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Highways are built to fall, keeping us tied to the great unknown.
16. "Delta," Work Drugs, 2013.
But before all that, before the apple and the dancing and the sound of concrete obliterating my car's steering column, there was "Delta ( Read more... ) -
Do you think we'll be in love forever?
15. "Diet Mountain Dew (Oxford Remix)," Lana del Rey, 2011.
This was the song of my first solo drive to Indiana. I was making such good time. I wasn't tired, I wasn't hungry, and I'd only had to stop maybe twice for gas and bathroom breaks. The roads weren't exceptionally busy, even though it was Labor Day weekend, maybe cause I'd left ( Read more... ) -
Come to me, baby, don't be shy.
14. "Classic," The Knocks, featuring Powers, 2014.
If I had to pick a favorite song of this year that was actually, you know, FROM this year, it would be this. I have a feeling it will be a summertime standard for me ( Read more... ) -
Gonna make a move.
13. "You and Me," Oxford, 2013.
It was around this time that I started planning a trip home. I needed to see my mom, make sure she was okay living on her own, and I wanted to spend more time with Amanté. This would require a fourteen-hour drive alone, a monstrous undertaking that would shatter my previous drive-alone time of four hours. There was ( Read more... ) -
You change my heart, you change my mind, you change my life.
12. "Poison," Pablo Nouvelle featuring Tulliae, 2014.
Like some phantom temporal sensation left over from another life, I get this feeling around the end of August that it's early autumn. Mornings will have just a touch of sharpness in the air and I'll almost, almost need a light jacket outside after dark ( Read more... ) -
Don't wanna go now.
11. "Angeles," Goldroom, 2011.
High summer. Sunrise already heavy with humidity. By my early-afternoon lunch break, the air in my car was almost thick enough to swim in, hot enough to turn my jewelry molten against my neck and wrist in a split-second. Sitting in the living room with no AC at night, I'd feel beads of sweat tickling their way down ( Read more... ) -
I'm on my own and I'm crazy for you, get the creeps by the way your body moves.
10. "Don't Wanna Dance (Darius Remix)," MØ, 2014.
When something bad happens, it's so annoying how everyone always says to just give it time ( Read more... ) -
The funeral couldn't change my mind; I know you're out there.
9. "Absolute Bearing," Work Drugs, 2012.
Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Actually, who am I kidding? I could probably give you a reason that most times of the year are a favorite of mine. But there's something about spring. The lengthening day, birds singing from pre-dawn to dusk, giving way to the return of nighttime crickets. ( Read more... ) -
It's in the way you smile I'm broken.
8. "Third Wave," Summer Heart, 2012.
This song. Wistful as the spring. I listened to it as I made an uncharacteristically long drive for work out to the countryside west of Wilmington, my heart bursting like the roadside flowers. "Sailing away down to the keys / Losing our rhythm to the ocean breeze / You and I are exactly where we wanna be.Then ( Read more... ) -
Lost in a space inside this lifeline.
7. "Morgan's Bay," Goldroom, 2012.
Then it was warm. Still chilly in the mornings, but warm enough ( Read more... )
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