BSTW: The Postal Service

Instead of the normal Best Stuff This Week post, I'm going to share about seeing one of my favorite bands, The Postal Service. I went to their show last night and it was so wonderful. I've been waiting for them to go on tour together for 10 years. I've seen five Death Cab For Cutie shows in the meantime (which were great, I loved them for many, many years) hoping they'd play a Postal Service song. Never happened. So, last night was like a dream come true.

My friends and I appropriately kept it weird:

The nice girl who drove just happened to have these masks in the car (for occasions such as this) so we brought them in. Which was great because we also used them as fans and to ward off the body odor and constant farting that was happening in front of us.

In the actual theater, the bass was way too loud and the acoustics weren't great, but I loved it. I was having major nostalgic flashbacks the whole time and I couldn't have been happier. I'm overjoyed they finally toured as a band.

If you were there, what did you think?

Halloween Music List

Don't worry. No Monster Mash or Thriller here. Just pure, clean classical. This is what I've been listening to to get in the Halloween spirit (and in turn my school mates have also been listening to it. There's nothing like starting up A Night on Bald Mountain in the middle of class).

1. Peer Gynt Suite #1 by: Greig
2. Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor by: Ames Piano Quartet
3. Requiem: Dies Irae by: Mozart
4. Carmina Burana--O Fortuna by: Carl Orff
5. Robert Browning Overture by: Leopold Stokowski and Charles Ives
6. Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
7. A Night on Bald Mountain by: Modest Mussorgsky
8. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by: Klemens Schnorr
9. Peer Gynt--In the Hall of the Mountain by: Greig
10. Verdi: Messa da Requiem by: Valery Gergiev
11. Funeral March by: Chopin
12. Montagues and Capulets by: Sergei Prokofiev
13. Dream of a Witches' Sabbath by: Hector Berlioz

Listen to the whole list on Spotify here.

Wonderful music that'll get me through fall

Each quarter, I make a list of wonderful music that I commit to listening to to death throughout the quarter. Then, when I listen to it later, I have nostalgia about the wonderful and amazing things that happened over the quarter (when in reality I was completely overwhelmed and stressed out, but this list helps me to remember only the good).

If you want to listen on Spotify, click here.

1. Oblivion: Grimes
2. 1234: Feist
3. Free: Cat Power
4. Be Good: Tokyo Police Club
5. Baby I'm Yours: Arctic Monkeys
6. Hands Reversed: Tokyo Police Club
7. Born to Die: Lana Del Rey
8. We Are Young: Fun.
9. Je Veux Te Voir: Yelle
10. Post Break-Up Sex: The Vaccines
11. Feel Good Inc.: The Gorillaz
12. Ain't No Sunshine: Bill Withers
13. Crown: Mason Jennings
14. Marathon: Tennis
15. Somebody That I Used To Know: Walk Off the Earth
16. Starships: Nicki Minaj
17. Golden Brown: The Stranglers
18. If You Wanna: The Vaccines
19. Wetsuit: The Vaccines
20. Jolene: Mindy Smith
21. Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
22. No One's Gonna Love You: Band of Horses
23. Cross Road Blues: Robert Johnson
24. Who Loves the Sun: The Velvet Underground
25. Two Princes: Spin Doctors

FYI: Some of the songs make it onto multiple lists. The ones I'm not done obsessing over.