Stuck

it's funny how things can get stuck in your head so easily.  i don't mean one song- although a song can drive someone insane!  i guess i don't mean 'stuck in your head' as i mean 'going on a [insert something here] kick'.

right now i'm on a butch walker kick.  i have been for about a month.  which means that i have listened to basically nothing but butch walker.  if you don't know who that is-a singer-songwriter, rocker, former 80's metal-band member and former 90's band member, and current awesome music maker.  he has produced albums for: pink, sevendust, pete yorn, family force 5, katy perry, panic! at the disco, dashboard confessional, the academy is..., avril lavigne, and the rocket summer (just to name a few)

i think i love his music because.... well.... its obvious in the music- its just catchy, connectable, and intimate.

but back to the point (if there is one)- i have been on a butch walker kick lately, and i don't really plan on getting off of it- the way he writes music and lyrics really inspires me to do all sorts of creative things, even if they are more on the depressing side.  i think its because instead of hiding emotions behind metaphors like most artists do, he makes the emotion a fore-front and pillar in the song, making every lyric drip with passion.

my top 5 favorite songs by him:

• don't move
• mixtape
• race cars and goth rock
• be good until then
• here comes the...

really, the entire album of letters is amazing, you can't go wrong. 

one of the songs that really gets me is "joan".  its an incredibly sad song, and when you hear him play it live on leavin' the game on luckie street, you can hear the crowd go deathly silent, as if each and every person held their breath the entire song.  it was amazing.

do you go through 'kicks'? if so, what kind of a kick are you on right now?