i was in a gang.

bucket list....a thing i think everyone should have. creating one gets your creative juices flowing and really makes you think about what it is you'd like to accomplish in life and then motivates you to get your booty in gear.

items on my bucket list include (this is by no means the exhaustive list):

• visit south africa. i have some friends who run an orphanage there and said they would love to have me come visit and play with the kids.
• make out in the rain. sounds fun, right?
• own a vespa. scooters=cool

another item that was on my list for a long time was, "sing gang vocals on a cd" but now i can successfully check that one off the list! one of my friends started a band and they needed girls to sing gang vocals on one of the songs. so i went over to the recording studio with a couple of my roommates, we listened to part of the track once, practiced a couple times, and recorded our part. the whole process took about a half hour. it's crazy, i speak into a microphone every day on the radio but put me behind a mic and tell me to sing and my palms get clammy and i barely manage to sing above a whisper. so glad my friends were right beside me singing loud and proud!

now here we are, 3 months later, and the album is set to release in just two weeks. the guys have put a ton of work into it and i think that they are going to go far (and i'm not just saying that cause they're my friends)! they are called, Summertime Dropouts, and their music feels like summer in the 90's. yep, it's that nostalgically wonderful.

check 'em out on whatever social networking site floats your boat.....and make a bucket list while you're at it.

xo

crybaby.

i don't cry often. i think i have cried at (maybe) 2 movies in my entire life. i have never cried over a tv show ending. i only teared up at my sister's wedding because i saw both my mom and dad lose it. something about songs though just get my tear ducts running. something about words and music put together that hits that place in my soul that apparently not even the end of Friends could touch (and i LOVED that show, i still watch the syndications of it almost every night).

short list of bands who have made me cry during a set:

• NEEDTOBREATHE
• Switchfoot
• The Wedding
• Parachute
• Relient K (they sang "Deathbed", i was toast)

 songs that make me teary every time i hear them:

• Let That Be Enough- Switchfoot
• Salt in the Snow - The Classic Crime
• Twenty-Something - Graham Colton
• Through Smoke - NEEDTOBREATHE
• Good Life - One Republic (but this one is only because of that Disney commercial with all the happy families and this song is playing in the background and it reminds me of my childhood. we went as a family to Disney World a couple times and i adore my family and Disney World so i feel i can't be faulted for this)

"music gets under the skin without permission" -jon foreman

xo