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About This Week’s Guest
Karene is the mother to an undisclosed number of plants, she will not tell me the exact number in case she accidentally kills one (don’t tell The Ministry). She is the proud giver of a HelloFresh coupon to Sean who received 4 free meals (true friendship), a sustainable energy engineering major at Simon Fraser University, and a longtime friend. Join me as I ask Karene about her mid-degree crisis, love while in co-op, self-discovery, and all the good jams that went with it. We also talk about the legendary Tove Lo… which I don’t think anyone wants to miss.
This Week’s Playlist
This Week’s Lyrics
Falling Short by Låpsley
One month till February – seasonal affective disorder, loneliness, self-image issues
Keep on holdin’ on
And I know it’s short
And I know it’s short
[x2]
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like these
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like
It’s been a long time comin’
But I’m falling short – You can put so much effort into trying to be better and still feel like shit
It’s been a long time comin’
But I’m falling short
Cause you could say
This is not too far to carry this
[x4]
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like these
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like
It’s been a long time comin’
But I’m falling short
It’s been a long time comin’
But I’m falling short
Because you took something away from yourself
Come back to this route and take your heart to higher self
Heart to higher shelf
[x2]
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like these
And it’s times like these
And it’s days like
Cause you could say
This is not too far to carry this
Ribs by Lorde
The drink you spilt all over me
“Lover’s Spit” left on repeat
My mum and dad let me stay home
It drives you crazy getting old
We can talk it so good
We can make it so divine
We can talk it good, how you wish it would be all the time
The drink you spilt all over me
“Lover’s Spit” left on repeat
My mum and dad let me stay home
It drives you crazy getting old
The drink you spilt all over me
“Lover’s Spit” left on repeat
My mum and dad let me stay home
It drives you crazy getting old
This dream isn’t feeling sweet
We’re reeling through the midnight streets
And I’ve never felt more alone
It feels so scary getting old – I didn’t resonate with this song until I was 19 and realized being 19 sucked
We can talk it so good
We can make it so divine
We can talk it good, how you wish it would be all the time
This dream isn’t feeling sweet
We’re reeling through the midnight streets
And I’ve never felt more alone
Feels so scary getting old
This dream isn’t feeling sweet
We’re reeling through the midnight streets
And I’ve never felt more alone
Feels so scary getting old
I want them back (I want them back)
The minds we had (the minds we had)
How all the thoughts (how all the thoughts)
Moved round our heads (moved round our heads)
I want them back (I want them back)
The minds we had (the minds we had)
It’s not enough to feel the lack (I want them back, I want them back)
I want ’em
You’re the only friend I need (you’re the only friend I need)
Sharing beds like little kids (sharing beds like little kids)
And laughing ’til our ribs get tough (and laughing ’til our ribs get tough)
But that will never be enough (but that will never be enough)
You’re the only friend I need (you’re the only friend I need)
Sharing beds like little kids (sharing beds like little kids)
And laughing ’til our ribs get tough (and laughing ’til our ribs get tough)
But that will never be enough (but that will never be enough)
That will never be enough
That will never be enough
That will never be enough
That will never be enough
That will never be enough
New Girl (Tom’s Song) by The Walters
So much has been going on
I promised you I wouldn’t run
but my voice won’t be heard
and it’s too hard to end it
it’s absurd
so we’re still together for now
but my new girl is coming to town
we’re still together for now – The impermanence of dating online, seeing multiple people to gauge options, and not wanting to settle because of the possibility of someone better.
but my new girl is coming to town
You took me there
but you’re still scared
and I’m scared too
you know it’s true
so we’re still together for now
but my new girl is coming to town
So I’ll imagine you’re upset – Somebody always loses in situations where expectations aren’t aligned
but I’m not responsible for that
I tried to give you happiness
but all that ever happened is you end up gettin’ pissed
so we’re still together for now
but my new girl is coming to town
we’re still together for now
but my new girl is coming to town
You took me there
but you’re still scared
and I’m scared too
you know it’s true
so we’re still together for now
but my new girl is coming to town
If that’s the way it’s gonna go
then that’s the way it’s gonna go
If that’s the way it’s gonna go
then that’s the way it’s gonna go
If that’s the way it’s gonna go
then that’s the way it’s gonna go
If that’s the way it’s gonna go
then that’s the way it’s gonna go
Midnight by Turunesh
Midnight passes us by
We do not see the sun when it sets
‘Cause we are inside making love in this bed
Midnight
Baby that’s your color
Midnight
Baby that’s your color
Midnight
When we become lovers
Midnight
Our bodies align and spiritualities begin to ryhme
Midnight
Baby that’s your color
Midnight, when we make love I see colors
Dreams Tonite by Alvvays
Rode here on the bus
Now you’re one of us – Knowing how to navigate transit is a rite of passage of being a local
It was magic hour
Counting motorbikes
on the turnpike
One of Eisenhower’s
Live your life on a merry-go-round
Who starts a fire just to let it go out?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight? – I would have a new crush every time I went grocery shopping, used the SkyTrain, went to the gym. For a long time I only saw people, thought they were cute, and did nothing of it or found out they just weren’t my jam and moved on.
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
On the lead guitar
Said you’d go to work
In the waking hour
In fluorescent light
Antisocialites watch a wilting flower
Live your life on a merry-go-round
Who builds a wall just to let it fall down?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
Don’t sit by the phone for me
Wait at home for me, all alone for me
Your face was supposed to be hanging over me like a rosary
So morose for me; seeing ghosts of me; writing oaths to me
Is it so naive to wonder…
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
If I saw you on the street, would I have you in my dreams tonight, tonight?
White Ferrari by Frank Ocean
Bad luck to talk on these rides
Mine on the road
Your dilated eyes watch the clouds float
White Ferrari
Had a good time
Sweet 16, how was I supposed to know anything? – Reflecting on my relationship, we both knew it was over
I let you out at Central
I didn’t care to state the plain – melancholy
Kept my mouth closed
We’re both so familiar
White Ferrari
Stick by me
Close by me
You were fine
You were fine here
That’s just a slow body
You left when I forgot to speak
So I text the speech, lesser speeds
Texas speed, yes
Basic takes its toll on me
‘Ventually, ‘ventually, yes
Ah on me ‘ventually, ‘ventually, yes
I care for you still and I will forever – Although things fizzled, I’ll always want what’s best for him. We didn’t wrong each other, we were just incompatible.
That was my part of the deal, honest
We got so familiar
Spending each day of the year, White Ferrari
Good times
In this life, life
In this life, life
One too many years
Some tattooed eyelids on a facelift
Mind over matter is magic
I do magic
If you think about it it’ll be over in no time
And that’s life
Ooh, oooh, oooh, ooh
I’m sure we’re taller in another dimension – Maybe things would be different
You say we’re small and not worth the mention
You’re tired of movin’, your body’s achin’
We could vacay, there’s places to go
Clearly this isn’t all that there is
Can’t take what’s been given
But we’re so okay here, we’re doing fine
Primal and naked
You dream of walls that hold us imprisoned
It’s just a skull, least that’s what they call it
And we’re free to roam
Disco Tits by Tove Lo
I say hi, you say hi
We stay high
You look so pretty, yeah
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
No, I don’t, I don’t have a type
Take a hit
Come on over tonight
Take a hit
You can follow my bloodstream
No, I don’t have a type
Live right now, peakin’ on top
So wild now, I’m high as fuck
Don’t look down
My mind, you can relax
I know how to dial it back
Not this time
I say hi, you say hi
We stay high
You look so pretty, yeah
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
No, I don’t, I don’t have a type
Take a hit
Come on over tonight
Take a hit
You can follow my bloodstream
No, I don’t have a type
Live right now, peakin’ on top
So wild now, I’m high as fuck
Don’t look down
My mind, you can relax
I know how to dial it back
Not this time
I say hi, you say hi
We stay high
You look so pretty, yeah
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
You think I’m drunk now, but I am not
You’re so pretty, come roll with me
I’m ’bout to get down, I’m high as fuck
I’m no chemist, but it’s good shit
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
I’m sweatin’ from head to toe
I’m wet through all my clothes
I’m fully charged, nipples are hard
Ready to go
I say hi, you say hi
We stay high
You look so pretty, yeah
Got good shit, what is it?
No chemist, still want that magic, yeah
I say hi, you say hi
We stay high
You look so pretty, yeah
Got good shit, what is it?
No chemist, still want that magic, yeah
Walcott by Vampire Weekend
Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, Mystic seaport is that way
Don’t you know that your life would be lost out of Cape Cod tonight? – School is starting again and I want to run away
Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, the bottleneck is a shit show
Hyannisport is a ghetto out of Cape Cod tonight
Lobster’s claw is sharp as knives
Evil feasts on human lives
The Holy Roman Empire roots for you
Walcott, all the way to New Jersey
All the way to the Garden State, out of Cape Cod tonight
Walcott, fuck the women from Wellfleet
Fuck the bears out in Provincetown
Heed my words and take flight
Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
(Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?
Walcott, don’t you know that it’s insane?
Don’t you want to get out of Cape Cod, out of Cape Cod tonight?)
Sugar by BROCKHAMPTON
Spending all my nights alone, waiting for you to call me
You’re the only one I want by my side when I fall asleep
Tell me what I’m waiting for
Tell me what I’m waiting for
I know it’s hard, but we need each other
Know it’s hard, but we need each other
I move mountains on my own, don’t need nobody’s help – I am very independent and was wary of a relationship
Change your mind when I change my life, better start believing in myself
And we all now, looking for, looking for God, so we never see it in ourselves
Shit, divine intervention, move in stealth
It’s hard to tell what do prayer compelled
You can find me dancin’ in between the raindrops
Tryna find a way to make the pain stop
Overtime on the graveyard got a nigga feelin’ real
My instability’s trademark, copywritten in all my decisions
This is not supposed to be a way of living
Tear my temple down into a prison
Spending all my nights alone, waiting for you to call me
You’re the only one I want by my side when I fall asleep
Tell me what I’m waiting for
Tell me what I’m waiting for
I know it’s hard, but we need each other
Know it’s hard, but we need each other
Yeah, back on Vincent with the braces on
You slide out the back without the neighbors knowin’
Pose for the picture with the pearly whites
That lens zooming in, catching all my stripes
Used to trade a joint for some molly
And she gave me all I need for the night
Forties suffice, I’m only alright, but I need some advice
And I know that I’m acting foolish
Could you pick me up around noonish?
Half a blunt, yeah we coolin’
Twist it up, puttin’ on OutKast
Time to take a seat and yeah we cruisin’
And I love right, I love you right
All by yourself, but I make it right
Baby, I want you to know
I’ma be there for you, I’ma make you see that
I want you
I want you
Spending all my nights alone, waiting for you to call me
You’re the only one I want by my side when I fall asleep
Tell me what I’m waiting for
Tell me what I’m waiting for
I know it’s hard, but we need each other
Know it’s hard, but we need each other
Back and forth, I’ll take that if that’s all you’re asking for
With my legs up on the dashboard
Only thing in my pocket is my passport -p- passport
Back and forth, I’ll take that if that’s all you’re asking for
With my legs up on the dashboard
Only thing in my pocket is my passport -p- passport
Back and forth, I’ll take that if that’s all you’re asking for
With my legs up on the dashboard
Only thing in my pocket is my passport -p- passport
So, do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, love me, ohh
Do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, love me
Do you love me? Love me, ohh