You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
I got the somethin' that makes me wanna shout I got that thing, tell me what it's all about I got soul, ha, and I'm super bad, heh! Got the move that tells me what to do Sometimes I feel so nice, I said I wanna tie myself to a fuse, huh, I I, I, I got soul, heh, and I'm super bad!
My father grew up in St. Louis worshiping this man - the blues, the songs, the energy above all else. He used to tell me stories about going to the Firehouse to see James and being the only white kid in the crowd. I can understand it. Crazy he may be, but listening to Livin' in America on full blast in the living room while your usually stiff and serious father lets loose on the floor just gives you a sense of just how magical music is.
Today I learned how to play cribbage from a schizophrenic man. He alternated between giving me instructions, and reading from an upsidedown biochemistry textbook. Which he scribbled in incoherently.
We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.
Written to benefit UNICEF's Halloween Trick or Treat Fund
North American Halloween Prevention Initiative: Arcade Fire's Win & Regine + Redd Kross' Steve McDonald + Beck + R.E.M.'s + Joey Waronker + Buck 65 + Rilo Kiley's Jenny & Black + David Cross + Roky Erickson + Devendra Banhart + Sloan's Chris Murphy + Elvira, Mistress of the Dark + Smoosh's Asya & Chloe + Feist + Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore + Gino Washington + Sparks' Russel Mael + Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler + Subtitle + Islands' J'aime + Sum 41's Stevo + Malcolm Mclaren + Tagaq + Peaches + That Dog's Anna Waronker + Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello + Wolf Parade's Dan & Spencer + Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O
"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didnt see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."
Dogs were whistling a new tune Barking at the new moon Hoping it would come soon so that they could die
Honestly what will become of me I don't like reality It's way too clear to me But really life is daily We are what we don't see We missed everything daydreaming
Flames to dust Lovers to friends Why do all good things come to an end
Travelling I always stop at exits Wondering if I'll stay Young and restless Living this way I stress less I want to pull away when the dream dies The pain sets it and I don't cry I only feel gravity and I wonder why
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day until the feeling went away And the clouds were dropping and the... The rain forgot how to bring salvation The dogs were whistling a new tune barking at the new moon Hoping it would come soon so that they could die
People need outlets. Outlets for sex, jealously, love, greed, affection,violence. Anyone who studies the subject knows that energy cannot be reduced or annihilated; if denied outlet in one form, it soon finds it in another. However, in these substitue forms it is more insistent and obsessive in character than when normally expressed.
Good Charlotte's video for "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl"
Let the record play, Let the record play, Let the record play.
The way that you dance, The way that you move, The way that you stare at me across the room, You carry Dior bags, And you got your Chanel, You wear Louis Vuitton, HG, and YSL, Now I got what you need, I got DCMA I got brass knuckles hanging, From my neck in my chain, I got a model 26, But she stays in her place, I got a curve shirt neatly, Tucked inside in my waist.
sometimes i feel like i am just a well-dressed caboose on a train full of leaders.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
"As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any. Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so that I could get an abortion. If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side."
~filmaker John Waters
Monday, October 23, 2006
Lily Allen - Littlest Things
Flawless Lily from the U.K. Very 30's Hitchcock. Great melody, voice, piano, and overall execution.
"People break down into two groups when they experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance. I'm sure the people in Group number two are looking at those fourteen lights in very suspicious way. For them, the situation isn't fifty-fifty. Could be bad, could be good. But deep down, they feel that whatever happens, they're on their own. And that fills them with fear."
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." We like familiarity don’t we? People, places and things that we have knowledge of or have encountered or seen bring us some form of comfort, safety, security and an element of control. I think of how many folks stay stuck in relationships, jobs, geographically etc. simply because they are familiar with their surroundings. For some it means giving up control of their life and to trust in fate. Sometimes the unfamiliar is just so cold, aloof, unfriendly, and leaves that empty homesick feeling in the pit of our stomach.
"Wow, you're really nice. I thought you were such a bitch." Conclusion: smile more.
"Has anyone ever told you you look like Jodie Foster??" Conclusion: kill. and kill again.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
"What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?" – Scarlett Johansson, voted Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive, on her other attributes
At any given moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don’t have control over most of them. When we get a chill...goose bumps. When we get excited...adrenaline. The body naturally follows it’s impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we would rather not control, that we later wish we had.
Parkour (IPA: [paʁ.'kuʁ], often abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant — called a traceur (/tʁa.'sœʁ/) — attempts to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible, using skills such as jumping, vaulting and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves. The obstacles can be anything in the environment, so parkour is often practiced in urban areas because of many suitable public structures, such as buildings, rails, and walls.
Madonna - Jump (preview)
There’s only so much you can learn in one place The more that I wait, the more time that I waste
I haven’t got much time to waste, it’s time to make my way I’m not afraid of what I’ll face, but I’m afraid to stay I’m going down my own road and I can make it alone I'll work and I'll fight, Till I find a place of my own
Are you ready to jump? Get ready to jump Don’t ever look back, oh baby, Yes, I’m ready to jump Just take my hands Get ready to jump
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
today i hate complainers, the idea of falling,green foods, silence, and the color orange when not used appropriately.