Hi, nice to love you.

Melody is Magic. It's as natural as fire and water, you got 12 notes and a dream, but the lines we make, the patterns drawn on thin air thick, the stories without words to be told. What else can you call that? Maybe when the angels are struck down, they bleed songs and melodies. I can't think of any other legitimate source. It can't be from this world, not this one.

I am filled with despair by nothing. With the minutes unfulfilled, people I haven't met, things unknown, lessons not learned, potential not seized upon. These are the things that terrify me, what I don't know. I can only hope to get a little less scared everday, to know away the fear.

Oprevin's Favorite Things
(2008 Edition)

Da musics

5. Single Ladies / If I Were A Boy
A neverending source of simultaneous shame and joy. The best songs are often the worst songs.

4. Bootlegs
They exist and they can be downloaded with absolute ease by piggybacking on campus broadband. My flash drive is my girlfriend. Through these recordings made by people who love as furiously as I do, I got some unexpected and thoroughly light in my life.

3. Acid Tongue
All of it, everyone of them tunes. It's mine. Thanks, Jenn.

2. Connection
I looked into the eyes of Sharon Jones, Jenny Lewis, and some other men and I could see myself back.

1. Fleet Foxes
Haha, I'm just kidding. Everyone put this on their top whatever music of this year. That's so 2008.

1. (for real) 4/14/08
I already wrote about that crap. Check out the 10k here.

Da TVs and moviefilms

5. SNL -
A dreadfully inconsistent show manages to shine through and get some great things under the radar. That's Kristin Wiig, Bill Hader, Poehler, Forte, and Armisen getting greatness under the wire. Despite the fact it's a genre dinosaur, it still remains part of everyday language and relevance.

4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall -
No, really, one of the best things I saw. Jason Siegel did it and made something entirely personal be entirely personal to everyone. Never was this more evident than the clothing memory montage. He did it, he tapped into the minds of men in America just trying their best to love her. The characters have faith, get hurt, and hurt others. In addition to being hilarious, there's not an ounce of genre whiplash. Thanks Jason.

4. The summer of West Wing with Katie
Talk about a grand rapturous love affair, reigniting the first sparks of passion. The show, not the girl. Don't be silly.

2. Wall-E
Among many peoples there seems to be an aversion to technology, as if the further away we get from things we can do with our bare hands and nothing else the more likely it is to be suffocated by its own prowess. Pixar tells us every year that this simply isn't true and Wall-E ranks one of the more epic examples of such. I even had a few of those dusty-in-the-theater, Fox-and-the-Hound moments.

1. The Colbert Report
It is the best and will be the best until it's gone. Nothing compares.