"Whatever the mess you are, you're mine, okay?"

[muckefuck]

I've mentioned to many people lately that YouTube is my jukebox. It's also increasingly my stress relief. When even just thinking about the next week makes my stomach hurt, I retreat to the computer to struggle at spider solitaire and play tunes. Most are standard comfort fare--songs I've been listening to for years now. But now and again I find a new tune I can't get out of my head, like this simple ditty from the New Pornographers--so beautiful it makes me want to cry.

(Don't read anything into the fact that the lyrics seem to be about adultery.)

Comments

[ex-macsuibhn666.livejournal.com]

Neko Case cleans out my heart.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

No longer available. (sigh)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

"Challengers" by The New Pornographers.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the New Pornographers.

I seem to be in one of those moods recently where every time I like a song I have to listen to it twenty times in a row (even if I've known it for years and never felt that way about it).

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I've been listening to them a lot over the past year. And I'm the same way about songs--ask monshu about my rediscovery of "Tarzan Boy" sometime.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

I've been at that point with "I wish I was a punk rocker" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyapY97ugNk)

The bad part about this is that the lyrics are SO INSANELY STUPID they make me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon. And yet it's such a catchy song. I'm trapped! So I keep singing it to myself and then pausing to rant ("What, you think phones were invented sometime after 1977? What is wrong with you? Take a *%^&$^& history class!").

[redatdawn.livejournal.com]

Bad day. This helped. Thank you.

[lustronheloise.livejournal.com]

This one has been on my play list quite a bit, too.