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Top 5 or 6 songs about California. Any Suggestions?

Currently working on an article about this but i need help! We’re looking for songs that are about California but not the obvious ones (i.e. “California Girls,” etc).

Here’s the list I’m considering so far:

• “California Soul”-Diplo
• “City of Los(t) Ang(e)les”-Blu
• “L.A.”- Murs
• “Pacific Theme”-Broken Social Scene

here’s a couple that may be a bit too obvious but i’m still considering:

• “California”-Phantom Planet
• “Californication” -Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I need help though! I have until the 27th to get this to my editor.

i don’t pray, i listen…

This may sound odd, but it’s true. I’ve never been a very religious person, in fact, I know more about judiasm than i do christianity…i haven’t made up my mind on how i feel about God or higher beings…to me, religion is just something i try to never talk about because I just honestly don’t understand. I prayed last month for the first time that I could remember…only because someone’s health/life was in question… (someone i really cared about…maybe a bit too much). Regardless, I prayed for this person, and I don’t really know if it worked, I mean, he was fine after but now everything about that event is in question so who knows if I even prayed at the right time for the right reasons.

But anyway, whenever I’m feeling really out of it, i tend to listen to music. People always say “you should turn to god” but I don’t really know what that means, so I turn to something tangible. It may not fix a solution right away, but it can at least put me in a better mindset to deal with it myself. In moments in which I’m really homesick, or worried about my mother or any issue that involves my hometown, you would catch me listening to the smyrk on repeat for hours. I don’t really know why that happens but it just helps me wrap my mind about that issue at hand…

And right now, my mind is in a million places at once, worried about school, worried about what my life could have been had (insert situation) worked out, worried about my career a number of things. If i sit in silence or attempt to talk it out with someone…it really just sounds like jibberish…but if I put on Incubus…somehow it clears up… I don’t know. I’ve been stressing all morning and “Runaway train” came on my ipod and literally i just felt so much weight come off of me and I started to write down and sort through a bunch of things. maybe my music is my connection to this higher power? I don’t know, and I don’t want to really get into all that, but whatever it is, I’m so lucky to have it and so happy that it can help me make sense of everything.