if i could collect together a mixtape for you...

in which i post things that kate has found which are awesome...

Dancing Plague of 1518

time again for my favorite xmas videos...

#1 All time favorite Christmas duet. EVER



Not Christmas, necessarily, but its from White Christmas so it counts.



At any given moment in my retail slave job when some horrible customer is standing in front of me, this is going through my head.

rockwell...

d.a.r.l.i.n.g...

Where did you come from
You're no stranger
How I know
you will return
so I won't be sad
D.A.R.L.I.N.G.

In that harbor of a room
you'll find your anchor soon
in the parting of our ways
may it never happen
any way

In the highest blackened moon
there'd be more life
in the right shade of our
sighs, Death!, be gone!
D.A.R.L.I.N.G.

In that harbor of a room
you'll find your anchor soon
in the parting of our ways
may it never happen
anyway...

All of your charms
couldn't keep you from...

-beach house

everything all the time...

Spent the last week psychotically cleaning my room. I was able to get rid of about 4 garbage bags worth of stuff that I was carrying around for no reason and I was able to pull together about 3 bags full of clothing to donate. It's immensely satisfying to purge my life of all the bullshit and garbage that I carry around and I wish it were as easy to purge my insides as it is to physically put something in a bag and place it on the curb.

youtubing of the week...

things i've done this week so far...

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I attended a lecture by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley at the Corchoran School with John.

this about sums up my life...

i'm lovin' it...

of mustache wax and NO SALT...

I recently found an old book that my grandfather gave me years ago. In its front cover is an inscription that states that my grandfather was reading this book, in the hospital on the day I was born. The book, "Theophilus North" by Thornton Wilder is a favorite of mine for many reasons. First in some grand exaggerated way I identify with Theophilus, though I am not sure if I force that in my head because I want to believe in some cosmic twist of fate that lead my grandfather to read this book the day of my birth and not something with a crappier protagonist.

Another and more real reason I love this book is for the inscription. I've been hoarding every scrap of my grandfather's writing I can find. His perfect script is more precious to me than gold and every piece of it is a treasure. One of my more superficial thoughts when he passed away is that I'd never see another card with his handwriting. This Christmas this fact hit me in the chest and kicked the shit out of me as I opened up the card from my grandmother. She, like me, has terrible handwriting and would always ask my grandfather to write out the insides of cards and when I only saw her hand, I had to choke back tears. Even the mundane when written in his handwriting is valuable to me and not always for the content and not for the beauty in which it is written, but because it is a representation of his words and sentiments which were always written and sometimes spoken. We're a family of inscribers and card writers and words are cherished above all.

The book still smells like him too.

When I cracked open it's pages and breathed in his smell today, I started crying again and I haven't been able to stop since...

this weekend...

muss es sein?

It has been raining this entire day. Dreary spring rain which makes the grass and weeds grow furiously in the front yard of our little narrow house. All the greenery exists in this vivid shade of green that is so fresh and so new. I know I am as green as the weeds grappling to find my place among the grass. I don't want to be cut down.

things i done did...

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, originally uploaded by seeing_aspects.

Saw Malkmus and the Jicks at 9:30

current listening...

Steven Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
Devendra Bahnart - Cripple Crow
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Beck - Guero
Eisley - Combinations
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Hot Chip - The Warning
Radio Head - In Rainbows
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Antony And The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Architecture In Helsinki - Places Like This

start the reactorz...

sunset, originally uploaded by seaships.

I want to live an eternity in the moment when I took this picture. I want to be perched atop cliff riddled with etched declarations of love, staring at the expansive sea. If I think hard enough I can taste the cool salty wind on my lips and feel it tangle up in my hair. I felt many things, alone and standing there, fear, joy, anticipation and possibility...

call me biased...

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but, I really loved Metro's show on the 5th.