The Charles Loren Mini-Mix

Since several (read: precisely three) people on my FL have finished/are in the process of reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics, what better time could there be to upload a few songs that remind me of my favorite secondary character who nobody else cares about?

Quick! A multiple choice question. I love and adore Charles beyond all reason because:

a) Marisha Pessl makes it quite easy to imagine James Spader in the role and he reminds me of Alan maybejustalittle.
b) "He was the gold-limbed kid Fitzgerald would've picked out of the senior class photo and described with sun-soaked words like 'patrician' and 'of eternal reassurance.'"
c) He is endearingly sweet, frighteningly obsessive, and always sincere. And he tries to beat someone (a girl) up while on crutches.
d) He probably emerges from this whole debacle more fucked-up than anyone realizes.

The songs are all pretty much pop, but then he is a teenage boy. So without further ado...

( Charles Loren Mini-Mix )

And since I saw Once on Saturday and it's been in my head ever since, I'll throw in this, too.