"So, like, how do you guys know each other?"

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

"My heartbeat accelerates.  I am in the here, in the now.  I am also in the future.  I am holding her and wanting and knowing and hoping all at once.  We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time.  We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment.  And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless.  There is no audience.  There are no instruments.  There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks.  It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters.  When the heart races, this is what it's racing toward." (174)

In honor of this book, here's my own personal playlist, sorted randomly by iTunes party shuffle.  Think of it as the soundtrack to this blog (however odd it turns out to be).  Enjoy!

1.  Billy Joel--"A Room of Our Own"

2.  Red Hot Chili Peppers--"C'mon Girl"

3.  Dashboard Confessional--"The Rush"

4.  Barenaked Ladies--"Eraser"

5.  Cornbread Red--"If I Had a Million Dollars"

6.  The Cure--"(I Don't Know What's Going) On"

7.  Mute Math--"Typical"

8.  Jason Mraz--"Please Don't Tell Her"

9.  The White Stripes--"St. Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air)"

10.  Barenaked Ladies--"Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank"

11.  Spoon--"Vittorio E"

12.  The Shins--"Australia"