Top 5 Bands

My brother did a post with his top 5 favorite bands and told his friends to do the same. So i thought i'd give it a try. At first, i could really only think of 2. but then i started going through my music and realized i am going to have a harder time than i thought. And in most of these posts, i write something about their live show. thats because i really base a band by their live performances. if you cant capture a crowds attention and keep it, you have no reason to be on stage.

QUEEN
Of course my first always has been and always will be Queen. These guys are all pure geniuses and i wish Freddie Mercury was still alive so i could see him live. Yeah, they still tour but if i wanted to see Chuck Norris (apparently his stage name is Paul Rodgers) live, i'd just watch an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. ok, i admit it, he's a good singer. i just dont think anyone can ever replace Freddie Mercury. whatever. my opinion.




DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS
this band is brilliant. Lindsay introduced them to me in decmeber and their cd came out in february and i have not stopped listening since. When i first heard them i thought the music was so unique and brilliant. then i read the lyrics and was blown away by how amazing they were. it made me wanna be a writer. I am seeing them for the first time August 30th and i am more excited for this concert than i have been for any concert ever. seriously. no joke.



BUTCH WALKER
this man is pure genius. he has produced cds for some top selling artists and also has a solo career. some of the stuff he's produced (lindsay lohan), i'm not too sure about. but this man is so passionate about his music. i have seen him live 3 times and everytime i swear to you i almost cry because i can just feel everything he says. he is also one of the nicest guys ever and i am seeing him again in september and i think i might pee my pants.



DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/THE POSTAL SERVICE
i put these 2 together because Ben Gibbard does them both and that man is great. i dont even really know what to say here. words arent coming to me to describe these bands. i saw DCFC a few years back and i was blown away by them.



RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
I'm not sure if i can write anything here that will really do him justice. i just love him. he's a genius. and after finding this video, i am thinking i need to break my bank account and go see him in concert next saturday. anyone wanna join?





well there's 5. but if it was my top 15 favorite, this would be the other 10.

The Format
The Rocket Summer
Ray Lamontagne
Feist
Rachael Yamagata
Ryan Adams
Damien Rice
A Fine Frenzy
Mates of State
and of course, Michael Jackson


YOUR TURN!!

I'm trying not to think about you

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine

I never wanna see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye my almost lover
Goodbye my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

one year now since i met you

i had one of the best weekends of my life this time last year. We "met" the Wisconsin boys in Ivory through myspace in November of 2005 and we had all been talking through aim and myspace messages and became great friends. they finally went on a nation-wide tour and came to California last july for the first time and we spent 3 amazing days together, hanging out and having so much fun. we started in san francisco and ended up in anaheim and west hollywood and got to be their merch girls and just hang out and do whatever and it was so much fun.

it is weird thinking back on how we initially met and how so much has changed with all of us in the last (almost) 2 years and how i still talk to all of them (not really dan, except i do talk to his girlfriend Amy). It is just great to have people in my life that are just great guys and i know whenever they make it out here again (or maybe i'll someday make it out there), it will be just as fun, if not more, and, i hope, it will be just like we havent missed a beat.

with all the new people in my life, it is crazy to think of what it would have been like if they were in my life sooner and if we would have been friends. i talked to Holly yesterday and this is the "anniversary" of when her and her ex broke up, and then its this anniversary for me so i thought that was cool. Then we got to talking about "what if we knew eachother at that time?". She admitted that i probably would not have wanted to be her friend because she went a little crazy because of everything going on in her life. who really knows? all i know is that God's timing is perfect.

I have been a little more hesitant about moving to LA because of my new amazing friends. I will miss them so much. When i first decided to move with jessssssica, we both wanted to move to get out of the bay because we were both sick of it. then we parted ways, and that kind of made me want to move more. to start over and make new friends and i felt as though there was nothing keeping me in san jose. but then i really started growing closer to stacy ernst and all my small group and i knew it would be hard to leave them. then i met, well, i knew brooke, but i met holly and betsy and "re-started" my friendship with brooke, and i havent stopped hanging out with them for almost a month know and i couldnt ask for better friends. plus Greta is here (in the bay) permanently now that she is done with school and lindsay and i are hanging out alot too. they are the reasons i would want to stay in san jose and they made me really start doubting whether or not i would move. not by telling me i shouldnt because they all know and believe that this is what i need, but their friendships are all so great. i know we will still be friends when i am gone, but it will be so different.

i thought about it more, and i would like to say i prayed about it alot, but i cant lie, i havent prayed about it much at all. i do constantly say/think "whatever God's will is, is what i will do" and i guess thats sort of a prayer because i am admitting to myself and others that my life is in His hands, but i still need to pray more. anyways, i realized that i need to do this. i need to live away and on my own. it may not be permanent but it needs to be done. i have already made plans with roommates and it would be very unlike me to bail. i am so excited to live in Southern California and who knows what God will do in my life and where i will be this time next summer.

i often think back to last summer and even just a few months ago and i try and remember how i was thinking my life would be at this time now. back then, i was planning on being in LA already. i would be living with jericha and jesssssssssssica and i would have a job by now and hopefully some new friends. its crazy to see how much can change in just a short while. and i know it all happened for a reason. If i had already been in LA and i would not know Holly, Betsy and Brooke and its sad to think of how much i would have been missing out on great friendships.

who knows where i will be at this time next year. God does and thats all that matters. my dad taught in college group this morning and my mom "ditto'd" him saying if God opens a door for you, you walk through it. period. if along the way He shuts a door, then you stop. dont try and break it down. He'll open another door. and for this moving out situation, as of right now, the door is wide open and i need to take a huge leap through it and i am so ready and willing to and i cant wait to see what He does in my life when i am down there.

my summer so far

LINDSAY AND I AT GOOSETOWN

GRETA AND I @ CLUB RODEO


KATIE AND I @ CLUB RODEO


HOLLY, BROOKE AND I PLAYING WITH PHOTOBOOTH


TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL

BETSY, ME AND HOLLY AT CHEESECAKE FACTORY WITH OUR DRINKS

BETSY AND I DRINKING LONGBOARDS AT THE BEACH

HOLLY AND I

BROOKE AND I WEAR FAKE GLASSES

BROOKE, ME, HOLLY AND BETSY IN SANTA CRUZ FOR JULY 4TH

SHANNON AND I ON OUR DAY OF FREEDOM

BROOKE, BETSY AND I IN SANTANA ROW

ME AND HOLLY

THE LADIES IN SANTANA ROW

BRENT AND SARAH GOT MARRIED!

SHANNON, BROOKE AND I HAD FUN AT THE WEDDING

i aint missing you at all

as i said in the last post, music is all around me and i'll never stop listening. this next song isnt a new one, just newly rediscovered. i was listening to Boys Like Girls and was too lazy to go onto itunes and change it when it was over, so after a few songs played, The Calling came on. these guys are good. i liked them alot when their first cd came out, and listening to them now? i still like em. anywho, this song came on and i randomly stopped listening and heard the line "Could it be any harder to live my life without you?". So i looked up the lyrics and once again, they are my life.

You left me with goodbye and open arms
A cut so deep I don't deserve
Well, you were always invincible in my eyes
The only thing against us now is time

Could it be any harder to say goodbye and without you,
Could it be any harder to watch you go, to face what's true
If I only had one more day

Fade away

I lie down and blind myself with laughter
Well, a quick fix of hope is what I'm needing
And how I wish that I could turn back the Years (not hours)
But I know I just don't have the power

Could it be any harder to say goodbye and without you,
Could it be any harder to watch you go, to face what's true
If I only had one more day

Well, I'd jump at the chance,
We'd drink and we'd dance
And I'd listen close to your every word,
As if it's your last, well I know it's your last,
Cause today, oh, you're gone

Could it be any harder,
fade away

Could it be any harder to live my life without you
Could it be any harder, I'm all alone, I'm all alone

Like sand on my feet,
The smell of sweet perfume
You stick to me forever, baby
I wish you didn't go
I wish you didn't go, I wish you didn't go away
To touch you again,
With life in your hands,
It couldn't be any harder


i hate missing people. but i think/hope it will only make our friendship (or whatever =D) stronger when i see him/them again. it's alot like a relationship with God, i think. I feel as though He sometimes "leaves" us stranded to strengthen our relationship. faith is about believing without seeing so when He doesnt seem present, thats when we need to show Him we need Him and we cant do anything without Him. Yes i know that a relationship shouldnt define us and we should be fine on our own, but thats a human thing. we dont need other people to make us who we are. they may influence us and help us to grow, but we shouldnt define ourselves by who we are dating and/or hanging out with. But with God, He should be what defines us.

i am not even sure if that makes sense. well, it does to me in my head, and i dont think anyone else reads this. so i hope i can understand it some day when i decide to come back and read that. meh.

music is the only thing that makes sense anymore

i have been listening to ALOT of new music recently, so that's what's with all the new lyrics posted as my blogs. they all really represent my emotions and what i am feeling/going through so it still works as a blog. here is one by a guy named Dallas Green. He's so good.

So there goes my life, passing by with every exit sign
And it's been so long, sometimes I wonder how I will stay strong
No sleep tonight, i'll keep on driving these dark highway lines
And as the moon fades, one more night gone
Only twenty more days

But I will see you again
I will see you again, a long time from now

And there goes my life, passing by with every departing flight
And its been so hard, so much time, so far apart
And she walks the night, how many hearts will die tonight
And will things have changed
I guess I'll find out in seventeen days

But I will see you again, I will see you again a long time from now.

My body aches, and it hurts to say
No one is moving and I wish that I weren't here tonight
But this is my life.

And I will see you again
I will see you again a long time from now

And I will see you again
I will see you again a long time from now.

...and this one's for you

Please come to L.A. to live forever
A California life alone is just too hard to build
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky
Livin' up on the hill. Please come to L.A.

happiness

these lovely ladies are making my summer great.








this video is awesome. if im ever feeling blue, im going to watch this video.