Journey to the Center of My iPod

     If you want to get to know someone, don't ask them a bunch of inane questions, like "what's your favorite color," or "where's your favorite place to get take-out?" Simply ask to see their iPod. Or, if you know them well enough, take it from them, just be sure to give it back. I'm not promoting theft, I swear.
     For example, my iPod isn't just my musical interests; it's an amalgamation of everyone I've met in the past five years or more. It's got my favorite songs, sure, but also the favorite songs of friends, former dates, songs I sang with my soccer team on long bus rides, and so forth.
      It's so funny to put my iPod on shuffle, because it sounds completely bipolar. One minute, it's playing a pop-y, upbeat song by Sara Bareilles, and then it launches into searing metal riffs by Senses Fail. My iPod can be as fresh as a new pair of Nikes, dropping beats by Travie McCoy, or as melancholy as Ben Gibbard alone in a room at the piano.
     What I'm driving at is, just as human beings are not easily confined to "one genre", their music tastes reflect that, even if a person only shows one "side" of themselves at a time.
So if you're going speed dating in the near future, I just saved you so much time. You're welcome.

     In other news, 11 days until Chicago & Lollapalooza! Crazy times, my friends, crazy times await. I'll be sure to keep you posted on that little venture.
     Now the real deal: fasten your seat belts ladies and gents, as we journey to the center of my iTunes top 5 most played songs (and why).

5. Everybody Learns from Disaster by Dashboard Confessional
This song is about a road trip, and I would love to go on a road trip. Of course, the road trip in the song doesn't sound like it was very well thought out, but that's how you learn, from mistakes, and I completely agree with that. Experience is one of the harshest but ultimately one of the best teachers.


4. Antonia by Motion City Soundtrack
This song is adorable! haha, that was so girly of me. No, seriously, it never fails to make me smile, because I've been close enough to people that I could literally make a song out of all of their silly quirks. Actually, I believe I have sung said songs on occasion.


3.  When the Sun Goes Down on Your Street by Ben Gibbard
Another ineffably sweet song. Part of me would really like to be the person that someone else meets when the sun goes down on their street. "Under a moon that hangs from silver strings// We know not what this darkness brings. //The stars all gleam with possibilities..." Ben Gibbard truly is the songbird of our generation.


2. Behind the Sea by Panic at the Disco
This song is simple, and light as a sea breeze. I love listening to it while I'm thinking, writing, or doing anything else creative. 

1. Time by Hans Zimmer from the Inception movie soundtrack
I guess it's kind of random to have a purely instrumental song as a number one most played, but this song is awesome for thinking, day dreaming, napping, or drawing, more or less all of the things I love to do. It's beautiful, yet inexplicably painful to listen to. Coupled with the scenes in which it is played in the movie, I want to cry basically every time I hear it. And I pretty much never cry. 
Cobb: "I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist."
Mal: "I'm the only thing you do believe in anymore."
Cobb: "I wish...I wish more than anything, but I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all your perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you, you're just a shade, you're just a shade of my real wife. You're the best that I could do. I'm sorry you're just not good enough."
*bursts into tears* 


So that wraps up my post. Check back later for updates on Lolla.
Keep calm and carry on with your week!
- LV