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say say my playmate, won't you lay your hands on me?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:25:16 GMT

well it's day two of mix cd-blogging, and i'm already impressed with myself for keeping up with this. today i bring you a dance party mix i threw together. again, if there's a song on here that you can't find anywhere, let me know and i'll be happy to send it to you.

n-joy:

1. helicopter - bloc party
2. wolf like me - tv on the radio
3. needy girl (bloc party remix) - chromeo
4. d.a.n.c.e. (benny bianco mix featuring spank rock and mos def) - justice
5. danger! high voltage - electric six
6. bounce that - girl talk
7. boyz - m.i.a.
8. bump (best fwends remix) - spank rock
9. yeah yeah - matt & kim
10. i'll believe in anything - wolf parade
11. i'm a flirt - r. kelly vs. broken social scene (ABX)
12. jaan pehechaan ho - mohammed rafi (i'm a huge ghost world fan)
13. in a cave - toyko police club
14. a-punk - vampire weekend
15. let's dance - the ramones
16. superstar (feat. matthew santos) - lupe fiasco
17. meantime - the futureheads
18. aerodynamic - daft punk
19. can i get get get - junior senior
20. earth fwend fire quillan yeager & connor mcsweeny- best fwends
21. h-o-o-p-s yes! - the polyphonic spree
2. bigmouth stirkes again - the smiths

i've made you so happy & so sad, which should i be more sorry for?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:24:43 GMT

i've decided that i'm going to start posting mixtapes from now on. ones i've actually made for people, or just ones i made for fun (all will fit on a regular cd). i hope this motivates me to actually update this xanga on a regular basis. i forget to save the tracklisting of so many of the mix cds i make, so this is really more for my memory than anything else, ahah. if anyone wants but can't find a track i've listed, feel free to leave a comment and i'll send it to you (is that legal to say? i hope so).

ANYWAY! to start off here's a really chill mix i made for my dad a month ago. i wasn't allowed to add anything "too edgy", ahah:

1. past in present - feist
2. california - rogue wave
3. gonna take it - john butler trio
4. breahte in - frou frou
5. reinvent the wheel - bright eyes
6. gypsy melodies - the snake the cross the crown
7. either way - wilco
8. saturday morning - eels
9. upside down - yo la tengo
10. how good it can be - the 88
11. halloween - matt pond pa
12. all i want is you - barry louis polisar
13. janet - the format
14. four winds - bright eyes
15. three little birds - bob marley
16. begin - ben lee
17. no complaints - beck
18. foundations - kate nash
19. such great heights - the postal service
20. when did your heart go missing? - rooney
21. hello sunshine - super furry animals

super furry animals actually came to ithaca recently. it was a cheap show, but i figured i was already seeing t-pain that weekend so i didn't go (should've gone to sfa instead, seriously -- tpain blew).

pretty sure no one reads this anyway, but enjoy!

love, sarah

new york, i love you, but you're bringing me down.

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:22:38 GMT

i can't believe it's been such an incredibly long time since i've updated. i don't have a whole lot to say right now but i'm on spring break and i've got plenty of spare time so maybe i'll get back into the swing of things.

tonight i've been having an incredible amount of nostalgia for the powerpuff girls.

i used to love them when i was in fifth grade. it was so cute, even though i'm sure most of the humor was aimed at adults. blossom was my favorite, but i think everyone always liked bubbles and buttercup. whatever happened to this show? does anyone know if i can find episodes online?

i was on the cartoon network site earlier as well (playin' powerpuff girls games, of course), and i just remembered their interactive site, cartoon orbit, aka best ever. according to wikipedia (why doesn't spellcheck recognize wikipedia?? this is madness!) it was shut down in 2006. aww

laaastly, i saw aloha live last night. i had to leave early on in their but they were still top notch. i wish i talked to cale parks, he seemed friendly from a distance.

imma watch the oc now. season 2, baby!

"fierce hot tranny mess",
sarah

nuclear war! on the dance floor.

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:52:46 GMT

I think I'm going to start updating this on a regular basis again.

I'm kind of wired so I think it's about time I wrote my top 10 albums of the year list. As a sidenote, I did a terrible job of buying new CDs towards the end of the year... sooo that's why I'm leaving out a lot.

1. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
3. Living With the Living - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (totally subjective. everything ted leo does is perfect to me)
4. American Gangster - Jay-Z (back off h8rz~*)
5. Trampoline - Steel Train
6. New Wave - Against Me! (& Ben Lee's cover album!!)
7. In Rainbows - Radiohead
8. Mirrored - Battles
9. Cassadega - Bright Eyes
10. Living in Cartoon Motion - Mika

And I know I said 10, but if had to pick number 11 it would be: Andrew Bird's "Armchair Apocrypha".

2007 was a good year for music. Tell me what your top 10 list is, if you've got one.

P.S. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

i refuse to go numb.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:14 GMT

sometimes i feel completely overwhelmed by all the problems in the world. i truly think the world is beautiful, but at the same time there are so many attrocities occuring every day. so many people are suffering and i worry that there will never be enough time or money to help everyone.

nothing infuriates me more than people who say "we shouldn't help other countries before we help ourselves". there are certainly U.S. problems, but i don't think we can even comprehend the problems that other people face. someone in my history class said this today, and so did one of my good friends in response to the sudan/darfur conflicts. the world is not made up of "us" and "them"s! the world is flat, my friends, we are all a part of the same earth. it makes me so angry to think about how ignorant people can be.

anyway, make it your goal to do something worthwhile for someone today. educate yourself or someone else, donate time or money, doesn't matter. just get out there.

check out this website:

http://www.freerice.com/

My friend posted it in her livejournal today, and I thought it was worth sharing. You can improve your vocabularly while making a difference. But not gonna lie, I'm pretty entertained, good cause or not. It's fun.

fourty ounces was never enough.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:36:54 GMT

Upgrade:
-Mooka Kinney is the cutest clothing line I have seen in a long while!
-I met Rachel Antonoff on Friday.

Downgrade:
-I didn't realize it was her when I met her.
-And also Mooka Kinney clothing is ridiculously expensive and almost imposisble to purchase online.

Buuuut none of this discounts the fact that I would like to own every single piece in their line.

In other news: All in one weekend i saw Steel Train, Yo La Tengo, & Broken Social Scene - all three were AMAZING!
I high fived Kevin Devine and Kevin Drew.
&& I hugged Jack and Evan of Steel Train way more than necessary. I have developed fairly large crushes on them. ( :

i love concerts.

wish you had the balls to fight back.

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:19:59 GMT

Nothing needs to be said here. Get your hands on this CD.

turn off the lights and shake your hips, let's make a couplet, like two pairs of lips.

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:39:48 GMT

quick one today.

one thing i'm lovin':
matt and kim
their music is so cute! and i have a little bit of a crush on matt.

www.last.fm
go to their myspace (www.myspace.com/mattandkim) to get a few free downloads.

one thing i'm not lovin':
spencer pratt's facial hair
sure, there are a lot of things to dislike about spencer pratt. but is anyone focusing on his attrocious facial hair?? he looks like a billy goat.

www.usmagazine.com

www.viewimages.com
WHICH IS WHICH?

also, i would like to point that in looking for a picture, i came across spencer's blog. it is more or less him just documenting every time him and heidi appear in any sort of publication or gossip website, regardless of the reason. hahahah... seriously if you need a good lol-fest go to www.spencerpratt.com

trouble with you is the trouble with me - got two good eyes but you still don't see.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:07:13 GMT

Happy Hump Day! 2 more days till the weekenddd - once I get through a week of midterms and essays.
Also does anyone realize that next week is Halloween?? October really flew by.

Three things I'm really stoked on today:
1. Old man glasses. I have been debating buying a pair of fake ones for awhile now - I think they're too cute.

www.popsugar.com

www.americanapparel.net
My friends keep telling me not to buy them but I swear they're going to be a trend. I do wear contacts but I think old man glasses (does anyone know what the proper term is??) would be really cute to wear to a dance party or something.

2. Marty McFly style. I've always been crazy about Marty McFly and Michael J. Fox, but can we focus on his attire? Flannel shirt, puffy vest, skinny jeans, high-tops - all stuff I'm digging right now.

www.bttfmovie.com

www.thesportinglife.net
The 80s are always in style, I say.

3. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands by Chelsea Handler. I've been reading this book for a couple days now and it's sooo cute. It's pretty funny too. And yes, it's entirely about one night stands. Gives me the same guilty-pleasure sort of feeling that I get when I read Cosmopolitan.

www.amazon.com

Kill Monsters in the Rain

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:20:13 GMT

I've decided to start using my xanga to write about all the weird things I'm digging. I use Livejournal to actually write about my life. I'm just going to make all my old xanga entries private. I enjoy this sort of thing SO much more. So here goes.

Three things I'm into as of lately:

1. Kanye West's style

www.tmz.com
I don't care what haters say, this man knows what's up.

2. Bands that are named "Hello (various sea creature)" ex. Hello Shark, Hello Lobster, Hello Seahorse!

Unusually, I don't think they're connected in any way.

3. Neon nail polish. I've been into this since the summer, but I guess it's actually catching on - I saw a little article about it in this month's Nylon.

www.hottopic.com
^The color I'm currently wearing. Hot Topic sells them for about 3 bucks.

Three CDs to check out this week:
1. Steel Train - "Trampoline" I'm sorry I'm pimping them again - I'm on their street team, I can't help it.
2. Say Anything - "In Defense of The Genre"
3. Saves the Day - "Under the Boards"

I shouldn't even have to tell you to check out In Rainbows. You should already be all over that.