Home

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.

-Garden State

to do list

Break the mold.

Turn the tables.

Buck the trend.

Raise the bar.

Up the ante.

Tip the scales.

Shuffle the deck.

Jerk the chain.

Lead the charge.

Roll the dice.

Bet the ranch.

Beat the odds.

ripped from a magazine at salon

Mr. Please Please dies at 73

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.

Just Jack - Snowflakes

research + fashion =

benjamin cho's spring 2007 collection

*fabulous*

Regina Spektor

New and original music out of New York's hybrid scene. I heard these today and fell instantly in love.

Conversation

todd andrew melville says:
If your actions affected millions of people...
what would you say?

Couture Cowgirl says:
people aren't judging you.
you are judging yourself.

Extraordinary Machine

Fiona channels old world Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland in her new Extraordinary Machine.

Flow

Photograph: Anonymous c. 1890

Erotic Poetry by Robert W. Birch, Ph.D.