Kinda Late for the Best of 08 Lists

Albums of 2008 that I will enjoy for a very long time: (In no particular order)

- "A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See it" by Search the City

- "Movement" by Thieves and Villains

- "The '59 Sound" by The Gaslight Anthem (Come on, who doesn't love it?)

- "Conditions" EP by Conditions

- "Forever Comes Too Soon" by The Years Gone By

- "Find Yourself Here" by The Scenic

- "Life Left to Go" by SafteySuit

- "Sometimes Things Just Disappear" by Polar Bear Club

- "New Lexicon" by Paint it Black

- "The Kids Next Door" by Madison Drive

- "Guidebook For Sinners Turned Saints" by Jamie's Elsewhere

- "Reinventing the Heartbeat" by E for Explosion

- "You Are My Sunshine" by Copeland

- "Whisper War" by The Cab

- "Intimacy" by Bloc Party

Cover Up

One of the things that I hate the most. The tug at the chest, the stinging in your eyes, the moment where the air that you breathe feels like a hundred million daggers and you cannot help but open your mouth and gasp for air. Your breathing isn’t steady anymore, your head can’t think straight.
You’ve got something burning inside you and being in the freezing cold doesn’t help one bit. Your eyes continue stinging, they make you lose focus. Soon enough, your brain slowly shuts down all your surroundings, you feel crippling isolation, and it consumes every inch of you.
Your eyes, stuck at an arbitrary point of no significance gain so much pressure that they can’t but sew themselves shut. And suddenly you realize that you have been holding your breath all that time.
With abandonment of all hope, you slowly let the isolation drag you in. Soon enough, you indulge. You yearn and long for everything that will shatter your soul into a million spectacular pieces of unrequited desires. And at that moment, you feel.
You are the embodiment of human desolation and agony. You are the crucified. You are the filth.

I wrote it on the 19th of January. I need to practice some more.