In a Dream

Oh sweet, sweet sorrow sing gently here with me. I've been a fan of this fine gentleman A.A. Bondy since his last album "American Hearts" back in 2007. I heard this song watching House last week and instantly I was swooned with the piano, reverbed guitar, and subtle drums winning my ears attention. Still, I find his last album a bit more on the favorable side, yet this song is on repeat on this cold winter night. Also be sure to check out the song from his prior album, "There's a Reason", right here below. Happy Saturday.

A.A. Bondy- A Slow Parade

A.A. Bondy- There's a Reason

Make it a Double

It's really quite the lovely day outside, lows in the 70's, blue skies, a bit of breeze to get you through your day.... But really, all I want to do today is buy myself a bottle of this stuff right above. I could go for Knobb or Woodford even! Being a girl blows, especially when you get all emo pre-perioding and want nothing to do with your final week of school. I also might be suffering from post-graduation syndrome, loathing in what I'll be when I grow up and the I don't wanna stop being a student, cause really it's the best excuse in the world. If everything goes as "planned", the 19 units I've overloaded myself with, will all be mine and the school system can go fuck itself for the $347 I owe in their unexpected fee hikes. Higher tuition with less class time and poor treatment to my beloved teachers? No thank you.

Back to the alcohol, this lovely bottle pairs perfect with a few ice cubes and a splash of coke. If only I had a fireplace, with crackling ambers to sit next to on a cold Friday night... There's something magical about good bourbon whiskey, that warms your heart and makes you forget about mythical souls. In regards to them existing or simply being a pigment of one's imagination, I'll let that be the philosophical doper that we get into over a drink or two...

Like a Social Status

Animal Collective's "My Girls" certainly has made it somewhere on my life's soundtrack, a song that always tends to make the shittiest of days, much much better. It played in the background for Summer of 09, got us in our beer groove for Tour de Beer in San Diego, has made me spontaneously go "Wooooo" and want to jump up off the earth in glee. I'm quite the fan of this alternative edition by a Montreal DJ named Hatchmatik, who beautifully makes this already dancey song, that much dancier! Major hearts across the board for this track, download it, love it, put it on your "going out" playlist.

Animal Collective-My Girls (Hatchmatik Disco B.)

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Go Easy On Me

I'm a Kings of Convenience girl, and more times than others I turn to them for simplicity in life. Strum me into a rainy or sunshine filled day, and swoon me with your sweet vocals. Norwegian boys sure know how to woo and ahhh their listeners, I bet if I burned one of their cds for my dad, he'd listen to it while he works on his sail boat in the harbor. Thanks to these guys, I'll always have a fascination and never ending love for build ups, gold in the air of summer, move fast with parallel lines, know that failure is the best way to learn, and rather dance with you, than that douche bag across the room. Their new album is airy, breezy, and sweet as per usual, here's some of my faves of the new album Declaration of Dependence.

Kings of Convenience- Mrs. Cold


Kings of Convenience- Renegade

When You're Lucid

Washed Out

The Wah Wah's to gloomtastic days, those type of days that I wish nothing but to curl up in the oh so comfortable fetus position and drown myself in the covers and music.  I'm really, really sick of being on this roller coaster of emotion in life with too much school and not enough me time.  Apparently I only have 5 more weeks of this educational overload and then I'm done!  Being done with school is most likely the scariest thing to grace my presence in my whole life, because the months following it, I, Leiann Marie will really have to figure out my shit and just what I want to do with all this knowledge.  All I really want to do upon this milestone is work for a few months, pay off some debt, save some moola, and hop on a plane or make myself a ballon like the one above, and fly away to a far off place that will inspire me to fall back in love with photography, as of recent I've been in a downward spiral and lack there of motivation.  Girl needs a vacation pronto, and some me time wouldn't be so bad either... However, "This is life and every things alright."

Washed Out-New Theory

Home is Whenever I’m With You

We all once loved Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks", for its contagiously catchy whistling parts and overtly indie tones, till it was over palyed into an oblivian.  This song spurs in a Jonny Cash , yippie yi yeah western feel, with boy/girl reciprocation, that I'm quite a fan of.  I could use a ride off into the sunset, but with this whole falling back, the sun is falling down way to fast these days for me to witness it.  Wah wah.  Hope you like this here song!

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros- Home