Wednesday, December 30, 2009

chop another line

a guy at work today tried to get me to discount the velvet jacket he wanted because it had lint on it. even after i removed it using a lint brush he still wanted a discount caz it was still "dirty" as he called it. it's a velvet jacket, what do you expect? also, this was the 3rd time i'd dealt with the same guy coming in for the saaaaame jacket. he still didn't buy it.

know what i'm sick of? fake laughs and fake smiles. you can always tell.

one thing that attracts me to people (for friendship and otherwise) are genuine smiles (well genuine people in general). when you're happy, you make others happy.

laughter is good for the soul they say. apparently your body can't tell your real laughs from your fake laughs, so if you're in a bad mood, start "laughing" and it should make you feel better. at least a little bit. if nothing else you'll probably smile at how silly you sound.

i need another karaoke night soon. i've realized i haven't sung my karaoke night song is too long:

Thursday, December 24, 2009



just watched (500) days of summer. i thought it was lovely.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

personal book keeping

disclaimer: this post will probably disinterest anyone but me.

so i keep a paper calendar by my desk to keep track of when i work and such. it also works as a note pad for quotes and things i think are nice, as well as lots of songs i mean to check out or download, etc. as this calendar comes to an end, i'm reflecting on all the things i've written in it's borders. it starts april '09, so so shall i:

April '09:
-volunteer committee at # _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ ext. _ _ _
-come find me
-stop waiting
-my girls - animal collective
-the devils crayon - wild beasts

May '09:
-be careful when you fight monsters lest you become one
-if it bores you, don't do it
-may i be i
-you're the ache i feel in every song
-to destroy is always the first step in every creation

June '09:
-i wish for you on eyelashes
-let's go to sleep with clearer heads and hearts too big to fill our beds and maybe we wont feel so alone before we turn to stone
-amon tobin - easy muffin/warsaw village band

July '09:
-real men read
-they love me they leave me
-hearts break, but circles go on forever
-tarnation rudoycursi
-grovsner/kingsly
-_ _ _ cordova - black fence

August '09:
-you've passed - neutral milk hotel
-i move the stars for no one
-oatmeal kisses
-a day in the graveyard - sunset rubdown
-foreign born - vacationing people
-the rake song - the decemberists
-all my little words - the magnetic fields
-real love - john lennon
-frontwards - pavement
-a hand to take hold of the scene - okkervil river
-sunlight - harlem shakes

September '09:
-be good - tokyo police club
-_ _ _- _ _ _ _
-_ _ _-_ _ _ _ - Alan
-_ _ _-_ _ _ _
-mumford sons - little lion man
-all good things are wild and free
-be who you are and say what you feel
-_ _ _ Augusta
-&
-the story is never over

October '09:
-all my days - alexi murdoch
-golden brown - the stranglers
-perpetuum mobile - penguin cafe orchestra
-fact: girls are tougher than tigers
-the pixies - where is my mind
-VHKLHD

November '09:
-keep calm and put the kettle on
-i think it would be fun to shape shift
-turn me sideways

December '09:
-i got 99 donuts caz a bitch ate one


kinda funny because a lot of these things bring back really random memories. all the phone numbers and house addresses remind me of people and parties past. lots of the quotes are from when i was thinking of getting a script tattoo and trying to find something i liked. and "VHKLHD" is definitely a password for a video game i was playing lol. 2009, you've been an interesting and unexpected year.

you forgot it in people

i always forget how much i like this album. it's one of those albums where every song makes me feel right.




kc accidental


stars and sons


shampoo suicide


lover's spit

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

alma. carol of the bells.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.



Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

blog attack

if you're looking for some new blogs to creep i reccommend any links i posted over there --->

i find the best pictures and quotes and lovely things at:
funeral face
apologies
lonely ghost
too m^ny
upon the mountain top
weird fish

nice art things from:
little paper planes
urban sketchers
who killed bambi

sweet photography things from:
epicly later'd
the selby

and entertaining blogs in general:
i'm boy crazy
learn something every day
letters from the end consumer
my milky toof

Monday, December 21, 2009

leftovers for lunch









interesting creatures.

people often amaze me.


























girls and tigers













animal galore.

wording is everything

i'm about to begin a major photo explosion. a somewhat categorized explosion. starting with words.

"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
-life of pi

"When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years."
-alex garland












when i was a kid...i had no reservations about anything. i don't remember ever being nervous.