#jon bellion

[commonrblog]

Made myself a new journal cover 🖤

[gluteus-canis-familiaris]

Love is forever stored in the Colorado Avalanche ❤️💙🤍

25-26 Avs to Father Figure by Jon Bellion

I had a whole edit waiting for when they finished the WCF :((((( had to put it on hold and made this instead to ease the pain by the slightest fraction :(((((

[wuntrum]

happy new jon bellion day

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[rafael-lins-ofc]

Solo Leveling

[asoftwindshield]

Question for the Will Smith (Hockey) editors- is there a reason why you don't use this song in edits? The chorus is literally "Will Smith bitch- I am feeling legendary" ??????

[ramsey-writes]

having jon bellion, troye sivan, AJR, and wrabel all release music in one day is absolutely fantastic.

[uhgoodmoni]

“Nothing’s gonna get in the way A thousand miles couldn’t kill the desire.” - In the Way by Christian Kuria

August for me is the spiritual beginning of the year. Summer is ending, and school is in session. This month feels like a reset even though it has been 3 years since I’ve attended a school. January and August have very similar feelings when it comes to the self, and preparing myself for success. As I prepared to write this month's blog post I actually wondered if I had been writing these for a year now. Close-ish, This will be month eight out of the twelve complete! Yay me! 

Since summer is ending, here is the songs that I had on repeat for the hot and rainy month of July: 

“THAT GUY” - by Tyler, The Creator

“Get Up (feat. Chamillionaire)” - by Ciara and Chamillionaire

“Romeo” - by Sublime

“Its You and Me” - by Alejandro Aranda

If you’ve paid any mind to my last few blog posts, then you can probably tell that I go through phases. I’ll lock in for a while, things will feel great, and then I’ll get back to old habits. For example, the last two weeks I’ve been pretty focused on creating a schedule for myself. I know to some extent I am neurodivergent but haven't bothered figuring out what exactly that means for me. I do know that setting up a schedule, setting up tasks that need to get done during the day helps me focus. 6:00 wake up, 6:30 write morning pages, 7:00 eat breakfast, so on and so forth. The last week has been pretty successful with my schedule. It's not imperfect. I don't always work out at the allotted time, or I don't read for the full thirty minutes that's been jotted down. Or sometimes, like right now I’m writing this instead of my morning pages (I procrastinated my blog post again). Today I chose to sleep in until 7 because I’ve been so tired. Because of that half of my morning schedule got condensed. 

Something is definitely missing from this schedule that keeps me going for longer than a month. There's a couple things that I have considered. I am a completionist and a slight perfectionist. If I mess up once I tend to give up the whole thing. If I sleep in once, I say oh it's okay I can sleep in again. I can also acknowledge that I am not getting enough sleep, which is what really holds me back from continuously waking up at 6:00 (even though I’ve been successful aside from today). I hardly get enough sleep even with the schedule I’ve laid out. I like to have free time that goes into the evening and because of that I am very tired. That tiredness slowly creeps up and causes me to sleep into my wake up time. Over and over again. 

With this fresh routine I wonder what songs I’ll be replaying as I struggle to balance life? Maybe these:

“Where Does the Time GO (feat. Joji) - by Rich Brian and Joji

“tongue” - by Dylan Reynolds

“KEEP IT SOUTHERN” - by BROCKHAMPTON

“FATHER FIGURE” - by Jon Bellion

Here’s the link to August, and those potential songs to get stuck in your head. 

“And I have a red kite I’ll put you right in it I’ll show you the sky” - Sister by Sufjan Stevens 

This month, my sister turns 21. She still doesn't feel like a full blown adult to me even so. She’ll always be my little sister. Despite feeling like she's still a kid, she's been making moves to show us otherwise. For, really the first time in our lives she won’t be living with me. For a year I lived with my grandma, just me, and then my sister moved in too. Then we lived with my aunt and uncle for a couple years. Now as she turns 21 she is finishing up her move into an apartment with her friends. 

It’s sad that I won’t hear her come home anymore. Even though her late night shenanigans kept me up, and her early morning alarm woke me up, I’ll be missing the times I can just walk down the hall to go sit in her room and steal some of her hot chips. Even now when I hear the front door open I wonder if it is her coming home after work. 

She’s a younger sister all right. She pisses me off, and stresses me out. But, I love her and I am proud to see her grow up and make life her own. Thankfully she's only moved 30 minutes away, when I know it could be a lot further. 

“So it seems I've lost my time… Looking for a place to go Finding my way Home” - Finding My Way Home by Far Caspian

The joy of having these little time capsule playlists is the surprises I find when I haven't gone back to them in a really long time. I get to re-discover music that apparently I once knew and loved. My first monthly playlist was made back in early 2017 so that means it will almost be 10 years of making playlists (though I skipped some years in between). Since I’ve been trying to focus on the old, and bring back goodies from these former years, I have spent a lot of time in the old playlists in preparation for the new ones. 

I discovered that I knew a couple songs by the Huntrix singers before they were Huntrix. Rei Ami, Audrey Nuna, and EJAE show up in my old playlists. I also discovered that I knew the song “Evergreen” by Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners when it came out back in 2017. RMCM are actually a local band to me, and I listened to them because a friend of mine in high school knew the band personally. Listening to my 2017 playlists I was able to find the history I had forgotten about. 

It’s been fun to learn things about my own music taste that somehow escaped me, and had just gotten lost in time. My taste has changed so much that I don’t even like a lot of the songs in my early playlists anymore. There are also songs I have a fresh new love for too. There are songs I do not ever even remember listening to on these playlists! It is great fun, and honestly I suggest to anyone reading to make them. Even if it isn't every month of the year, making a playlist that allows you to be transported in time is so satisfying. A satisfaction that for me is 9 years in the making. 

Are there songs you used to listen to you don't like anymore? Or songs you’ve rediscovered years after listening to them? Do you make monthly playlists or just one giant one?