New Year, New Meh...

If you can't start off the year with a two-tissue song from a big queen, really... why bother?

I want love, but it's impossible
A man like me, so irresponsible
A man like me is dead in places
Other men feel liberated
I can't love, shot full of holes
Don't feel nothing, I just feel cold
Don't feel nothing, just old scars
Toughening up around my heart
But I want love, just a different kind
I want love, won't break me down
Won't brick me up, won't fence me in
I want a love, that don't mean a thing
That's the love I want, I want love
I want love on my own terms
After everything I've ever learned
Me, I carry too much baggage
Oh man I've seen so much traffic
So bring it on, I've been bruised
Don't give me love that's clean and smooth
I'm ready for the rougher stuff
No sweet romance, I've had enough

In other procrastination techniques while finishing my app to grad school, let me just say... if you're not listening to the following songs, you should be. In no particular order:

Death Cab - Marching Bands of Manhattan
Rufus - Go or Go Ahead
Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road
Frames - Headlong
Loretta Lynn - Miss Being Mrs.
Ryan Adams - All of it! (but Touch, Feel & Lose will do)
Susie Suh - Harmony
Way Out West - Don't Forget Me
Butch Walker - Straight Line (hidden track 3:35 into the last song on Letters)
Ray Lamontagne - Empty
Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say
Coldplay - A Message
and, because everyone needs to shake their junk now and again...
Kanye - Diamonds from Sierra Leone