Where I hung my coat, that's where I left my head

Goodmorning! I am sleepy and I can't find the shoes I want and stuff but I'm awake which is a good start to the morning. Last night Zach and I put a movie in and I fell asleep. Which I told him I was going to. And I tried reallyreally hard not to. But you know, that's how it goes. Or something like that. Anyway, church is today so I'm getting ready sort of.

Yesterday I bought some hot pink guitar strings. They are amazing. Seriously. I'm going to put them on my electric guitar so it can be more awesome and cool. And I will take a picture so all can see.

There is monkey bread upstairs. I want some.

I think that's about all the exciting stuff.

Mara

Just talk and I'll listen

Zach is here. He's playing my guitar. Somewhere along the line he got better than me. *laugh*

I'm listening to Anberlin.

You should check out a cool new band *cough* http://www.myspace.com/blackheartfeared

Yep.

Mara

I am made from the wires of my synthesizer

Joy Electric is amazing.

I sing How To Save A Life in the key of E. I transposed it yesterday. I think we're going to do an acoustic cover of it so I'll see if someone can record it.

I agree that people tend to want to listen to what other people are listening to. But every once in a while there comes along a song that everyone loves and that is just really good. It's funny how everyone's musical taste seems to kind of unite and everyone loves the same thing at the same time, and then once it gets old they continue loving whatever they loved before, and then a new phenomenon comes along and everyone is happy.

I think people like to identify with a song. They like to feel the emotion that gets written into a song in a profound way that they can relate to. They want a song to make them feel understood. One of the things that I love about music is that it reminds me that I'm not alone in what I feel. I think everyone wants to feel known.

I like lots of songs that have lame lyrics and a good sound or a lame sound and good lyrics. Like Stellar Kart. They make me happy and I like the simplicity and the lack of effort it takes to know what they're talking about, but really, their lyrics kind of suck sometimes. In their defense, I think Hawk Nelson is worse, but still.

I like songs with a good sound. I adore a good melody. Give me a song with a strong melody line and a latte and I'm good for hours.

Yeah. Anyway. I need to go to bed.

Goodnight!

Mara

Let him know that you know best because after all you do know best

It's probably horribly tacky to use two lines from the same song as back-to-back blog titles, but it's my blog, and I can do what I want, so we're going to go with it because I'm listening to the song again and I can do that if I want to. SO THERE.

I need a parent to wake up so they can take me to school in fifteen minutes. Because if I don't get to school bad things will happen. Or something. I was kind of hoping it would snow bunches last night so I wouldn't have to go to school today, but it didn't. And we can't have a snow day tomorrow because it's Thursday tomorrow. But Friday it can. I would like a snow day on Friday.

Zach comes tomorrow!

Now I'm listening to other The Fray songs, just so that I don't die of a How To Save A Life overdose. That would be rather ironic, actually. Heh.

What defines a good song? What kinds of songs are the general public drawn to? What is it about a melody or a lyric that makes people want to hear it over and over again?

I'm going to go finish getting ready for school now.

51n(3r3|y,
|\/|4r@

I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life

I think I'm in love with this song. I'm trying to learn it for a cover we're doing at TFP's acoustic show in two weeks (!!!) and it's pretty much amazing.

Emily got stranded in Ankeny with a flat tire. *laugh*

Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the week!

Band practice went well. We worked on some acoustic stuff and got Jessica figured out. Jessica is going to be almost four minutes long, which is good and bad. It's good because most of our songs are under 3 minutes, which is too short. It's bad because four minutes is kind of long, at least for like, radio play. But we're not playing on the radio so it doesn't really matter.

My lips are chapped.

I need to finish my algebra homework *dies*

Mara

A thousand wishes I've missed for hanging on to this

Well. I feel better today. So that's good!

School was kind of fun today. I don't know why. It just was.

I'm printing guitar tabs to play with. It will be fun.

I think the band is practicing tomorrow which makes me happy.

Zach comes in 3 1/2 days!


Mara

We will come out when it's safe for us

I hate not being able to fix things. I just hate it. I also hate not knowing if something needs to be fixed. I hate feeling helpless. I hate feeling like people are mad at me. I hate not knowing what they think of me. I hate not being able to change their minds. I hate making the right decision and seeing that it still doesn't mean everything will be okay. I hate not being in control.
Everything is wrong. When will it become right?
I should probably just go to bed now.

Goodnight.

Mara