Finding My Voice

Music is great: this is a blatant fact. Whatever you taste, whether it’s classical, jazz, classic rock, rap, country, or Taylor Swift, it is hard to argue that music is not one of the greatest solutions for boredom or bonding. If you are anything like me your favorite song/band changes frequently: maybe it has to do with being an indecisive Libra. Whatever the reason is, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that my love for music will never go away and my need to keep discovering new fun, emotion-driven, and just plain awesome songs is always going to be there. Here is a list of the top ten songs that are currently stuck in my head on repeat and I encourage anyone to look them up on wherever you go to listen to music and just try not to feel something.

Ryan Adams — Lucky Now

Kasey Musgraves — Follow Your Arrow

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Same Love

Bruno Mars — When I Was Your Man

She & Him — Sunday Girl

Miranda Lambert — Mama’s Broken Heart

Mumford & Sons — I Will Wait

Bruce Springsteen (Cover by Vampire Weekend) — I’m Going Down

Vampire Weekend — Diane Young

Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins feat. Special Guests — Handle with Care… Originally performed by the Traveling Wilburys and co-written by George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan.

adulting:

Hi everyone! So the book came out last week and it’s been kind of a whirlwind since then, although I will say that I have achieved a life-dream, which is to utter the phrase “go look at pictures of baby otters” live on Fox News.

I’m sorting through all the book giveaway entries, and will have some winners announced by Wednesday; in the meantime, go check these answers out because oh man, you guys are so wonderfully adult and are slaying it out there.

In the meantime, here is a great guest entry from LeotardSanity:

The Internet is a great place to learn how not to have a meaningful discussion. Rather than respectfully sharing our point of view, any lengthy conversation on sensitive matters such as politics, religion, race, sexuality, or the Oxford comma quickly devolves into a lot of mudslinging and comparing those on the other side to the Third Reich. If you’re wanting anyone’s opinions to actually be swayed by the argument you present, whether on the Internet or in real life, here are some tips to remember:

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Learn how to argue your point better. *Hint: When you assume you make an ass out of you and me.