The making of a new playlist

I used to base my post titles on song names for the most part, but now I guess I'm breaking away from that a little bit...

Anyway, I still can't get away from being nostalgic while listening to my Fall '09 playlist. I mean, playlists from previous semesters do the same as well, but not really, because there were times that contained feelings that were hurtful (as I've come to realize), but last fall was simply wonderful. I probably said this a million times already.

*sigh* The nostalgia has come to hurt a little.

I'll allow myself for this, but I will start listening to more new music (new meaning new to me) to encode the new semester. A Spring '10 playlist is in the making. I already know what is going on it (for now) -- Miike Snow's "Miike Snow" album, Mika's "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" album, Dirty Pretty Thing's "Romance At Short Notice" album...

It's a matter of listening to these music every day while riding the bus or studying.

Back to my Fall '09 list, I'll share what some of these songs has personally come to mean for me:

Rubik's "Richard Branson's Crash Landing" - This reminds me of the BIOL 2002 group, especially the day before Thanksgiving when we just finished our proposal--the song was stuck in my head while walking out of class, happy because it's finally Thanksgiving break and because we worked really hard and was really proud of our project.

Pretty much the rest of Rubik's "Dada Bandits" album reminds me of something in the semester as well.

Wakey!Wakey!'s "Brooklyn" - This reminds me of the week before the last week of school. I stayed up all night to finish my philosophy term paper and then watched One Tree Hill because SOMEHOW I decided I don't need to sleep. That was 5 am. By 8 am, I was about to crash so I decided to sleep for 3 hours before going to class. This song was featured in that week's episode of One Tree Hill. I listened to it a lot, especially on my bus ride home. My parents were gone that week so I tried a safer route home. It involved going downtown. Riding the bus from downtown is really fun because the city is so beautiful. This song reminds me of that. It also reminds me of how lonely it did feel when I was home alone.

U2's "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" - Wow, this was probably the song I turned to every time I didn't feel well emotionally. See, I was convinced that my life was happy, but there were those -moments- that I got stuck in, where I wasn't happy. I listened to the song on repeat, hoping it'd wash away those moments. Sometimes it worked.

Passion Pit's "Manners" album. One of the most amazing albums EVER. "Little Secrets" reminds me of Y-Scholars. "Make Light" reminds me of this one really special day. "To Kingdom Come" is just a really happy song that reflects my overall happiness.

Regina Spektor's "Far" album reminds me of the time when the weather was still nice and I'd walk into the St. Paul campus from Larpenteur Ave. to get to biology class.

Noisettes' "Wild Young Hearts" album reminds me of intense cramming for biochemistry. I think I had the album on repeat while studying in Wilson Library.

MGMT's "Time To Pretend" reminds me of the fall clean-up with Y-Scholars. The song was on in Megan's car just before we arrived at the very beautiful house where we had to rake leaves. The owners of the house were so sweet to us--they ordered pizza for us and talked to us. I still remember that one of them told us, "Thank you so much for what you do, not just for the clean-up work today but for your service to the community." It was a great day, and I really needed that. I was so stressed about being busy, but that day convinced me that Y-Scholars was worth it.

Dirty Pretty Thing's "Waterloo To Anywhere" album and Babyshambles' "Down In Albion" album remind me of philosophy. God I love philosophy. So much.

...well, there are more music, but I'm sleepy, haha.

Plus, the nostalgia is killing me.