Modern day mixtape.

Sooo last month I never got around to doing something sweet for Matt as part of my 26 Before 26. I mean it was Christmastime, so I baked him lots of goodies and bought him gifts and we did lots of special things together. But I don't feel like I really went out of my way to do something I wouldn't have done otherwise.

So this month I had to do two things. The first thing I did is make him a playlist - when he was on duty I snuck on his computer and made it on iTunes. It sounds silly but we have been together for almost TEN YEARS. Isn't that weird? So I thought it was about time I made him a little playlist to remind him of special times.



Wanna know what's on it? A lot of this music is EMBARRASSING.

Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Anthony Green - She Loves Me So
Armor For Sleep - Phantoms Now
Band of Horses - The First Song <3
Bon Iver - Skinny Love <3
Bruno Mars - Grenade
City and Colour - The Girl <3
Copeland - Love is a Fast Song <3
Cursive - Sierra
Dave Matthews Band - You & Me
David Gray - This Year's Love
Dear and the Headlights - I Just Do
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Devendra Banhart - Chinese Children
The Doors - Love Me Two Times
The Early November - Make it Happen
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home <3
Emery - The Ponytail Parades
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack - Strings That Tie to You
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal <3
Gladys Knight & the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Good Old War - Stay By My Side <3
Great Lake Swimmers - The Chorus in the Underground <3
The Honorary Title - Everything I Once Had
Horse Feathers - Blood on the Snow <3
The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses
Mates of State - Proofs
Mew - Beach
Michael Cera and Ellen Page - Anyone Else But You
Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page <3
Name Taken - Drive, Drive, Drive
Outkast - Hey Ya
Page France - Ribs
Pinback - Bloods on Fire
The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
Rick Ross - I'm a G
Right Away, Great Captain! - Love Come Save Me
Rufio - One Slow Dance
Ryan Bingham - Depression
Semisonic - Secret Smile
The Shins - Young Pilgrims
The Startling Line - The Best of Me
The Stryder - Intoxicated
Tom Petty - American Girl
Van McCoy - The Hustle
Yellowcard - Miles Apart

Clearly we were brooding teenagers. It was fun to watch his face light up as he looked at all the songs, since most of these I picked not because they're favorite songs of ours, but because I can pinpoint them to an exact moment or memory and I knew he would be able to too. Not all of them are lovey songs - hello "I'm a G" by Rick Ross! - but they're meaningful to us. If anyone's looking for new music I put a heart next to some of my favorite lesser known bands!