“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
—Frida Kahlo (via loveyourchaos) (via upfromtheashes, afghanipoppy)
July 2010
18 posts
Sleep All Summer
St. Vincent And The National
Sleep All Summer by St. Vincent and The National (Cover)
Originally by the Crooked Fingers
We take our empty hearts and fill them up with broken things
To hang on humming wire like cheap lamps down a dead end street
I know this comes way too late for summer but I’m in love with this song. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Where I'm Going
Cut Copy
Where I’m Going by Cut Copy
The first single from the Aussie-synth pop’s upcoming LP. With that catchy rhythm and that psychedelic feel, it sure sounds like the Beach Boys meets Animal Collective to me.
I like. :)
SABAW
(as defined by Emil and Joan )
“defense mechanism ng utak mo para makapagpahinga saglit kung pinipilit mong magisip kahit ang DIWA moy umaayaw na.”
“Welcome to the dork side.”
—My officemate to me, after I moved to their side of the table during a meeting. Funny, all four of us on that side were wearing glasses.
O Valencia!
The Decemberists
O Valencia! by The Decemberists
All I heard was a shout
Of your brother calling me out
And you ran like a fool to my side
Well the shot, it hit hard
And your frame went limp in my arms
And an oath of love was your dying cry
I love story-songs like this one.
Sun A.M.
Moonbabies
Sun A.M. by Moonbabies
Calling You
Blue October
Calling You by Blue October
There’s something that i cant quite explain
I’m so in love with you
You’ll never take that away
and if I said a hundred times before
expect a thousand more
you never take that away
I got Blue October on repeat. :)
“Sometimes the world tries ot knock it out of you. But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales. I like to imagine that what I hear came from my mother and father. Maybe the notes I hear, are the same ones they heard, the night they met. Maybe that’s how they found each other. Maybe that’s how they’ll find me. I believe that once upon a time, long ago, they heard the music and followed it.”
—August Rush (2007)
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
The Decemberists
The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid by the Decemberists
From the rock opera Hazards of Love. I love how this song turns bad ass right smack in the middle of things.
I woke up this morning thinking last night was all a blur.
And all I could say with certainty was that I was there. And it was fun.
“Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey…None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don’t love you.”
—Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thechocolatebrigade) (via talamaningning)
June 2010
21 posts
Ghosts
Laura Marling
Ghosts by Laura Marling
He opened up his little heart
Unlocked the lock that kept it dark
And read a written warning
Saying ‘I’m still mourning
Over ghosts
Over ghosts
Over ghosts
Over ghosts that broke my heart before I met you’
