No Radio Silence Here

It's finally Friday!  And congratulations, you have survived a whole week of finals!  Just look at you go!  Soon you'll be home and your mom will be baking you cookies, and your family will be looking at you with that golden glow of "Well, at least we did one thing right.  This one's in law school."

Or at least that's what I imagine it's like for other people.  The second I get home I get handed a cookbook and get told to make cookies for other people while everyone else drinks spiked eggnog and mocks me.  (I love Christmas.)

Anyway, here at RWF, we like to celebrate those small moments, the ones that make you feel special and good about yourself.  That's why Friday posts are generally full of fun material that you didn't actually need but are a great way to procrastinate.

Actually, I'm lazy and have my last final on Monday.  My brain is fried from yesterday's final still.  So you get stuff that is not actually advice.   (People, I can't always be giving advice.  I am only human.  Maybe I would like someone to give me some pointers once in a while.  What do you think about THAT?)

Anyway, in the spirit of giving, I am going to gift you with a small sampling of the music that has been making me happy the last two weeks and keeping me from collapsing in my wooden chair at the library. I guess this could lead to advice.  Your advice?  Make a Pandora account like all the other normal people and listen to it for hours a week, until Pandora recommends that you just buy their full service since you've listened to over fifty hours that month.  Anyway, to the listing:

1.  Regina Spektor, Folding Chair:  Who doesn't love a song about pretending you're on a beach with your toes sinking into the sand instead of sitting by yourself in an empty room?  It makes me smile with my whole face.  Which has led to some weird looks as everyone wonders what you're so happy about.  This is not the official video, but it was the cutest one I could find.

2.  Kate Nash Doo Wah Do:  You know that one song that makes you think of that one person?  Yeah, this one is it.  And it's not very nice either.  And the non-radio edit version really does end in the word bitch. Which is so. much. better.  This time, official video yayness!

3.  Joy Williams, One of Those Days:  "It's all going just so perfectly wrong."  You sing it girl.  I have nothing more to say about this except seriously: have you EVER heard such a happy bad day song?  No.  You haven't.  Just own up and move on.

I'll stop there, but you get the idea.  What can I say?  I guess when the going gets tough, the tough get boppy?  I cannot help it.  Other things that have been on replay in quick list form?

The Weepies Be My Honeypie

Sara Bareilles Basketcase

Ben Folds You Don't Know Me At All

Julieta Venegas Bien o Mal

The White Stripes We're Going to Be Friends

Adele My Same

What's been getting you through your day?  Let everyone know below!

Also, today I messed with html for the first time in order to get these videos the right size.  I learned something new!  Now back to Evidence....