Music: Cults (+ lyrics)

It's been a long. lonnnng time since I fell head over heels for a song. How's that phrase go again? When you least expect it, it will come? Bull. I was looking my ass off.

Here's how it happened: I was editing a small little movie that I made. Just a little fun little movie. And I need the perfect song to represent the playfullness of the film, and the dreariness of the weather. And all those feelings in between. I literally (literally!!) searched for a whole day. Poured through every song I had, every compilation on itunes, and came up with nothing.

Then at the end of the day, maybe around 10pm, I started going through random indie music blogs. I don't even know where I ended up, but I pressed play on this one song called, "Go Outside". The title alone was perfect. Then I heard it. Then I knew. I started running around the apartment shouting, "I got it!! I GOT IT!"

So, I've pretty much listened to this song 100 times now. And learned everything I could about this band that sings it. There's not that much out there yet (which makes me even more excited, cause that's a true stumbled-upon moment).

But I'm here to help you:

The band is called: CULTS
The song is called: GO OUTSIDE

The facts are:
They are a guy and a girl from NYC. This just sorta happened to them. Seemingly overnight. They wrote a great song. Bloggers got a hold of it. People started downloading it. 30 days later, they were signed. Now they have an album coming out.

Here are some links:
The website
The interview
The reviews
The Youtube
The remix (yes, already!)

And, the lyrics to GO OUTSIDE:

I really want to go out
I really want to go outside and stop to see your day
You really want to hole up
You really want to stay inside and sleep the light away

I really want to go out
I really want to go outside and make it light all day
You really want to hole up
You really want to stay inside and not care where you lay

Well I know what's good 

Exactly cause I have been there before
Yeah I know what's good
Exactly those things night cannot behold

I really want to go out
I really want to go outside and stop to see your day
You really want to hole up
You really want to stay inside and sleep the light away

I think it's good to go out
cause if you don't you'll never make a memory that will stay
I think that you should wake up
I think I want to live my life and you're just in my way

Products: Where to find free moving boxes

Not kidding.
We really packed up all
his books in 75 little boxes!

Free ain't cheap these days.

My BF and I were moving in together (halleluyah!) and wanted to... what's that word again? oh yes, SAVE... as much as possible. One thing we did not want to waste money on is boxes. And one thing we did not want to pack with us was, bugs.

When I was post-college, and moved half a dozen times to various glorious shag-carpeted apartments, I just picked up boxes off the street or took them out of other people's garages from Craig's List.

But these days, at least in these parts where we live, bug-infestation is a hot topic. Unfortunately, I have a list of loved ones who recently got bit by the bedded one (you know what I'm talking about). Since then, we won't be anything less than extrememly careful about what we pull in off the street and into our home. No more stoop-sale finds, no more barnyard discoveries, no more craig's list velvet hand-me-down couches. Everything's got to be new, including the moving boxes.

Well, imagine how happy we were to find FREE & NEW moving boxes via USPS. Yes, that's right.

If you're moving, and you need boxes, and you want them to be free, but you don't want them to be gross, then hop on over here.

Sure, they're small. But you know what they're good for? Books! Movers hate lifting heavy boxes of books almost as much as my BF hates recategorizing his 8 bookshelves. So, he order 75 (!!) free, medium sized boxes. Which all came shipped to his home (in a box, funny enough). All of his books were then packed according to subject, and the movers were quite grateful (I know this, because they told us so).

But, still happy to do our enivornmental good deed, we will probably give these away to another eager mover. For free.