It started feeling like October.

And now I have nothing music-related to look forward to for quite some time. Let me phrase that better. I have no new albums coming out in the near future that excite me half as much as even the mere idea of The Glass Passenger.

I pre-ordered Jack's Mannequin's new album approximately a month before its release. I still have not received my physical copy of the album, which comes with a lot of cool extra stuff. On October 1st, I was rather freaked out about this fact. And then I remembered the glorious fact that I still have the Zune pass. So, I went and downloaded The Glass Passenger in a matter of minutes, synced it to my Zune, and was on my merry way. I had my music; crisis averted.

As I was driving to boyfriend's house the other day, I started listening to the album. I do not normally like to do this. I either like to have a long drive where I can listen to the entire album uninterrupted, or I like to lock myself in my room in order to do the same. This is the first time that I have listened to something so anticipated in little pieces and chunks. It's a somewhat new experience, and it's not altogether horrible, either. Anyway, as I was driving to Boyfriend's, I had a perfect song moment. I had a perfect song moment with a song I don't even know that well yet. (Does that make me a music slut? Hm.) I think in order to effectively explain, I must first describe a perfect song moment.

For me, a perfect song moment usually happens when I'm driving. I don't know why; it just does. This moment requires that you are completely in your head, yet completely connected to everything going on around you. And in that moment, everything that you are thinking about, and everything that is going on around you sync up with the music in the most fantastic way. This happened as I was listening to "Swim." It's a song about kinda pushing forward no matter what, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with fall, but at that moment in time, it was the perfect background music for a perfect fall day. I was in my car; I had my new green coat on. As I drove across the bridge and looked over at the park, a football team was scrimmaging on the field. As I turned a corner, a schoolbus was just pulling up to a stop, and a crossing guard was waving little kids across the street. I just paused and thought, "This is it." And throughout all of this, "Swim" was playing through my speakers and just making everything seem right.

I think The Glass Passenger may become my fall album. Whenever I listen to it, I will think of fall. It will get heavy rotation during the months of September, October, and November. Everything In Transit is more of a transition album from Spring to Summer. The Glass Passenger is definitely fall. I love how I'm determining this and I haven't even listened to the whole thing yet.