"Buddy Holly" by Weezer (#499 in Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)

Been familiar with this one for a long time...I think I remember finding out the name of the song and who performed it during the summer of 2010.

I think I remember having this pleasure rush feeling from the little part of the guitar solo where all the other instruments cut out when I first got into this song, ha ha. Also always loved harmonizing on the additional "I don't care 'bout that"s in the second and third chorus.

Funny that I never really thought about the coherent meaning of all of the lyrics until reading the little blurb about it on Rolling Stone. I'd never really drawn a strong connection between the lyrics in the verses and the lyrics in the chorus...but apparently it's kind of a song he wrote about needing to stick up for his girlfriend. Which now makes total sense.

Anyway, a delightfully quirky and catchy song...4 out of 5 stars.

"The Stable Song" by Gregory Alan Isakov

My favorite song. Has been for two years. Thought maybe I'd worn myself out on it for six months or so...but after a little break from it, it sounds fresh and great again.

Kind of sappy to think like this maybe, but I've long thought that I truly want this song to be in my wedding, and in my funeral.

I think Isakov said it was "a little poem about everything" or something like that. A fittingly vague and all-encompassing description...it's a beautiful little piece that does an impressionistic sketch of a prodigal son story to me--a time of innocence, then a time when the innocence is lost, and finally, a time when it's returned in a rebirth.