07 May 2009 Thursday

Too much, too often, too long.

04 May 2009 Monday

Hold up.

How can you not know songs from Lion King?

How can you not know Disney songs / watched Disney films in general?

How can you never have eaten nor conceived / heard of chocolate chip pancakes?

How are we going to get past these?

… You don’t know ABBA songs either?

01 May 2009 Friday

Playlist 04/29/2009 - 05/01/2009

Matt Nathanson – Come On Get Higher
Matt Nathanson – Answering Machine
Erin McCarley – Pitter Pat
Jack’s Mannequin – Resolution

27 April 2009 Monday

Playlist 04/2009

15 April 2009 Wednesday

me: what?
him: you heard me.
me: .. are you trying to provoke me?
him: what difference does it make?
me: …
… O_o

14 April 2009 Tuesday

Listening to Paper Route, Owl City and Port Blue, doing my taxes (only just got my W-2 yesterday… taxes due in 2 days). wanting an icecream sundae with fresh, sliced bananas and strawberries, and chocolate sauce.

What have I been thinking lately?
Not a whole lot, at least not explicitly/tangibly/conveyably. A lot’s going on. Let it be for a bit. Moving, feeling, being. Safe. Conscious. Responsible.

I have taxes to do, stop distracting me!

13 April 2009 Monday

via tumblr post

[Rewind, Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Forward]

The only abilities of those that we don’t have are rewind and fast forward. Those options really would change the game entirely. Can you imagine? So many things?

Who would we be if we could redo our pasts and jump ahead to our futures at will? Would those people we choose to meet and reach out to in our lives choose to keep memories and connections with us? If we erase and avoid past traumas, will we find ourselves and the places and people we otherwise get to?

And what if everyone had telepathy, as well as being empathic, and absolutely truthful? If everyone could hear each others’ thoughts, feel each others’ emotions, always spoke the truth. Who would we be if everyone could see/hear exactly what we think and feel all the time? The world would be Amazing? Terrible? Inconceivably different.

Can’t relive or change the past. Can’t fast forward to the future. Can’t hear or fully trust everyone’ thoughts, feelings, and words.

But marvel at what we have: the abilities to choose, communicate, learn, comprehend, apologize, feel, consider, pause, compose our words and actions ? we can compose our words and actions! We can make the choices to be who we are and do what we do, rather than being subject purely to our impulses, bare feelings and exposed thoughts. We can remember, we can change our paths, our minds; we can reach out as we choose and close away too. Timshel. And no one can take our past and no one can change our future because no one has those buttons; we’re all in this together.

01 April 2009 Wednesday

"Nonstop has been a victory for humanity"

Many have contributed to Nonstop at a level of personal sacrifice I personally find inspiring — granted, not as much as we’d have liked nor sufficient to guarantee Nonstop’s future, but at least enough to incubate an experiment in higher education in which we all ought to be able to take pride. In less than a year, I would absolutely say Nonstop has been a victory for humanity.

— TK

30 March 2009 Monday

Playlist 03/2009

Patty Larkin – Good Thing
Matt Nathanson – Come On Get Higher
Something Corporate – Konstantine
Gomez – How We Operate

The Bird and the Bee – My Love
Frightened Rabbit – Backwards Walk
Frightened Rabbit – Modern Leper
Noah and the Whale – Five Years Time
Erin McCarley – Love, Save the Empty
Gomez – Airstream Driver
Jack’s Mannequin – Into the Airwaves
Steve Moakler – Stay Sound

28 March 2009 Saturday

we share

“all these little deals go down with little consequences”