September 2009
Melanie - Brand New Key
Some people say I done...
“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via redrightankle)
Nico - These Days
I’ve stopped my...
So.
I try not to let this blog get too Tumblr in-jokey. I don’t like when things on the internet become overly self-referential.
But!
I just have to say that I want this girl and this boy to fall in love. I really think they would hit it off. They’d have sardonic conversations in hidden little coffee shops where they’d make witty observations about people outside the window. They...
“So I was hanging out with a boy tonight, and that was great and all… But...”
– kiamatthews
THANK YOU.
Jenny Owen Youngs - Drinking Song
I’ve...
“But the other pain…
I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins...”
– Anne Sexton, excerpts from The Big Boots of Pain
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Melt Your...
“I’ll make REAL sandwiches - BIG ones a man can sink his teeth into and use...”
– Mermaids
Sing-Sing - Sing Me a Song
oh yeah.
good song...
Wearing a uniform every day has made me completely fashion starved and consequently unable to distinguish appropriate attire for casual occasions. Last night I went to a burger joint with my mom and grandma. I wore four inch heels.
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
This Message is Brought To You By Boy Bands, Mandy...
Today I found a mix cd in the basement entitled Summer 2001. I had made it. I listened to it on the way to work and was appalled and also kind of pleased (!) to find out that I still knew all the lyrics to (relatively?) obscure Backstreet Boys songs.
The Pierces - Secret
Cause two can keep a...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Party Dresses
Listen:
I get why certain restrictive social practices are in place. I shouldn’t say aloud every thought that comes into my head because it would not be particularly diplomatic. I shouldn’t eat candy and french fries for every meal because I would get sick and then die. I shouldn’t drive recklessly, no matter how good the song on the radio is because it’s important to...
“Girls, it honestly doesn’t feel like long ago… you were little, and...”
– via an e-mail from my mom.
“I would like to watch you do your every day things, to sit by in silence and...”
– expectingrain
This is the thing that is surprising to me no matter how many times I relearn it - how relationships unmask us and allow us to see each other in all our unremarkable routine. And how thrilling that can be.
Ben Folds Five - Gone
Mostly, I fall in love with...
“Dear Diane, I’ll always be there for you. All the love in my heart, Lloyd.”
– Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
“Charlie, you fucking bitch, let’s work it out!”
– Rob Gordon, High Fidelity
Well, When I Said Anything, I Didn't Mean Anything
I finally finished watching Say Anything for the first time. I’m confused. Do people like it because it’s comically bad? Because John Cusak talks very quickly? Because Ione Skye’s mouth is mesmerizing? I think everyone confuses movies that are infinitely quotable with movies that are actually good. Say Anything is the former.
You know what? Lloyd Dobler is not even that great a...
“Facts versus romance - you go and call yourself The Boss.
Text versus romance -...”
– Rilo Kiley, Science Vs. Romance
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely
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