If you are as pathetic and self-deprecating as me, put these on today. It won’t make you feel better, but it’ll be an accurate soundtrack to your misery:
1. Saints and Sailors - Dashboard Confessional
2. My Side of the Story - Hodge
3. Brick - Ben Folds Five
4. Love Ridden - Fiona Apple
5. Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
6. I Taught Myself How to Grow Old - Ryan Adams
7. Tiny Vessels - Death Cab for Cutie
8. Montreal - Of Montreal
9. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
10. A Wish - Gregory and the Hawk
11. Wreck of the Day - Anna Nalick
12. Something Vague - Bright Eyes
13. How to Fight Loneliness - Wilco
14. Perfect Blue Buildings - Counting Crows
15. Maybe Sprout Wings - The Mountain Goats
16. Hurt - Johnny Cash
17. Asleep - The Smiths
(additionally anything by Fiona Apple and the whole Get Lonely album by The Mountain Goats do the job).