A message to you, Natalie.

So I'm not sure if you'll really like this, but I'm sure you'll at least find it interesting if you look closely. I'm sitting here thinking which songs to send. I feel like I need to choose carefully to make a good impression. The perfect combination of songs. Which is great because I'm sitting here listening to these songs I love, some of which I've heard literally a hundred times, and they sound totally different to me. Kind of like every time I hear Nirvana's IN UTERO. It's one of the few albums I can really remember hearing for the first time, like where I was and what I was doing (on the way to my girlfriend's sister's wedding, made my parents stop at the music place 'cuz it just came out that day, sitting in the back seat in my formal wear with my girlfriend's best friend (my girlfriend was in the wedding so she wasn't there and my girlfriend's friend went with us (who was the girl I actually liked and had had a crush on since kindergarten (I used to chase her on the playground and threw a woodchip in her eye once (accidentally (remember that Simpson's episode we were talking about earlier tonight? story with in a story within a story...)))))), and everytime I hear it I remember that and it somehow lets me hear the album in a lot of different ways. So here's Against Me!, submitted for your approval.

"There just drunken conversations, song lyrics sung at the top of our lungs so desperately. Like I believe in the power that is of and by the people. I believe in an art that cannot be compromised."