"The bus pulls up, and the color really sort of irks me today - it doesn't fit in at all with the softness of the morning colors, it's like a giant WalMart smiley face stuck in the middle of an impressionist painting. Ick."

*can't stop giggling* Well, this year's novel is off to a pretty fantastic start... wow. I don't even know where that came from, but, it worked, so it's staying. There will be a post over on the NaNo blog later this evening, provided I can stop procrastinating. I AM PROCRASTINATING ALREADY and it's only the first day. I am so doomed. ^^;; BUT! I'm doing ok with my character. She has a voice, and though it's a little too close to what my own was in high school, I have hints of being able to pull her a bit farther from that, so yay.

However! I am now taking (ok, beggingpleading for, really) suggestions on her music! What's cool in the high schools now? Is it still the emo-punk thing it was a year or so ago? I'm aiming for a middle-higher level social group, like not the popular kids and not the general middleground, but right about in between. (Mel, I think it's the same area a lot of your friends are in.) So far, my playlist for her mirrors what's big on last.fm, as well as a few of my own assumptions: Killers, My Chemical Romance, a bit of Postal Service, Green Day's American Idiot album, Death Cab. So, suggestions and mp3s are more than welcome - I've already hit up Megs for new Killers stuff, some more MCR, and some Fall Out Boy. All contributions welcome!