Listen. Podcasts are all good and plenty, but I have absolutely zero interest in other people’s conversations unless they think about it, write it down, and then sing it sweetly into my ears.
Music is a drug administered by a professional or chopped up on a mirror with your reflection looking back at you. I make playlists like cocktails for funny corners when life’s rhythm moves too slow or too fast. They let me gain power over my life again so I can be who I am: beautiful, deep, and cool.
Okay okay okay fine
121 songs, 7 hours 54 minutes
Song Spotlight:
Rats by Devendra Banhart
Fairy Tale Remains by Kid Cudi
Bowlly Goes Dancing Drunk into the Future by Loving
Why Not Just Be Normal by Lebanon Hanover
Flipside by Lana Del Rey (Downloaded from SoundCloud)
Anna Begins by Counting Crows*
Never Ending by Rihanna
Synopsis: Intense narrator / Unrequited love / Being a freak / Wanting something so bad & not getting it / Knowing better
This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind
“These seconds when I’m shaking leave me shuddering for days” she says
And I’m not ready for this sort of thing
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