I wanna see all the stars and everything in between:

Easily too swept away with the warmth this weekend, I'm looking forward to what's to come - nothing pairs better with wishful thinking and a bounce in your step like pop music does. Give me those chart toppers (and ignore whatever weather is to come).

02.24.14 - Mixtape Monday

American Girl - Bonnie McKee
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Burn - Ellie Goulding
Birthday - Selena Gomez
Drunk in Love - Beyonce ft. Jay-Z
Hard Out Here - Lily Allen

Holy Grail - Jay-Z ft. Justin Timberlake
Stay The Night - Zedd ft. Hayley Williams
Started From The Bottom - Drake
Neon Lights - Demi Lovato

everyone's riding on the rolling tide, their hearts are heavy and the sea is wide:

02.17.14 - Mixtape Monday

Be Set Free - Langhorne Slim
Give Me Back My Girl - Fiction Family
Boathouse - Noah Gundersen
Take A Bow - Greg Laswell
Only Yesterday - Taken By Trees
The Real Thing - Sahara Smith
Flow - Emma-Lee
Don't Say - St. Lola In The Fields
O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me - Father John Misty
Call Me On Your Way Back Home - Ryan Adams

I am what you want when you don't want anything else:

02.10.14 - Mixtape Monday

Sunday Morning - No Doubt
Girls Chase Boys - Ingrid Michaelson
Ain't It Fun - Paramore
Quit Pulling Me Down - Secret Someones
The Night - States
The Mother We Share - CHVRCHES
Don't Save Me - Haim
Fire Escape - Hotel Cinema
All the Days - Haerts
But I Do - Now, Now

and when she passes, I smile - but she doesn't see:

02.03.14 - Mixtape Monday

Solar - Bill Evans Trio
Rockit - Herbie Hancock
Can't We Be Friends - Chick Corea, Gary Burton
The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto
Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis
Parker's Mood (Original) - Charlie Parker
Much Later - Wynton Marsalis
Fables of Faubus - Charles Mingus
Strange Meadow Lark - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
River Man - Brad Mehldau

Photo credit: Rebecca Jane; drink credit: Jason Cool.