April 2010
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
Good song to listen to...
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Lust, Caution
I went to Union Square today and walked around the vendors in the park, ogling the dried flowers, art on canvas, homemade chocolate chip cookies. At a market I bought a small bouquet of flowers for my kitchen table - fairy roses in fuchsia and pale pink and coral.
I eventually made my way over to Anthropologie and decided to move in. Dear god I love that store. One day my home will feel just like...
March 2010
“i hasten to complete my list before i am interrupted. in the green group, there...”
– v. nabokov - speak, memory (via littlepotato)
This makes a lot of sense to me. Sometimes I think I might be crazy and then I realize that that would be ok.
“So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but...”
– Charles Bukowski (via whokilled)
There Is a Season (Turn Turn Turn)
Today I saw a photograph of people in a sunny, sparkly pool and my mouth literally watered. I know I’ll regret saying this, but… bring on the heat. I am so ready for summer. I mean spring. Whatever.
Anonymous asked: Can you post pictures of your apartment? Im curious to see what it looks like after hearing so much about it and to see how you decorate it since you have such great taste!
The Good Life
Not having a job is really great so far. However, in order to keep my anxieties at bay I try to do one or two responsible things per day (so far they are things like: set up bank account, call about potential job interview, locate post office, mail rent check, etc.). After I do the Big Girl Stuff in the morning, I am free to do whatever I want (so far, because it’s been so rainy, these have...
A Night At The Library Bar
So last night I checked out Union Hall and went to this Chatroulette comedy show they were doing downstairs. It was basically group chatroulette and we talked to everyone who would talk to a bar full of people and girls held up numbers to rate the penises. The hosts seemed really unprepared, but it was still funny. I stayed for an hour and then felt bored and walked home.
While I was there, I...
Laura Marling - Man Sings About Romance
I...
Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New...
So, stupid question - how do I find out about Tumblr meet ups? I’m not above begging people from the internet to be my friend.
Start Spreading the News
I am sitting on my bed, eating a kebab, in my wonderful new apartment in Park Slope. I am the luckiest girl in the world.
I am seriously over the moon. I love this place. Right now, there are boxes everywhere, but things are shaping up nicely. There is soap in my shower and books in my shelves and wine on top of my fridge. I can’t believe this whole apartment is mine. I can’t believe...
Sia - Lentil
I’m completely obsessed with...
New York State of Mind
I’m sitting on my empty bedroom floor, so incredibly anxious for the move tomorrow. Everything has been packed in the U-Haul and my dad and I will set out tomorrow around 6:30 AM. I’m not sure what I feel for this place - this home that was never really my home. I feel sadder about leaving my car. I’m giving it away. I’ll miss that old junker. Yesterday I went to the bank...
Moving to Brooklyn in 3 days. I can’t breathe.
Ingrid Michaelson - Giving Up
What if...
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep
You heard me mumble motherfucker when I discovered my torn laptop case, and you told me not to get so upset about the little things. What I wanted to tell you, but didn’t, was that all the little things are starting to feel like a great big thing. And the Great Big Thing is getting bigger than I am. Once I carried it in my palm, then I carried it on my back, now I drag it along beside me,...
The Brunettes - If You Were Alien
I’d call...
An Afternoon Out
I went shopping with my grandma today, as well as rummaging through her basement for things to take to Brooklyn with me. She’s an artist and has excellent taste. Her whole house is like a beautiful treasure trove of antique furniture and refurbished art. I arrived home with vintage tea towels, amazing soap, a yellow antique teapot, some blue glass bottles, and a set of vintage glass...
Sufjan Stevens - For the Windows In Paradise
Lie...
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The Interpretation of Dreams
I had too much to drink. That much is clear.
I remember the night in two colors. The first half is tinted golden, like a sepia photograph, tequila in a glass, my face, blushing and giddy in the yellow light of the bathroom mirror. I was drinking herradura and I tried to come up with an apt simile for the taste, but nothing came to mind. “It’s like a cactus,” he said, without...
I like to think that my inexperience adds to my...
So I am well aware that this post probably reveals me for the complete and utter novice I am in all things New York, but I just found out that there’s this great bar within a couple blocks of my place in Brooklyn and it sounds amazing. Union Hall? And it’s decorated like a library? And has two bocce ball courts? And incredible food? And bands every week?
That high pitched sound you...
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
Been there,...
chamberlain:
Notorious B.I.G. vs. Rent -...
There's No Yearbook This Time
I just finished my last day of work at the hotel and I have that fluttery feeling in my chest, like I might float away any minute. It feels like the last day of high school, except I’m the only one graduating. It’s a strange feeling to leave a job I’ve enjoyed. The hotel was beginning to feel like home. I have a week to plan and pack and sleep in. This moving thing is starting to...
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Sigur Ros sounds like...
Candy Store
Yesterday I hungrily wandered the aisles of the Hollywood Video store that’s closing near me. I have this rule about never buying DVDs that cost more than $10. It’s something I’m very strict about, and as such my options are narrowed by the random sales at Target. At Hollywood video, however, all the new releases were $10 and the old movies were anywhere from $4 to $8. It was...
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Hush-Hush
The only thing that I am more sure of the older I get is that everyone has secrets. We squirrel them away in boxes, and close them up in the pages of books, but they remain, terrible and astonishing. They remain.
Everyone you know has at least one awful secret. Everyone has something they must remember not to say. Can you even imagine all the things I’m not telling you?
Jukebox The Ghost - Hold It In
Life is...
Question I Asked Myself At Least Four Times Today:
How would an optimistic person handle this?
Unfortunately, my answers were always the same, and somehow seemed more like answers to the question
How would an alcoholic person handle this?
Meaghan Smith - Here Comes Your Man
Take me away...
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Mornings Without Breakfast
Maybe more than anything I’ll remember the way we got up in the mornings. Your house was always freezing and you read the newspaper while I shivered beside you, clutching my laptop, legs curled up under me. I thought we made an apt picture, generational artifacts in hand. The gap between us was widest in the mornings: I couldn’t even feign interest in what you were reading. You were...
“when people see me doing normal things in public, like zipping my hoodie or...”
– Tao Lin (via whokilled)
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I Actually Can Make Grilled Cheese
Sometimes I feel like my film degree is such a sham. I learned how to use big words and apply complicated theories. I watched Important Films that no one has ever heard of. I made experimental films about nothing and then defended them using piles of research. But I don’t feel like I know anything about anything. There are so many movies I should have seen. I don’t remember how to use...
Muchness
I saw Alice in Wonderland yesterday. I found it kind of tedious, which is a strange thing for me to say about a movie with that many costume changes, but there you have it. It should have been something I could love, the elements were right: female protagonist, riddled dialogue, ruffled dresses, talking rabbits, and yet.
I felt like I had seen it all before, and not because it was a...
