"I'm blaming you because you're the only other person here" January 31, 2013

Song #31: Someday You Will Be Loved- Death Cab For Cutie

From the album Plans, released August 30, 2005

"I cannot pretend that I felt any regret/ 'cause each broken heart will eventually mend"

"Track not crack" January 30, 2013

Song #30: I Want To Know Your Plans- Say Anything

From the album ...Is a Real Boy, released August 3, 2004

"And if you want roses/ you can go buy a bouquet/ if that just won't cut it/ well what can I say/ you're what keeps me believing/ the world's not gone dead/ the strength in my bones/ put words in my head/ when they pour out to paper/ it's all for you"

"Do they randomly drug test teachers?" "God no. We wouldn't have teachers that way" January 29, 2013

Song #29: 21st Century- Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album Stadium Arcadium, released May 5, 2006

"Turn the screw/ and twist my language"

"...dickbag" "A bag of dicks" January 28, 2013

Song #28: With A Little Help From My Friends- The Beatles

Noteworthy cover by: The Across the Universe Cast

From the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released June 1, 1967

"Oh I get by with a little help from my friends/ gonna try with a little help from my friends/ oh I get high with a little help from my friends"

"This is ours." January 27, 2012

Song #27: Crooked Teeth- Death Cab For Cutie
From the album Plans, released August 30, 2005

"You're so cute when you're slurring your speech/ but they're closing the bar/ and they want us to leave/ and you can't find nothing at all/ if there was nothing there all along/  no you can't find nothing at all/ if there was nothing there all along/ I'm a war of head versus heart/ and it's always this way/ my head is weak/ my heart always speaks/ before I know what/ it/ will/ say"

"Can we have a tickle treaty?" January 26, 2013

Song #26: Love Love Love- The Mountain Goats

From the album The Sunset Tree, released April 26, 2005

"And way out in Seattle/ young Kurt Cobain/ snuck out to the greenhouse/ and put a bullet in his brain/ snakes in the grass beneath our feet/ rain in the clouds above/ some moments last forever/ but some flair out in love love love"

"What is this, a cocktail?" January 25, 2013

Song #25: Admit It- Say Anything

From the album ...Is a Real Boy, released August 3, 2004

"I'm proud of my life/ and the things that I have done/ I'm proud of myself/ and the loner I've become/ you're free to whine/ it will not get you far/ I do just fine/ with my car and my guitar" 

"Oh my God! That school bus just ran a red light!" January 24, 2013

Song #24: Asleep- The Smiths
Noteworthy cover by: Emily Browning
From the album The World Won't Listen, released February 23, 1987

"Sing me to sleep/ sing me to sleep/ I don't want to wake/ up on my own anymore"

"Thanks, makin' me yawn." "No problem" January 23, 2013

Song #23: The Futile- Say Anything
From the album ...Is a Real Boy, released August 3, 2004

"Shit/ nothing makes sense/ so I won't think about it/ I'll go with the ignorance/ eat sleep fuck and flee/ in four words that's me/ I am full of indifference...

I'm eating rat poison for dinner/ pull the cord from the phone/ I'm dining alone/ so goodnight"

"Perfect timing" January 22, 2013

Song #22: The A Team- Ed Sheeran
From the album +, released on September 9, 2011

"The worst things in life come free to us/ 'cause we're all under the upper hand"

"We won't have no democratic weather" January 21, 2013

Song #21: Do Better- Say Anything

From the album Say Anything, released November 3, 2009

 "Your life is always the post of something else/ where is the present in the way you present yourself/ and it's disgusting how little that you try/ the existential equivalent of pink eye"

"That was everything I wanted and more." January 20, 2013

Song #20: Let's Go- Matt & Kim

From the album Lightning, released October 2, 2012

"Say what you want to say/ make it mean everything"

"You are me, what the fuck" January 19, 2013

Song #19: Swing Life Away- Rise Against

Noteworthy cover by: Hey Kelsey
From the album Siren Song of the Counter Culture, released August 10, 2004

"I've got some friends/ some that I hardly know/ but we've had some times/ I wouldn't trade for the world"

"Me and boof and my boof boof" January 18, 2013

Song #18: Countdown- Beyoncé

From the album 4, released June 24, 2011

"I'm all up under him like it's cold/ winter time/ all up in the kitchen in my heels/ dinnertime"

"HARDCORE HOBOS! HARDCORE HOBOS WITH HOLES" January 17, 2013

Song #17: Shake It Out- Florence + The Machine
From the album Ceremonials, released on October 28, 2011

"And I'm damned if I do/ and I'm damned if I don't/ so here's to drinks in the dark/ at the end of my road/ and I'm ready to suffer/ and I'm ready to hope/ it's a shot in the dark/ and right at my throat/ 'cause looking for heaven/ found the devil in me/ looking for heaven found the devil in me/ but what the hell/ I'm gunna' let it happen"

"Beyoncé is with you" January 16, 2013

Song #16: Dog Days Are Over- Florence + The Machine
From the album Lungs, released on July 3, 2009
"Leave all your love and your loving behind/ you can't carry it with you if you want to survive"

"Your iPod alarm woke me up" January 15, 2013

Song #15: Float On- Modest Mouse

From the album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, released April 6, 2004

"Even if things end up a bit too heavy/ we'll all float on alright"

"What you doing, druggie?" January 14, 2013

Song #14: Run Rumspringa- Alex Winston
From the album King Con, released April 10, 2012
"Once I'm out/ I'm on my own/ in the world you said to me was wrong/ in the world you said I don't belong/ I don't need you bad at all/ I will sever off/ cut the loss/ and go"

"Like a SIR!" January 13, 2013

Song #13: Cigarettes- Defiance Ohio

From the album Midwestern Minutes, released July 6, 2010

"'Everything is okay/ try your best to live in the moment/ it's fleeting I know it/ but it's the only thing that's real/ it's the only thing that anyone's got"

"I slowed down for that green light." January 12, 2013

Song #12: Riot Van- The Arctic Monkeys

From the album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released January 23, 2006

"And these lads just wind the coppers up/ they ask why they don't catch proper crooks"

"There's still time!" January 11, 2013

Song #11: Somebody- Jukebox the Ghost

From the album Safe Travels, released June 12, 2012

"I don't want anymore heart break/ I'm tired of the sound it makes/ like trying to shut out the dark at night/ you close your eyes/ but it won't erase/ and you were walking beside/ some other person's shadow/ and it was more than I could take/ I wouldn't see what I couldn't know/ that there might be somebody after me"

"So all of my stories are super fucking cool." January 10, 2013

Song #10: Americana- The Offspring

From the album Americana, released November 9, 1998

"My rights are denied/ by those least qualified/ trading profit for pride/ but it's/ but it's okay/ everything's backwards/ in Americana"

"Niiice" January 9, 2013

Song #9: Walk Through Hell- Say Anything

Noteworthy cover by: Julia Nunes

From the EP Menorah/ Majora, released October, 2002

"And if I was blessed/ I'd walk on the water you're breathing/ to lend you some air for that heaving sunken chest"

"Look at the bottom of your burger." "No." January 8, 2013

Song #8: Animal- Miike Snow

From the album Animal, released May 22, 2009

"But I'm still trying to make my mind up/ am I free or am I tied up"

"What is with you people and texting me in the shower?" January 7, 2013

Song #7: New World Order- Defiance Ohio

From the album The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, released December 4, 2007
"And God is great/ God is good/ and let us thank God for our food/ we may well have more than we need/ and God may well yet have mouths to feed/ but God is great/ God is good/ and someday soon he'll feed you too/ 'cause once we've got our yachts and crowns/ God planned for food to trickle down"

"That was my day pretty much. Lungs and bushes." January 6, 2013

Song #6: Daylight- Matt & Kim

From the album Grand, released January 20, 2009.

"We cut the legs off of our pants/ threw our shoes into the ocean/ sit back and wade through the daylight/ sit back and wade through the daylight"

"I wish I could make it all better." January 5, 2013

Song #5: Skinny Love- Bon Iver
Noteworthy covers by: Ed Sheeran, Birdy, and Walk Off the Earth

From the album To Emma, Forever Ago, released on September 15, 2008.

"I tell my love to wreck it all/ cut out all the ropes and let me fall" 

"Can we pee in character?" January 4, 2013

Song #4: Teddy Picker- The Arctic Monkeys

From the album Favorite Worst Nightmares, released December 3, 2007.

"The kids all dream of making it/ whatever that means/ another variation on a theme/
a tangle on the television and the magazine/ D'you reckon that they do it for a joke?/
D'you reckon that they make 'em take an oath?/ That says 'We are defenders/
of any poser or professional pretender around'"

"Aren’t I awesomekawaiicool?" January 3, 2013

Song #3: Woe- Say Anything
Noteworthy cover by: Julia Nunes
From the album ...Is a Real Boy, released August 3, 2004.
"If life is twice as pretty once you're dead/ then send me a card/ I'm still an optimist/ though it's hard" 

"I want a... miniature pig." "No." "Pigs are smart! John Travolta's pig saved his life!" January 2, 2013

Song #2: Winter Winds- Mumford and Sons
From the album Sigh No More, released October 2, 2009. 

"And my head told my heart/ let love grow/ but my heart told my head/

this time no/ this time no"

"I'm ecstatic." January 1, 2013

Well here we are again. Faced with the very long and daunting question of: do I blog every day for the whole of 2013?

Yes.

But unlike my 2011 blogs, these will be formatted a little differently. I'm keeping the quotes because they make me laugh, but I am not trying to come up with a full length post everyday. 

I am going to endeavor to come up with one thing every day: a song. A different song every day, that I love and feel attached to.

Sounds simple enough, right? Well, I'm hoping so. It's been while since I've done this guys. Wish me luck

Song #1- This Year- The Mountains Goats
From the album The Sunset Tree, released April 26, 2005

"I'm gunna' make it/ through this year/ if it kills me"