I love you so much it hurts

(from thedaytheystop)

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall,

Some things for anyone who might be seeing this:

Bon Iver playing Skinny Love for a Take Away Show. It's so gorgeous and makes me happy in ways I can't describe. (You have to actually watch it, because half of why it's so good is because you can see how happy everyone is.)

Paradise Circus (Breakage's Tight Rope Remix)- Massive Attack. I heard it while playing Tap Tap this afternoon, and it is damn good. And if you like your music a little less electronic, there is always the original.

Jónsi and Alex (I'm referring to them-as-people, not them-as-artists) strike me as adorable and they make me happy, but in a wistful why-can't-my-life-be-like-theirs sort of way. I know it's odd, but that's the closest I can get to describing it.

The Duke Tremontaine

Spoilers for The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner:

RICHARD'S NOT DEAD! \o/ He is almost blind though, and far away from Alec, but I don't really care because HE'S NOT DEAD! There has only been a bit of Richard so far, but I think there will soon be more RichardandAlec fuckedupness to come. (And then I think Richard's going to die (in a blaze of glory).)

Katherine Talbert is awesome! Society is like, GIRLS SHOULD LOOK PRETTY AND GO TO PARTIES AND FLIRT AND TRY TO GET MARRIED ASAP. And Katherine is all NO I WILL NOT DRESS PRETTY AND GO TO PARTIES, I WILL WEAR PANTS AND PRACTICE SWORDSPLAY. She's so young and idealistic!

Michael Godwin! I didn't like him much in the last book because he was kind of whiny and useless and I was convinced he was going to kill Richard, but he's awesome here. There was a girl who got raped by her fiance and her parents knew and they just said STOP SULKING IT'S PERFECTLY TRIVIAL DON'T YOU DARE CALL OFF THE WEDDING. Michael Godwin would never let that happen to his daughter. Also, that girl was his daughter's friend and the wedding was called off and the girl disgraced, but Michael Godwin always made a point of dancing with her at parties. ♥

And okay this is a fantasy book, but I'm pretty sure the treatment of women described in it is not fictional. Doesn't it make you wish you could go back in time and kill people with forks? (You mightn't even have to go back in time- I'm sure girls are still treated like that somewhere today.)

ETA: AM KIND OF DISAPPOINTED ACTUALLY. There were no Richard-and-Alec-will-paint-this-town-red antics. It was all Alec, actually. So no dying in a blaze of glory. And it was much less dramatic than the ending of the previous book. Not that I'm complaining, everyone got to be happy!

Richaaaaaaard

Spoilers for Privilege of the Sword, by Ellen Kushner:

Alec! Alec! Alec! Brilliant and wonderful and snarky and cruel and if I met him in real life I'd be terrified of him but I do love him so. Breaking all sorts of social conventions just for the fun of it. ♥

WHERE IS RICHARD THOUGH, BECAUSE I AM ON PAGE 80 AND THERE HAS BEEN NO RICHARD SO FAR. I have this dreadful creeping feeling that Richard may be dead, and if he is I shall cry. I can't bear the thought of NO MORE RICHARD + ALEX, EVER.

Also, the timelines confuse me, because Diane was Alec's grandmother? I didn't think she was that old. And the Council has passed at least two terms already I think, verryyyyyy confusing. Head for numbers, I possess not.

OH RICHARD, WHERE ART THOU.

I'm a deep sea diver

Things that made me happy today:

Mistaken for Strangers- The National

Someone said in the comments 'This is a video of The National just being cool'. Yes!

It made me insanely happy this morning, you have no idea how hard I was grinning. See 0:45 when the chorus starts, I love that shot of Matt Berninger and the ceiling. The shadow! The tilt of his head! The angle of the camera! ♥ I would screenshot that if the video quality was better.

Grizzly Bear walking down the streets of Paris, singing Knife.

Ed!!!!!!!!!1 Hahaha he's so embarrassed, he keeps covering his head with the jacket. I love his voice and this song.

Zach Condon walks down the streets of Paris (possibly drunk), singing Knife.

Look they're having so much fun! They're totally fudging the lyrics! And Zach Condon is kind of really adorable. And has a great voice. I wish I could walk down the street and see something like this.

Nantes- Beirut

If people did things like this more often, the world would be a happier place.

A conversation I had with my Dad

Dad: I want you to listen to a song.

Me: I'm going out.

Dad: Where are you going? I'll drive you.

In the car, Dad puts on 'Gotten' by Slash.

*silence*

Dad: So, how is it?

Me: Um, okay? It's nice, but not fantastic.

The voice is really familiar though.

Dad: Yeah... Who is it?

Me: Sounds like... Adam Levine from Maroon 5.

Dad: Yeah!

Me: (My dad knows who Maroon 5 is???)

I think my dad's pretty cool sometimes. (: And I love the fact the he volunteered to drive me to the station just so I could listen to a song.

Take a look at me now,

So, there was a concert.

Pretty lights!

Hello, Kelly Jones.

Very Matt Bellamy, no?

Unfortunately, I have no good pictures of the shirtless drummer. He was grinning and looked like he was having fun. ♥

Concert was good, though the bass was a bit too loud and thumpy I think? The audience was pretty tame, no shoving to get to the front or anything. Though I heard one lady say the crowd in front was pretty wild.

Someone threw a slipper at Kelly Jones! It was pretty bad but also quite amusing. The band left the stage and there was a lot of name calling but when they came back on the energy level of the crowd suddenly shot up hahaha. Like seriously, everyone started dancing/jumping/singing and it got a lot more fun.

Pity I didn't know many of their songs, but they played Maybe Tomorrow, Innocent, Mr. Writer and Dakota. I was disappointed that Maybe Tomorrow wasn't acoustic, and that they didn't play I'm Alright. But it was awesome nonetheless!

At the end of the concert we were standing around talking, then suddenly this guy walked up to us and picked something up from the grass near our feet. YEAH THERE WAS A PICK ON THE GROUND AND WE DID NOT SEE IT. Oh, the tragedy.

I've uploaded the videos here, sound isn't the best because of the bass (WATCH ME ALLITERATE), but I like the Dakota one because you can see/hear the crowd singing and having fun. (:

I ATE PINEAPPLE AND NOW MY TONGUE FEELS SO, SO STRANGE.