Things I Find Amusing, Pt II

Orwell's Rules for Writers:

1. If it's possible to cut out a word, cut it out.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. Never use a passive when you can use an active.
4. Avoid foreign and technical words.
5. Never use a metaphor that you've seen in print.
6. Break any of these rules to avoid something outlandish.

Girl Crush Pt III

Picasso and Light

F. Scott Fitzgerlad

"But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing."

The Most Disturbing/Beautiful Trailer I've Seen:

Still Anxious for This:

My Top 10 Greatest Albums of the Last 5 Years:

10: Deerhunter, ‘Microcastle’
9: Liars, ‘Drum’s Not Dead’
8: Broken Social Scene, ‘Broken Social Scene’
7: Joanna Newsom, ‘Ys’
6: Animal Collective, 'Merriweather Post Pavilion'
5: J Dilla, ‘Donuts’
4: LCD Soundsystem, ‘LCD Soundsystem’
3: TV On The Radio, ‘Return To Cookie Mountain’
2: Radiohead, ‘In Rainbows’
1: Arcade Fire, ‘Funeral’

Dig for the Diamond

Almost Gave Me a Stroke

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Girl Crush Pt II

Please Disregard All Other Home Posts:

This is the real deal.

Things that Conjure Good Feelings:

• Fireworks
• Laying on Foss with my friends
• Really cold water
• Spontaneous road trips
• Listening straight through an entire album
• Men in suits
• Disneyland
• Bad puns
• Finding money in my pockets
• Hearing from old friends
• Making lists
• Bendy straws
• Magic tricks

My Next Christmas Present:

You Make Me Happy When Skies are Grey

To Blairpot:

The #1 service proving unicorns and rainbows to websites around the world. Click.

As Blair notes: "you have to drag it to your links toolbar at the top of the screen to "cornify" any webpage."

In Rainbows, Pt III

This Tree is 78 Years Old

Adventures in Wonderland, Pt II

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"

Things I Want Before I Die (Pt IV):

Nimbus 2000Personal jellyfish aquarium

Bed (minus cat)

To Cyrus:

One day you will fly me in one of these. I miss you so much right now.

Stare at This Long Enough and You'll Lose It:

John Engman

Of course, any young poet
should be able to describe a room,
a few pages of blue ink in a spiral notebook.
Any young poet should be able to describe a room
so poignantly it makes your eyes wet and you continue
reading with heavy sighs. But remember, there was a girl
on the bed, and we were in love, and the room was dark-
I really wasn't a poet yet. Sure, there should have been
a villanelle in her every move, her every look another
blank page torn from the moon, but my mind had a hole
worn through it by her touch, and the funny thing is,
I don't remember much.

People I'd Want to Have Dinner With, Pt II

Obama

Office Space Boys

Pharrell Williams

100 Abandoned Houses

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For Reverend Green

Things That Will Make My Life Easier:

But Really:

Director/drummer/artist Michel Gondry will draw your portrait for only $19.99! Check it out here. It takes 6-8 weeks, but I'm thinking it's well worth the wait.

Spring!

To Phoebe, my little flower.

Scheherazade

Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.
How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running
until they forget that they are horses.
It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio,
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
we’re inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it

-Richard Siken

Did You Know:

As of today over 1,320,110 Iraqis have died due to U.S. invasion.

Douglas

You'll never ever know how much I love you.

Take Offs and Landings

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Perspective

If You Give Me...

I will....Click

Forestbrain

Brainforest is the name of a piece by Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger. The amount of detail in their large scale installations is staggering.

Home, Pt XIV

Garden roof.