#38: You Get What You Give

Franzia gave me a bunch of KBCO studio recordings which are amaaaazing and I was listening to them by the pool (this pool) while reading East of Eden. Have you ever had an avocado milkshake? I highly recommend them.

#37: Pink Bullets

Drove to Waimea Canyon, finished The Road, listened to the Shins by the pool. Rough life.

#36: Sophisticated Side Ponytail

Stuck inside due to my horrendous sunburn, I read The Road and listened to a mix from BS... get ready for this one, if you haven't heard it before. It's pretty awesome. This video is nutso.

#35: Won't Let Me Go

Our second night in Hawaii, there was a wedding reception on the lawn outside our bedroom. I was pretty over hearing their horrendous band do Hawaiian-style covers of "Shout," so I had to drown them out with Amos Lee on the iHome.

#34: Ninna nanna

Ok, so I didn't exactly keep up with my updates. It turns out that although it is summer and I don't have homework or a full time job, I do have a lot of things to do that are more exciting than being on my computer. Like hiking and swimming and generally being awesome.

Anyway. We flew first class (!!) to Hawaii and after my complimentary glass of champagne at 10 in the morning, I passed out for most of the flight with Pink Martini blaring through my headphones. This is from Splendor in the Grass, their latest.

#33: Lovely Rita

BS gave me Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band in a package a few weeks ago and today on the drive back from the beach we listened to it all the way through. It is a reggae cover of Sgt Pepper, and it is really incredible! As hopefully this song will demonstrate. It's best as an album, but just imagine what the album would be like after hearing this.



Well I'm off to Hawaii for the week, but I'll be back with updates (probably...) on July 3rd. Try not to be too jealous of my amazing life.

#32: Breakin' Up

So while making omelettes, I made a Genius playlist based on "Portions For Foxes" and iTunes, as it often does, was intuitive enough to suggest more Rilo Kiley. In iTunes' defense, it also put many songs by other artists on the playlist, this just happens to be the one I picked out. Anyway this song is great.

#31: You Look Better When I Drunk

OH MY GOD HAVE YOU HEARD THIS SONG? I heard it on the ever-classy Z100 and oh my god it is amazing. Also it is UNHOLY TERRIBLE.

In unrelated-to-this-song news, I went to Cape Meares on the first perfect summer day of Portland, where it was cloudy and 55. AND YET IT WAS PERFECT.

#30: The Preacher

Work work work! I went to the gym and then the office and then I was a grown up. I like to listen to jazz at work to be even more of a classy adult, and so I was listening to my "Jazz, Blues, Swing" station and ended up buying this gem by Horace Silver.

#29: I Need More Love

My wonderful wonderful man friend came back to Portland at last! It was a magical day - we watched Jurassic Park (turns out I did not remember ANY of it) and had amazing Lebanese food at Habibi - also we listened to some Robert Randolph!

#28: Break Your Heart

Schaef told me that her friend decided this song was her theme song, and then it was stuck in our heads for a collective 36 hours (at least). When she dragged me out for a run (what.) I sang it quite a bit. It's really terrible but very addictive.

Also it was Father's day! I had a lovely dinner with my family and then there was drama. WHAT ELSE IS NEW.

#27: (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To

This Weezer song came on KINK while I was driving to meet Congressman Wu (!!) on Saturday. In addition to my burgeoning career as person-who-knows-what-she's-doing-sometimes-in-politics(?), I also hung out with some awesome people, including my best friend of 17+ years and then a few Whitties and St Mary's people at a dinner party that I (sort of) threw. Mostly Schaef threw it, since she did all the cooking, but it was at my apartment, so I'll take the credit.

#26: Homecoming

On Friday, I attended only the GREATEST CONCERT I HAVE EVER SEEN. Robert Randolph came to the Crystal Ballroom and Mr Football and I rocked out like we have never rocked out before. Seriously, if you have the opportunity to see him live, do NOT pass it up. It was incredible. Three straight hours of dancing my ass off - I was actually sore the next day. By the encore I wasn't sure if I could dance any more. But he sat down at the pedal steel and all of the sudden I found the energy to dance harder than ever before.

#25: T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)

Yet another Soul Town find - MFSB (it stands for Mother Father Sister Brother) is a pretty sweet ass funk band. Apparently this song was the theme to Soul Train for a while? It's a good thing the dj said who the artist was, otherwise all I would have had to google of the lyrics would be "let's get it on, it's time to get down" which would probably have yielded EVERY FUNK SONG EVER.

#24: Israelites

I was listening to my reggae/ska assignment from History of Rock and Roll (not actually late, it was never assigned since we never made it to reggae... I think) and man, did you know that reggae is great?



In other news, I finally figured out what song should have been #364 in my last 365 - it was "Fatback" by J.J. Johnson. GO LISTEN TO IT. It's awesome.

#23: Grazin' in the Grass

I was yet again listening to the 1970s station when I discovered (rather embarrassingly) that "Grazin' in the Grass" is actually a kick ass instrumental that Friends of Distinction foolishly wrote words to. Apparently this whole time I have been listening to a jazz song that someone wrote lyrics for later. I'M SORRY, EVERYONE. I know this a heinous crime.

#22: Down to the River to Pray

I don't know if I've already mentioned it, but I have the best life ever. On Monday I went to the gym then the office THEN MULTNOMAH FALLS! Schwadam, Football, Lisa and I went on a 5 mile hike above the falls and then over to Wahkeena Falls. Schwadam started singing this while we were in the middle of the best scenery ever. How will I ever move away from Oregon?

#21: Bertha Butt Boogie

Yet another radio find from the 1970s station. Get excited. Anything called "Bertha Butt Boogie" has got to be good, right?

#20: The Love I Lost

Oh man! Yet another radio find thanks to XM radio. So Soul Town has nothing but classic soul and motown, and there's also a station dedicated JUST to the 1970s, and one JUST for the 1960s! What?!? I never have to listen to anything recorded after 1985 again!

#19: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I went to the Beavers game on Friday night and they brought me on the field to play a trivia game! I had to name 10 kinds of cheeses, which I did with no problem because I am the cheese queen, and I won a hat, a shirt, a bobblehead, AND a viewmaster! WHAT WHAT. After that we went out to happy hour and if I may say so, it was AWESOME.

They kept playing this song that sounded like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" but definitely wasn't... but it still made me sing Cyndi Lauper a lot.

#18: New Morning

This came on KINK while I was running errands for work. It's really awesome. I'm super excited to finally bestow new music upon my friends who always give me music.

#17: Fire

Football and the bro and I were listening to Florence + the Machine when I made them pause the music so I could put on Ohio Players. I was really needing some funk, I guess.

#16: Devil with the Blue Dress

THIS ONE TIME, I WAS AN ADULT. I mean, not actually at all, but I'm well on my way at least. I got up and went to the gym before work, then got Chinese takeout on my way home from work. Pretty grown up, I would say. This song came on Soul Town, the epic XM station to which I previously referred. Apparently it's the original? It's WAY better than the Mitch Ryder version.

#15: Giving Up the Gun

On Monday I spent all day going through videos of manhole dance parties and making a sad little video of all of the wonderful parties we had. It's not sad at all actually, except that it's sad how I spent most of the day reminiscing about college when OH HEY I have an awesome life RIGHT NOW and I could have been wandering around Portland. I did eventually leave the house, I went out for drinks with St Marys girls! It was pretty great considering that I invited people who hadn't seen each other since graduation.

Anyway this song is in the video I made.

#14: Stagger Lee

So the CD player in my car is broken and I forgot my iPod player on this particular trip. That meant I got to know my XM radio very well. I had one of those "free for a year" deals when I got my car originally, and then they never turned off my XM radio! And yet we're not getting a bill for it. Not too shabby.

Did you know there's an entire station devoted exclusively to classic soul and motown?!? I AM WAY INTO XM RADIO! It's amazing. Why listen to anything else ever? I found lots of fun new songs, such as this one by Lloyd Price.

#13: Dayvan Cowboy

Ok, I know I said the Saturday before graduation was maybe the best day ever, but this Saturday was the best day ever in a completely opposite way. Again, best life ever?

I realize I'm being quite vague. But it is the internet after all. You'll just have to wonder about what magical things could have been happening. I'll give you one lone detail. I played hearts with Mel and Cedar and BS. TANTALIZING!

#12: Take Me to the River

WHAT WHAT Talking Heads covering Al Green! Awesome! This came on the radio whilst driving... maybe to breakfast? in Eugene. I'm wildly obsessed.

Now this is sort of cheating, because I already have a version of "Take Me to the River" on 365 senior year, but I decided to break the rules anyway because it's too great.

#10: The Wind

Off to Eugene again, this time for a longer trip. I don't know if you know this, but I have maybe the best life imaginable.

#9: No One Does It Like You

I started work on Tuesday! Barely. I "worked" for about an hour and a half, and it consisted of one meeting and one trip to Radio Shack. Later that afternoon, I put "Jade" by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros into Genius, and it made a shockingly great playlist. So great that I saved it. this was one of the songs in it, which I happen to have acquired via Urban Outfitter's LSTN #2.