part of my Listen & Love list:

Julia Nunes;; 3oh!3 cover (youtube;;jaaaaaa)

Snow Patrol;;Set Fire to the Third Bar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0 ;; Paramore;;Brick by boring Brick

crimson and clover;;Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Morgan Honeyman

One of my friends music myspace.

Morgan Honeyman wrote the lyrics and her and her father, Jason Honeyman, wrote and the music for the song and recorded it at their home studio.

This is her myspace. Please visit it.

http://www.myspace.com/morganhoneyman

(copy the link into the searchbar)

and dont you think that its strange...

so ive been thinking about how horrible it is that little indie artists are AMAZING, yet completely unknown. Its actually quite sad. so here are a list of music/artists/bands you should know. LISTEN and LIKE IT!

(p.s. this will be a series of posts. check back for more songs.)

GIVE FEEDBACK SO I KNOW WHAT TYPES OF SONGS TO INCLUDE! MORE SOON!

Julia Nunes-Maybe I Will

Sia-Breathe Me

(unfortunately it wont allow me to embed the video, but below is the url)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPcYqn0p4Y

Josh Radin & Schuyler Fisk-Paperweight (this is the best quality i could find...sad thing is that the recorder sings with it at parts)

Belle & Sebastian-Expectations(Live)

spring break blues

i am officially trying to update my blog more...but ya know, stress of junior year and all.

its spring break and i am officially bored. I have been sick and not able to do anything. but this ollldddd youtube video from livelavalive.

so yeah this cheers me up.

In Response to "Condoms and Such" by dbeschoner.blogspot.com

Generally, my generation loves to defy authority, especially when this 'authority' is prohibiting a natural act of nature. Sex. Not only is premarital sex inevitable it is discouraged by society. When teens are told not to do something, it only heightens their thirst for that something, in this case, sex.

Premarital sex rates are not only high in America, but the riskiness of these sexual acts is also increasing.

Recent studies show that only 18% of sexually active high school students use birth control pills before sex. I blame these startling statistics on the abstinence only education. By telling students that abstinence is the only way, they're knowledge of safe sex practices are limited. While it's true that the only way to truly be 'safe' is to not participate in sexual intercourse at all, more often then not, the heat of the moment catches up with 'abstinent' teenagers.

Not only is abstinence education hindering teen education on safe sex practices, but it is also pushing them to engage in sexual acts other than vaginal sex because it 'does not technically break their virginity'. Teen ages 12 to 17 who had abstinence education defined "abstinence" to include many sexual behaviors while avoiding vaginal intercourse and 70% of teens 15-17 have engaged in oral sex. So, as long as the hymen is in place, they are still a virgin. This is what 'abstinence education' is teaching this generation's teenagers.

As a teen of this generation, seeing and hearing the true facts of sex, not the statistics, just emphasizes how much we need safe sex education. Even parents agree with this, knowing that no matter how much they emphasize abstinence, premarital sex is bound to happen
85% of parents of 7th to 12th graders say it is important that their child learn about how to use condoms as part of sex education.

Although the abstinence education forces teens to make a 'virginity pledge', the pledge only delays initiation of sexual intercourse, as research says, by 18 months. But, these pledged virgins are one-third less likely to use contraception at first sex than non-pledging peers.