i’ve been having a very trying relationship with my guitar lately.  i’ll come home, sit on my bed and just stare at it standing in the corner just waiting to be played.  but i can’t seem to get anything out.  i’ll pick it up.  nothing.  i’ll hold it because usually if i wait long enough something will come.. still nothing.  and i’m sure if anyone walked in on this little exchange between us they’d find it quite peculiar; me just sitting there holding my guitar, my face expressing the conversation going on inside my head between it and me.  this goes on for minutes until i realize that nothing is going to come and i give up.  i put it back in the corner, and try again the next day.

usually when this happens, it means i’m about to burst wide open and pour out more than i can even handle.  and i’ve learned that when i can’t write things, i’ll go to the songs that say things i can’t seem to say myself.

i saw bon iver cover this song by sarah siskind a few years ago and i just remember everyone in the entire room falling completely silent.  it was one of those songs that just kind of destroyed you.  i hadn’t heard it in years but somehow last night in my wandering it found me.  so here is this.. 

lovin’s for fools//sarah siskind cover

ashleysmashley:

i mean… who doesn’t like jutin timberlake’s album futuresex/lovesounds ? no one doesn’t like it! everyone loves it..

this cover of his song “my love” done by steffaloo is particularly amazing and i think you should check it out.. also, click on the link above to check out her tumblr. 

i kissed a girl (katy perry cover)

i heard a great cover of this song the other day and since i’ve had a bit of a creative block as of late, just thought i’d do the same.  hahaa.. thanks katy perry, for having terrible pop songs for me to cover. 

i recorded this version of hallelujah a while ago and just came across it the other day.. thought i’d share it.  

a while back, my brothy timmy (aka smokeDONTsmoke) introduced me to jesse woods.  his song ‘neon rose’ basically slayed my soul from the inside out and back again.  i found myself listening to it, along with his entire EP moonrocks, on repeat for days.  this past week, while in san francisco for thanksgiving, the obsession came back.  so i decided to learn this song on my ukulele and this is what happened.. 

go show jesse some love and grab his EP over at his bandcamp

neon rose (jesse woods cover)//steffaloo

a while back i did a cover of justin timberlakes ‘my love’ for a great mix that krista and the whale put together as a guest post for head underwater.  it was a super fun song to work on, so i thought i’d share it. 

my love (justin timberlake cover) mp3