Boys! With Guitars!

Most of the time, I'm a chick with guitar type of girl; that's the music I like, the music I identify with. Lately it's been guys with guitars, insomuch that I actually made a playlist on my iPod of it. Some of the songs:
The Drinking Song--Moxy Fruvous
The Professor & La Fille Danse (live)--Damien Rice
Suicide Medicine--Rocky Votolato
Plasticities--Andrew Bird
Cold Missouri Waters--Cry Cry Cry*
Red Right Ankle--Decemberists
24 turned 25--Denison Whitmer
Love is a Comma--Josh Cole
I Think I Need a New Heart--Magnetic Fields
Jesus, Etc--Wilco
Kathleen (live)--Josh Ritter
The King of Carrot Flowers, Part I--Neutral Milk Hotel
and on and on...
The song on the list that has been most repeated (and thought about) is Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez. It's just beautiful and apropos. He took a while to grow on me, but I'm loving myself some Jose now. Also on the list is Find the River from R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People" hands down one of the most memorable and lasting albums I've ever owned. That song, just as most of that album, is time in a bottle. I can't explain how I love it but it both breaks and heals my heart.
Anyway, that's all I got today. Well that and the confirmation that tequila is always a bad idea. I said it before and I'll say it again: No Way Jose (Cuervo).

* Incidentially, "Cold Missouri Waters" is based on the book "Young Men and Fire" by Norman McCloud. It chronicles a forest fire in August, 1949 that killed 13 of the 16 parajumpers brought in to contain it. The book is extremely well written (McCloud also wrote "A River Runs Through It") and the song is simply heartbreaking. Check it out.