culture references.

really, i know music so well. and by music, i mean pop music. i'm sure if you say any cliche phrase or whatever, you'll cue some song running through my head.

lyrics:crying for a christmas.

unfortunately, youtube isn't working for me. but go listen to this song--it's the most 
beautiful thing i've ever heard.

musica:blow, amongst other things.

so, ke$ha's album i guess came out like super super early. as in like today. or something like that. i don't even know. but blow came out today too!

musica:cannibal

so ke$ha's album hasn't officially come out yet, but singles are coming out like crazy, seriously. i.e. cannibal was supposed to come out like november 12th, but it got leaked november 8th.

for your listening pleasure:

also, what she is wearing slash her outfit. i don't even know.

musica: tswift! and how she's a great storywriter.

so andrea was All Sorts of Awesome and a Bearer of Good this morning when she lent me the new tswift album, speak now. all the songs are AMAZING (especially mean and better than revenge) and i wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone who would like things to listen to.

i think authors can learn from songwriters, because they have such a limited time to tell a story (OH MY GOODNESS LIKE IN COMMON APP WHERE WE HAVE ONLY LIKE 150 WORDS TO SAY ANYTHING GOOD) and they do it pretty successfully most of the time. in "speak now," taylor's able to address both the present, the past, and all the characters and their yearnings. same with "back to december." and... "mean." a little bit. i think the songs that she released as singles address the stories of the characters and just fill many of the aspects of story-writing that we've look at as a class. ke$ha, however, does not do this. woe.

musica update: ke$ha, tswift.

to all the pop music junkies out there reading this blog, guess who's releasing another album! well... to be perfectly accurate, an ep. that's right, your favorite trashy woman, ke$ha! no, but really.



yeah. :) i'm super excited, and also tswift is coming out with her new album this friday, the 22nd! wow, this year in music is really awesome.

a warning and musicas.

so, another blogpost about music.
also, this is a warning. i have another blogpost coming, it's the assignment we turned in today. 


so right now, my two current obsessions are brooke fraser's "something in the water" (diane, claire, vicki, caitlin, and other people who've heard me singing random lines from it can attest to this) and also, just all of jon mclaughlin's stuff--it's quite good. industry, beautiful disaster, and human are his best ones in my opinion. so if you guys are looking for some good music, there are my recommendations. i'm sure that there will be more musica posts coming with quite some just out-there stuff as my music tastes are just all over the place. :)

musica, and oh my goodness. oh, and how to become a writer and also a bit of you're ugly, too.

so addressing oh em gee first:
i stayed away from the blog the entire weekend! well... more like since friday. which is easily explainable really... i had internship and then got home, ate dinner, and then went to youth group. and then saturday i... actually did a whole lot of nothing and maybe some chem (and by some, i mean like none at all, for those who are super curious) but yeah. and then today, i went to work, got home and then cleaned my room for my new desk (yay! now while i don't have a new computer, it sure as heck seems like i have a new one.) and then finally started on my homework... blog, whatever. i should do hw. really.

musicas. yes. mui importante. (that's about the extent of my spanish knowledge, don't get your hopes up.) brooke fraser has a new single (well... relatively new) called "something in the water." it's really country-esque and i'm kinda addicted to it (diane can testify to this) and then taylor swift's album is coming out this month and it's just All Sorts of Awesome. really.

how to become a writer was just All Sorts of Hilarious and it was great. lorrie moore has just an amazing style and i love it because it's hilarious in a snarky way, and she's just really really great. and then you're ugly, too has some great lines. i think i texted them to kayla, and they were just really great non-sequiturs... as follows:

• i swear, if this fucking xerox machine breaks on me one more time, i'm going to slit my wrists.
• a painting like that, it just makes you shit. 

and yeah. :) i haven't finished reading it yet, so no spoilers plx. okay. i shall go study for psych now. D: