And here's something fun if you're looking for some love for your ears as well... I know it may seem a tad hypocritical to post some gushy love songs but I think they have a place on Valentine's Day. Like all the sweet's we'll be eating on Monday, I think our ears deserve some guilty pleasures too.
1. "Gotta Have You" by The Weepies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s830CSutPoE
2. "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8
3. "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgi3PkouMxs
4. "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdgFoHLwnk
5. "You and Me" by Her Space Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlBIQzU1QBY
6. "To Be Alone with You" by Sufjan Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwCCpcleAFo
7. "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgL7m4KFDOE
8. "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniVqDTwOds
9. "If You Leave" by Nada Surf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXaRz5me_w8
10. "Brighter Than Sunshine" by Aqualung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0BHwDsQ81o
11. "Breathless" by Corinne Bailey Rae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DwcDZkuw-U
12. "Anyone Else but You" by The Moldy Peaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBMF0BqDrU
13. "Silver Lining" by Rilo Kiley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtSSCzASR0
14. "Take Me Anywhere" by Tegan & Sara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoKuCQcLfQ
15. "Such Great Heights" by Iron & Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5Dan0VE7w
16. "Break Me Out" by The Rescues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeer1IMsg8
17. "Catch My Disease" by Ben Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstY-8NWSgE
18. "Double Knots" by You & Yourn
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Chasing
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." -Victor Hugo
Last weekend, I decided that I would clean out the bottom of my bed and it was amazing what I found. For all these years, small relics of elementary school have been hiding underneath my bed. I came across letters written in crayon and decorated with glitter, small "secret" notes my friends and I would pass to each other, old diaries, and birthday cards. I also found my old valentines. Thinking about it, it's so silly that I held onto these small sheets of paper with messy scrawls of writing but really they are so precious to me.
When I received those valentines, Valentine's Day was simply a celebration of love. No one worried about their date or lack thereof. We were all single (well, except for the cool girls...) and it didn't matter at all. We had friendships to celebrate and we couldn't care less about relationships. I sat there in my room thinking about this as I went through the sparkly, aluminum foiled valentines that were the pinnacle of valentine fashion in third grade. Now that I've gotten older, somehow Valentine's Day has been narrowed down to a day where in order to take part in the festivities, you must find that special someone. Movies, TV shows, and adolescence (and sadly adulthood as well) have reclaimed Valentine's Day as a sort of carpe diem day for romantic love.
And it makes you feel kind of crappy when you don't have someone to proclaim your love to.
But I think that's where we go wrong. That's where I've gone wrong. I really think everyone should proclaim some form of love on Valentine's Day. There is this misconception that platonic love holds no depth compared to romantic love. And therefore no worth or place on Valentine's Day. Such silly nonsense. My mother once told me that the people we love the most are the ones we take for the granted the most often. Snow Patrol tries to explain this in their song "Chasing Cars" in the verse:
Those three words,
Are said too much
But not enough.
We say "I love you" so many times in our lives that it's become such a pliable term that doesn't hold nearly the same weight that those three words should. Perhaps those words need to be put away for me to truly express how I feel for the people I love in my life. I've constantly heard in my life that actions speak louder than words. But I also think that a new arrangement of words speak louder than worn cliques and phrases. I plan to explore that.
This Valentine's Day I don't have a Valentine but it doesn't mean that I'm going to be listening to angry love songs, burning past love letters (if I had any), and cutting heads out of pictures. I've got love to celebrate too. And you do as well.
Let's make the most out of it.
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