Life Imitates Art

I’ve been off school for a week with the dreaded swine flu. I’ve finally started to get...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:42:34 -0600

I’ve been off school for a week with the dreaded swine flu. I’ve finally started to get my strength back yesterday. Today I decided to walk to the famed Fairmont Bagel. I strolled home with warm seasame bagel. It was really lovely. Just when I begin to loath this city I fall back in love again.

"This is how it works. You’re young until you’re not. You love until you don’t. You..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:57:52 -0600

“

This is how it works.
You’re young until you’re not.
You love until you don’t.
You try until you can’t.
You laugh until you cry.
You cry until you laugh.
And everyone must breathe,
until their dying breath.

This is how it works.
You peer inside yourself.
You take the things you like,
and try to love the things you took.
And then you take that love you made,
and stick it into some—
someone else’s heart,
pumping someone else’s blood.

”

- Regina Spektor, On The Radio

"You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:07 -0500

“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time-back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.”

- Thomas Wolfe

Sometimes, my best has to be enough.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:30:08 -0500

Sometimes, my best has to be enough.

"You run through the forest, settle before the sun. Darling, I can barely remember you beside me. You..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:02:00 -0500

“You run through the forest, settle before the sun.
Darling, I can barely remember you beside me.
You should come back home, back on your own now.”

- Ragged Wood, Fleet Foxes

"Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:00:47 -0500

“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”

- The Mother, Bertolt Brecht

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough..."

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:40:25 -0500

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

- Matthew 6:34

"Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use..."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:43:21 -0500

“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another.”

- Immanuel Kant

If there wasn’t a minus amount of money in my bank account, I would have gone home by now.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:45:13 -0500

If there wasn’t a minus amount of money in my bank account, I would have gone home by now.

"But oh, my love, though our bodies may be parted, Though our skin may not touch skin. Look for me..."

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:08:30 -0500

“But oh, my love, though our bodies may be parted,
Though our skin may not touch skin.
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow.
I will come on the breath of the wind.”

- The Decemberists, Yankee Bayonet

Back to an old tradition. This week’s favorite PostSecret.

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:04:44 -0500

Back to an old tradition. This week’s favorite PostSecret.

"Truth is, as a base of operation, you cannot beat a fucking saloon."

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:02:04 -0500

“Truth is, as a base of operation, you cannot beat a fucking saloon.”

- Al Swearengen, Deadwood

Elizabeth I take II.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:34:25 -0500

Elizabeth I take II.

"I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare..."

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:32:33 -0500

“I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.”

- Elizabeth I

"Gets in his car and drives away, Far from all the things that we are. Puts on a smile and breaths it..."

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:30:00 -0500

“Gets in his car and drives away,
Far from all the things that we are.
Puts on a smile and breaths it in and breaths it out.
He says bye-bye, bye to all of the noise.
Oh he says bye-bye bye to all of the noise.
Hey child, things are looking down,
That’s okay you don’t need to win anyways.
Don’t be afraid just eat up all the gray,
and it will fade away.”

- Patrick Watson, The Great Escape

"‘Round about midnight when it’s still too hot to think We’ll go back down to the..."

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:24:00 -0500

“‘Round about midnight when it’s still too hot to think
We’ll go back down to the neighborhood and get ourselves a drink
Everyday working, not gettin’ far
No, this town ain’t much for startin’ up, it’s only made for stars
And here comes sad nights again
Here comes sad nights again.”

- Blue Rodeo, Sad Nights

"If there’s one thing I’ve learned about people, many will do anything — anything — not..."

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:35:08 -0500

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about people, many will do anything — anything — not to die. And they’ll do anything to keep from living their life.”

- Tuck Everlasting

I have been in my new city, and home, for one day plus a week now. Tomorrow I start classes. I am...

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:29:20 -0500

I have been in my new city, and home, for one day plus a week now. Tomorrow I start classes. I am terrified, excited, confused all in turn. I don’t know what to think. I’m going to hold my head high and give it my all. Because thats the best I can do.

"Whenever people say, ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about..."

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:11:44 -0500

“Whenever people say, ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to do something cruel.”

- Brigid Brophy

"I don’t give a damn what men find attractive. It’s unfortunate what we find pleasing to..."

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:42:27 -0500

“I don’t give a damn what men find attractive. It’s unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.”

- Pulp Fiction