you give looooove a bad name

So I left my phone at my apartment today (yes Don, this means I won't be answering your very important text messages!). All the better, work is extremely busy and I may or may not want to shoot myself in the face over some of these residents... and I get to stay an hour later (THANKS SARAH WTF) and see Baw Gauges when he comes into work early.

B'awwwwww gaugezzzzz.

I have to say, I grossly underestimated Everclear's "Songs From an American Movie Pt. II (Good Time for a Bad Attitude)" I always loved Part I - thanks in most part to "Learning How to Smile" but never really got past the first couple songs on Part II because they just didn't catch me. Big fail on my part, because I had my iPod on random and "Overwhelming" came on and I kinda cried a little inside, knowing that I've been missing so much awesome for so long. That song was the story of my life as of yesterday morning - much has changed in 24 hours though, but there's still that niggling feeling like what happened was icing and not the actual cake. Read on...

It can come from out of nowhere, hit you when you're safe and warm.
Take it easy my star; your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come.
You got those crazy blue eyes; yeah, you got those crazy blues.
All those pretty smiles, I can see them laughing at you.
Your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come...

I don't want to be your punching bag,
your complacent little princess, all tragic and sad.
I'm not going to let you overwhelm me anymore, no, not anymore.

Yeah, you say you got this bad thin, yeah you say you got it bad.
You have broken every heart of every friend you've ever had.
Someday, the time is gonna come when all your friends just go away.
I wonder why I stick around; sometimes I wish you would leave.
You'll say you'll love me forever then you spit on me.
Your time is gonna come, I swear your time is gonna come...

I don't want to be your whipping boy;
your pathetic little loser, someone you can ignore.
I'm not going to let you overwhelm me anymore.
I'm not going to let you hurt me anymore;
I'm not going to let you hit me anymore
I'm not going to let you kick me anymore;
I will not let you overwhelm me anymore.

It can come from out of nowhere...

I don't want to be your simple saving grace;
just another little victim with a happy face.
Oh, someday, someday, somebody's gonna come.
I hope they do this to you;
I'm not going to let you overwhelm me anymore.
I will not let you hurt me anymore;
I will not let you hit me anymore.
I will not let you twist me anymore;
No, I will not let you turn me inside out...

(Yeah, I know I say this all the time, but Art puts into words what I can't even sort out on paper or in my head...)

I'm going to make a new mix for my car, since I've figured out how to fix my computer (...turn up the monitor light and run disc defrag, shut up). I haven't made a mix in a long time and I fear I've lost my mojo (though I thought that about other things too and let me say, I'm pretty much the best evar... big win for me). My list of songs so far?

- "Overwhelming" by Everclear
- "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" by Stars
- "The Weakness in Me" by Joan Armatrading
- "Both Sides Now" by Joanie Mitchell
- "Amsterdam" by Guster
- "Army" by Ben Folds
- "Somebody's Baby" by Phantom Planet
- "Always on my Mind" by Phantom Planet
- "Big Shot" by Straylight Run
- "A Decade Under the Influence" by Taking Back Sunday
- "Deja Vroom" by Rory
- "Alfie" by Lily Allen
- "Not the Doctor" by Alanis Morrisette
- "Sweet Thistle Pie" by Cracker
- "Three Simple Words" by Finch
- "Stupid" by Boink
- "Responsibility" by MxPx
- "Shot to the Heart" by Bon Jovi (ok, Don's the only one who'll understand why...)


...I think my mixes have schizophrenia.