play something country

there's been a ton of great country music lately. here's my rundown (in no particular order):

• eden's edge - too good to be true, skinny dipping, amen, who am i drinking tonight? - clever lyrics and catchy tunes
• rascal flats - banjo
• little big town - pontoon
• pistol annies - hell on heels
• josh turner - time is love
• jake owen - the one that got away, and heaven
• miranda lambert  - fastest girl in town
• dierks bently - 5-1-5-0 - great get hype song
• zac brown band - new album out (uncaged) - i like jump right in, natural disaster, last but not least
• carrie underwood - new album out (blown away) - i like cupid's got a shotgun, good girl and the title track 
• mark mcguinn - mrs. steven rudy - not a new one but so so good. check it out on youtube (it's hard to find)
• luke bryan - drunk on you - 'i'm a little high on you and drunk on summertime'
• keith urban - long hot summer
• eli young band - even if it breaks your heart
• kenny chesney - come over

and lastly eric church - springsteen - there's a reason this song is at the top of the charts - it's amazing. brings back a lot of memories of summer on nantucket and being in love. :)

baby is it spring or is it summer
the guitar sound or the beat of that drummer
you hear sometimes late at night on your radio
even though you're a million miles away
when you hear born in the usa
do you relive those glory days from so long ago

when you think about me do you think about 17
do you think about my old jeep
think about the stars in the sky
funny how a melody sounds like a memory
like a soundtrack to a july saturday night

footloose and fancy free

last week was super stressful b/c i was taking off early on friday to go to seattle for zana's wedding, and i had a dentist appt to have 3 cavities filled, which meant 2.5 hours out of my thursday to have needles and drills and lockjaw. now that both things are behind me i feel a strange sense of euphoria, which can only be because my calendar is (relatively) wide open and i'm staying in nyc for the next two wknds.

that is not to say i didn't have a fantastic time on the west coast this past weekend. it was my first trip to seattle, so i didn't know much about it, and i was excited to get the grand tour. jess was kind enough to act as my hostess and tour guide, so i learned quite a bit about the pacific northwest.

got in around 7 on friday night and was so surprised to see snow-capped mountains on the air train into the city. according to wikipedia seattle gets 71 sunny days on average a year, and friday was one of them, so it's only fair to note i'm biased.

met up with jess and ppocket and headed to dinner with swanny, skips and skip's girlfriend. was fantastic to catch up with them, eat delicious thai food and see an almost full moon over the space needle.

saturday we picked up a zipcar from the local community center (a vintage porsche car fair was going on. we were driving a vw rabbit) and got all gussied up for the night. picked up skips and ppocket and we headed out to the red hook brewing company for lunch and the brewery tour. for $1 we got 5 samples of beer, a rocks glass and learned that one of the co-founders of red hook is the founder of starbucks, there's a red hook brewery in portsmouth, nh, and 30 people work at the brewery. highly recommend it if you're on the east or west coasts.

we cut out of the tour early to get to zana's parents' ranch where the wedding was being held. they live on a gorgeous piece of property north of seattle and zana and linda were married down by the pond in an incredibly beautiful and heart-felt ceremony. afterwards we ran around looking for horses, giving hugs to zana and rosi, and getting drinks in the dressage arena where the reception was held. jess and i gave toasts, zana, linda and the boys did a choreographed dance to get things kicked-off, and we had brick-oven pizza for dinner. we also took a number of pictures that ppocket is converting into a collage at the photo booth, and danced the night away.

sunday jess and i had brunch downtown, and then i explored the waterfront of docks and ferries and pike place market (think real world seattle fish and original starbucks) before heading back to the airport for my red-eye. seattle is the western-most terminus of i-90 (of boston and james taylor fame) and it was so funny to think about being on the other side of the country but on the same road. really liked seattle overall - it's such a cool combo of water and woods and mountains. everywhere you looked there were boats and beautiful scenery and people outside running or playing soccer or sailing. there were also lots of gardens, farmers markets and community centers. was surprised to see tons of red sox fans out and about, but realized it was likely because they were playing the mariners. still, it kind of felt like home. all in all it seems like a very legit place to live and that there is a lot more to explore. will have to get back out there soon.

liking a song lately by emmylou harris (covered by miranda lambert) called 'easy from now on'. the lyrics i like are

It's gonna be easy to fill
The heart of a thirsty woman
Harder to kill the ghost of a no good man
And I'll be ridin' high in a fandangled sky
It's gonna be easy, It's gonna be easy
It's gonna be easy from now on

part of why i like it is that it resonates, part of it is the 'fandangled sky' bit, but worth a listen if you're into bluegrass country.

in the vein of culture and arts, i also read 'the big house' last weekend - a great memoir about summer houses, family and boston W.A.S.P.S. i've touched on the role my grandparents house in craigville has played in my family and i'm sure i'll get around to doing a post on it one of these days, but worth a read. started reading 'last call' about prohibition on sunday night as well. in the middle of that now but enjoying learning about something i don't know too much about. will report back.

the most wonderful time of the year

impossible to focus today as we are within spitting distance of jimmy buffett 2011. we have a great crew coming out for the boston show this year - some veterans (linsalata, christine, caroline and yours truly) and some virgins (rowena, alex and kelly). we have rented a mini van to drive out to the concert and while i am slightly horrified by the idea of a mini van i think it will be hilarious when we all tumble out and it has the potential to be a great home base after we put down the seats.

i love love love just sitting around and boozing and having a few laughs and listening to good music, and while there are showers in the forecast, it's also supposed to be hot, which is vastly preferable to cold rain.

things that happened this week:

• i bowled a 160 last night at bowling. my old team is in an all media bowling league and we ended up winning the league! 160 was my pr so i was very pleased
  

• i heard from laurak! she is back on the main land and making her plans for diana's wedding in july. i also talked to whit who is planning away as well. can't wait for the mini reunion in a couple of weeks.
  

• we had an offsite for work on wednesday that involved the entire company breaking up into teams to write a song about our brand. we did ours to the tune of 'only girl in the world' by rhianna and put on hula skirts and sunglasses to perform. while walking through 30 rock back to perform someone commented on how 'natural i looked wearing a hulu skirt over my work dress and parading around the building'. little does she know . . . i am happy to report we won AND they announced we're getting new computers and a software upgrade. hot dog.

• i was officially elected to the executive committee of the d club of nyc. dax was elected co-vp and slaine was also elected to the committee. hooray for new blood!
  

graduation last weekend was fantastic. we drove up last friday on a gorgeous, lazy, hazy new england summer day so i could do an event on friday night at the salt hill pub for the dartmouth alumni association of nyc. the alum association bought the senior class some drinks so they would listen to our pitch about daanyc. went over to 3 dorrance post event to play pong with tommy dickie and his cousins. was happy to see that 3D is still a ledyard/climbing house and they were very nice to let me indulge my 6-years-after-graduation craving for pong.

saturday was cold and wet so i hung out in my sister's room in the choates (she's still up there working c&r and then will be back for her soph summer - '11X WOO) before doing lunch at the canoe club with my family. my main thought was how lucky i was to be sitting there surrounded by my grandparents, aunt and uncle, cousins, cousins in law and sister. a few months ago it wasn't even clear if my grandmother would be able to make it at all and i am happy to report that after a hip replacement, she is doing much much much better. will be seeing them again on the cape in a few weeks.

lastly i have recently found myself in a bit of a romantic entanglement ('avoid entangling alliances' - george washington) that i am cautiously optimistic about. it has me singing of lots of corny musical songs but i mostly keep thinking of the billy joel song 'the longest time':

Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for

Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time

it really has been an awfully long time since i thought this way and who knows where it will end but it's making me happy. will keep you posted. :)

walking slow

'walking slow down the avenue through my old neighborhood
don't know why i'm happy - i got no reason to feel this good
maybe it's b/c i'm all alone and i've got no place to go
and everywhere i look i see another person i'll never know'
- jackson browne 'walking slow'

as i've mentioned i work at chelsea market - an indoor food/baked goods/shopping market in the place that used to be the nabisco factory. there are a couple of things i really enjoy about working here:

• every day as i'm leaving work there's a chalkboard sign outside the butcher that says 'the roast chickens are ready!' for some reason that makes me happy. yesterday it said 'righteous roasts R ready.' that made me happy too.
  

• there's frequently a string quartet or a guitarist or a flute player playing music in the corridor when i leave the office
  

today the merger of my company and the new company was complete so there were all sorts of festivities and special things going on for the occasion. some observations:

• color: the new color scheme of the company is this hideous purple and turquoise color, that (perhaps not) coincidentally is very similar to a vera bradley spring 2011 pattern.

• logo: they got rid of the peacock and made up a font that we've been calling '1987'. the best comment though was from an article about the changes: 'hey [company] - kappa kappa gamma called - they want their font back.'

last night hearn and i were hanging out after having some sushi watching the squash game at grand central. every year they literally set up a squash court in this side area of grand central and play exhibition squash matches, complete with bleachers and announcers and everything. while we were standing there watching a guy came up to us and randomly (slash sketchily) gave us two $100 tickets to the game (aka seats). we weren't sure if they were legit, nor did we know anything about squash, so when a guy we know showed up randomly we gave him the tickets. turned out to be great seats and i'm sure he enjoyed it more than we would have (we left to go drink). incidentally, was also gtalking with will while watching who was also watching the game in oregon on espn. again not knowing anything about squash, it was super useful to have him narrating the game and telling us when to clap.

i finally met someone in my building; not my floor mind you, my building. had a nice chat with a woman in the entry way. she has a king charles spaniel, as does this other guy in the building (can't tell if they're together), so we chatted while she waited for him to come in and it was one of those really nice, happy conversations. i just reread 'how to win friends and influence people' and i swear it's making me be nicer to everyone. i guess that's the idea. but before i completely go off tangent i would like to note that i've lived here for almost three months and today was the first day i met someone in the building.

there's more to say but le computer is being tres finicky so i will have to leave you with this - i forgot how much i like steve miller band.

over and out

hazy shade of winter

'i look around, leaves are brown now
and the sky is a hazy shade of winter
look around, leaves are brown
there's a patch of snow on the ground...
- simon & garfunkel

'hazy shade of winter' is a simon & garfunkel song about the depression of winter. not entirely depressed, but it seems to apply to these clear cold days. on nights like this i like to take a moment to appreciate the fact i have a warm, safe place to sleep, esp when you live in a city and the less fortunate people are easy to spot.

just went to a gym class with rowena called 'urban rebound'. it involved jumping on individual trampolines to music (aka dancing). was surprisingly fun, while also making me think of foot-fire and suicides from my basketball days. 90% sure i won't be able to walk tomorrow.

following the forecasts for this next winter storm that's supposed to hit nyc tomorrow night into wednesday morning. i know snow causes all kinds of problems and travel issues, but there's something fun and magical about it. if only nyc had snowball fights in central park. sigh.

heading down to dc for the long mlk weekend to hang out with lingley. nothing in particular planned beyond the jets-patriots game on sunday - it'll be good to be with massholes and down easters for the occasion.

played pong with ceppos at hearn's apt on friday night. i am pleased to say that we beat hearn and olverson three games in a row. and this was superior pong and come-from-behind half-cup wins. good to know we've still got it.

saturday night was the third kick ball - aka the kickball formal. watched the football games, played flip cup, experimented with a shake weight, watched 'zombie strippers' (not my cup of tea), made out with a ref and went to bed at 4:30. good times.

jimmy buffett plays paris in september 2011. still holding out for tahiti, but may have to give serious consideration to a paris trip. after all, 'paris is always a good idea' (sabrina).

current favorite song is 'top of the world' by the cataracts (aka the 'like a g6' 'getting slizard' group). the song has the line 'your daddy must have been a drug dealer. why? b/c you dope'. also liking 'patron tequila' by paradiso girls, also for its line 'by the end of the night imma have you drunk and throwing up, by the end of the night imma have you SO FUCKED UP.' getting a kick out of both.

that's the word from these parts. stay classy.

these are the days

it's hot enough to still be summer in nyc and i love this song and these lyrics so:

these are the days of the endless summer
these are the days, the time is now
there is no past, there's only future
there's only here, there's only now

these are the days of the endless dancing and the
long walks on summer nights
these are the days of true romancing
when i'm holding you so tight

these are the days that we now must savor
and we must enjoy as we can
these are the days that will last forever
you've got to hold them in your heart
- van morrison 'these are the days'

i feel it in the air the summer's out of reach

i woke last night to the sound of thunder
how far off i sat and wondered
started humming a song from 1962
ain't it funny how the night moves
when you just don't seem to have as much to lose
strange how the night moves
with autumn closing in

- bob seger 'night moves'

song of the day

still behind on my songs of the day so you get a double dose:

1. james taylor 'carolina in my mind'



one of my favorite songs by the other 'james', though in this case it's 'jt' instead of 'jb.' i've always like james taylor selectively; 'fire and rain' and 'you've got a friend' (sang that in elementary chorus) just never did it for me. but a couple of his songs are some of my favorite favorite. he also reminds me of western mass, prob for the line in 'sweet baby james' about 'the turnpike from stockbridge to boston' - meaning the mass pike. stockbridge is the first exit going west, and boston is last.

this song though has some good concepts, namely homesickness, restlessness, and searching. the 'signs that might be omens' and 'there ain't no doubt in no one's mind that love's the finest thing around.' stuff you can latch onto.

2. laura branigan 'self control'



this is one of those songs you forgot about. prob loved it on the radio when it would come on, but you were too young/itunes and youtube didn't exist, so you couldn't find out who sang it. i thought that 'can't fight this feeling' was sung by a singer named 'ariel' for YEARS b/c i misheard the dj saying 'reo' (as in reo speedwagon). anyway, was reintroduced to it driving back from a ski weekend in vt with charlo and megh and now it's one of the most played songs on my computer. killer, catchy ballad that's pure 80s. and if you're thinking that laura branigan sounds familiar, it's b/c she sings 'gloria' too.

may just be watching too much abc family, but anyone else really excited for the 'toy story' double-feature in movie theatres in a couple weeks? great movies, great lines - i'm psyched to see it in a theatre and enjoy a couple hours of fun.

songs you know by heart

my most favorite jb song - though there are several strong contenders for that title - and the chorus was my high school yearbook quote. i promise i'll update on jb, dc, and life v. soon, but there really is no better way to describe how i'm thinking and feeling as of late than the lyrics to this song:

jimmy buffett 'changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes'

i took off for a weekend last month
just to try and recall the whole year
all of the places and all of the faces
wondering where they all disappear
i didn't ponder the question too long
i was hungry and went out for a bite
ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
and we wound up drinking all night

it's those changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
nothing remains quite the same
with all of our running and all of our cunning
if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

reading departure signs in some big airport
reminds me of the places i've been
visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
makes me want to go back again
if it suddenly ended tomorrow i could somehow adjust to the fall
good times and riches and son of a bitches i've seen more than i can recall

with these changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
nothing remains quite the same
through all of the islands and all of the highlands
if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

i think about paris when i'm high on red wine
i wish i could jump on a plane
so many nights i just dream of the ocean god i wish i was sailing again
yesterday's over my shoulder so i can't look back for too long
there's just too much to see waiting in front of me
and i know that i just can't go wrong

with these changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
nothing remains quite the same
with all of our running and all of our cunning
if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

if we weren't all crazy we would go insane

i've got a rock n roll heart

i've got a feeling we could be serious girl
right at this moment i could promise you the world
before we go crazy before we explode
there's something about me you got to know

i get off on a '57 chevy
i get off on a screaming guitar
like the way it gets me every time it hits me
i've got a rock n roll heart

- eric clapton 'rock n roll heart'

makes a lot of sense

i'm not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love
but to you, i gave my affection, right from the start.
i have a lover who loves me - how could i break such a heart?
yet still you get my attention.

why do you come here, when you know i've got troubles enough?
why do you call me, when you know i can't answer the phone?
and make me lie when i don't want to,
and make someone else some kind of an unknowing fool?
make me stay when i should not?
if you're so strong then resolve the weakness in me.
why do you come here, and pretend to be just passing by?
i need to see you - i need to hold you - tightly.

- joan armatrading 'the weakness in me'

guy #1 saga continues. he still has a gf. i still don't think i want to date him. and yet . . . it's not enough to do anything about, just something in the back of my head a lot.

fleetwood mac: fleetwood mac

so! me, vin, charlo and kristin are going to see fleetwood mac tomorrow night at madison square garden. we have terrible seats, but at least we're in the arena, and it's the greatest hits tour, so it will be better than the time that skips and gretchen and i drove down to worcester soph spring to see them play (aka - skips and i begged and pleaded until gretchen agreed to drive us) as part of the 'say you will tour', which meant that they played primarily new stuff from their latest cd ('say you will').

this time around the playlist looks pretty good - think there are only a few songs that i'm not a huge fan of. that being said, here's how i'd spend two hours if i were president and fleetwood mac was playing at my inauguration. (hi bill clinton) along with the reason why:


1. seven wonders
2. skies the limit - just a happy, upbeat song about love going right
3. go your own way - love the drums and 'tell me why everything turned around'
4. rhiannon - 'dreams unwind, love's a state of mind'
5. storms - 'but never have i been a blue calm sea i have always been a storm'
6. little lies
7. when it comes to love
8. the chain - 'i can still hear you saying you would never break the chain'
9. songbird - a really really pretty bittersweet song
10. say you will - 'something in you brought out something in me that i've never been since'
11. you make loving fun
12. everywhere
13. say you love me - from 'the dance' version: 'don't wanna talk about it don't wanna think about it don't wanna think about it anymore'
14. second hand news
15. silver springs - 'did she say she was pretty and did she say she was worth it baby i don't want to know'
16. crystal
17. think about me - 'didn't mean to love you didn't think it would work out'
18. never going back again - love the guitar
19. landslide
20. hypnotized - 'feels like a dream got me hypnotized'

bonus: would throw in 'got a hold on me' from christine mcvie and 'stand back' from stevie!

fleetwood mac gets me every time - all of them have dated/loved/broken each other's hearts and there they are standing on stage singing songs they wrote about each other to each other. talk about art reflecting life and using your angst to make art! i couldn't do it. i can hardly speak to my exes, let alone reminisce with them about days gone by. incredible.

lather, rinse, repeat

if you laugh at different comics,
if you root for different teams,
waste no time, weep no more,
show him what the door is for.
rub him out of the roll call
and drum him out of your dreams.
- south pacific 'i'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair'

you can't fix a guy when he's wrong. and that's the end of it.

i haven't got time for the pain*

emotional upheaval - not today

there are some things in life that are so evil and horrible and stressful and torturous and emotionally disruptful that every once in awhile i have to stop and thank god that i'm not currently going through them. they would be:

1. a break-up
2. moving
3. job-hunting (though this one seems to be on the horizon)

i think we tend to complain or notice things only when they are bad, so i like to stop and appreciate the fact that i am not going through them every once in awhile. and i am happy to report that this is one of those times, though in this general category, not anywhere close to the suckiness of those three things but still in it, is trying to launch 10 websites/wap sites. yeah. a month more to go.

chopped salads

a distinctly nyc thing is chopped salads. this may be a big thing somewhere else in the country, but i'd never seen so many places advertising chopped salads until i moved to new york and joined the corporate world and started looking for places for lunch. new york is full of these places where you can get your basic super salad and then have it chopped into tiny bits. i'm really not a fan on the whole. i appreciate the fact that you don't have to bite off a hunk of lettuce, but i don't want my salad to be bits of mush. that's what happens when i chew it in my mouth. however, new yorkers go wild for this. weird.

the meaning of life

on christine's street in boston there is an art installation where you can ask questions via posted note and have them answered a day later. the jb crew lifted this one about the meaning of life, not sure what it does for their karma, but i have it and i like the answer:

question: what is the meaning of life
answer: to stop asking unknowable questions and simply embrace the miracle of being alive and the power you have to bring joy to yoursel and others

'once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest places if you look at it right'

night friends

*carly simon song

song for the asking

here is my song for the asking
ask me and i will play
so sweetly, i'll make you smile

this is my tune for the taking
take it, don't turn away
i've been waiting all my life

thinking it over, i've been sad
thinking it over, i'd be more than glad
to change my ways for the asking

ask me and i will play
all the love that i hold inside
- simon & garfunkel 'song for the asking'

restless

Stay on the streets of this town
and they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta stay hungry
hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
come on now baby gimme just one look

You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

- bruce springsteen 'dancing in the dark'

pride and joy and greed and sex

relax kids - it's lyrics from the rolling stone's song 'shattered', which happens to be about the city of nyc. observe:

laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
look at me, i'm in tatters
i'm a shattered
shattered
- rolling stones 'shattered'

describes manhattan pretty well eh? =)

you know what else encompasses manhattan pretty well? sex and the city. and i know i'm not the only person who is ridiculously excited for the movie to come out. i mean, all of the sd usual suspects obvi - all we did senior spring (and some of us, other springs) besides play pong and come up with the brilliant concept of 'team tequila' was watch s&tc on demand in the sd tv room. in fact, we found it rather serendipitous/a sign that the tv burned out during the last few days of senior week. and found it rather sigma delt-like when we returned later that summer as alums and said tv still had not been replaced, so we had to go to walmart in leb to get a new one so that we could resume watching s&tc while on campus. but i digress.

point being, the lovely ladies of s&tc have one hell of a best supporting actress in the form of the city of manhattan. i mean, the city is as much a character as any of them. so what the HELL were they thinking premiering the movie in LONDON? i think this qualifies for a 'really? WOW'.

idiots.

tidbits

that's code for 'this blog post has no particular theme'

things that would be on my facebook interests if everyone and their brothers couldn't read it (you know - as opposed to this blog where random strangers can): matching bra and underwear sets. 'when planning to undress for an audience, wear matching bra and underwear or nothing at all'

walking slow down the avenue through my old neighborhood
don't know why i'm happy i've got no reason to feel this good
maybe it's because i'm all alone and i've got no place to go
everywhere i look i see another person i'll never know
- jackson browne 'walking slow'

really really really love jackson browne. check out 'the pretender', 'lawyers in love', 'the load out/stay' and 'love needs a heart'

the 20-year old called yesterday and asked if i wanted to get dinner this week. of course he did. and no - i don't. but i thought he was nice, and i like to think of myself as a mature adult who does the responsible thing, but i still can't bring myself to call him and say 'thanks but no thanks'. why is that so hard? maybe this why we like someecards.com so much

you're in my blood like holy wine
you taste so bitter and so sweet
oh i could drink a case of you darling
and i would still be on my feet i would still be on my feet
- joni mitchell 'a case of you'

did you know that all but about eight of the appalachian trail's 2,175 miles from georgia to maine are on officially protected national park land? - amc outdoors's may 2008 issue

speaking of my last post and oral fixations, i've had one ever since i was little. initially it was sucking my thumb - which i did until i was in third grade. it was a miracle i didn't need braces, but this was back when it was first getting cool to have braces and change your rubber bands for holidays and things and to tell the truth, when you're the only one without something not so great, it's not a whole lot of fun even if you don't want to have it to begin with. then again, such is middle school. when i stopped sucking my thumb i kept on biting my nails - a terrible habit i know. so vin gave me 'no bite', this terrible bitter tasting thing you paint on your nails. i haven't learned my lesson yet so it's pretty brutal. but if it works, i guess it'll be worth it.

you fill up my senses
like a night in a forest
like the mountains in springtime
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses come fill me again
- john denver 'annie's song'

starry-eyed and vaguely discontented

let me preface this by saying that i do realize that it is spring - there is no 'might as well' about it - but i do feel these lyrics sum up the way this week went, and so:

The things I used to like, I don't like any more,
I want a lot of other things I've never had before,
It's just like my mamma says, I sit around and mope
Pretending that I am so wonderful and knowing I'm a dope

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm,
I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string,
I'd say that I had spring fever,
But I know it isn't spring.

I'm as starry eyed and gravely discontented,
Like a nightingale without a song to sing.
Oh, why should I have spring fever,
When it isn't even spring?

I keep wishing I were somewhere else,
Walking down a strange new street,
Hearing words I have never never heard,
From a man I've yet to meet.

I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydreams,
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing,
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud,
Or a robin or a bluebird on the wing,
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way,
That it might as well be spring
- rodgers and hammerstein 'it might as well be spring'

spring fever i guess . . .

another saturday night

pretty much sums it up

i don't want somebody to love me
just give me sex whenever i want it
cause all i ask for is instant pleasure
instant pleasure instant pleasure

rufus wainwright 'instant pleasure'

screw dating, marriage, the whole bit. just screw me!