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i love music. so should you.

this is my (mostly) music blog. i wanted a space where i could wax poetically about all the bands and artists i love. (my heart and my cd collection is v. v. big.) you'll also find a smattering of writing related things, since that's what i'm doing these days, along with other pop culture miscellanea.

things you need to know: i live in chicago, but i used to live in new york city. i go to a lot of shows. i stopped being ashamed of my musical tastes a long time ago. the first time i heard "eleanor rigby" by the beatles, i was nine years old and i still get goosebumps when i hear those opening strings. i sing - trained in opera, musical theater, and everything in between.

i'm not very country, i'm mostly rock and roll.

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7 May 12
oh. my. god. this needs to happen. who do i speak to/pay off to make this happen.

oh. my. god.

this needs to happen. who do i speak to/pay off to make this happen.

(Source: prufrocking)

Reblogged: prufrocking

19 April 12
etpuisetpuisencore: CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS. do want immediately.

etpuisetpuisencore:

CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS.

do want immediately.

Reblogged: lyriquediscorde

28 March 12
northerndownpour: Kaiser Chiefs + Empires - April 19 @ HOB Chicago. Click to buy tickets. See you there. the venn diagram of people that love empires slavishly, people that love kaiser chiefs obsessively, and people that live in chicago is very small (sarah, chelle. katie, and myself) - it’s quite possible we are going to explode from joy.

northerndownpour:

Kaiser Chiefs + Empires - April 19 @ HOB Chicago. Click to buy tickets. See you there.

the venn diagram of people that love empires slavishly, people that love kaiser chiefs obsessively, and people that live in chicago is very small (sarah, chelle. katie, and myself) - it’s quite possible we are going to explode from joy.

Reblogged: northerndownpour

10 January 12
“ Then I started thinking maybe we actually represent something to people, maybe when they hear the name “Foo Fighters” they just think rock’n’roll, and I thought, “Wow, that’s cool.” Then over the years playing shows I’d look out at the audience and see kids with Nirvana shirts and their parents with Foo Fighters shirts — which seems upside down — and I’d see moustaches and kids at their first rock concert. Our audience became so diverse I thought, “Man, they just want to see a rock show.” Go see Bruce Springsteen. Go see Tom Petty, AC/DC, Roger Waters, any of these people. Go see Pearl Jam or Soundgarden. I went to see Soundgarden four or five months ago; I didn’t stand in the VIP section, I ran down and got crushed in front of the stage and danced around sweaty with a bunch of people I didn’t know for an hour and 45 minutes.
—

- dave grohl, billboard magazine

seriously, how is he so awesome? 

9 January 12
virginiabythedrop: tongue-tied-skinned-alive: Joe Strummer’s letter of recommendation for Bruce Springsteen  Bruce is great … if you don’t agree with that then you’re a pretentious Martian from Venus.  Can I please marry this letter? Please? Seriously, I think I might print it out and frame it. one of my heroes singing my words about another one of my heroes.  love, love, love this.  (virginia - meet you in jersey for the boss this summer/fall, yes?)

virginiabythedrop:

tongue-tied-skinned-alive:

Joe Strummer’s letter of recommendation for Bruce Springsteen 

Bruce is great … if you don’t agree with that then you’re a pretentious Martian from Venus. 

Can I please marry this letter? Please? Seriously, I think I might print it out and frame it.

one of my heroes singing my words about another one of my heroes.  love, love, love this.  (virginia - meet you in jersey for the boss this summer/fall, yes?)

(Source: fire-without-a-spark)

Reblogged: virginiabythedrop

7 December 11
ryan gosling + books = perfection.  toss in a bottle of jameson and it could be heaven.

ryan gosling + books = perfection.  toss in a bottle of jameson and it could be heaven.

(Source: librarianheygirl)

Reblogged: librarianheygirl

10 November 11

empires - “the night is young” (acoustic)

still my favorites.

19 August 11
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tylerglenn:

Someone Like You (Adele) | Tylerinacoma

I covered Adele’s Someone Like You recently, download and listen here

oh. my. god.

so completely amazing.

Reblogged: tylerglenn

31 July 11
shadesofbrixton: I am not a Stephen King fan.  Let me just get that out there first.  My personal opinions of this man have not changed pretty much from day one.  I’ve tried to read about a half dozen of his books throughout the course of my life - until I got to The Gunslinger. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. There are moments in our lives, as readers, when we know something is real.  When something is staying.  And those words made something well in the back of my throat, something thick and terrifying, and my opinion of Stephen King changed just enough to make a crack in the world, a Door for Roland to slip through.  I’m still reading the series.  But it all starts with one line.  The kind of book I want to read, the kind of book I want to be.  Easily in my top five first lines of any book I’ve ever read. i am a huge stephen king fan and it all started with the gunslinger. that first line is something that makes me aspire to be a be the best writer i can be.  if i can ever construct something so succinct and perfect, even just once, i’ll be happy.

shadesofbrixton:

I am not a Stephen King fan.  Let me just get that out there first.  My personal opinions of this man have not changed pretty much from day one.  I’ve tried to read about a half dozen of his books throughout the course of my life - until I got to The Gunslinger.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

There are moments in our lives, as readers, when we know something is real.  When something is staying.  And those words made something well in the back of my throat, something thick and terrifying, and my opinion of Stephen King changed just enough to make a crack in the world, a Door for Roland to slip through. 

I’m still reading the series.  But it all starts with one line.  The kind of book I want to read, the kind of book I want to be.  Easily in my top five first lines of any book I’ve ever read.

i am a huge stephen king fan and it all started with the gunslinger. that first line is something that makes me aspire to be a be the best writer i can be.  if i can ever construct something so succinct and perfect, even just once, i’ll be happy.

Reblogged: shadesofbrixton

17 June 11
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empires - hard times

tonight! my excitement cannot be textually rendered. and i will have (almost) all of my favorite people there with me.

themed by hunson. originally by josh