Poster: Sarah
Mood: Thoughtful
Music: MakeDamnSure - Taking Back Sunday
Movie: the Princess Bride
Book: Tsubasa: Revoir Chronicle by CLAMP
"[... with all dead theres only one thing you can do.] Go through his clothes and look for lose change." ~Miracle Max
1. Shut Up - Simple Plan
It seems like everyday, I make mistakes
I just can't get it right, It's like I'm the one you love to hate
But not today.
Nothing says love like whiny emo kids singing about life, therefore we can conclude that Simple Plan will always live in our memories as one of our old childhood friends. Emo deserves its credit, and Simple Plan gets special props for pulling all the right "emotional" heart strings that can make me just get up and dance or break down and cry. Only one of my girls, Beth in this case, would humor me enough to stand in a hallway full of people pointing an accusing at the poor people who have made it a habit of standing by us between 6th and 7th period. Few of us are left that are still willing to appreciate the raw emotions and memories such simple little songs still stir in us after what seems like such a long time in our short time here in this existance. Plus, we all need our little dose of would-be mosh-pit music every once and a while, and Simple Plan has never failed to obligate us.
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
2. This Is How A Heart Breaks - Rob Thomas
And I'm sorry but it's not a mistake, And I'm running but you're getting away
Well this is it now, Everybody get down
his is all I can take, This is how a heart breaks
Beth also gets major credit for this one, spending more time than necessary to hang with hopeless old me to point me in the right direct for applying make-up. Nothing does it like setting off a few alarms going in and out of a store after a lovely lunch with the mother at Olive Garden. Maybe its just the little romantic in all of us (or just me) but Rob Thomas never ceases to hit all the right tones about heart-ache and the perfect love. The only other artist I'll even admit to feeling like dancing about heart break for all it was worth is Cher, and that diva left our lives years ago. Good thing we have someone like pretty eyed Rob to pick up the slack. There's also that presence in his voice, the volumes to it, that speak the story behind the lyrics, and we all know how much Sarah loves her backstories.
You take a hit now,You feel it break down
Make you stay while I wait, This is how a heart breaks
3. Life - Yui
(I went out to a place where the sun shone and held out my arms, And thought)
("Could I cross the sky? I still can't see any wings to fly with)
(It's because it's not simple that I can go on living")
Of course, a Japanese song had to find its way into my heart, and its only adding to insult to injury that its an anime ending theme. But Yui speaks to me, even if shes not using a language I fully understand, and her voice has a seranating innocence mixed with that acoustic guitar she plays so beautifully. Her music almost sounds country, and I don't know if thats really what draws me to her or not, but I find her voice soothing. This song especially has a certain spot in my heart, and I can't help but connect its lyrics to my friends, especially MASKE. True, it could apply to all of my friends, but for some reason I always think of my actor, my mermaid, my brownie, and my crazy blond first. And I dare say I like it that way.
(I went out to a place where the sun shone and gripped tightly with my hands)
(I can smash that place, that time, and change my life)
4. MakeDamnSure - Taking Back Sunday
To the jukebox bars you frequent, The safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weakness, You start shaking at the thought
You are everything i want, Cause you are everything i'm not
The friend song, the first crush song, the teendom song; MakeDamnSure is the High School song, adolescene in a nutshell. Only the best part is that its true, it would be almost maddening to try and find someone who hasn't heard this song. A certain desperation in the singers voice, in the lyrics, just makes us kiddies vote yay. Cooridinated with that little bit of odditiy and confusion that is our youth, the song all but speaks to us individually. Rather, it goes above and beyond that, speaking to us as a whole, uniting us, making us strong to face something as difficult as life together that alone would tear us apart from the inside out.
and we lay, we lay togetherjust not,
too close, too close (how close is close enough?)
5. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
Don't pretend, I think you know
I'm damn precious, And hell yeah
I'm the mother fucking princess
Its so far from Sk8r Boi and Take Me Away it hurts, and mainstream doesn't even touch on it (iTunes has Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese versions, all of which have infultrated my iPod). Oh Avril, your fan following just doesn't know what to do with you anymore. This song has unknowingly become my stand towards the opposite sex, for reasons I can't even begin to fathom. A certain blond put it on her profile, and suddenly its on iPod all over the school. Its not the sappy love song the radio seems to be favoring nowa days, and maybe thats why girls can't help but flock back to the jumping, the un-lady like screaming, and the reality that just once and your hooked all over again.
She's like so whatever, You can do so much better
I think we should get together now, And that's what everyone's talking about
6. Save Me (Acoustic) - Shinedown
Jump in the water, Jump in with me
Jump on the altar, Lay down with me
The hardest question to answer, Is why?
You know a song has a special place in your heart when the acoustic version is cool enough to be inspected. Granted, its not the occult version that got hundreds of kids to headbang every chorus at a Shinedown concert, but thats just the songs beauty doing its thing for the masses. The real shine to this jewel is lyrics, the pleading, the constant undertone of why that just soothes us as a whole. There is understanding in this song about life, that constant question that haunts us of our reason for being. Its almost reasurring in that sense because it reminds us that that is what makes us fragile, human.
Somebody save me
Please don't erase me
7. MOVIN' !!! - Takacha
("Life is a journey, so travel together and help each other out)
(Underneath the sun, smiling every day, Being kind to others, and also yourself")
(When your gonna do it, follow through (for real?), Okay then, follow me (is it okay to believe?))
Trippy music video for your thoughts? Yes, please. You all should fear BLEACH by now, for it brings you nothing but ramblings on the art behind that language none of us speak. This is Mother Hen's MASKE song, getting me up in the morning and putting me to sleep come beddy-bye time. Its hard to go wrong when all the song wants you to do is simple, and your all to happy to oblidge adding in with your own little dance step just for kicks. Dance Dance Revolution, eat your heart out.
(Don't wanna lose, Don't wanna cry)
('cause I wanna keep laughing) MOVIN'! MOVIN'!
7. Thank You - Home Made Kazoku
(In the afternoon when, when crowds of comers and goers swell, I tried just sort of standing still)
(When a tiny gap that opened in my heart, I tried to fill it by learning cell phone numbers)
(Your not alone, just look, We'll hold each other up)
Rap, when done right, is something like Home Made Kazoku's Thank You, afterwards leaving you refreshed and wanting to dance, instead of having you go rob a convienence store. Incidentially this is also brought to you by BLEACH, and, holy knickers Batman, does that anime have some kick-butt music going for it. This is the friends anthem as far as I'm concerned, as nothing English speaking can be this gratifying. Its the feeling, that feeling friends leave in your heart forever, that really sticks out at you. And if I ever wanted someone other than Gackt to seranade me in Japanese, it would have to be this song.
(Thanks for always, Thanks, for real)
(No matter where you are I'm grateful for your presence)
♥Sarah
