WHY WE SHOULD TRY AGAIN

A powerpoint by Maddie Shipsides

PLAYLIST TO LISTEN TO WHILE POWERPOINT-ING

http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/KPP/74701557

Just press play, it might be a bit laggy, all the songs have significance. I’ll give you a little explanation for each one.

We’ve been “friends” for a long time!

THAT’S 5+ MONTHS BECAUSE WE WEREN’T FACEBOOK FRIENDS FOR A WHILE AND THAT’S A BIG DEAL

IN A CAVE

TOKYO POLICE CLUB

This song reminds me of you and all our text wars of back and forth lyrics to awesome songs, “you’re my cave and I’ve been hiding out” is just, about where you were in my life and how much I liked you, and how I hid in that hope that maybe someday we could be together even if you pushed me away.

We‘ve been “friends” for a long time!

I TALKED TO YOU ON TUMBLR THAT ONE TIME

Things That Mean A lot To Me http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNxpxUItDGM

This was supposed to be us, in the bus station or wherever we meet for the first time, and this is what it was supposed to be like.

And I know you know what I mean.

WAIT UP (BOOTS OF DANGER)

TOKYO POLICE CLUB

The whole persona of the song is kind of like, a changed relationship, one person falls in love and the other one falls out. I think that’s us? I still have all these delusions of what I want to happen that won’t and you’re just doing your thing. I still want you to “introduce me to your friends, with the music and the lights and everything” (I always imagined us meeting up at a concert and meeting eachothers friends), and I still want to be “making up for lost time, making it with me” (I’m still rooting for us, and want us to make it.)

This Was Supposed To Be Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObS8kK08zk&feature=fvwrel

They made it work, why can’t we.

END OF A SPARK

TOKYO POLICE CLUB

“we will always be newly weds” “a flash in the dark” – I was

sad, and you made me really fucking happy.

I just always thought if we were going to be a movie, this would be the music in our trailer. We’d rock the boxoffice.

Expectations of us meeting for the first time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=XwMHz5CNjBs

Context, you and whichever one of your friends you prefer are packing up to come to Toronto, and he bails last minute and so does my friend, but we go anyways. And we meet at the bus station and there's some much long-awaited couple stuff going on

KISS CAM

ARKELLS “our love never needed any pretty scenery”

(scenery meaning that there probably wasn’t any scenery, let alone a pretty one, meaning we never saw eachother)

“true love is always complicated, your friends never liked me much at all” (we live kilometers apart, that’s pretty complicated – and lol haley hates us.

“at a time you were kissing me, the camera caught chemistry, cheering for us in the cheap seats” – there WAS chemistry there, right?

I just really love kiss cam, I really love the arkells, I really love you

What would happen if you don’t give me a second chance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgC2rY5cjBs

Context is, basically, we meet at a county fair after not talking for a few months… and for some reason you’re eating hay alone in a corner and I’m not wearing a shirt and there’s clearly some sexual tension.

I’M NOT THE SUN

ARKELLS “your eyes light up, always the same,

just like I was taking you on a first date, give me a reason for feeling this way.” (you always had the brightest eyes, you’re always so shiny and happy, and I always wished for that first date where I could hold your hand for real and touch something real. Give me a reason for feeling this way means validate this whole thing, I don’t want this to be some dream I had, where we both walk away like none of it actually happened. Make it real.”

Late night skype-ing at it’s finest.

YOU LOOK ASIAN AND I’M SLEEPING

TRANSATLANTICISM

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

I NEED YOU SO MUCH CLOSER

And I love it (I was being hitler)

YOU MAKE FUN OF ME

CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

INGRID MICHAELSON

(ELVIS COVER)

From the trailer for Like Crazy, so I associate it with both that movie (couple tries to make it work long distance, meet other people, but find a way back to each other) and with the lyrics, obviously. “wise men say only fools rush in” maybe we were stupid for rushing into something that maybe couldn’t work. “Some things are meant to be, so won’t you please just take my hand” (maybe WE’RE meant to be)

PROS AND CONS

We can cuddle We can late night Skype I’ll have someone to talk about music

with We can be dorky together I’ll let you insult me if you let me

insult you I’ll rub your back for long period of

time I’ll stop making fun of the leafs I’ll still let you chirp the habs We can watch hockey together We can have a secret handshake We can take cute couple pictures We can make Haley really jealous

Literally no cons

Pros Cons

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OKAY “some days are so long” – hard spending days apart

“some things turn out wrong” – this PowerPoint is probably getting long and tedious and creepy.

“I want you to know it’s alright”

CHART OF HAPPINESS

THIS IS A CHART OF HOW HAPPY WE WOULD BE IF WE WERE TOGETHER, 10 IS THE MAXIMUM EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS IT GOES TO 12 IDK I’M BAD AT GRAPHS no

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A FAMOUS MUSICIAN’S INPUT ON THE SUBJECT

“Hi, I’m Dan Mangan, and I think this girl is really cool for making you a PowerPoint. She must like you an awful lot, dude. Just sayin’, you should probably give her a chance, man.”

THAT’S ALL, BYE.