In the moonlight, on a joy ride

Salutations!

I owe a lot of the songs I've come to know and love to the blogs I stalk. Whenever I suggest a song here, I feel a bit silly because perhaps everyone just skims over that part of the post and don't take heed of it, or they've already heard the song ages ago, but a part of me would like to believe that someone out there will perhaps discover an ace of a tune they didn't already know, just like how I did when reading other blogs. So bear with me and brace yourselves.

Say Hi - November was White, December was Grey.
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (I'm excited to listen to them, perhaps a purchase of the album may be foreseen in the future?)
Alphabeat - What is Happening (I want to be a tambourine-playing lead singer of a Danish band churning out catchy songs too. I love the video!)

Speaking of silly. I'm putty in my cats' paws. You can get annoyed all you want when a cat spills over its food bowl, or bites you, or ignores you even though it can clearly hear you calling it. But when it meows outside your door plaintively, hops up onto the couch and snuggles up comfortably against you, or when it lies down facing you and reaches out its paw to touch you and keeps its paw there while it sleeps, out goes the annoyance, and you're a goner. You get all warm and fuzzy inside, you feel this outpour of love and affection for this delightful creature, and that's when the cat knows its' got you. And it chuckles diabolically inside its head and continues mapping out its plan to dominate the world while pretending to sleep in the cutest, most aww-inducing position.

Oh, check out this other song by Alphabeat(please), called Fascination. It's so upbeat, 80's-influenced and dance-able to, it's ridiculous. Fantastic. I need more happy music.

I have this happy feeling in the pit of my clavicle, it's all warm and caramel and it's just about approaching worrying level. At times like these no problem seems unsolvable, no ambition unachievable, no worries worth worrying over. It feels like I want to go dancing, that the prospect of being alone is unrealistic, that I can gather up all the friends I ever felt awkward with into a huge hug.

I have a feeling Alphabeat has something to do with this.

I wouldn't mind feeling like this more often.