the blog post where i mention taylor swift. and owl city.

Two things I'm not a fan of: owl city (that guy is laughing all the way to the bank. he's being compared to the greatness that is ben gibbard (and i want to slap anyone who actually compares him to postal service or death cab) and really, he's just writing these silly ass, beyond cheesy love songs (with the stupidest titles EVER - "fireflies"...."vanilla twilight"...."strawberry avalanche".....gag) to get legions of girls to drop their panties for him) and taylor swift (though i will admit that i know every word to that song that she sings that talks about romeo and juliet or whatever, but only because it was played on the radio about every 3 minutes when it came out, AND was in like, EVERY movie trailer i saw for any remotely romantic movie for about 6 months)

something I AM a fan of: LOVE

and, if you read any online gossip blog or celebrity magazine website on valentine's day (translation: if you're as bored as I am, and don't have much else to do all day), then you surely saw the story of how the dude from owl city deciphered some "secret" message in the lyrics of a taylor swift song, and decided that the song was about him, and responded by basically putting his heart out there on the line in front of MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. (if you missed it, here's the link to his blog....) Initially i was like "oh, how embarrassing. he's probably totally wrong about the song being about him, and now he looks like more of an asshole than I already think he is" - but as the last few days have gone by, I've found myself keeping an eye out to see if taylor responds (cause she's totally got to, right?)

kind of cute together, right?

anyway, so far, there's nothing from her side of this. my initial stance was "I hope she makes a fool out of him, because that "fireflies" song really, really sucks," but now that i've thought about it, I'm kind of on team owl city here. I hope she's like "hey, owl city guy, I like you, too" and that they get together. he's no jake gyllenhaal, but he's not bad to look at....


plus, i think it will take more than "a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs" to pull him back from the ledge he'll be on after THAT kind of (very, very public) rejection. or the scathing song she WILL write about him on her next album.