waiting for something to break/left my heart out to bake

slipped my mind that I could use my brain/I'll stay up all night and crash on the plane

Best friends are ones who fix your sickly ailing Ipod for you, while also reprimanding you for your shoddy Itunes filing system, noting with disapproval that Afghan Whigs appears 4 times in your "Bands" menu, and expressing general disappointment that you are NOWHERE near meeting the "required listening" quota for classic and/or otherwise essential punkrock.

But they quickly enact a crucial Ipod-to-Ipod transfer so that you have every Descendents song ever, In Sepia, Songs:Ohia, Jay Reatard, L7, Light Sleeper, Melvins, more Blueline Medic, more Misfits, more Wipers, Spy Vs. Spy ("Don't Tear It Down", yep the song that the Gifthorse covered), extra Mono...

And they immediately fix situations like the fact that you have NO Poison Idea whatsover ...I could go on..but I should probably be ashamed and just stop there.

I confess I'm not sure how I went for so long without the Lemonheads "Shame About Ray" album. I used to listen to it constantly while driving around in my car, so it's nice to have it back in my life again, thanks to aforementioned best friend.

"Rudderless" is pretty much my favourite track from the album, but closely followed by "Bit Part" (a song that starts with someone all-in-love-and-deranged screaming "I JUST WAAAAANT A BIT PART IN YOUR LIIIIIIFE" will probably never lose its appeal to me).

And "Bit Part" is closely followed by "Alison's Starting to Happen" (which is about Alison from Smudge and has those lines about "Alison's getting her tit pierced/Alison's growing a mohawk/Alison's starting to happen/to me"...there is something really cute and adorable and punkrock romantic about this song that's really reminiscent of stuff like "Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault" by Jawbreaker.

so here we go:



(hope in my past)
Evan Dando and Chris Brokaw version