a friend recently inspired me to start making lists of my favorite songs again. if only i could choose. last night after a particularly cathartic crit session i spent the night driving around los angeles playing 'pictures of you' on repeat. here's what i've been spinning a lot:

1. friday i'm in love - the cure
2. i like fucking - bikini kill
3. maps - yeah yeah yeahs (of course, and yes, i did start crying the last time i listened to it)
4. april skies - the jesus and mary chain THEME SONG
5. lilac wine - nina simone/wild is the wind - nina simone TIE
7. anna and the buffalo - sunset rubdown
8. california - joni mitchell
9. call your girlfriend - robyn/dancing on my own - robyn TIE

 it gets difficult after nina. i think it's easier for there to be a list of honorary mentions. but, a beginning?

speaking as a person who, as a child, always scrounged under the grocery vending machines for candy that had fallen to the floor because sugar was decidedly not in the family meal budget, cory booker, you may be my new favorite politician.