Music I live by

There are certain things I cannot live without. Music is one of them. If I had to live without music, I would make up my own. Now, here are some of the bands that have influenced me greatly:

• Jimmy Eat World- don't make fun. this is my favorite band in the whole entire world, and i love them.
• Thrice- for reasons even unknown to me, i love thrice. not to say that they're bad... they're not.. at all. it's just music that i would never really picture myself being interested in. but their words have deep meaning, which i like. and they have pretty cool beats. which leads me into my next 'where did that come from?'
• AFI- a fire inside. enough said. they may be a little on the dark side, but there is something about them that starts a fire in me.
• Coldplay- i just listened to The Scientist, and it made me want to cry. something about coldplay honestly and sincerly grabs ahold of my heart, and won't let go. it's simple and pure. alive. and i love it.
• Led Zepplin- sometimes you just gotta rock. and nothing compares to the sweet song lyrics talking about Lord of the Rings... which always amazes me everytime i hear it.
• Van Morrison- ballarina. enough said. nothing makes me want to dance more than that song. and a lot of his mucis is like that

Those are the ones that are on my mind right now that I can come up with, although there are many more.

If he can dance.. Do I really want to dance with him?

A little while ago I had a falling out with a male friend. A little after that I saw him randomly in a public place, where he comes up to me (and I'm alone, and on the phone) hangs up my phone call, and asks me about the falling out in a forceful way.

Fast forward three or four months, to say.... now. I log onto my e-mail which I haven't checked in about a month because I've moved out of my parents house where the comforts of everyday living are now non existent. And almost immediately he instant message me. He tells me that he misses our friendship, and he wants to hang out again. What? He then proceeds to tell me that he's been thinking about me a lot lately and asks if I know why. Why? 'hm... could it be possibly because you saw me while I was driving?' I reply. To my amusement, and his amazement, I scored correctly. Then he tells me that I looked really pretty when he saw me. And then the clentcher.. I looked like I had lost a lot of weight.

Please forgive me, I've forgotten why is it exactly that you wanted to reintroduce yourself to me as your friend? Because it seems to me that the only reason you want to actually hang out with me (he asked if I wanted to go to the jacuzzi with him) is to perv on me.

I tell him that I'm unsure of hanging out with him again because I have a lot going on in my life right now. I just got accepted into FIDM, which is a whole other story all on it's own. So he asks him that means that I can't hang out with my friends anymore. Of course not... But he's not really a friend. He's a guy. So then he asks me if I can't hang out with my guy friends? No... My guy friends respect my boundaries and know what no means, which the person I'm talking to, obviously doesn't.

Moral of the story. I am NOT going to dance with this boy. Who likes to dance with a boy who is manipulative, and wants to dance with you just because you're appearance has suddenly changed... Give me a break! Things haven't changed; except for the fact that I can see through your little antics. So here it is: I am not the niave girl I used to be. I will not just dance with anyone who asks me to dance. I have standards. And well, sorry buddy, but you do not even come close to my standards. So I will have to pass on this dance.

But does he dance?

This may be a silly name for a blog... but in all honesty, almost every guy I meet that has some potential to go farther than just friends, I wonder in the back of my head, does he dance? Odd, I know. But there are so many things that you can tell about a person from the way that they dance. Does he take himself too seriously? Does he make everything uber sexual? Can he dip you and not drop you? Does he have his own flare in dancing? Is he totally choreographed like So You Think You Can Dance? Where are his hands when slow dancing with you? Does he look you in the eyes, or avoid eye contact? Does he lead, or does he let you lead? Again, this may seem silly, but hey... I like to dance. And before I get married, I would like to know that the guy that I'm going to marry likes to dance too. Even if it's just bobbing your head in the car to music, or a blown out dance contest at the next wedding.