Music Time, Everyone

Here are some Fall Favorites. I love them. I am really bad at organizing songs for a playlist in a way that sounds good, so you should probably move them around.

 So, now I'm going to talk briefly about each one!
Also, sorry, I don't own all these, so I can't really give them to you, but you gan get Spotify!


1. This Year- The Mountain Goats

Despite the unforgettable alcohol references, I really relate to this song. I mean, it's pretty darn inspiring.

This song makes me feel a little bit like a confident Cameron Frye, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I mean, it's so great when Cameron finally can get all that anger out, and deals with his feelings and embraces the fact that he will be OK. I imagine that this song was playing in his head.

2. Blister in the Sun- Violent Femmes

This song is kind of the anthem of teen angst to me. Nothing else I can say.

3. 3,6,9- Cat Power

If you don't know Cat Power, I am very sorry. She is amazing. Truly. She famously had a panic attack onstage at a show and had to leave. Which is exactly what I feel like doing a lot of the time. But I can't leave the stage. Because IT'S MY LIFE. Oh my god, deep connection.

This song is so incredible in the first 5 seconds changing from what you think it's going to be and what it is. It's so poppy but also so deep. Cat Power, I love you.

4. Naked Kids- Grouplove

I find Grouplove really obnoxious a lot of the time, but I cannot help but love the hilarity and enjoyment and obnoxiousness of this song. 

5. Australia- The Shins

The Shins are great. I love this song because I feel like parts of it have been playing in my head my whole life and now I just found what it is and what it means. Maybe a calling to Australia?! Not really. But I like this song a lot. 

6. Janglin- Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros

Yeah, Home. Yeah, I know. I know. But this song is nice, I think.

7. Standing In the Rain- Hüsker Dü

I really like this song and I don't know why.

8. Our Lips Are Sealed- The Go-Go's

This song is so feminine and wonderful and empowering I LOVE.

Why are there so few girls bands now? 

Why don't they make album covers like this anymore?

9. Good Day- Greg Street, Nappy Roots

Nappy Roots is from KENTUCKY y'all REPRESENT. But really. This song is hilarious and awesome and really catchy and happy and good. And the singing children in the video are not to be missed.

10. Two Step- Throwing Muses

This song is full of nostalgia and beauty for me and I loooove it.

11. Honey Bunny- Girls

I love 'Girls', even though they aren't a girl band. I cried when they broke up this summer. They're really good. When you're in the mood for something sad, listen all the way through to their song Forgiveness.

OK. I feel terrible for making this so long. I'm sorry. And now I'm just adding to it ahhhhhh

Behind the Name

I've asked my friend Zoe to write the post. I love her, and I left it open to whatever she wanted to write about, but I was hoping that she'd post about her love of names. Often, I'll ask the passcode to her phone, and it'll be her new favorite name, or she'll call me, or talk to me just to tell me a new favorite. Enjoy.

I don't particularly enjoy finding the meanings of names, but I do love names, nonetheless. For example, my name (Zoe) means life, and my middle name (Lise) means oath of God, but who cares?
 Not me. Well, not really. But I do like names, and planning what my children could be named, etc. Also, older names are coming back, like Alice (my all time favorite name ever) and Abram. 

Some people I know who have recently had children have babies named; Abram, Aeson, Annabelle, Royal Highland, Aiden Granville, Austen Jane, Jagger Watson, Gemma, and so on...Those are very different names, if I may say so myself. Jagger? Royal? The top girl name right now is Sophia, though, and the top boy name is Jacob. So why would so many people name their children such different names? Because weird is the new normal. 

Jayden is the number four boy name and Mia the number nine for girls. So I ask you, what're your favorite names? Mine, Alice, Romilly, Sawyer and Shepherd. Thats only a few, I've had pets named Penelope and Campbell, which I also love. So tell your friends, keep a list, know and love your favorite names. It feeds the soul. Well, not really. But it's fun!

ps. GO TO www.nameberry.com ITS MY LIFE.

"Country Chic"

So this is this old dress of my mom's from way back who knows when that she never wears and I really like it but I don't really like the top and it's pretty cold anyway now and so I put it with a nice sweater that I like a lot. It's really plain, but I like it. I wore it to school, and this girl who is quite rude was like, "That outfit's very, um, country chic." I don't even know what that means, but she said it like it was a bad thing. 

And then I had this sudden urge to defend myself, to pretend that I didn't even like these clothes, that she was right. It was so strange. I wanted to be like "Oh, I wasn't even looking at the closet this morning." or "It's just really comfy and that's the only reason I wear it."

I couldn't bring myself to defend the outfit.

So I walked away.

 Usually, knee length things look very bad on me, but this is super comfortable and seems to look somewhat OK.

The sweater was a splurge from two or three years ago from Marc by Marc Jacobs that has been worth every penny. I love it.

 I was doing my homework and I felt like such a 90s teacher for some reason.

I like how simple this is. A lot. I've been wearing so many clashing, crazy patterns lately, I feel like this is such a breath of fresh air.

 These shoes have been my lifeline for the past few weeks. They're crazy comfortable, and go with almost all of my clothes. They're Tommy Hilfiger and the socks are J. Crew sale rack.

George My Man

George Harrison is incredible, you guys. He was so cool! He was fifteen when he was officially part of the band. That's really young, if you didn't know.

When I spent the night at my best friend's house when she's with her dad, I always look at her Abbey Road poster, and let my love go to George. She's had the poster, and I always feel like he's a discredited Beatle. He's in the back, poor thing. But check out that denim! Can we take a moment to appreciate that while the rest are looking all snappy in their suits, and he's got on these flared jeans and a hot denim long-sleeve. AND he pulls it off.
So we've established he's got the best outfit on the Abbey Road cover, but he's also an incredible musician.
"You're asking me where my love grows
I don't know
I don't know"
"Here comes the sun" (Yeah, he did that (SO FEW PEOPLE KNOW AHH))

He's in some TULIPS YOU GUYS.

Ok sorry this is just a idolizing post but he is so inspirational to me for some reason I'm going to go cry now.

Make New Friends

Sorry for the creepy video, but I couldn't find any others.

I've started high school now, and the first day (albeit four weeks ago now) really sucked. I got a detention for a rule about the length of shorts (PLEASE BELIEVE ME THEY WERE NOT SHORT SHORTS AT ALL I JUST HAVE SUPER LONG ARMS AND THEY JUGDE IT BY FINGERTIP LENGTH) and the whole day I was just trying not to cry. I went home and screamed into a pillow and cried and wrote angsty things and decided firmly that things were terrible and I didn't know how to make friends and that I wanted middle school back and I cried for how naïve I had been just that morning. I had thought that people would approach me and want me to be their friends. I thought that the whole transition would be easy.

The whole first week I kept a little tally of how many times each day I had to stop myself from crying. I was firmly thinking that this sucked and I sucked and it wouldn't ever improve. The numbers racked up, but, to my surprise, they lessened every day.

I know the whole "It Get's Better" message is really cheesy and really overused, but it really has. A lot. Even if I didn't want to admit it. I reached out to someone in my English class I had heard talking about vinyl and wore a cool t-shirt and had a cool name. I sat with her and one of her friends, and, to my surprise, they were actually nice to me, and seemed to want to be my friends.

High School still really sucks, and it's really hard every day, and not nearly as easy at I had subconsciously, somehow, thought it would be, but I like it more. And more. And more. Every day.

P.S. YAY INSPIRATIONAL AND DUMB MESSAGE POST THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT. THANKS FOR READING!

Arty Farty

Here are my top nine favorite artists inspiring me right now; in no particular order. I limited myself to two photos of their art each, but you should go look at more of it.

Jamie Siena

I love his work so much, you guys. It's so good.

Kate Shepard

Lineslineslineslines

Bob Pruitt

Perfect life representation without being showy.

Yoshitomo Nara

Yes, you probably know these, but they are so incredible. 

Toba Khedoori- This may be my current favorite. These are so perfect.

Detail in simple things makes me so happy.

Sergej Jensen

No comment, just adoration.

Mantalina Psoma

These paintings are so haunting and like my reality right now. Love.

Sol Lewitt- might be my favorite of all time

If you don't know Sol Lewitt, it is a shame. I remember when I was seven and I saw his art for the first time and it made me appreciate art the way I do today. His even and precise measurements were so perfect, and so was he.

Hiroshi Sugito

Very childlike and simplistic, but mixed with so much emotion, and gives me so much nostalgia.

Why it's been so long

Okay. So. Over the summer, my Grandmother died (yeah, the one that is like my favorite person in the world). The whole family went to New Orleans, and it was REALLY sad, obviously, but everyone was so happy to be together and be celebrating her that it was actually nice. I mean, not nice at all, but nice. I really missed her (still do) and I really didn't want to post anything, and then I was in Cape Cod where I basically didn't have any internet for 5 1/2 weeks and now I'm just settling in to my Freshman year of high school, so I've been really busy.
But I'm hoping to be posting more soon.