"You gotta' do the most rustic thing you can, apparently. Trolling the cops is rustic." May 29, 2013

Song #148: My Mirror Speaks- Death Cab For Cutie

From the EP The Open Door, released March 31, 2009

"With every sun that sets I am feeling more/ like a stranger on a foreign shore/ with an eroding beach/ disappearing from underneath/ and when my mirror speaks/ it never minces words/ because these eyes don't shine half as bright/ as the they used to and they haven't for quite a while/ because I'm a man who hides from all that binds in a mess of fading lines/ and there's a tangled thread inside my head/ with nothing on either end/ I always fall in love with an open door/ with a horizon on an endless sea/ as I look around the ones who were standing right in front of me/ and my mirror speaks with irreverence/ like a soldier I can't command/ it sees a child in the body of a full-grown man...

/A new position for a different view/ and nothing changes but the slightest hues"

"Damn Michael, you nuts now." May 12, 2013

Song #131: Almost There- Pedro the Lion
From the EP Whole, released April 8, 1997
"I'm almost there/ it's on the tip of my tongue/ and it never goes away/ it never comes to stay/ the chances are slight/ that I won't shoot up tonight/ but the sensation that's waiting beneath/ is a kick in the teeth"

"Minimal style- that's my swag" May 9, 2013

Song #128: Nothing- Pedro The Lion

From the EP Whole, released April 8, 1997

"The problem with rules is/ they alienate the criminals/ when whose to say/ if what you did was wrong that day/ if you'd open your mind up/ you'd see that there is nothing that's always wrong/ no matter what you say/ it's just not true that there's only one way"

"You have my divine protection, Michael. It's okay the demons no get you." April 29, 2013

Song #118: Slow Cheetah- Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album Stadium Arcadium, released May 5, 2006

"Waking up dead inside of my head would never never do there is no med/ no medicine to take/ I've had a chance to be insane/ asylum from the falling rain/ I've had a chance to break...

/Everyone has so much to say they talk talk talk their lives away/ don't even hesitate/ walking on down to the burial ground it's a very old dance with a merry old sound/ looks like it's on today"

"You're just running around your house... like 'Be quiet Nick, I'm putting you under the couch.'" February 10, 2013

Song #41: Information Travels Faster- Death Cab For Cutie

From the album The Photo Album, released October 15, 2003

"I intentionally wrote it out to be an illegible mess/ you wanted me to write you letters but I'd rather lose your address/ and forget that we'd ever met/ and what did or did not occur/ sitting in the station it's all a blur/ of dance hall hips/ pretentious quips/ a boxer's bob and weave"