I Wanted You To Be Reading

I love the feeling when I'm riding my bike and and wind is at my back. It's like I'm a kid for a minute and somebody is there running with me, pushing my bike, promising not to let me fall, and I'm so into it I don't even realize I'm pedaling for myself and they let go already.

I had the notion to talk about music that came out that I like, but I know I'm not qualified to critique music like the professional bullshitters. I don't have the words for it. Like when I talk to Jude about art, and end up saying things like "artistic-y". It's not that I don't know anything about art, but I don't know how the real art people talk about art and I'm afraid of looking like a dummy, so I go for the dummy on purpose act. It's less embarrassing when you do the stupid thing on purpose, than when you try to be serious and people think you look stupid anyway. I try to control for that. But anyway, back to the subject of music, I had the notion to talk about it, but maybe I think I'll just tell you that there's something out that I like and you can describe it for yourself.

New Things I Found This Week:

1. the new Kyte album, Dead Waves

2. the new National album, High Violet

3. Jónsi's (the frontman from Sigur Rós) solo album, Go

4. Ramona Falls, Intuit

5. Harlem Shakes, Technicolor Health

6. the song "Lady Bones" by Magneta Lane

I just found out about Sigur Rós like 2 days ago, because I've been living in a cave on Mars with my eyes closed and my fingers in my ears. The new MGMT album blows. M.I.A. gets better the more you listen to her, and especially after you listen to Aziz Ansari's bit on speaking to her in Tamil. I am full of disorganized thoughts today. I might be distracted.

I thought my heart bone was broken and nothing was going to fix it. I thought it was sleeping or dead. I thought all those bad boys and heartbreakers and monsters had ruined it for anyone else. But I can feel. I can really feel. And I put myself out there, and I don't want to be afraid anymore, so don't let go of my bicycle, and I won't stop pedaling. Not 'til I die.

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Rules for life, #10: love like you've never been hurt.