windows are rolled down

{photo credit: weheartit.com}

it feels like the dead of summer, and it's only june 1st. uuuuuuugh. i've never been a summer person, but i try to have a good attitude about it...until the temperature rises above 75 degrees. i don't mind being sweaty when i'm running or working out or grubbing around town or playing outside. that's when you're supposed to sweat. but when i've actually taken a shower (!) and spent more than 2 minutes on my hair (!!), it makes me want to throw a temper tantrum when i step outside and everything melts. like throwing myself on the ground and crying kind of temper tantrum. justkiddingnotreally.

besides iced coffee and air conditioning, one thing that helps ease the pain of summer heat is a good playlist. riding down the highway with the windows rolled down, music blasting? i'm in. my roommate amy and i took a vacation to california last summer and did exactly that. we rented an electric blue mustang convertible and drove the 101 with the top down, singing songs about california the whole way. i felt like was the absolute coolest human being on planet earth.

{photo credit: me}

so, go put your bigger-than-the-national-debt shades on and crank up the music! here are some of my picks for my try-to-have-a-good-attitude-about-the-fact-that-it-feels-like-a-sauna-outside-even-though-it's-still-not-officially-summer playlist...

windows are rolled down : amos lee
the way we get by : spoon
fire and dynamite : drew holcomb and the neighbors
sweet disposition : temper trap
walking on a dream : empire of the sun
one less lonely girl : justin bieber (fever!)
something beautiful : needtobreathe
rooftop : emily hearn
california : phantom planet (you best believe this was the first song amy and i blasted in the stang)
wolf like me : tv on the radio
see the world : gomez
if it's love : train
you make my dreams : hall & oates (so classic, so good)

what are your fave songs to sing with the windows down? you can be honest. this is the (almost) no judgement zone. i say almost because if you name any songs by lady gaga, we can't be friends. i have standards.