I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You-Kate Nash

This cover, of "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" is one of my favorite songs of all time.  I first heard the original track on the "Jennifer's Body" soundtrack.  It's a great soundtrack, all though the movie was a bit of a joke, the songs were as real as it gets. This one song, is by The Black Kids, and no it is not a band of black people ( I believe that the lead singer is half and so is his sister, so that makes one black kid?). What does this song have on the original you ask? Not the actual beat since it is acoustic, but the wonderful stylings of Kate Nash, an English woman, with a real English accent, which I find kinda cute.  Kate Nash has many top hits like Foundations and Merry Happy, where she talks about her rocky relationships with various guys.  Not to spoil the song but it's of a guy who refuses to teach some girl's boyfriend how to dance with her. In real people terms, it's of a guy who has a female friend who he is utterly crazy about (notice my use of the word utterly: it's very English, like Kate Nash, I did not put it there to take up a word, (if I wanted to do that I would've put the word, "word", word)). This song is very out of Kate's element, but she does an amazing job. So, if you've ever been even a little bit crazy about someone, who was taken, this is the song for you. :)

PS. Mr. McCarthy, look how early I did this blog!

Jay and Nick

The relationship between Jay and Nick is a weird one.  They live two very different lives but are similar in many aspects.  The two meet when Jay invites him over to house for a party.  Jay's home is a mansion of another kind.  It's huge and is always filled with people all the time.  Nick, never turning down an invitation, goes to Gatsby's.  Gatsby and Nick are both alike in the way that they are around people who talk but spend much of their time listening and observing as apposed to having input.  It's not until Gatsby finds that Nick is cousins with the lost love of his life, Daisy, that Gatsby really starts to take interest in Nick.  When this happens,  the reader (I) can't help but to ask myself 'Is the relationship between Jay and Nick real? Or is Jay just using Nick?'  This question would be much easier to answer if Nick, the narrator, author of the book, and main character could say how he really feels every once in a while.  Well since Nick is not one to speak on his emotions, I must make assumptions.  I believe that the relationship between Jay and Nick was not real at first, but as time goes on, I'm starting to see a lot of progression.  The two aren't really friend oriented people they are both pretty to themselves, so when Jay invites Nick over, it's just to find Daisy and Nick just goes with the flow of things.  I think that they really start to bond when they go out to lunch together and they learn a lot about each other.  The moment that I really knew that their friendship was going to be real is when I read about how happy Gatsby was with Daisy.  Nick has brought this happiness upon Gatsby and I believe that this is a quality of a true friend.

Winter Poem

She took everything
That beautiful glisten of her warm smile
The security
Her energy
The infinite happiness
The unconditional love
Everything that I ever encountered when she was here, instantly bloomed
I thought she'd never leave
Summer
So far gone

She comes without warning
Bringing
Sleepless nights
The shaking in my fingers
The bitterness of her grin
Her cold heart makes me sick
Working harder and harder, trying to make her go away
That feeling of being left alone in the dark
The time to give and give
But to never really get
She's pretty selfish if you ask me
But the one thing that she has that Summer never did and never will
Is the ability to stay when times are hard
Winter