but baby love doesn't change anything at all

so e.m. and i started a blog together. for no good reason, really. *yay blogging*

i've been listening (A LOT) to aimee mann's latest album @#%&*! Smilers, apparently pronounced Fucking Smilers. i did not know that. until i looked it up on wikipedia the other day when i started listening to the album again in its entirety. i dunno if i *love* the album in its entirety. my favorites are still (in order): 1) Phoenix, 2) Thirty One Today, 3) Looking for Nothing, 4) Freeway, 5) Columbus Avenue, 6) Ballantines. hmm. i guess having 6 favorites out of 13 track album ain't too bad. and i think i've listened to each one of these favorite tracks at least over 40 times. "Phoenix" and "Thirty One Today" i know i've listened to over 100 times by this point. it's an album i like to fall asleep to, and i almost always fall asleep to music, so no wonder the play counts are so high :]

here's aimee performing my top favorite, "Phoenix" on Qtv. she messes up a bit at the beginning - it's cute. hehe.

main reason why i love this song so much? the lyrics! oh aimee mann lyrics. i think they can count for today's poem:

Got out of Phoenix, just in time
a box of kleenex, for the ride
the tumbleweeds said, their goodbyes
to javelinas and DUIs

I don't want to abandon you but baby I've had my fill
you love me like a dollar bill
you roll me up and trade me in
and if you had the chance you will
and if you get the chance again

it's hard to know when to cut and run
you balance heartache with your fun
and when the scales tip, you know you're done

I don't want to abandon you but baby I've had my fill
you love me like a dollar bill
you roll me up and trade me in
and if you had the chance you will
and if you get the chance again

cos I know love doesn't change anything at all
I know love doesn't change a thing

I wanted to believe in you and baby I believe it still
baby I've just had my fill
you love me like a dollar bill
you roll me up and trade me in
and if you have the chance you will
and if you get the chance again
I know you'll do the best you can

but baby love doesn't change anything at all
I know love doesn't change a thing

i love that aimee can say, in such a pretty song, "I know love doesn't change a thing." because sometimes - i don't know about you but i certainly do - i feel that. that no matter how much i'm into a person, no matter how much i feel that i do love them, the relationship can't work, because of circumstance, because maybe that person isn't actually right for me after all. aimee just says it so well, so simply and bittersweetly.

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plus:
~check out this hilarious series of the 'behind-the scenes' story of aimee mann's christmas show. this 1st part features john krasinski (who is, btw, from boston/raised in newton)!! :) "wow. that is...my new favorite song of yours. wise up. save me. ...and that."

~also. i'm not sure if this is the same series but broken up into different parts or a different series altogether. but i love this clip of aimee mann and michael cera. aimee mann's christmas carol! and i love ppl's comments on this video. like. how they basically all quote the same line. you'll see why.