so, there's a new Postal Service track out there

It seems that lately music news is making me late for my second job every day. It is pretty frequently these days that something awesome comes shooting out of the interwebs just in time for me to have to leave, but of course I cant wait a few hours and have to know about all the things right away.

Anyway, I was at home between jobs, dealing with a situation (namely, i have a funky stomach thing going on and i really was very opposed to wearing pants today) and happened to be scrolling through my twitter feed when i noticed a tweet from none other than Ben Gibbard. It was a link you a YouTube video and something about a new PS song. I punched the wall in excitement, yelped because it hurt, and then yelped again because i didn't honestly think id ever be able to say "new postal service music" again, unless i was talking about things that would never happen, of course.

I texted my musical soul mate, LB, who was listening to it right at that very moment. OF COURSE i couldn't view the video on my phone and had to come back downstairs to hear the song. My life cant ever be easy. #firstworldproblems.

I was actually pretty prepared to hate the song. I mean, new stuff from old favorites has been relatively crappy lately (hello, FOB?) so i didn't really expect much from this at all. But i hit play anyway because i had to, and guess what? i freaking LOVE this song. L-O-V-E. Maybe it will be my valentine.

It is definitely poppier than most of Give Up was. or maybe its just more produced. i put on Give Up in the car this afternoon to compare, but driving stresses me out and i wasn't really paying attention. I have listened to the song about five times now and I'm confident in my adoration for it.

And what i think might be the best part of the whole thing is that subpop flat out said that this song isn't a left-over from Give Up, but rather its something that was "actually begun in 2006 and finished in 2012."

This gives me a teeny, tiny glimmer of hope that with this new tour and new song there just might be a new album. A girl can dream, right?

"A Tattered Line of String"

thoughts?

its been a while since ive written anything...

i miss writing here. i don't know what happened, but i guess summer vacation took over? I'm not working, so you'd think that would offer more time to keep up with my projects, but instead both of them have fallen to the wayside. I'm going to concentrate on getting back into the swing of things, because i really need the outlets that both projects were providing.

anyway, the new Danny Gokey single dropped today, and of course i am in love with it. it is called secondhand heart and it deals with the idea of having given part of your heart away already, but still having the ability to love someone with all that you have left, and letting that be enough.

this is actually a concept that i had been thinking about through the spring and the beginning of the summer...is it possible to love someone fully when you've given so much of yourself away to others? there are people in my past that will always own parts of my heart. does that mean that when i marry, i wont be able to love fully? i know this is borderline "i kissed dating goodbye" shit, and i don't especially want to get into that debate, but without looking at this on a religious level, i can still totally understand where people are coming from when they say that you give parts of yourself away. its bizarre, and it took me 31 years to get it.

but this song is about hope. its about the idea that you can still love fully, regardless of how much of your heart is staked out by others. Danny said in an interview before he officially unveiled the song to his anxious public, that he is in fact ready to let love in again and that he has a lot of love left to give. i guess that's one of the most amazing things about the human heart...the more love you give, the more room your heart has to let someone else in.

let me know what you think about Danny's new single.

i, for one, cannot wait for this new album to drop.