...moving back to music today I can't help but rave about Foster the People's brand new album Touches. You can get it on Amazon or iTunes for just 7.99. After previously only having access to their EP (with just three songs) it's wonderful to now have more of them on a full-length.

The previously released "Helena Beat" and "Pumped Up Kicks" are on here, as rocking as ever, as well as fresh tracks like the equally amazing "Call It What You Want" and "I Would Do Anything For You."

Foster the People appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live the other night, looking a little bit worn and sedate, but still sounding great! You won't regret giving this awesome album a listen!!

 

If tomorrow were going to be the end of the world (or more specifically, The Rapture) I know I'd regret some of the things I've never done (like falling in love with someone who loved me back) but it's the things I had done that would bother me more.

I used to wonder about Heaven and whether you get to be with the people you loved and haven't seen in a long time. Whether you bump into people like you would at a reunion. People you wronged, people you longed to see again so you could say you were sorry or "boy, I sure have missed you!"

If I thought for a moment that tomorrow truly could be the last day, I'd be a bit freaked right now. So many things never done, never attempted, so many songs never sung, never heard :(

The blissful hi-kick drive and euphoria I feel every time I hear a great new song (like "Undercover," pictured above) and am convinced will be the last time I'll ever feel so good (and yet am proved wrong the next time I hear another terrific song) is just one little reminder why I never want to stop breathing.

I'm having fun with this song. Safari Disco Club really puts a little bounce in your step. Very exotic and upbeat!

Getting ready for a mini-Supernatural marathon tonight so I'll be ready for the season finale. And to make everything perfect, I'll be consuming the Chunky Monkey I've been saving in my freezer.

Chunky Monkey is my favorite icecream of all time. I love the way the banana, chocolate chunks and walnuts all merge within the vanilla to taste beyond yummy.

And if I accidentally eat the whole container...well, I hear the end of the world is coming tomorrow, so maybe I won't have to deal with the after-guilt!:)

"Baker" by Ivy is a very sad, very lovely song about a man who has wasted so much time in his life, he's now "wasting away." Perhaps nothing symbolizes that kind of waste more than pining away for someone who doesn't love you, who has never loved you.

When I was younger I always seemed to be in the grips of some kind of unrequited love or another. And nowhere was that worse than in high school. But of course when you're that young and naive and (as studies have suggested) your prefrontal lobe has yet to be fully developed, what else can you expect?

I hope that "prefrontal lobe" theory is correct, it certainly seems to be. The last time I made myself sick or made a fool of myself over someone else was back in my early 20s.

It's not to say that just because we handle our feelings more maturely as we get older that our hearts don't hurt just as much as they did way back when. We just put on a better show of seeming not to care...I think.