If You Don't Know, Now You Know

I was talking this evening with some guy about things and we started talking about music. He was curious who my top 10 favorite bands are. Wow, um give me an hour and I will get back to you after I sort this out. This has always been a difficult question for me to answer because I just don't want to leave anybody out. There is so much music that I love, I just don't know how to sum it up to 10 favorite bands. So we (he) decided that a list of top 10 albums is a better question. That's probably harder, but thanks for the effort..? Anyway, it caused me to really think about it, and I decided I want to have this list ready in my mind for the next person that asks me, so I can throw it down like I totally know what's going on at all times.

As most people know about me, or can figure out from these ever so insightful blog posts of mine, getting a new album is quite the event for me. A new album to me is like a new crush. I buy it and listen to it - first date. Continue out my day and see if I feel the strong urge to listen to it again. If so, I listen to it through again- 2nd date. Then if I still feel like I need to hear it more, well I do. I listen to it more, and for a few days or weeks I can't stop listening to it. And when I'm listening to something else I get sad because I just want to be listening to it. I think about the songs all day and can't wait to get back in La Toya, or Henry (back in the day...tear. many a story in that car), to drive and listen to it. Then after some time it fades and then another new album comes along and the adventure begins again. There are some (a lot) that have gone through this stage with me, but have lasted for quite some time and even come back around quite frequently in the player. These ones made it past the crush phase and full on into the stage of everlasting love. Very similar pattern to that of the dating world. Except I don't necessarily fall in love with a lot of different guys. And neither should you. As a matter of fact, I probably have had more crushes on CD's than I have had on guys in my life. It takes kind of a lot for me to have a crush on a guy (you've got to be pretty freakin rad to make that short list) and it doesn't really take a whole lot for me to have a crush on or love an album. Just some good music is all I need.

So I've compiled the list and here it is. It's always subject to change though...Oh and I made the decision to exclude Mariah from this list because she is in a whole class of her own in my mind and she deserves her own top 10 album list. That would just be a whole other blog....

10. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

9. Placebo Black Market Music

8. Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards

7. Incubus Morning View

6. Nirvana In Utero

5. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights

4. Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind

3. Brand New Deja Entendu

2. The Bealtes Abbey Road (sorry for the small pic, all the others were huge)

and number one goes to.......

Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood

It's probably because the weather is already starting to get nice here in Seattle and I can already feel summer in the air that this is my number one album right now. It is definitely my favorite to go running outside to. This song was my summer theme last year. And this one I can already tell is going to be this summer's theme, I cannot get enough of it. The whole album makes me want to be in the sun and have campfires and canoe and dance like an idiot and just makes me so freakin happy! I love it.

'I'd Give My All To Have Just One More Night With You"

After a few stressful days of working, doing tons of homework and not really sleeping, I was on my late night flight to Texas. I met Marie, her husband Paul and their 18m old Chanel when I landed in Austin at about 10AM Thursday morning. We headed back to their apartment to relax for about an hour then it was off to take Chanel to the grandparents and head out on our 3 1/2 hour drive to Dallas. When we got to Dallas we quickly got a hotel room, made a wal-mart run and then Marie and I were off to fulfill a dream of ours we had been chasing since those days in the halls of Orem High School. We were seeing MARIAH CAREY in concert!!!! I can still remember when we first knew we would be great friends. We were walking down the halls in between classes and Marie started singing a Mariah song and I asked if she was a Mariah fan and she said yes and wondered if I was too. Of course I said yes, and then we both proceeded to freak out and talk about how much we loved her and make a vow that if we ever see her in concert we HAVE to do it together and we will do anything to make it happen. Well somehow we made it happen!!! Probably because we are amazing and so is Mariah. Anyway we drove over to the Nokia theatre, changed in the car and headed inside to stand in the merch line for like an hour. At least there was a crazy girl in line that was super faded to watch yell and be obnoxious. (already? really, the show hasn't even started and you're already drunk?! um OK, settle down.) We finally got our tee shirts and then headed to find our seats. It was awhile before anything happened on stage. Then when it did it was some trio of R 'n B singing guys that were half way decent, but lost all respect from me when the middle one ripped his shirt off for no reason halfway through the set. Cool, I don't really care that you have super ripped abs, don't freakin rip your shirt off during a slow song, you're not Usher. (It's semi acceptable when he does it. I have to admit, I really love Usher, his older music mostly. And it kind of made me happy to see him perform at the All Star game, though those songs blew) After they got off stage it was literally like two hour until Mariah came on. It was fine though, we had quite the entertainment by the pimp and three ho's a few rows ahead of us. Seriously, there was an old man of about 60 ish with three 19 year old girls, one of them was all over him most of the time, and Marie and I as well as all the row behind us and the rest of our row could not stop watching this disgusting scene. At one point we even saw the dude give each of the girls a white pill. WTF cool, let's take ecstasy at the MC concert, are you kidding me?! It was weird. We all kept commenting about the situation to each other throughout the show. Most of us saying - seriously, did that just happen?; gross, He's not even a good looking old guy!; I'm gonna throw up - and a lot of other things. The one girl was completely cracked out and I was just waiting for her to fall over or something. After the longest waiting at a concert I have ever experienced and more Michael Jackson music than I was planning on hearing that day, (I love MJ and have most of his albums, but when I'm waiting for MARIAH!! I'm sorry I'm going to get sick of him) Mariah came out and saved the day. She performed so incredibly well and every second was amazing! I know I am biased because I am unhealthily in love with her, but she really has the best voice I have ever heard in my life and it is exactly the same live as it is on her Cd's. She played a lot of good songs, but I was a little saddened that she didn't play more of her 90's stuff. Her best music is form 1990-1997. She did play "My All", "Always Be My Baby" and "We Belong Together" which are some of my very favorites though. After the show Marie and I left elated and couldn't even believe that we just made our 16 year old dreams come true. OK I've been wanting to see her live since I was 8, but Marie and I made our vow when we met at 16. The next morning we woke up and drove back to Austin in time for Marie's doctors appointment which took forever. She's pregnant again and had to do check up and test stuff, I don't really know, I just sat in the lobby studying my sociology textbook. When that was finished we headed to the airport and I was headed home. I got back to Seattle at about midnight and went to bed so I could wake up and finish writing my paper before I had to go to work. Yes, Kelly, the paper I was worrying about while I was visiting you guys in UT.

Judge me all you want, I truly don't give a crap at all. I SAW MARIAH CAREY IN CONCERT!!!!! and it just might have been the best day of my entire life. I can't see how anything could top it, even my wedding day is probably going to take a backseat to this. Unless she sings at the wedding.

I'm sitting on my bed writing an 8 page paper about American culture and my little brother just walked in and goes " Hey Mallor, what are you doing?" So I told him and he told me to ask him for help with it. So I asked him what he thought American culture was. He replied with "Jews" then literally waved said see ya and shut my door and left. If you have never had the pleasure of meeting little Mitchell, you should make it a life goal to do so. If you think I am in any way any type of funny (which of course you do because, please, I am hilarious), this kid is like 100 times that.

While we were driving back from the Jack's Mannequin and Fun concert in Seattle, which was incredible, Sara and I were discussing celebrity crushes (mostly her huge one on the singer of Fun, Nate) and it turns out she shares a pretty big one with me. I was a little shocked to find this out because not a lot of people share these feelings with me. I know Kelly H. does and we discussed it just the other week while I was in Utah actually, but I was not expecting to hear the same two names come out of Sara's mouth when she said she has a crush on a celebrity that she thought I might think is weird because a lot of people think he is disgusting. But in fact, I do not find him disgusting, I am actually incredibly attracted to him for some unknown reason. Well, I guess I do know some of the reasons. Mostly because I love his sense of humor. Truly all you need in a man. Oh and he has scruff most of the time- very important to me. I've never been one for clean cut guys. Although his hair can get a little ridiculous at times he can pull it off. He's kind of the updated version of my high school crush on Bert McCracken of the Used. (Yah I had a crush on him, so what) Also apparently he is engaged to Katy Perry or something. And it just so happens I have a big girl crush on her. Anyway it's Russell Brand

Windshield Wipers Waving for an Audience of One

If I had things my way math would not be a part of this world. I'm pretty sure I had the day off of work today and I'm pretty sure I spent 8 hours catching up on my math after I went running. Seriously, is it really useful to be able to do this trash?! I'm pretty sure beyond basic adding and subtraction and well figuring out how much commission I get on stuff I sell at work, I don't use it. If I didn't work 40 hours a week and also go to school full time and didn't need this day off like you don't even know, I can assure I would not have sat in my room all day on the computer doing homework. (I would have at least been looking at better things on the Internet.) I took one break to get some groceries and while I was driving listening to Rubber Soul I was incredibly tempted to just keep driving forever. Why is nothing better than driving alone listening to good music with no distraction of passengers? I could have made it to Canada in like 3 hours. I should have done it.

So my little brother and I were hanging out watching t.v. and messing around on McArthur (my laptop) earlier and he goes, "Hey Mallor, I'm just gonna type in supersonics.com and see what happens." And yes, I purposely left out the y on my name. He always calls me Mallor pronounced well, pretty much how it looks, but maybe spelling it Mu-llor makes it easier to understand. Whatever, anyway I replied with something to the effect of "Ok do it, but if it redirects you immediately to anything that has to do with the Thunder, I will kill everyone." You can give it a try for yourself and see what happens or wake up tomorrow and have no idea why no one is alive anymore. Well, I guess with those circumstances you wouldn't be alive anymore either... It's not new news that I am very unpleased with the whole situation of the Sonics leaving and turning into the Thunder about 2 years ago (I know, I know I should get over it, but I won't until the day I can go to the Key Arena and watch something other than Seattle University games. Preferably NBA games, thanks) but I have never really tried going to their website for clearly a long time, so I am newly pissed again. That is all.

While I was typing this Mitch (my little brother) said "Hey Mallor I bathed the other day. It was weird." - my family is hilarious.