by franz ferdinand: why don't you walk away?/no buildings will fall down/ no quake will split the ground/won't you walk away?/ the sun won't swallow the sky/ why don't you walk away?/statues will not cry.

-everywhere by fleetwood mac: my parents loved this song when i was a wee child. naturally, it was one of the first songs i ever knew.

-dreams by the cranberries 

-kiss me by sixpence none the richer

-time is all around by regina spektor : but leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die, when they're about to fall from trees, when they're about to dry up! why am i supposed to love if i don't want to love? why am i supposed to, i'm so tired. why am i supposed to love if i don't want- i don't want- i don't want to.

not inclusive, duh.



albums i'm gonna listen to in my new room:

windsurfing nation - broken social scene
it's never been like that - phoenix
this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about - modest mouse
clandestino - manu chao
peaceful - prasanna

i swear i'm going to like not listen to a mix for a week. really. hopefully.

not inclusive either.

favorite albums (could listen to all the way through and enjoy the whole thing  without skipping songs or albums that i have developed a relationship with):
comfort eagle -cake
in between dreams - jack johnson
chutes too narrow - the shins (also: wincing the night away; oh, inverted world-basically everything mercer has ever written)
is this it- the strokes (also: everything else by the strokes- i literally like all of their songs)
you could have it so much better - franz ferdinand
franz ferdinand- franz ferdinand
funeral, neon bible- arcade fire
begin to hope, soviet kitsch- regina spektor
the doors- the doors
ok go - ok go
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
picaresque- the decemberists
her majesty- the decemberists
give up - postal service
parachutes - coldplay
i'm wide awake, it's morning - bright eyes
the stranger- billy joel
rubber soul, abbey road, revolver - the beatles
yours to keep- albert hammond jr.
ok computer - radiohead
good news for people who love bad news - modest mouse
white blood cells, elephant - the white stripes
who's next - the who
hairspray OST (i think this one is cheating, but whatever)
twentysomething- jamie cullum
dark side of the moon -pink floyd (i know i'm super original)
every breath you take: the classics- police (this is also cheating because this is a greatest hits album)
[i want to say something by death cab for cutie but i can't think of one album by them that i totally loved to death, except that i didn't really like narrow stairs. but that's the opposite. i guess i could say plans or transatlanticism, but i know that i still skip stuff on those CDs.
but on the relationship criterion, i'll say: ]
plans, transatlanticism (um, this one has a lack of color by far making it have to be on this list)
nirvana unplugged in new york
louise attaque - louise attaque
how it ends- devotchka
the velvet underground & nico - the velvet underground & nico
dear catastrophe waitress- belle & sebastian
frank sinatra reprise collection disc 1
keep it together - guster
antics - interpol
curbside prophet- jason mraz (nobody better give me shit for this)
pale young gentleman (self-titled)
don't make me wait - locksley (except, all of the time and into the sun were better on the EP version, which is weird, but i lost the full EP in transferring music files between computers)
more adventurous - rilo kiley
the sound of the smiths  (another best of)


nothing else that i can think of right now makes the cut.  wow, i just wasted a ton of time.