~JASON MRAZ~

disclaimer: apologies in advance... it's finals week, and i need to keep my mind off of things for a while. i may have gone over the edge, but again, it's finals week, indulge me. :)




two people today in class told me they had never heard of him before, who is he? he self-describes his music as "hip hop in flip-flops", but he's hard to classify. passionate, can improv for hours, sweet, thoughtful, hilarious, random, and his music is always interesting. you just have to watch him perform.

my favorite songs: (of the moment) 0% Interest, The Dreamlife of Rand McNally, Hey Love, Spinning, and the ones listed below.

i'll let him describe himself, through his lyrics and his own words.


"This is the most unusual story, of a most unusual girl
She stood painting, of a most unusual world
She can crawl out of frame while she's hanging on the wall,
and she's calling my name; she's not so usual"
-So Unusual

"Can you believe it
My whole world well its fallin' apart
well it falls, still it falls, well it falls apart around me

And I don't wish, to know my ending, mmmmm
I just say I wanna know when I begun
I wanna know where it started from

I'm breathing all of the tears that you cry,
all the tears that you cry, every breath that you sigh"
-"Spinning"

"There's things to know,
And so we're told,
But the days,
Keep rolling on so painfully slow,
They say there's ways to grow,
But blow by blow,
Ya see, it all gets lost somewhere,
See, I already forgot.

So sing out loud,
Sing out loud,
You can be another mother* singing proud,
Singing glory,
Glory,
Remind me, glory, glory, glory, hallelu..

We should all keep pretending,
That our dreams are patent pending,
You should see,
Some of the scenes that I've seen,
And I know love,
Cause I've flown above,
And beyond,
But it's still too long of a wait."
-10,000 Mother*s (That'll Do)

his most memorable valentine's: "Right before I moved to California, I was hanging out with this dude. He was a really good friend of mine, and he was helping me out with a lot of stuff. He was gay and on Valentine's Day we went to this really nice restaurant. I didn't even realize it, but all of a sudden it dawned on me that I had been dating him for the last two months! I was like, "Think about it! We go out, we have a lot of fun, and the next day I'd call and we'd set up another date." When he bought me Valentine's dinner at this wonderful French restaurant, I said, "I'm dating you - aren't I?" And of course, I bailed. It was wild."

"Cause you and I both loved,
What you and I spoke of...
Others only dream of the love that I love
...
and others just read of and if you could see now,
well I'm already finally out of words"
-You and I Both


another thing that feeds my obsession: you can download almost every show he's given in the past few years, here:
Live Music Archive: Jason Mraz.

jason mraz: video