Alphabet Playlist - "Live it Out" by Metric

We were gonna live it out.



This song reminds me of Veronica. From the album Live it Out. 
I debated about posting the acoustic or live version. This one is sad and beautiful, the other is upbeat and edgy. Hope you enjoy!

Brominated Vegetable Oil in Soda

"Compounds like these that are in widespread use probably should be reexamined periodically with newer technologies to ensure that there aren't effects that would have been missed by prior methods," said Charles Vorhees, a toxicologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, who studied BVO's neurological effects in the early 1980s. "I think BVO is the kind of compound that probably warrants some reexamination."

Scientific American Article

Tongue Tied - GROUPLOVE

I like this band.



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Thought Catalog Snippet

From an article titled "If Seasons were Boyfriends"

The Summer Boyfriend is easy breezy. You can find him on a fire escape at someone’s house party, smoking cigarettes and clutching a sangria. He is the definition of someone you don’t want when the weather gets cold but he’s perfect for the warmer temperatures. You envision him on a beach with the sand in his toes. You see him shirtless and drinking margaritas on a rooftop. The sun hits his skin in the most perfect way and it will be hard for you to not have sex with him every moment of every day. That’s The Summer Boyfriend’s job though—to give you multiple orgasms a day—and the rest is just light and fluffy like clouds. You only like him in June, July, and August. When Labor Day hits, feelings will shift and you’ll feel the need to exit the relationship ASAP. He’ll walk you to the train on the first day you need to wear a cardigan and you’ll know it’s done. The second it gets cold, so do the feelings. “I don’t want to see you in sweaters. I want to see you in a tank top. It’s been real, dude.”

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"You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from here to there. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?" -White Oleander.

Lennon Lyric

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Gospel Gossip - "Pre Med"

I had the last half of this song stuck in my head ALL morning and could not remember the name of the song or the band. By some miracle, I correctly guessed my Myspace password (haven't been on there in a while) and rediscovered my old favorite song by Gospel Gossip, Pre Med. They're from Northfield, MN!

Pre-Med (Just In Case)


They met freshman year, a lucky chance.
She was passed out almost when he asked her to dance.
And he was from New York, and doing pre med just in case.

They said, "we might not be in love, but it's close.
Settling's bad, but being alone hurts the most."
Four fast years of pavement on a ring.
Med school didn't work out, so he had extra money.

And it's too late to regret it.
But you know, we wouldn't do it again.

And he said, "baby I know you wanna move to the city.
But I got a job that at the minute pays decent money.
I know you wanna write, but the time is wrong.
You can get a newspaper job, maybe when the kids are old."

And she said, "baby I just wanna be seventeen again.
This house is a coffin, believe me, I'm so dead.
Here's to your coffee. Here's to your raincoats.
I hear the storm coming but I can't see the sky from this window."

Led Zeppelin "That's the Way"

Obsessed since 2004.

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.



I don't know how I'm gonna tell you, I can't play with you no more,
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me, My friend, the boy next door.
I can't believe what people saying, You're gonna let your hair hang down,
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long, You're in the darker side of town.

And when I'm out I see you walking, why don't your eyes see me?
Could it be you've found another game to play, what did mama say to me?

That's The way, oh, that's the way it ought to be,
Yeah, yeah, mama say that's the way it ought to stay.

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes?
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.

I don't know what to say about it,
When all your ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?

That's the way... That's the way it ought to be.
Oh don't you know now, mama said.. that's the way it's gonna stay, yeah.

Alphabet Playlist - Bright Eyes "Land Locked Blues"

The first time I heard this song in 2006, I didn't like it. Now it gives me goosebumps every time.



If you walk away, I’ll walk away
First tell me which road you will take
I don’t want to risk our paths crossing some day
So you walk that way, I’ll walk this way

...

And the world’s got me dizzy again
You think after 22 years I’d be used to the spin
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
So I’m always pacing around or walking away
I keep drinking the ink from my pen
And I’m balancing history books up on my head
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
If you love something, give it away