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+january
radar detector (xaphoon jones remix) - darwin deez
cocoon - dan black
we know we might be fucked - grampall jookabox
ecstasy - jj
atom british - sea power
white sky - vampire weekend
worker bee - motion city soundtrack
first train home - imogen heap
the cave - mumford and sons
scars - basement jaxx ft. kelis, melka, and chipmunk
left and right in the dark - julian casablancas
+february
we throw parties, you throw knives - los campesinos!
cold water - oxford university out of the blue
and so it goes - the king's singers
a heat rash in the shape of the show me state; or, letters from me to charlotte - los campesinos!
pachuca sunrise - minus the bear
re: stacks - bon iver
+march
hey, joe - sparklehorse
beggin - the saturdays
hello i love you - ima robot
soil, soil - tegan and sara
walls - shout out louds
glass figurine - andrew bird
all the right moves - one republic
pumped up kicks - foster the people
my secret lover (diplo remix) - private
supermassive parachute - cheryl cole v muse
if i ever feel better - phoenix
animal - neon trees
knockout - lil wayne ft nicki minaj
love is - bo burnham
i'm a pilot - fanfarlo
+april
are you satisfied? - marina and the diamonds
modern drift - efterklang
gimme sympathy - metric
heartless - william fitzsimmons
nike boots - wale
mowgli's road - marina and the diamonds
paris - friendly fires (ft. au revoir simone)
get your money up - keri hilson (ft. nicki minaj)
party and bullshit in the usa (biggie v miley cyrus) - hathbanger
heartless (fray v the police v black eyed peas
+may
there will be tears - mr hudson
there, there katie - jack's mannequin
said the people - dinosaur jr
cody - mogwai
it's my own cheating heart that makes me cry - glasvegas
baba o'riley - the who
daniel - bat for lashes
dream a little dream of me - mama cass elliot
superfast jellyfish - gorillaz
sway - the kooks
well alright - spoon
+june
loser - beck
one less bell to answer - kristin chenoweth (ft. matthew morrison)
the luckiest - reverse osmosis
take me out - franz ferdinand
so complicated - the noisettes
fuck the people - the kills
shut your eyes and you'll find the tress turning into flames - library tapes
stay awake - lydia
so come back, i'm waiting - okkervil river
you need (clipse v led zeppelin) - xaphoon jones
magic - b.o.b. (ft. rivers cuomo)
monster hospital - metric
broken songs - jim ward
+july
something good can happen - two door cinema club
lovestoned/ya ali - university of pennsylvania penn masala
munich (editors cover) - corinne bailey rae
little lion man - mumford and sons
best friend - the drums
makeout kids - motion city soundtrack
one more day - lydia
below you, above me - badly drawn boy
bizzare - psychic stunts
high school chemistry - psychic stunts
am video - psychic stunts
+august
bluish - animal collective
fade - paulo serapio and daniela andrade
4th dimensional transition - mgmt
bear - the antlers
hi - psapp
somebody loved - the weepies
nevertheless (i'm in love with you) - revolver
crooked teeth - death cab for cutie
twilight galaxy - metric
comme des enfants - coeur de pirate
got it all wrong - wakey!wakey!
+september
come on home - franz ferdinand
there's a world - next to normal obc
hey #3/perfect for you - next to normal obc
armistice - phoenix
combat baby - metric
a small red flame - adrian johnston
ode to divorce - regina spektor
how you survived the war II (weepies v. midnight view) - midnight view
chapel doors - endor
oooo - fishing
this too shall pass - ok go
+october
she's got you high - mumm-ra
nothing else matters - apocalyptica
apres moi - regina spektor
killer - the hoosiers
oh my stars - a weather
hannah - freelance whales
one of these days - owen
can you feel the best i ever had - the lion king v. drake
river deep/mountain high - naya rivera and amber riley
(if you're wondering if i want you to) i want you to (doctor rosen rosen remix) - weezer
shh (mingle-mangle remix) - frou frou
come out of the shade - the perishers
fuck you - cee-lo green
worry about you (xaphoon jones remix) - 2am club
+november
nicest thing - kate nash
suite from swan lake, op. 20 - scene (act ii) - peter tchaikovsky
fit but you know it - the streets
antebellum - vienna teng
all summer - kid cudi, best coast, rostam batmanglij
what's my name - rihanna (ft. drake)
i belong to you (mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix) - muse
perfect teeth - motion city soundtrack
sprawl ii (amazing love rework) - arcade fire
lullaby - sia
huey newton - wiz khalifa and curren$y
without you - maps
boy from school - hot chip
bloodstream - stateless
valerie - naya rivera (glee cast cover)
please, hustler, please (lil wayne v the smiths) - my sick uncle
over empathy (drake v crystal castles) - wait what
dominos - the big pink
one more time with feeling - regina spektor
+december
home - ellie goulding
the way to celebrate - winter gloves
a day in the life - the beatles
you and i - avalanche city
pistol and hearts (union of knives mix) - captain phoenix
cameras - matt and kim
virginia is for cameras (clipse v matt and kim) - the hood internet
favorite son - joshua henry and the cast of american idiot
before the labotomy (and reprise) - stark sands, chase peacock, joshua henry, ben thompson
the song that goes like this - christopher sieber and sara ramirez
chocolate and cigarettes - angus and julia stone
broken horse - freelance whales
take your time (coming home) - fun.
chelsea hotel no. 2 - rufus wainwright
not a love song - uh huh her
twas the night before christmas (g_a style) - idk some sexy ass anon
books
the importance of being earnest - oscar wilde
choke - chuck palahniuk
the art of conversation: a guided tour of a neglected pleasure - catherine blyth
abraham lincoln: vampire hunter - seth grahame-smith
the education of a british-protected child - chinua achebe
the possessed: adventures with russian books and the people who read them - elif batuman
this is where i leave you - jonathan tropper
doghead - morten ramsland
just add hormones - matt kailey
dog sees god - bert v. royal
the reluctant fundamentalist - mohsin hamid
lunch poems - frank o'hara
super sad true love story - gary shteyngart
darkly dreaming dexter: a novel - jeff lindsay
the wind in the willows - kenneth grahame
winter's bone - daniel woodrell
the girl who kicked the hornet's nest - stieg larsson
said
1: I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men much stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won't exist. - bright eyes (lua)
2: Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. - neil gaiman
3: I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. - neil gaiman
4: We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." - tom robbins
5: Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks you heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them. - unknown
6: You can run just as fast as you want to, but you're stuck with yourself all the time. - unknown
7: All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging. Like bits of wood floating up to my surface that only hint at the shipwreck below. A pink shirt, a rhyme with my name. The feeling of hands on my neck. Because that's what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't catch up, it overtakes. Blotting out the future, the landscape, even the very sky. Until there's no path left except that which leads through it, the only path that can ever get you home. - unknown
8: How are you? Fine, and you? It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we’re terrified that someone will actually break down and tell us. Everyone I know is in some kind of pain. Everyone. How do you like them apples? And so, another reason to lie, because we’ve all agreed not to tell the truth to each other, not about that. Someone put their hand in my heart and they didn’t take it back out. - richard siken
9: If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your jokes when they’re funny and makes fun of you when they’re not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with Guinness tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you. - pasha malla
10: What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real. - miranda july
11: Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. - unknown
12: As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. - unknown
13: You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - dr seuss
14: Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. - louise erdich
15: Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. - chuck palahniuk
memorable entries
1: ashley cole is cheer captain, kimba's on the bleachers
2: tweeds came to her right senses; world goes nuts
3: fifty post secrets
4: eight reasons to watch a single man
5: an argument in favour of athletics
6: goddamn beautiful game: old school girls
7: try not to die again this time, guys
8: my top 55 songs of 2010
happy new year