I’m not totally sure how I feel about Papas Fritas as a band. Some of their music I really like, some I really dislike and most I’m pretty indifferent to. I found this little ditty while taking one of my wild, magical journey’s through Pandora. Anyway, I found this song and I liked it. The song talks about love and I guess that’s a pretty good tie in for our broken hearted theme. If anyone has any better ideas then you can certainly let me know…leave a comment below.

Actually, I guess I do have more way I can tie Papas Fritas in. When I was dating my ex-girlfriend now twice removed, we used to talk about making “sex cds.” These were fictional CDs that we planned on making a reality if we were to ever be married. The cds would then be used on those occasions during which we wanted to get romantic. There was another Papas Fritas song (not this one) that I was rooting for. My ex-girlfriend had a couple other songs in mind. Maybe I’ll have to track down those other songs and post a continuation to this thought. In the meantime enjoy this.

Love Just Don’t Quit:

Recently I had the crappy opportunity to be involved in a long distance relationship. If ever given this same opportunity, do not accept. Anyway, after talking on the phone (which I despise) for two weeks, I went down to visit the object of my desire. As one could reasonably assume for all such relationships, this one didn’t work out. It was actually a mutual decision, but maybe it was just me wanting to run away with as little pain as possible. I still want to be with her, but know it cannot be. So I will just sit here and listen to more music to soothe my broken heart.

Billie The Vision & The Dancers is a band from Sweden. That is really enough for me to love them. I have this weird infatuation with Swedish bands right now, as you will be able to see from my future posts. Enjoy.
Summercat

Download: Summercat

Tell me if this sounds familiar: you start dating someone, you like them, they like you, you show them the music you like, they show you the music you like, you break up and then can no longer bring yourself to listen to the music that you liked and listened to while you were dating said person. Now when any song that you listened to with your sweetheart comes up on your Ipod, computer, radio, etc. you’re hurrying to skip to the next track or change stations all together.

This exact situation has happened to me at least 4 or 5 times, and I hate it. There’s are few things worse than spending loads of time and effort finding a good collection of music that you enjoy, and then having it wiped out by a single event…a breakup. It’s not that your CDs or Ipod or computer or radio has been stolen, it’s just that the music no longer brings you the joy it once did.

This very thing happened with this band. I started listening to The Arcade Fire right before I started dating Alicia and shared some of the music with her. She fell in love with this song because it reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. Ironically, the song now reminds me of how she became my ex-girlfriend when she left me to get back together with him.

Crown of Love

Many a year ago I coached a soccer team of 14 year olds. The team was organized to give the kids who didn’t make the “elite” teams a place to play. I enjoyed coaching and got along with most of the guys I coached. One practice or game I remember one of the kids brought his friend Severin along. Severin played for one of the “elite” teams and was probably pretty unimpressed with our team. After this one visit I didn’t see Severin any more. A couple years later my sister asked Severin to a dance. I’m not sure of the specific details, but my general impression was that things went really poorly at the dance and afterwards my sister didn’t think to highly of Seve. About 4 years later my brother invited me to go to a show he was playing in a carpet warehouse. I’m still not quite sure why there was a show in a carpet warehouse to begin with, but I went with the girl from Brazil who I was dating (and mentioned in my previous post). After my brother’s band played I got my first taste of Seve vs. Evan. This was the third time I’d ever heard/seen this Severin character, and was by far the most impressive. I didn’t know that Seve knew how to play the piano or sing. I didn’t know he had the capacity to write and perform a song. I really enjoyed the music and the energy of their performance and was pretty well hooked. As I’ve gone through my various break ups it’s been nice to have Seve and Evan there singing and playing about carving hearts into their chests, eating Little Red Riding Hood, etc. Enjoy.

Mega Bomberman

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I haven’t been listening to much of Pedro the Lion lately, which is a shame. I used to listen to their music all the time. In fact not more than a couple years ago I had an interesting experience involving a Pedro the Lion song and a girl I was dating. The girl I was dating was from Brazil. I only mention that to point out that there were certain cultural nuances that were sometimes lost in our conversations.

At one point during our relationship I decided that I should change the info on my AIM account. This was something I did impulsively and very irregularly. When the desire to change my info hit, I happened to be listening to Pedro the Lion’s Bad Diary Days. The song tells the brief story of a trusting man who finds out his wife has been cheating on him. I decided to include part of the song’s lyrics in my info. A couple days later this girl I was dating me called and told me we “had to talk.” This was always bad news as it meant we’d get in my car, drive to a secluded area and then have an in depth talk about what I had done wrong. This conversation was different. Mainly because I don’t really think I had done anything wrong. My Brazilian girlfriend had taken my act of changing the info of my AIM account (to a song about a woman cheating on a man) to mean that I wanted to get back together with my ex-girlfriend (who had cheated on me). I’m not quite sure how the connection was drawn between me quoting a song depicting someone who discovers he’s being cheated on and me wanting to get back together with a girl that cheated on me, but that was one of those subtle nuances that was lost in our interactions together. So, while this song isn’t necessarily something that helped me get over a broken heart, it certainly caused some heartache in the life of another.

Bad Diary Days: