dear world,

i need a mix cd.

maybe several.

here's the thing: yeah, i heard the arcade fire, and i thought so what? i've heard lisa simps...joanna newsom, and i'm intrigued, but not in love. i cannot stand devendra barnhart. and i think i'm sick of new folkies in general. which is not to say i don't like them, just that most of them are maybe half as good as iron & wine and frankly i'm still falling in love with those records.

i need some new rock. and pop, and whatever else you want to call it. a few new folkies could probably sneak in. i mean, i feel pretty good about my love for the unicorns, but wasn't who will cut our hair when we're gone? the album of, like, 2003? i'm lagging, my dears, and i need to be picked up. i need to hear bloc party and m83 and the kaiser chiefs and the new hot hot heat and everything else that i haven't even heard OF yet. i need help, and bad.

here are some thing i've been listening to, when i'm not listening to jpr in the morning, and some thoughts about other things as well:

• the good life (though black out is way better than album of the year)
• and you will know us by the trail of dead. worlds apart is fucking fanfuckingtastic.
• beulah. all of it. still.
• bright eyes, though i have not fallen for the new albums like i fell for lifted and letting off the happiness
• the sad ryan adams songs
• i need that live neko case, dammit.
• this is way harder than it should be
• i think i'm finally giving in to the new rilo kiley even though i still think "pictures of success" is their best song.
• i adore tv on the radio
• hem's rabbit songs, but not eveningland
• by the way, the new beck is boring and the new doves sounds like coldplay
• i don't want to be stuck in my 90s college rock days forever
• i listened to the new ben lee a lot until i introduced myself to him after his show. note to self, don't do that again.
• please i want to rock
• also i discovered that i love bob dylan, especially desire, followed by the freewheelin' bob dylan
• amended to add pretty girls make graves, modest mouse, azure ray, and q+ not u as things that also have been rattling through my head in the last few months. i bet i think of more as i dance around the empty living room with rilo kiley on superloud

ok, world. can anyone help me?

love,
molly