My Heart Explodes, Or, Jenny Tours!!!!

I'm feeling sparklehappy. Jenny Lewis is playing a free show in the summer with Bon Iver. I am going to cry. I already know it. I cried last time I saw Rilo Kiley. It will be sad to see Jenny without Blake Jason and Pierre though. Also amazing: Last night's LOST episode. It was so glorious to get a Sayid-centrique episode. It was about time!! Sayid is sexy sexy sexy. Ben looked hilarious in that fedora in Moscow haha. and I knew I hated Ilana... haha. Here are Jenny's Tour Dates!!! (Copied from BrooklynVegan)
3/28 Sydney, AUS -V Festival - Centennial Park
3/29 Gold Coast, AUS -V Festival - Avica Resort
3/30 Sydney, AUS -Hordern Pavillion
4/1 Adelaide, AUS -Adelaide Entertainment Center
4/2 Melbourne, AUS -Palais Theatre
4/4 Melbourne, AUS -V Festival - Melbourne Showgrounds
4/5 Perth, AUS -V Festival - Claremount Showgrounds
4/7 Sydney, AUS -The Lair @ The Metro
4/10 Honolulu, HI -Pipeline Café
4/13 Pomona, CA -Glass House
4/14 Solana Beach, CA -Belly Up
4/15 Sacramento, CA -Empire
4/18 Indio, CA -Coachella Music & Arts Festival
5/27 Santa Cruz, CA -Rio Theatre
5/28 San Francisco, CA -The Fillmore
5/29 San Francisco, CA -The Fillmore
5/30 Portland, OR -Roseland
5/31 Seattle, WA -Showbox at Market
6/3 Minneapolis, MN -First Avenue
6/4 Madison, WI -Barrymore Theatre
6/5 Chicago, IL -Park West
6/6 Columbus, OH -Wexner Center for the Arts
6/8 Philadelphia, PA -Trocadero
6/9 Brooklyn, NY -Music Hall of Williamsburg
6/10 Boston, MA -House of Blues
6/11 Washington, DC -9:30 Club
6/12 Carrboro, NC -Cat's Cradle
6/13 Manchester, TN -Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
6/14 St. Louis, MO -The Pageant
6/15 Lawrence, KS -Granada
6/17 Omaha, NE -Slowdown
6/19 Telluride, CO -Telluride Bluegrass Festival
6/20 Sante Fe, NM -Sante Fe Brewing Co.
6/22 Austin, TX -Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre
6/23 Dallas, TX -Granada
6/24 Houston, TX -Warehouse Live
6/26 New Orleans, LA -House of Blues
6/29 Orlando, FL -Plaza Theatre
7/1 Athens, GA -TBA
7/3 Richmond, VA -The National
7/5 Pittsburgh, PA -Mr. Smalls
7/6 Louisville, KY -Headliners Music Hall
7/7 Fayetteville, AR -George's Majestic
7/9 Salt Lake City, UT -Twilight Concert Series

That's Good! That's Bad!

(Chuck/Blair PLUS Muse! Overload!)
Snow= Bad
Neko Case's new album= Good
Chuck and Blair in tonight's Gossip Girl= Bad
Having my feelings for a certain someone gradually fade= Good
Having three tough midterms in the next week or so= Bad
Slumdog Millionaire= Good
Insomnia attack last night= Bad
My dad being in japan the whole time I was home for spring break= Good
Looking like a fool and having someone cancel plans on me= Bad
Reading Love in the Time of Cholera in the library today= Good
Having to clean the bathroom today= Bad
Spending hours in a hot tub over spring break= Good
Getting emotionally invested in every tv show I watch= Bad
Building bridges with someone I thought hated me= Good
Grandma telling me I'm beautiful and "the belle of the ball"= Good
Not being able to find Jenny's iTunes only bonus track Pelican Bay= Bad
Getting back into a hardcore, intense, obsessive Muse phase= Good
Having to write a two page, single space paper comparing a bowl with a cup= Bad
Spending hours watching those Chuck/Blair youtube fan videos= Good

Rk- Spectacular Views (Live)

This is one of my favorite music videos EVER. Jenny and Blake all close and cute playing Spectacular Views! I love how they slowed it down. They look so incredibly happy.

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

Woo! Spring break is from tonight to the 22nd! I am going to sleep and sleep and eat and eat. My grandmother is staying at the house, which will make sleeping arrangements rather cramped, but I don't care. And I had a good birthday! I had some nice lamb coconut kurma at a random Indian place for lunch, then delicious sushi (See above) for dinner (The one on the left is shaped like a dragon fly, with lemon wedges. So cute.) then cheesecake for dessert with my best friends. I got a gorgeous digital camera in my VERY favorite color (blue violet) and some soap shaped like an owl, and jewelry and other nice stuff. I love my grandma's gifts. They're always frivolous and wonderful. She gave me a giant paint brush made of goat hair and cow bone. Yeah.

I just found out Peter Bjorn and John are opening for Depeche Mode on their tour this year, and I really hope I can afford tickets! Also, Neko Case will be here in May at an outdoor theater, and you can pre-order a picnic basket for the night! I think that would be the funnest thing ever, eating a picnic and listening to Neko's out of this world voice.

I am pretty pleased with life, especially since this paper I've been dreading isn't due till the 24th now!

Chopin Lizst

Chopin.

I am constantly thinking of new ways to make music-related lists, and I have found another! Woo! I love music obvi, and lists are another passion haha. I want this notepad I saw once that said "Chopin Lizst". I find that highly amusing. But anyway. Here are my favorite artists from A-Z. Please don't make fun of me. What's yours?

A- Amy Winehouse and Arcade Fire
B- Beirut/Broken Social Scene/Bright Eyes
C- Cursive/CocoRosie
D- Death Cab for Cutie/DeVotchKa
E- The Elected/Ella Fitzgerald
F- Feist/Fleetwood Mac
G- Grizzly Bear/The Good Life
H- Her Space Holiday/Hellogoodbye
I- Islands/I'm from Barcelona
J- Jenny Lewis/Joanna Newsom
K- Kool & The Gang/Kings of Convenience
L- Lily Allen/Lykke Li
M- METRIC/Mates of State
N- New Pornographers/No Doubt
O- Of Montreal/Obi Best
P- Postal Service/PAS/CAL/Pony Up!
Q- Queen (For lack of a better alternative)
R- Rilo Kiley/Radiohead/Regina Spektor
S- Stars/Sufjan Stevens/The Shins/Sea Wolf
T- Tilly & The Wall/Tegan and Sara
U- The Unicorns
V- Velvet Underground and Nico/Vampire Weekend
W- Whitest Boy Alive/The Woods
X- Xiu Xiu (For lack of a better alternative)
Y- Young Galaxy/Y.a.c.h.t.
Z- Zach Condon/Zooey Deschanel

There is a disproportionate number of excellent bands that start with S! That one was a very difficult decision lol

The Winds of Change

For the past couple of days, there have been howling winds. So forceful that I have struggled to remain upright while walking, and so loud that they roar over the noise of my iPod. I am a superstitious person, and I can't help feeling that they are the winds of change. That sounds cheesy I'm sure, but whatever. Over the weekend, I decided what to do with my life, broke up with my boyfriend, cleaned my room and my e-mail inbox, and discovered how to watercolor flesh tones, among other things.

I feel like I'm on a whole new track in life, and it feels good. I know what I want to do with my life! I'm going to major in Nursing. I think it's perfect for me. It involves science and medicine but not math, and I'd get to help people, and work wherever in the world I wanted to, and make enough money to support myself :)

Tomorrow is my birthday! I'll be nineteen years old. That is so weird to me. 19. I'm going to lunch with my dad and grandma, then going to dinner with my mom and sisters, then getting dessert with my best friends :) It will be a food-filled day. Haha. I feel happy right now. I am so so lucky to have a functional family that loves me and accepts me for who I am. I not only didn't appreciate them when I lived at home, but I was hostile to my parents all the time. I'm sure raising me wasn't easy, and I feel bad now haha. But I'm just feeling really blessed. I have great friends, great family, rilo kiley, and my art to fall back on during hard times. It feels so nice to have that insurance. Yay! :D

I finally saw Milk today. It was so beautiful and sad. I was already crying when Milk got shot but the candle scene completely undid me. It was so amazing how so many people got together to mourn him! I hope I do at least one great thing in my life. Here is a video of Milk's big rally speech.