5 posts tagged “she & him”
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I had the great pleasure of working with Ned of Boner Party fame on a video for Idolator last night at the She & Him show. Alexis and I bought tickets to the show when they went on sale a couple months ago, but when I found out Ned was going to be there, I pitched a video to Maura and she picked it up. Anyone who knows Ned or cares to take a look at either of his blogs knows that his ultimate Fantasy Dream Boner Girl is Zooey D 4eva. He and I both teared up during Sentimental Heart. I did because the song has a lot of personal meaning to me, while Ned was probably weeping due to a mixture of pain and amazement. Anyway, good times. I will link to the video when it goes up later this week.
By the time summer ended this year, I had finally healed the broken heart I suffered from for well over fourteen months. I've been in longer relationships than the one that ended and I've certainly been with better men, but never in my life had I had my trust used and abused so badly by another person. I rarely referred to that person on this blog in any capacity, as is my preference with anyone who I am romantically involved with. There's just far too much that can go wrong when you aren't broadcasting your pillow talk on the internet... but if you were one of the people I truly confide in, you know that this break up affected me a hell of a lot more than most things you read about here. I'm an emotional chick. Things get under my skin and they make a home for themselves there. I don't shake things easily because I don't involve myself with anything or anyone very easily.
My point in mentioning all of this is that tonight I'm going to see one of the bands whose music really made me feel a lot less alone when I was at one of the loneliest and rejected-feeling times of my existence. I am happier than I have ever been in so many areas of my life. I don't have to stand too far back to be aware of all the ways I kick ass every day. Now when I hear this music, instead of harping on all the feelings I used to associate with it and being hurt about a horrible thing that happened to me, I feel at ease knowing that I came out on top. One million tears later, these are still my jams.
She & Him is the fucking best. New fave. Downloaded half the album last week and then just bought the whole deal today at Amoeba. That's right! I buy music, people! You should too! Slippy said he thought Amoeba would be closed within 5 years because of downloadable music taking over.
Look. Look in my eyes. This is important: Don't let that happen.
If my teenage kid doesn't have a local record store where he and his friends can hang out and talk shit about me and his father, well then I will up and invest all of my time and money into time travel technology so that I can go back and abort that poor child as soon as I have a chance. I don't know if I can bring children into such a world.
I know music is expensive, but I think it's one of those things that, as long as you're not buying compulsively, you will never regret having it. There have been a lot of shirts I have spent money on that have, in retrospect, not flattered my figure and have been plain ol fucking ugly. Even an old Will Smith CD isn't entirely regrettable.
