but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see

songs of the day:

my friend aaron.

this is my friend aaron. he lives in tennessee and grows the best beard i've ever seen. he's an incredible musician and songwriter; every time he sings my heart melts a little bit. (keep in mind he sings james taylor's carolina in my mind and neil young's long may you run whenever i'm around. i'm a sucker for those songs.) i found the above picture in my archives and had to share it. i will add a video of his music later when i get home. just wanted to post a little tribute to my friend, the mountain man!

cosmic love

i never really wanted this to be a music blog, but i get ridiculously obsessed with certain bands and songs, so it's bound to show up here sooner or later. right now i'm really loving florence and the machine's cosmic love. one word to describe the song: epic. a lot of her music has that up-and-down, you-think-it's-over-but-wait-it's-not! feel (see: dog days are over).

obviously she's ridiculously beautiful as well as talented. it's great to hear a strong female voice that's not regina spektor or feist (gag me with a spoon). and if i hear ingrid michaelson one more time on pandora, i will throw throw my computer out the window.

Everybody should listen to Fleet Foxes.

Always and forever. They are amazingly poetic, peppy and somber at the same time, and just overall fantastic. Please love them as much as I do.

penniless and tired with your hair grown long

if i had an orchard, i'd work till i'm sore...

gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dark

bands with beards are just better. (ahem—band of horses, fleet foxes, avett brothers, my morning jacket, charlie daniels, and the quintessential musically inclined beards—zz top. can you tell i'm from alabama?)

the FF magic is in the beard(s)

the lovely, lovely bearded, banjo-boasting, and bandana-ed scott avett

ben bridwell of boh with some more bearded goodness

p.s. my two favorite Fleet Foxes lyrics also have something to do with hair... is there something wrong with me?

update: i just got tickets to see fleet foxes in july in denver. you could say that i'm a little bit excited.