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“I wanna write ‘I miss you’ on a rock and throw at your face so you know how much it hurts to miss you.”

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If there wasn’t beauty in this—the sound of silence—it wouldn’t be written about, agonized over, set to melody, and played on repeat.

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Rock ‘n’ roll is about a lot of people liking the same thing.

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Today’s cat: The Failed Hipster Cat. He understands your pain, man.

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I looked at the iPod they provided. I saw it had ‘Lil Wayne’. I scrolled three more times and it still said ‘Lil Wayne’. There was so much Lil Wayne.

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71. Bananarama

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We say that “rather have loved and lost…” thing so flippantly, like it’s universal, and without considering the incredible responsibility of bearing its consequences.

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I saw this documentary when I was in high school; before that, I’d glamorized the idea of being a scandalously young rock star, and these girls were kick ass pioneers, but they were also broken to the core by the industry.

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Another great, melodramatic song for feeling the very real sensation of life passing you by while you seem to be paralyzed with sadness.

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Don’t let your friends or coworkers or your Twitter “followers” tell you otherwise. This isn’t the pool. You don’t need your Mommy to tell to wait 30 minutes after eating to swim. Jump on in. You need to find people, places, and things that are compatible with you.