It's been awhile [best of 2008]

I don't really use this thing anymore, but I wanted to do this:

Top 12 albums of the year:
(No particular order)
The Glass Passenger -Jack's Manequin
New Surrender -Anberlin
You're Awful, I Love You -Ludo
A Band In Hope -The Matches
The Black Swan -Story Of The Year
For Those Who Have Heart- A Day To Remember
Pretty. Odd. -Panic at the Disco
Viva La Vida -Coldplay
Folie a Deux -Fall Out Boy
Fast Times At Barrington High -The Academy Is...
Become The Not Found -State and Madison
A Ghost In The Electric City- Urbanites


Best Song(s) of the year:
The Resolution -Jack's Mannequin
Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects
Monument -A Day To Remember
Younglife -Anberlin

Band of the year: Jack's Mannequin

Best unsigned band(s): State and Madison and Urbanites

Best tour line-up: Rx Bandits / Maps & Atlases

Best live performer(s): Jack's Mannequin, The Rocket Summer, Anberlin

Soon to be famous band/artist: Anberlin

Obsession.

I can't stand to think about a heart so big it hurts like hell
Oh my god I gave my best but for three whole years to end like thisWell do you want to fall apart?
I can't stop if you cant start
Do you want to fall apart?
I could if you can try to fix what I've undone
Cause I hate what I've become

You know me, oh you think you do you just don't seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be, something I can't define
So let's cause a scene, clap our hands and stomp our feet or something,yeah something I
've just got to get myself over me

I could stand to do without, all the people I have left behind
What's the point of going around when it's a straight line baby, a straight, straight line
So let's make a list of who we need and it's not much if anything
Let's make a list of who we need and we'll throw it away
Cause we don't need anyone, no we don't need anyone

And I hate what I've become.

You know the night life is just not for me
Cause all you really need are a few good friends
I don't want to go out and be on my own,
You know they started something I can't stand
You leave for the city,
Well count me out
Cause all this time is wasted on everything I've done

Yeah
Over me

jsdangajweng

"Been gone more days this year than I have been home
Trading friends for trips to the coast
This hotel room feels more like a tomb"

tour must be a really strange experience.

Love

Come on and save me
You're what I want
To get out of here
Let's get out of here


I. am. so. excited. for. tomorrow.

This man has made more of an impact on my life than most people can even begin to understand.

http://www.fivestarpublications.com/camping/

Progress

President Obama gets inaugurated on January 20th.
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded on that day 50 years ago.
I think that's fucking awesome.
You go, America.

Deep Conversations & Inspiration

I just think it's incredible how much other people can change the way you think, change your outlook on life, change everthing about you.