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songjournal:

07.05.09 Jets to Brazil - In the Summer’s When You Really Know.

in the summer you’ll really know. you’re the only summer that i think i’ll ever know.

Jets to Brazil is like a blanket.  You put it on, cuddle up, and feel safe enough to sleep peacefully no matter what.  Tonight, I want Blake’s words to do all the talking.

blake owns my heart.

songjournal:

07.01.09 The Ergs! Books About Miles Davis (Hindsight is 20/20 edition, originally on the Books About Miles Davis 7” on Woah Oh Records)

For living in New Jersey and knowing the people I do, I got on the Ergs! train really late.  I was busy obsessing over 1997 to care about what was happening then in my own state.  When I first heard them, I couldn’t get into it.  Now, about two years later, I can’t imagine what my life was like before them.  The day of their last shows changed my life and really tipped the scales into making me the person I am today.  Mikey Erg is a fucking superhero to me.

This probably won’t be the last Ergs! song this month, but I wanted this to be the first because it’s one of those songs that’s always playing at the back of my head, the background music to the movie that is my life.  My aggrandized dreams of all the things that only exist in books and the people I want to share them with who just happen to always tell me to go.  Bittersweet, yes.  But also perfect in so many situations.

my favorite thing about songjournal is that this song will probably pop up every month and i will love it and reblog it every time. god, there are few songs that are this perfect.

also fuck yeah 1997.

re: this question. there was this store down the street from my elementary school which sold two things: fancy dresses and (mostly bootleg) cassette tapes. if my brother and i were well-behaved (hah) while my mother shopped, she’d buy us a tape. TLC’s CrazySexyCool* was the first cassette I remember buying on my own (I had a bunch beforehand,  but they were usually what my brother picked out). it was pretty much all i listened to for two or three years straight. until Life After Death came out, which is the third cassette i ever bought (the second was Aaliyah, i guess i liked music made by either dead musicians or musicians that were going to die soon??) and then i listened to that forever. one of the like, four memories i have from elementary school is thinking i was a total badass rebel for listening to Biggie while in a church (my school didn’t have a cafeteria so we had to walk across the street to eat in the basement church cafeteria). i hated most of my classmates (surprise!) and didn’t eat food (surprise!) so i usually sat on top of a table in the corner and listened to music for 45 minutes and it was great. it’s kind of funny  because it’s so weird to associate “Hypnotize” with being a nine-year-old in a school uniform holding rosary beads. whatevz.

*when a sam goody (miss u) opened up in cross county, CrazySexyCool was also the first CD that i owned. i really, really loved/love TLC. i got in trouble a lot in fifth grade for wearing black makeup under my left eye and trying to play her keyboard parts during piano class. i still kind of want to be Left-Eye, but minus that whole dead thing.

bluelightofthetv:

Control, 2007 ~ Anton Corbijn (via coffee-achievers)

FML (via saramcpherson) (via thefranticsearch)

i would date this guy.

colorsseemtofade:

Defiance, Ohio - The List

there’s never enough time