All finished!

I'm home, and done with this blog. Didn't think it'd last this long. Now I'm here :P

Latika's Theme (Slumdog Millionaire)

As beautiful as the movie...

Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

thank you
helen for perfect fifths
yau for the holga
hayley for an almond
gphong for the inspiration
zalo for season-appropriate headwear
aaron for being my bday buddy
sagar for the chocolate martini that destroyed my brain
sam, sabina, and roomies for initial cakes
dheepa and rachel for a smirnoff-brownie surprise
dinnercrew who paid for aaron&my italian dinner
to everyone who wished or called or texted or came last night

i've never had a better birthday :) despite the previous day's paper all-nighter and the following day's unparalleled hangover, everyone made this day an incredible end to an incredible semester... and now i'm going to stfu before i get really, REALLY sappy k

anyways, this is a pretty fawesome & appropriate song :)

The Weepies - Nobody Knows Me At All

Sometimes you just feel like that..

Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor - Come What May (Moulin Rouge)

This was my least-liked song in Moulin Rouge when I watched it for the first time in high school. But somehow I adore it now; maybe it's because Yau and Sam did a really hot rumba to it, maybe because I heard it nonstop for a month on the Boy's Mac, maybe it's because sometime between then and now I got a whole lot cheesier. Cheese cheese.

Now, this new scene is the scene where the sitar player writes a secret song for the courtesan. So that whatever is happening, no matter how bad things are, they remember their love...

The Cure - Pictures of You

Can't say much else but: very good, very emo song.

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real...

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Anyone who's watched Say Anything will know the iconic scene in which John Cusack, as lovelorn high-school deadbeat Lloyd Dobler, professes his love to Diane Court via boombox outside her bedroom window. This is the song he uses. Hopefully we can all look past its creepy music video and fall in love with this kid all over again.

And just for fun here's a live cover by Sara Bareilles.

I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes

Michael Jackson - Whatever Happens

R.I.P. MJ

Sara Bareilles - City

More of her gorgeousness Sara -- live performance of City at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The thing I find so extraordinary about artists like her is that they're able to belt out their most personal thoughts to a stadium full of listeners. Imagine exposing your diary to several thousand people. Seriously! But I suppose that's what gives music that unparalleled ability to touch us...

Real version here. Btw the guitarist at 4:30 looks hilarious bahahah

In these deep city lights... girl could get lost tonight

Sara Bareilles - Vegas

I saw Sara Bareilles live at MIT last Saturday, and although I've always liked her for her catchy songs, I now love her -- for her spunk and for her incredible live performances. She's got one of those rare voices that sound so much better when not heard through a recording!

Gonna quit my job and move to New York,
Cause somebody told that's where dreams should go
Gonna quit my job and move to New York,
And tattoo my body with every Broadway show

The National - Santa Clara

And I'm gonna miss you so much.

Overheard in: Capogiro's

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

Donnie Darko, mangoes, gentle persuasion

Original video is here.

David Guetta & Chris Willis - Love is Gone

The perfect song to tearily lip-synch to while being blinded by strobe lights in a club.

Ben Folds Five - Alice Childress (on Naked Baby Photos)

In Freshman year, came for our school's Spring Fling concert and I waited nearly alone in the freezing cold for him for three hours because everyone I knew had gone home after Third Eye Blind finished. An hour to midnight he finally got onstage, and I swear the piano melodies were so captivating that each note took with it a piece of my loneliness as it echoed into nothingness in the night sky. Part by part, the pain evaporated, and despite all the crap of that first year I felt just happy singing my heart out to "Army" and looking like a lunatic doing so. But I didn't care. Happy makes you stop caring about a lot of inconsequential shit like that.

He did a concert at the school neighboring ours in Sophomore year, and I was ecstatic when my friend from there told me she'd get me a ticket. The afternoon of the concert, however, I decided that I desperately needed to study for my math final and had no choice but to skip -- so I expressed my regret to her over the phone, then turned my attention back to the textbook. Three hours later, she called me. "Hey. Just wanted to tell you that we just saw Ben Folds sitting on the grass with his kid, and we went over and chilled with him," she said nonchalantly over the phone. Still one of the biggest disappointments of my short, boring life. I failed the exam anyway.

Now it's Junior year and I have a chance to see him play live again: he's going to Boston for MIT's Spring Fling the same weekend we're going up there for the Open Ballroom Competition. It's like DESTINY. Bahahah. But I have a hugeass paper to write by Monday, which I'm obviously (and stupidly) neglecting at the moment. What do I do? Do I choose homework/GPA/future job prospects, or music?

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou

Britney Spears - Circus

Before you throw the rotten tomatoes, let me just say that I am posting this because:

(1) This is not a blog for new or good or obscure music, it's a record of the songs I love and unfortunately I love this song,
(2) The jukebox in my head has it on continuous repeat and I think the cause is some Britney-sympathizing god out there exerting karmic punishment on me for unfairly refusing to post it, and
(3) As a former celebrity-gossip-monger and avid ONTD reader, I care deeply about this woman's personal life, her successes and failures, the status of her career. She's so fucking hot here I feel proud as a parent watching her daughter as the lead in the school play (and for some reason am advocating her overt sexuality? Ok. Bad analogy.)

Anyways. Fierce beyond fierce. Have two children and a public mental breakdown before telling me you do not admire this woman for making a full-on comeback.

The Fray - Without Reason

You want to work to spend to show
You want to talk to smile to feel
You want to run to thirst to drink
You want to love to know it's real

Jesus Christ, I have been alive for 7648 days and other than the day-to-day stuff like desire or anticipation or fear of death, I have NO clue what I am living for. On the random good days it feels like I'm destined for something great, but the other 99% of the days when I'm thinking straight I realize that I'm nowhere close because I just don't know what that something is. I guess that for the moment I live based upon the hope that one day I'll figure this out and my dreams will come true, whatever they are.

Mark of a dumb almost-21-year-old with hopeless prospects for employment.

Olivia Newton-John - Physical

In choosing this song my first instinct is to apologize for having retarded taste, but this really was a popular song once upon a time. In 1981, it was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for ten straight weeks. Back then people everywhere were humming its catchy tune and I've recently begun to as well, but my obsession is partly for the song's quality and partly for its kitschy appeal. I love it for the ridiculous video and the Sandy-turned-bad and the horrible 80's fashion, but I don't think I'm in the majority because I'm also the type of person who secretly loves shitty Chinese food, Hannah Montana, and fugly clothes -- all with the belief/knowledge that I shouldn't. So should I apologize? Maybe. But then the entire decade of 1980 should apologize, too.

Meiko - How Lucky We Are

And when that morning comes
I'll make coffee and you'll read the paper
We'll talk about our plans
And I'll keep saying how lucky we are

The Lonely Island (feat. T-Pain) - I'm On A Boat

Song of the year!

I got my swim trunks... and my flippie-floppies...

Guster - Barrel of a Gun

In honor of their appearance at this year's Spring Fling... :) awesomeness