Simon 23:45

I got Piccolo another boyfriend. He is insane. He violently attacks shiny things and spends most of his life pacing, trying to get out of his cage and through that window where he sees the other birds. Or maybe upstairs where he can hear Piccolo singing happily. On some bird-brain level, he knows he can and should have better things, and they are right there. But I can't let him out until he's tamed, and he is not taming easily. This new environment is very different for him, after being shuffled around shelters his whole life, but it clearly does not yet seem better to him. Particularly because he is suddenly so unexpectedly alone, despite the fact that he never really bonded to any other birds he was with.

Playlist: Beautiful Songs 20:48

In my opinion, at least. Of course, there's so much beautiful music out there, but I'm trying to narrow it down to mostly stuff that makes me pee my pants and/or gives me tingles, maybe tears in my eyes too. I know, some of these songs aren't "good", but they're still damn pretty. Whatever, inevitably everyone on Earth will disagree with something here.

Here's the last.fm version, where you can listen to some of the songs for free. However, some of the songs linked to may be the wrong version, so here's a more specific list, since I have nothing else to do with my time but be accurate:

--The Beatles - Let It Be
--Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
--Bonobo - If You Stayed Over (Reprise)
--Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
--Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
--Broken Social Scene - Guilty Cubicles
--Coldplay - Fix You
--Coldplay - The Scientist
--Coldplay - See You Soon (live version is good too)
--Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
--Danny Elfman - Finale (I mean the one from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but really, I'm sure any Danny Elflman "Finale" is beautiful)
--Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
--Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Color
--Death Cab for Cutie - The Ice is Getting Thinner
--Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger
--Death Cab for Cutie - Transantlaticism
--Enya - Anywhere Is
--Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
--Fiona Apple - Across the Universe
--Fiona Apple - Never is a Promise
--Frou Frou - Let Go
--Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm (the first half at least)
--Goldfrapp - A&E
--Goldfrapp - Monster Love
--Jon Brion - Bookstore
--Jon Brion - Peer Pressure
--Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There
--Jon Hopkins - Light Through the Veins
--King's Singers - And So It Goes
--Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
--The Philadelphia Orchestra - Clair De Lune
--Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (live)
--Regina Spektor - Human of the Year
--Regina Spektor - Samson
--Sarah McLachlan - Blackbird
--School of Seven Bells - Face to face on High Places (not the extended version)
--Sia - Breathe Me
--Sigur Rós - Glósóli
--Sigur Rós - Starálfur
--Sigur Rós - Takk
--Stars - Tonight
--Thomas Newman - Plastic Bag Theme
--Thomas Newman - Road to Perdition
--Underworld - To Heal
--The Weepies - Nobody Knows Me At All
--Yann Tiersen - Good Bye Lenin
--Yann Tiersen - Tabarly

Continually in progress, of course. I have approximately a million more suggested songs to go through and possibly add here. Feel free to suggest more.