Over the past few years that I've been browsing dA BlOgOsPhErE, I've noticed a lot of people making early deadline bucket lists (see this one, this one, and this other one). SO I'M DOING IT, TOO, GUYS. Cause it's almost my birthday and if there's any way I would love to spend my entire birthday, it's making lists about unimportant things. Also.. this is a palindrome birthday (I'd call it a palinbirthday, but you know), which demands an extra heaping dose of special.
You and I both know that I won't actually do anything on a bucket list I'll make for myself, so the goal of this project is to make 22 lists before twenty-two. Wahoo! Also, I'm starting this early because this month starts with April Fool's Day and saying "I'm gonna make all these lists.. PSYCH SUCKA" is lamer than the current prank I have planned (which is nothing at all) (or is it) (trust no one).
Obviously, it's not a bucket list without a graphic-designy logo!
Nothing like a fish fossil background to get me excited about being the same age forwards and backwards!
List One: Songs That Make Me Cry
I think that I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about how much I cry. Make no mistake, it's all super true. What's also true is that it takes very little for me to cry. I make Brod's 613 sadnesses look like an episode of Parks and Rec. I cried when I read The Hunger Games. I cried when I watched The Lorax. I went absolutely ballistic when I got halfway through The Rape of Nan-King, like actual bawling. Here's a list of songs that make me cry. Always. Even if it's only on the inside (but honestly, it's usually on the outside, too).
1. "Someone Like You" by Adele. You knew this. SNL knows it. I just had to get it out of the way.
2. "You Were Meant For Me" by Jewel. Jewel has some weeeird stuff, but this has been my go-to song ever since my first experience with unrequited love in the second grade.
3. "Thank You" by Dido. I'm still debating whether or not to put "Stan" on this list.. (jk) (but seriously, Stan had it bad).
4. "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. This is a beautiful song, SYTYCD did a breathtaking piece to it a few years back, blahblahblah.. ALSO this is the song that played when Marisa shot Trey when he was about to kill Ryan and well.. consider this my belated The. O.C. Spring Break post.
5. "Hero" by Regina Spektor. Because this is the song from that scene in 500 Days of Summer that just rips your heart out of your chest and squishes it into jelly and splatters it into the floor.
6. "Free Fallin" cover by John Mayer. There's just something about the way that John Mayer sings this so tenderly that I almost forget he broke T-Swift's heart.
7. "Hallelujah," by Leonard Cohen. In Quebec I met a guy who could play this song on a set of wine glasses. I was super happy with myself for remembering enough French to talk to him, and he was super happy with me because I bought one of his CDs.
8. "It Will Rain," by Bruno Mars. .. EARLY APRIL FOOL!
9. "Aeroplane Over The Sea," by Neutral Milk Hotel. For summer sadnesses.
10. "Video Games" by Lana del Rey. Like all the best things in my life, I hated this when I heard it for the first time. And the second time. And the third time. After the nth time I skipped it on Pandora, I changed my mind and decided it was kind of hauntingly pretty and sort of eerie and makes you feel like a ghost. In good ways. Basically, this is my comps in a song.* (see tangent below) It's also heartbreaking (unlike my comps).
So there you have it, for days when you really need to cry about how you have to buy full-price wings or how there still isn't a new Grey's Anatomy episode. Or if you hate me and want to see me suffer, you know which playlist to play in my torture chamber.
*GOOD NEWS EVERYONE. My comps title has officially been archived by Carleton College as "This Is How You Remind Me; Of What I Really Am." Which I think is a work of art in itself.
