“I Wanna Get Better”… At Updating This Site

Find out what I’ve been doing for the past four months. (Hint: It includes a lot of Tyler Perry, dying plants and attempts at writing.)

Soundtrack Of My Life: Running Songs

Hit the ground running with songs from CSS, Daft Punk, The Sounds and Shiny Toy Guns.

Soundtrack Of My Life: First Name Songs

Be on a first-name basis with Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs, The Shins and Elvis Costello.

Soundtrack Of My Life: Songs For The Elements

Bright Eyes, Jawbreaker, The Carpenters and Tegan & Sara commune with nature.

Soundtrack Of My Life: Infatuation Songs

Blondie, Kylie Minogue, No Doubt and Hall & Oats offer up a great stalker soundtrack.

Soundtrack Of My Life: Songs To Clean To

Ida Maria, Hellogoodbye, Two Door Cinema Club & Phoenix will make your shammy shimmy.

Soundtrack Of My Life: NSFW Songs That Have Me SMH

Let’s investigate Blood On The Dance Floor, Millionaires, Kreayshawn & Die Antwoord.

More about Leslie Simon

LESLIE SIMON is a writer, editor, and content strategist who treasures her business cards from past gigs at Paramount, Warner Records, MTV, and Alternative Press Magazine.

She is the co-author of the book Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture, in addition to being the author of books like Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks And Other Misfits Are Taking Over The World and Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes.

Leslie currently lives in Los Angeles where she enjoys watching past seasons of This Old House with her rescue pup Stanley Tucci.