Recs for daylight savings
Howdy, swimmers! This is a really big week:
First week of daylight savings (best time of year, things are looking up, seasonal depression is so over, it’s getting warmer, life makes sense again)
Relatedly, this marks the first time this year I’ve been able to take one of my favorite seven-mile walks
Ides of March
Very last week of my entire 20s for the rest of my hopefully beautifully long and well-lived life (a March 16 Pisces alongside reality TV icon and legendary hype man Flavor Flav)
This entire week and a half has been about maximizing the last few days of what will soon be a bygone era. How dramatic! At this point, I’m losing a little bit of steam and using this blog to procrastinate what could be a life-defining decision: to go dancing at my favorite little club for the last time in my youth (lol) or stay home and finally catch my breath. Unsure.
For now, some recs that pair well with longer, sunnier days.
Relationships x Haim: The first taste of Haim Summer is this delicious and sticky R&B-inspired prolonged-breakup anthem. The months-long breakup is a concept so infectious in the modern dating scene you’d think RFK Jr was in charge of eliminating it. It comes with the “situationship” territory -- no one really knows where they stand at any given moment, so where does anything even end? This song rules and you should listen to it on a seven-mile mental health walk.
You are Every Girl To Me x MJ Lenderman: This one’s from 2022, but nothing on this earth has made me happier in months. What if I told you it makes me cry joyous tears almost every time it plays? Par for the course during Pisces season, I’d say. It’s a funny pairing with Relationships, considering this sounds like the most intoxicating and manically engulfing high a relationship could generate, worthy of a years-long breakup on the inevitable comedown.
Bottle Blonde x Momma: The transition from the sparkly, hopeful riff at the beginning of the song into a retrospective conversation between the bandmates and their younger selves reminds me of how it feels to watch Laguna Beach two decades after it first aired. In 2006 there was this sense that LC & Company were wrapping up the most important part of their lives -- prom and graduation were serious business -- which could make for a very cringe retroactive watch, but it’s actually incredibly sweet and endearing. I have a feeling fleeting girlhood (and sunsetting youth, generally) will be central to this new album and I’m hyped for obvious reasons.
We’ve reached the end of the recommendations and I’ve still yet to make a decision on the dancing. Oh well! See ya when im 30