January 2010
64 posts
“When there’s nothing else to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.”
– Stars “Your Ex-lover is Dead”
“Color my life with the chaos of trouble because anything is better than posh...”
– Bell and Sebastian “The Boy With the Arab Strap”
God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve...
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
“I will lie awake and lie for fun and fake the way I hold you. Let you fall for...”
– Brand New “Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis”
I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions — as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. Jodi Picoult
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.” - Ayn Rand
“We should all start to live before we get old.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“What should I scream for? This is my theme park.”
– Drake ft. Lil Wayne “Forever”
“And I’d prefer to be remembered as a smiling face, not this fucking wreck...”
– Bright Eyes “No Lies, Just Love”
Are you getting tired? I think we've gone and lost...
I can see the signs and I can read between the lines, but I don’t know what were fighting for, I’m just trying to break out. I’ve been waiting for something, I’ve been sitting for too long, I’ve been waiting, but tonight this one last try goes on and on and on. You put your nets out and still you chose to do without. The only way to catch a butterfly was never waiting...
