heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me when you smile

She is like silver

[Cat Power]


[Cat Power]


[Cat Power]

saw a bird fall like a hammer from the sky

[10th and Carpenter]


[i could be]

Iron and Wine - Walking Far From Home

Not for all my little words

[99 ¢ DREAMS]


[Lucy under the tree]

"Life seemed to be filled with things that were just like the Ghost Orchid, wonderful to imagine and easy to fall in love with, but a little fantastic, fleeting, and out of reach."
- Susan Olean, Adaptation

The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words

and you used to love me that way

[reposted from cosmic-dust]

The Magnetic Fields - Grand Canyon

The Cure - Plainsong [live]

sometimes you make me feel
like I'm living at the edge of the world

Our tender bellies wound around in baling wire

[Mask print]

Iron and Wine - Resurrection Fern (live)

The National - 29 Years

I have no heart, the swan is gone
and now I wear the wings

Paper Mache

[Mask no. 1]

My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult - Daisy Chain 4 Satan
Simon Hinter - Take Care

yeh. oh yeh.

From The House Book, by Terence Conran, 1974


Found this blog while searching for where to get Twen magazines online. Its a goldmine.

So is Twen, btw. I bought several of the magazines off a man at Columbus flea market years ago, for cheap. If I hadn't pinned their contents into my ongoing wall collage, they'd be worth $70 a pop. From a design standpoint, they just don't make 'em like these anymore. Apparently the Wiki has been deleted.


"Soul, turn orange-colored. Soul, turn the color of love." Frederico Garcia Lorca

Tame Impala - The Bold Arrow of Time

If only you could see into me

Baby makin's music.

Uh-huh uh-huh.

uhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I can change

if it helps you fall in love

i'm scared of the little place between light and nowhere

[rush hour]

Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
Antony Hagerty - If It Be Your Will (Cohen cover)

I'd give it to you, you, you

Corgasm

[eh]

Smashing Pumpkins - Jellybelly
Smashing Pumpkins - Jellybelly [demo]

to make yourself feel better
you make is so you'll never
give in to your forevers
and live for always
and forever, forever, you're forever to be
forever, forever, you're forever to me


This song rocks so hard.

Cache Rules Everything Around Me

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

[Tongue Monster]

Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
(This one ends on a low note, but keeps you climbing until the end. One of the most beautiful songs of all time. Thank you, "Natural Born Killers" for bringing it back into memory.)


Anais Mitchel feat. Justin Vernon - If It's True
I'm OD'ing on Justin Vernon, as of late. No doubt the early-fall brisk weather has something to do with it. I can't put into words how much I admire that man. He melts me.

you ranged real hot and real cold but i'm sold. i am home on that range.

everything i always knew but never said, of course.

blind to the tide that turns the sea

*glitch at 1:22. Oh well.

You've been going thru my mind all this time
On the left, i confess, we're not right
but try as i might,
my heart puts up a fight.
So I say "Fare thee well,"
and carry your heart within mine.

No sleep, nor dreaming, can quell
endless thoughts of you.

It's crazy what you could have had

I can't sleep tonight. I'm drunk on wine and have no care that I have work at 9 (up at 7).

I spent the evening filling in some of the white space of my walls (its an ongoing process,) and I'm pleased with the results, thus far.

I have purple lips and tinted teeth.

I do wish I had a bed buddy. Just for the night.

More importantly tho, REM are underrated.

and we deserve what we get

Hesselein

One of the coolest kids in high school that I didn't really know.

Fat Fuzzy Mother

(for some reason I couldn't get her Facebook to post. She definitely has one.)

Hot Chip - I Feel Better*
Hot Chip - I Feel Better (club mix feat. Bonnie Prince Billy)

[Bonnaroo '10]

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?

[You Made Shade for Me]

HAHA @ Bonnaroo

[YouTube.. with lyrics!] Does Not Suffice- Joanna Newsom

I'll tuck away my gilded buttons
I'll bind my silks in shapeless bales
Wrap it all up in reams o' tissue
And then I'll kiss you sweet farewell

All at Once

[my stuff]

All at Once - Jack Johnson

i'll reach to you from where time just cant go...

[CDs, tapes, & LPs @ The Record Collector, Bordentown, NJ]

O. V. Wright - 8 Men, 4 Women

Pursuit of Happiness

[Communal Back Yard. Kensington.]

Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT & Ratatat) - Pursuit of Happiness

what does it mean?

[visai cia pat. girl at kensington kinetic sculpture derby, 5/22].

[in your hands]

i may walk home alone
but my faith in love is still devout
- morrissey

How To Dress Well (& Cokc Dokc) - Ready for the World
Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT & Ratatat) - Pursuit of Happiness

O.N.E + Grizelda

hold me like before. hold me like you used to. control me like you used to.

I crippled your heart a hundred times and still can't work out why

[Scott Hutchison]

Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper

@ First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia.
April 30,2010

not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

david choe

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?*

Decisions

HOW TO DRESS WELL - "Decisions" (feat. Yüksel Arslan) from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

and there you were under the tree of song

In truth I only really wanted to be wanted by you

I only wanted to be wonderful
and wonderful is true

[photo by Miss E.A.H]

Bright Eyes - Its Cool We Can Still Be Friends
you say that i hurt you in a voice like a prayer

Bright Eyes - Lua
And I'm not sure what the trouble was
That started all of this
The reasons all have run away
But the feeling never did
It's not something I would recommend
But it is one way to live
Because what is simple in the moonlight
By the morning never is

lord knows i'm weak

all my preconceptions have been broken down

on a side note,

sometimes i'm too tired to tough it out. ya heard.

Jack Johnson - All At Once

all at once the world can overwhelm me
there's almost nothing you that you could tell me
that could ease my mind
which way will you run
when its always all around you
and the feelings lost and found you again
a feeling that we have no control

i give my gun away when its loaded

before you can (re-post)

[empty chairs]

And before you can get out of bed, you have to stop being so depressed.
And before you can stop being so depressed, you have to understand what depression is.
And before you can understand what depression is, you have to think clearly.

And before you can choose who that person is, you have to like someone.
And before you can like someone, you have to interact with someone.
And before you can interact with someone, you have to introduce yourself.
And before you can introduce yourself, you have to be in a social situation.
And before you can be in a social situation, you have to be invited to something somehow.
And before you can be invited to something somehow, you have to receive a telephone call from a friend.
And before you can receive a telephone call from a friend, you have to make a reputation for yourself as being sort of fun.
And before you can make a reputation for yourself as being sort of fun, you have to be noticeably fun on several different occasions.
And before you can be noticeably fun on several different occasions, you have to be fun once in the presence of two or more people.

And before you can want your psychological state to be altered, you have to recognize that your current psychological state is unsatisfactory.
And before you can recognize that your current psychological state is unsatisfactory, you have to grow tired of your lifestyle.
And before you can grow tired of your lifestyle, you have to repeat the same patterns over and over endlessly.
And before you can repeat the same patterns over and over endlessly, you have to lose a lot of your creativity.
And before you can lose a lot of your creativity, you have to stop reading books.
And before you can stop reading books, you have to think that you would benefit from reading less frequently.
And before you can think that you would benefit from reading less frequently, you have to be discouraged by the written word.
And before you can be discouraged by the written word, you have to read something that reinforces your insecurities.
And before you can read something that reinforces your insecurities, you have to have insecurities.
And before you can have insecurities, you have to be awake for part of the day.
And before you can be awake for part of the day, you have to feel motivation to wake up.
And before you can feel motivation to wake up, you have to dream of perfectly synchronized conversations with people you desire to talk to.
And before you can dream of perfectly synchronized conversations with people you desire to talk to, you have to have a general idea of what a perfectly synchronized conversation is.
And before you can have a general idea of what a perfectly synchronized conversation is, you have to watch a lot of movies in which people successfully talk to each other.
And before you can watch a lot of movies in which people successfully talk to each other, you have to have an interest in other people.

And before you can be emotionally wounded, you have to be treated badly by someone you think you care about while in a naive, vulnerable state.
And before you can be treated badly by someone you think you care about while in a naive, vulnerable state, you have to feel inferior to that person.

And before you can feel embarrassed about your real interests, you have to realize that your interests are different from other people's interests.
And before you can realize that your interests are different from other people’s interests, you have to be regularly misunderstood.
And before you can be regularly misunderstood, you have to be almost completely socially debilitated.
And before you can be almost completely socially debilitated, you have to be an outcast.
And before you can be an outcast, you have to be rejected by your entire group of friends.
And before you can be rejected by your entire group of friends, you have to be suffocatingly loyal to your friends.
And before you can be suffocatingly loyal to your friends, you have to be afraid of loss.
And before you can be afraid of loss, you have to lose something of value.
And before you can lose something of value, you have to realize that that thing will never change.

Chelsea Martin, "McDonalds Is Impossible" from No Posit, Volume 1. Copyright © 2008 by Chelsea Martin

re-posted from Achtung Baby!

Want you here tonight

your mouth
your mouth
your mind...

They say if you're looking there ain't nothing to find

[Market East Mirror]

Black Horse Motel - Here Goes

Wheres the feedback, turn up the gain
put these ghost stories to rest
and neutralize your pain
Do your worst or do your best,
its all the same
Here goes...
do you even remember my name?

Waiting to go home

[just passing through. view from the el, philadelphia]

Jack Johnson - Monsoon.
... they break like waves of sorrow always do
all in due time...

Jack Johnson - Angel
we share the same soul

Sublime - Badfish
and got no quarrels with God
ain't got no time to get old

I can try, I can try

I was never, no I was never, no I was never enough
But I can try, I can try, to toughen up
I listened when they told me, when he burns you let him go
Change is hard, I should know

[YouTube] The Beatles - I Should Have Known Better

Let it fall. Let it fall.

[Man in the snow]

Radiohead - How I Made My Millions

oh, you sweet thing

[Ludo Love]

when it comes to love, i don't know a goddamn thing.

my heart does what it pleases. it does not listen to me.


Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
you shall take me strongly in your arms again
and i will not remember that i ever felt the pain

The Revolutionary Costume

snow dick and balls

[snow dick and balls]

God I love Philly.

that ain't all Sam will do for you...

[Enchantment Under the Sea @ 2424 Studios, Philadelphia. 02.13.10]

Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me (live @ Harlem Square 1963)

you know I'll always be your slave
till I'm buried in my grave..

we almost won. politics. politics.

If You Go Straight Long Enough You'll End Up Where You Were

[YouTube] Muse - Thoughts of a Dying Atheist (live)
[YouTube] Modest Mouse - Third Planet (live)

you're stuck in my mind all the time

[morning]

Yeasayer - I Remember
I remember making love on a Sunday
like throwing hearts in a fresh cut grass in May

inside your head theres a record playing

[robert james @ the loft, audubon, nj]

"Existentially, the activity of pursuing rational goals is the activity of maintaining one's life; psychologically, its result, reward and concomitant is an emotional state of happiness.

It is by experiencing happiness that one lives one's life, in any hour, year or the whole of it. And when one experiences the kind of pure happiness that is an end in itself- the kind that makes one think: "This is worth living for" - what one is greeting and affirming in emotional terms is the metaphysical fact that life is an end in itself." - Ayn Rand

Tom Waits - Hold On

Scarlett Johansson - Falling Down (Tom Waits cover)
she wants you to steal and get caught
cuz she loves you for all that you're not

now that you've found it, its gone

[forest]

Radiohead - Nude (Live on the Johnathan Ross Show)
Radiohead - Last Flowers (Live @ the Basement)

have i got these memories, or have they got me?

[cat power]

Cat Power - Sea of Love (Velvet Underground cover)
Cat Power - I Found a Reason (Velvet Underground cover)
Cat Power - She's Got You (Patsy Cline cover)

Nothing is given to man on earth..

[Reflecting on Philadelphia. g. originals]


[Philadelphia City Hall. Nimo Photography]

"Nothing is given to man on earth except a potential and the material on which to actualize it." -Ayn Rand

its the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

[excerpt "Sweet Transvestite" with audience participation]

well you got caught with a flat well, [FUCK MY CAT] how 'bout that
well, babies, don't you panic
by the light of the night it will all seem alright
i'll get you a satanic mechanic

why don't you stay for the night
or maybe a bite
i can show you my favorite [POSITIONS] obsession

i've been making a man with [A LONG DICK IN HIS HAND] blond hair and a tan

he's good for relieving my [ANAL] tension

in my world shes dancing alone for my eyes

[Cemetery Sky. Centralia, PA]

J. Ralph - When She Dances
J. Ralph - One Million Miles

i'm not your second, i'm not your third..

[broken bedroom]

then when there's no one to care
i could protect you like i've always been there
i'll become your bear

..i'll hide your locket under the dirt..

[YouTube] M. Ward - I'll Be Yr Bird
[YouTube] Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing