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I have been tagging my favorite songs the last two months as I cruise around town. They are the kind of songs that make you stay in your car just to finish them even though you have reached your destination. I hope you all enjoy this collection of needle dropping hits.

In no particular order:
1. Playing Dead by Breathe Owl Breathe
2. Sleep Alone by Two Door Cinema Club
3. Carried Away by Passion Pit
4. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More by The Walker Brothers
5. Judge, Jury and Executioner by Atoms For Peace
6. Change by Churchill
7. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
8. California by Phantom Planet
9. Forever by Haim
10. All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem
11. May Waltz (Acoustic) by Brooke Fraser
12. Bloom by The Paper Kites
13. You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oats
14. Madness by Muse
13. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Tame Impala
14. Default by Django Django
15. Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
16. A Tattered Line of String by The Postal Service
17. Big Parade by The Lumineers
18. Panic Station by Muse
19. Name in Stone by Dead Man's Bones
20. Here With Me by The Killers
{grooveshark playlist link} 

{We actually just purchased this record from Day Old Blues Records downtown. It is amaaahzing.}

Thanks T for renewing my Sirius XM account as my Christmas present - I was lost without it.

music-crazy-me

Has anyone else been watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel? They are so friggin' big!

I don't think I am ever going to swim in the ocean again!!!!

I almost bought this today.....but then thought there is no way I neeeeed this.

Right?! :)

Instead, I downloaded the new Arcade Fire album for $3.99 from Amazon.

I can't believe it is that inexpensive, considering it came out yesterday!

I am sure all of you know this already, but if you don't, Amazon has over 1,000 mp3 albums for only $5. Once you download them from Amazon they automatically import to Itunes. Ok, so maybe I downloaded the latest Decemberists-The Hazards of Love- album too. I am a bit embarrassed to admit that though because it was released so long ago!

I am a creating a "must-have" list now!

Today = music crazy me

This video is so cute- makes me smile every time :)

the collector

If there is one thing I can say that I have in common with my Dad, it is that we enjoy hobbies. "Hobbies" sounds very vague i know, but understand it has to be. There are too many to list! He is my go-to guy when I am thinking of starting a new project. It never fails. He is bound to have books and supplies that might be required to get started!

His latest hobby is records. Let me tell you. He has it down to a science. The upstairs twin bedroom has been converted into the turntable and computer conversion room. It's quite the setup. This passtime began more than a year ago, and I am sure it has been tweaked to perfection through trial and error over time.  

It all started when we got Dad a record player for Christmas. Being the old soul that I am, I was thrilled with the idea of imagining Mom and Dad in the den listening to their favorite tracks on the ole vinyl. However, he had a different idea all together: Convert every-record-ever-made into an mp3 and download it to the ipod.

This is when the "Gotta Flip" quote became a regular call out from the latest DJ. He gets the conversion process going on one side. Goes downstairs and has dinner, watches tv, what have you... then says "Gotta Flip," and he is off to flip the record to the other side. And so it is. Night after night. Up and down the stairs. Tirelessly collecting.

After all of the albums around the house had been converted, they were taken to the record resale shop where a swap was made. Soon he had accumulated all the songs he wanted from the shop, and he moved on to their friends' collections. It's actually an amazing deal for his friends! He does the work- they get their music upgraded to an easy listening format.

He now has over 3800 songs {and growing} JUST from vinyl.

Dad, I don't know what's next, but I look forward to it anxiously :) I love you.

Happy weekend everybody!!

J'adore Pretty Things

 Pretty Bedding

{visit Reverie Daydream here}

Pretty Dresses

{visit Shabby Apple here}

Pretty Handmade Things

{visit Etsy}

Pretty Photography

{photos by Leo Patrone}

Pretty Music

{visit Stereomood}

Pretty DIY Projects

{visit this site for the tutorial}

Pretty Books Turned into Movies

{watch Eat, Pray, Love Trailer}

Pretty Spaces

{visit Apartment Therapy}

Thanks for visiting

Christmas in July?!?

Out of the way Pandora! There's a new cat in town and his name is Stereomood. I am so giddy about this!

"Behind every song there's always an emotion. we don't know why but maybe that's why we love music.

So we've created a way to suggest songs that follow your feelings: stereomood is the emotional internet radio, providing music that best suits your mood and your activities."

how do i feel? what am i doing now?

I am listening to the let's party playlist.

Go check it out now. Now! What are you still doing here!?

No thank you note required for this Christmas in July present.