"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."

1. "The Only Living Boy In New York" - Simon and Garfunkel

I'm trying real hard not to get sucked into another black hole of sad, sad songs, but I can't help listening to this one over and over again. Paul Simon's vocals get me every time. The production is so lush, but it still sounds like he's sitting alone, staring out the window with his face pressed against the glass.

2. "I Trained Her To Love Me" - Nick Lowe

I'm so glad I went to see Nick Lowe when he came to Pittsburgh. A twisted little song.

3. "You Really Got A Hold On Me" - She & Him

Picked up this album after seeing them perform on Conan O'Brien. I like Zooey Dachanel's original stuff, but the covers on the album, this and I Should Have Known Better, are real standouts.

4. "Up The Junction" - Squeeze

I've been singing this in the shower lately.

5. "The Future" - Prince

I have mad love for the Batman soundtrack, and the first track is my current favorite off of it.

6. "Don't Let Me Down" - The Beatles

I was on a Beatles and Paul McCartney bender last month. This and My Love took the brunt of it. My Love is so great in that the opening sounds like Beck and then it becomes this amazingly sweet love song, but this one is just so brilliantly good damn earnest.

7. "Polkas On 45" - Weird Al

Weird Al doing polka Devo. YES! I have a playlist on my iPod of up tempo songs I'm really into. It's my "dish washin' mix" but it mainly gets played when I'm driving around in the car. This one only made that playlist because I got into it when it was still cold, but now that it's hot, and the windows are down, it's still hanging on. Hooray for guilty pleasures. If you pull up next to me at a stoplight and this is blaring from the radio, I dare you to to say something. I dare ya!