indy adventures: October 2014

It's been over a month since I've blogged, and I am so disappointed in myself, I mean honestly you guys. I have good intentions, I really do! And I mean I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you guys and tell you I've been busy, because I'm everything but busy. Im just lazy, i think. Like I said. Good intentions, people. Good freakin intentions. I have like 13 blog drafts that have yet to be posted because halfway through, I decide I should re-watch gossip girl completely or something.

So I'll sit down right, and it's...let's say.. 9:15 p.m. If we're being specific. and I give myself a pep talk, Im like:

"THIS IS IT. A completed blog post will be published on the internet TONIGHT."

"Oh but I should probably check twitter first, in case Nash Grier finally responded to my anonymous hate"

Which I mean, is a valid point. So after I make sure twitter is in check, I suddenly get this thought like: "You know what, I really feel like I should go rearrange all the furniture in my living room."

And obviously I can't ignore thoughts like that, so I go make it happen. Then somewhere along the way I think to myself:

"I really think I need to rap all 14 minutes of rappers delight."

At first I'm like "no you have a blog post to write" and then the beat drops, and I lose myself in the music and before I know it, it's 11:00 at night and I've written a novel, published the novel, made that novel into a movie, watched every Harry Styles interview on YouTube, AND reenacted the "This is What Dreams Are Made Of" scene from the Lizzie McGuire movie.

And by then I'm just too exhausted to write a blog post. I really hope you understand.

So if this post gets lost in my pile of drafts, I guess you'll never see this apology. but I have a good feeling about this one because I'm talking about my favorite thing in the WORLD.

MUSIC.

I could write 100 blog posts about music, but then you guys probably wouldn't talk to me as much, so i'll stick with one. The thing about music that i'm so obsessed with, is that its for everybody.

And its all based on personal preference. You can tell someone they have a sucky taste in music, but they're not really gonna care that much, you know? Because they like their music and you like yours, and its really as simple as that.

Last year, I went to the City and Colour concert up in SLC. One of my favorite bands ever. I just remember sitting there with this feeling inside of me that I never wanted to forget. So obviously, I pulled out my phone and sat there with everyone else enjoying the music, filming the band in hopes of maybe capturing that feeling. Later when the concert was over, we could relive our experience through video. After he played "Hurry and The Harm" one of my favorite songs, he asked everyone to pull out their phones. he said he had a "really cool trick to show us."

So the ones who hadn't been filming the show, pulled out their cellphones and waved them in the air.

"Okay." he said.
"Now put it back in your pocket, and keep it there for the rest of the concert."

And for the rest of the night, we all just sat there with no technology around us, just good people and good music. That was one of the most important lessons I ever learned. Two days later, I went to the 1975 concert in the same venue. (YES I KNOW HOW AMAZING THAT IS)

I was so close to Matty Healy, he was practically sweating on me, and thats actually not disgusting when you love him as much as I did, and you had just spent the past half hour pushing past angry fan girls to get to the front. I sat there with my phone in my pocket, screaming "SHES GOT A BOYFRIEND ANYWAY" as loud as my body would let me. And for the first time, without the distraction of my phone, I was able to listen to the music in a way that I had never before. I was in a room with people who all loved the same band as I did, and we were just screaming the songs with the guy who wrote them, and I had this lump in my throat the entire time, and I was just like,
"Yeah. this is music."

Ever since then, music has been different for me. Every song could mean something different to everyone. Songs you fell in love to, or songs that remind you of an old lover, or songs that just make you happy.

And I cant think of anything more satisfying in the WORLD then being aux cord commander, and having someone ask what the song is called. Thats their way of saying "hey this song is DOPE AF and i have too much pride to tell you I like it, since you chose it, so i'll just ask who sings it."

And I don't know what it is about Fall, and this is going to sound weird but i'm 99% positive that songs sound better in autumn. It just does. Whether you're driving down state street with your heater on, and your windows down, blasting t swifts new album, or cuddled up by the fire screaming the words to "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran.... Songs. Sound. Better. In. Fall.

And i'm going to prove it to you. I have created a playlist filled with a variety of music that anyone can jam to. (except for you country lovers, i''m real sorry about that.)

I have a wide range of musical interests. One moment ill be bumping JB and then if you press shuffle, ill be hitting that shmoney within seconds. So i promise I can relate to all of you. (most of you, i guess. Like I said, country girls & boys you're gonna have to sit this one out)

The other thing about music, is I know a lot of you guys wont be into this stuff, and thats totally okay. You just have a terrible taste in music, but like its fine, I'm totally not judging.

THE ULTIMATE FALL PLAYLIST

created by dj indysev

(***** are the best ones.. just sayin)

For you sad broken hearted bunch:

M83 – I Need You ***

The Paper Kites – Bloom - Bonus Track ***

Wildcat! Wildcat! – Holloway (Hey, Love)

Bon Iver – Towers

Honne – Warm on a Cold Night (***FAVORITE)

The Shins – Turn On Me

Banks – Someone New

Pascäal – Drowning In You