Tuesday Playlist!

1. “Xoxo” — BrightLights!
2. “Monster” — Skillet
3. “Pitiful” — Sick Puppies
4. “Hungry Like the Wolf” — Duran Duran
5. “Alejandro” — Lady Gaga
6. “Cold Case Love” — Rihanna
7. “Innocent Man” — A Love Like Pi

So BrightLights! redid his MySpace last week around Thanksgiving, and it’s seriously all amazing. All three of the new songs he posted have really sweet lyrics + great beats. “Xoxo” is definitely my favorite of them; they just seemed to get better as I went along, haha, even though I love them all.

I actually heard a demo version of the Lady Gaga song a couple weeks ago & I thought it was pretty rad. And then I heard the album version and I was seriously blown away. Other rad things include Sarah Starshine introducing me to the Sick Puppies song this weekend; A Love Like Pi (Atlas and the Oyster is just an all-around ace album. I’m in love.); Skillet’s newish album, Awake; and “Hungry Like the Wolf”. I’ve been obsessed with every version of that song I can find since last spring, so rad. Including David Cook’s cover.

♥ Tuesday Kisses.

Dear Universe,

Eeeeeeep! Recommendation letters are the single most wonderful, embarrassing thing ever. I got my first one today & seriously kind of blushed.

Other things I love! Conversation about creepsters, naps in the sun, pseudo-eighties slang (stone-cold fox!), Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, Penelope Garcia, Dave Rossi, pink hair, gorilla-chimpanzee art similes, writing, brushing off problems like a superheroine brushes off invisible monsters, brushing off problems like Jay-Z, Rob Brezsny’s weekly horoscope email…

I lurve Sarah Starshine, ridiculous comments, sarcastic boys with lovely artistic visions, being really really determined not to be attracted to sarcastic boys, “yes well he’s a douchebag” conversations, being told to apply yesterday because I have ace admissions chances, Karree & music conversations, brain-whirring conversations, reaching out & expanding my social group & being reached out to in return, feeling like I fit in.

I lurve that I looked in the mirror this morning & thought, ‘Oh, my god, when did this outfit get so unflattering!?’ & then got to school this morning & looked at myself & was like, ‘What was I on? (…Music!) This is an ace outfit!’

I love that my brother is coming home next week & that we’re going to see a movie… he just doesn’t know it yet. (I need someone to see Pirate Radio with me, okay? I am not only underage but I also don’t want to see a movie by myself.)

I lurve being brain twins with Kyo & flailing with Sarah & flailing at Joan; it’s all great funsies. I want plans this weekend.

♥ Tuesday Kisses.

Tuesday Playlist!

1. “Champion” — Flipsyde
2. “Freeze” — Jordin Sparks
3. “Weck mich auf” — Samy Deluxe
4. “Human Connect to Human” — Tokio Hotel
5. “Faint Crush” — Linkin Park vs. Paramore
6. “Still Falling” — Away to Beautiful
7. “Tiffany Blews (feat. Lil Wayne)” — Fall Out Boy
8. “Follow and Feel” — Saosin

Someone posted the Linkin Park/Paramore mash-up on Tumblr a few days ago, and I was pretty much. Also, a couple weeks ago, @Grantelectric (from Breathe Electric) tweeted about Away to Beautiful posting new songs on MySpace. I went and had a listened, and I was so hooked. The songs are incredible and sweet, and his entire philosophy is so amazing and rad. It just really appeals to my sense of in-love-with-the-Universe positivity. So much love!

And this is totally unsurprising, but I am a complete dork and was dancing to the Fall Out Boy song in bio on Friday after everybody & the teacher had gone to lunch. I’ve been working my ass off for a string of straight 100s on tests, & I am so so so proud of myself!

What has you turning the volume all the way up, bunny?

Daily Outfit Photo: 10.20.09

Tuesday of Homecoming week! I obviously didn’t dress up that day.

+Hand-me-down plaid shirt. This was my brother’s in the fifth grade.
+Lacy black cami (~9$)
+Button-fly blue jeans with a hole in the knee (~10$, Burlington Coat Factory)
+Black stilettos (~10-15$, Ross)
+Angel wings pendant (~10$? Possibly at Target?)
+Studded black belt (~10$)
+Silver and black bangles (1$, Target)

Tuesday Playlist!

1. “Masquerade” — Backstreet Boys
2. “Ignorance” — Paramore
3. “Darkside of the Sun” — Tokio Hotel
4. “Falling Down (feat. the Paradiso Girls” — Space Cowboy
5. “No Surprise” — Daughtry
6. “I Have to Go Return Some Video Tapes” — Breathe Carolina
7. “Anywhere But Here” — Mayday Parade

I love this playlist because it has a bunch of songs I genuinely love, beyond them just being what’s been on repeat lately. Whatcha listenin’ to?

Dear Universe,

So I’m kind of in love with the whole Universe. Sometimes, I’m not in love with much of anything; “I hate everything” is pretty common when I’m really stressed. But mostly? I’m kind of in love with the whole Universe, & sometimes that means I write ridiculous letters to it. Also, in part inspired by Notes from the Universe & Gala Darling’s Things I Love Thursday. My first “Dear Universe” letter was on vacation last summer, without the internet. Without Notes from the Universe, I wrote one to it. <3

I love you. I love how ace my life is right now, how I say OH GOD GET ME OUT… and I get invited to a show this weekend. Do you know how many shows – not counting musicals or school functions, but concerts & shows by local bands – I’d been to?

Two. So it was exciting. And art is looking up, & sometimes down, but improvement will be shown as I keep working. And ahaha, this business about why I don’t go to lunch on gold days:

“What are you doing in here?”

“I, uh. Don’t go to lunch on these days. It’s, uh, awkward for me.”

[insert conversation about why it's awkward & other random things]

“Don’t you, like, have a boyfriend now or something?”

And so we had this really great conversation about terrorist organizations, and research, and shoes and how, in general, I just don’t do sneakers even though I was totes wearing sequined ones at the time. And the idea that somebody would expect somebody else to find me attractive even when I didn’t feel very attractive… that felt good, with the way I’d been feeling, with the way we were talking about how I feel awkward around a boy I used to have a crush on.

It was so great, Universe. It was so great.*

And with the way Aero boy in one of my classes keeps walking really close to me even though the aisle is wide and there are friends of his on the other side of the aisle that he could totally be walking close to & making conversation with. …But instead what I learned on Thursday was more about differentiation & that he smells really good.

And I love it when random people open up to me. It feels so good, like I matter & I make a difference because I’m helping somebody for a little bit, & that’s so selfish, but I love seeing people smile… even if I’m not (always) the chick that somebody would talk about as “so fine”.

But that’s so okay because I am having awesome conversations with people & I looked in the mirror during sixth period on Friday and I looked attractive and I was so pleased. (It is also okay because, dude. I’m editing this from what I wrote on Friday, & I was not feeling the greatest in the world. I was also listening to somebody attractive talk about a chick they thought was “so fine”. Also, who says that about somebody in front of them?)

And then there’s a boy with a locker near me that I’ve befriended & that’s a lot of fun because driveby conversation is epic:

“I’m worried you’re gonna kill yourself with that locker before the end of the year!”

And then grooving by the bio hall Friday morning, & bangles, & realizing I actually dreamed somebody IMing me Thursday night & that didn’t actually happen, haha.

Everything is just so great, Universe, love. It’s all running so smooth & so good, & I’m really happy. And nothing means anything, but it’s all so good.

Love you, bbcakes. ♥♥♥

*Because having low self-esteem is really not my bag any more.

Daily Outfit Photo: 10.5.09

Mondays are good days for dressing up. And dancing!

+Silky short-sleeved blue button-down (birthday present, probably ~10$)
+Lacy black cami (~9$)
+Wide-legged pin-striped pants (40$ marked down to 15$ at JCPenney. Back-to-school shopping, yessss.)
+Angel wings pendant (~10$? Possibly at Target?)
+Studded belt (~10$)
+Silver & black bangles (part of a set of one hundred, ~1$ at Target.)
+Black flip-flops (~10$ at Beall’s three years ago. They’re starting to fall apart. & they’re plaid, but it’s covered by your feet. I love them. Secret plaid is kind of magic!)

Tuesday Playlist!

So I got really sick a couple weekends ago & have been hacking up a lung ever since. On the upside, I’m really excited about how good the past three months or so have been for music. Cobra Starship’s third album came out in August. The Used & AFI both released amazing new albums; I really like what I’ve heard of Breaking Benjamin’s new album & The Academy Is…’s new EP; and Tokio Hotel released the German version of their new album on Friday & release the English version today. I’m pretty much in love with Humanoid already. The Backstreet Boys released This is Us yesterday in the UK & it comes out in the US today. (I’m… worried. But I love “Straight Through My Heart”.) I love Paramore’s Brand New Eyes. I’ll also be getting Cinema Bizarre’s two new albums pretty soon, which is exciting because I adore them.

1. “Blood on My Hands” — The Used
2. “Reverse This Curse” — Escape the Fate
3. “Falling Down” — Space Cowboy
4. “Black and Gold” — Sam Sparro
5. “Whatcha Say” — Jason Derulo
6. “Renegade” — Styx
7. “Project Wakeup” — I See Stars
8. “Medicate” — AFI

What are you listening to this week? ♥

Tuesday Playlist!

So this is definitely a really ridiculous & long playlist, but I love it & I missed last week. School has sort of eaten my life. There were going to be comments on why I love some of these songs, but then the playlist kind of… grew. You can blame that on Monday, okay?

1. “Automatic” — Tokio Hotel
2. “Fly on the Wall” — t.A.T.u
3. “What Would You Say (feat. Tom Higgenson)” — Breathe Electric
4. “I’m Not Over” — Carolina Liar
5. “California Love” — 2Pac & Dr. Dre
6. “Scandalous” — Mis-Teeq
7. “Electric Feel” — MGMT
8. “Reach” — Eyes Set to Kill
9. “My Life feat. Lil Wayne” — The Game
10. “Forever or Never (Alternative Radio Rockin’ Beatzarre Remix)” — Cinema Bizarre
11. “All I Ever Wanted” — Basshunter
12. “Pretty Rave Girl” — I Am X-Ray
13. “Take Me on the Floor” — The Veronicas
14. “On the Wing” — Owl City
15. “Life” — E-Type
16. “Dream On” — Depeche Mode

What are you listening to, cupcake?

Tuesday Playlist!

So last week was the first week of my senior year – so amazing. But going back to school means I need so much confidence, & music is a big factor in that for me. So this is what I’ve had on repeat this week!

1. “Painted by Numbers” — The Sounds
2. “Hello Brooklyn” — All Time Low
3. “Starstrukk (Remix feat. Katy Perry)” — 3OH!3
4. “Arizona” — Hey Monday
5. “IDGAF” — Breathe Carolina
6. “Love Rhymes with Fuck You” — Jeffree Star
7. “The Promises You Keep” — A Loss for Words
8. “Famous Last Words” — My Chemical Romance.

This week was all about moving forward at a fast pace, going places, being someone, having fun, being productive, and not stressing. It was so great.

So what are you listening to, darling dear? ♥