For when you are sitting in your room and you are really tired but don’t really want to go to bed because you want to think about the girl that doesn’t like you but you love

Even in my mid-30s, maybe even more so, I am familiar with terminal, chronic pining. When I do it, I prefer things that make me feel dreamy, sixteen, carless, tragic, and hopeful that the right glance from HER will turn it all into montage and the future that’s always been supposed to be.

01. Van Morrison - “Sweet Thing” (Astral Weeks)
02. Beach House - “A Walk In The Park” (Teen Dream)
03. The Smiths - “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” (The Queen Is Dead)
04. Michael Nyman - “Debbie” (Wonderland)
05. Spiritualized - “Sweet Talk” (Songs In A & E)
06. The Cure - “Untitled” (Disintegration)
07. Joan As Police Woman - “To Be Lonely” (To Survive)
08. Yo La Tengo - “Nowhere Near” (Painful)
09. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - “How I Long” (How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart)

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