April 2011
BEACH WEEK
watch out, north myrtle beach, south carolina. here we comeeee! :)
“do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. in the hopeless...”
– ayn rand
“everyone is fighting their own battle. to be free from their past. to live in...”
twentytwo: someone i would give my life up for...
my brother, kevin. no hesitation.
“everyone is a genius. but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it...”
– albert einstein
dear girls above me →
too funny.
twentyone: my favorite medium of art
i really like watercolor and ink on canvas, also photorealism never fails to impress me.
twenty: a band that i immediately liked and the...
josh ritter
girl in the war, from his album the animal years.
have a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLssKusGzM
nineteen: a passage from a book that has touched...
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘awww!’”
beach week oh-eleven
beach week starts this saturday, so i should be packing or doing laundry or maybe even thinking about doing those things. but i’m not. i will soon, don’t worry. instead, i’m going to post a ton of nautical pictures to get me in the mood for these chores. :)
“nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
– emerson
“don’t follow your dreams; chase them.”
– r. dumb
“people who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing shouldn’t...”
“if you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re...”
– woody allen
“nothing worth doing is ever easy.”
“do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, in...”
“our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– confucius
“when you really matter to someone, that person will always make time for you. no...”
today i found out →
i love this website. seriously, check it out.
seventeen: what i want to be remembered for
making other people happy.
sixteen: something that i want to do within the...
there are a lot of things that i want to do in the next five years.
and by “want to do” i mean “going to do.” things like going to edinburgh for a semester, graduating from richmond, kicking the gre’s butt, and going to grad school are just a few things i know will happen within the next five years.
but something i want to do? i want to fall in love. i mean, it...
“an essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
“if you wanna fly, you got to give up that shit that weighs you down.”
– toni morrison
fifteen: a moment, phrase, or song that has...
there’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, the ship has sailed, and only a fool would continue. tru th is… i’ve always been a fool.
it’s from big fish. i’ve always loved this quote. it reminds me to never quit, because, well, i’m a fool.
thirteen: a memory that never fails to make me...
imagine, if you will, pigroast 2010.
it was mid-afternoon, and it was time for the nap before the rally. i couldn’t nap in my own room because my roommate was crying because she hit her face on a tree, but thought that another girl had punched her in the face, resulting in a black eye. then i had a realization: monica’s room was unlocked! she wouldn’t mind me sleeping in her...
“caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.”
– he bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars.
“you cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”
– abraham lincoln
“her life improved dramatically when she decided to break the rules and find...”
“how nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– kurt vonnegut
“did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? so that you couldn’t...”
– the outsiders
“a kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become...”
– ingrid bergman
“i am only one, but i am one. i cannot do everything, but i can do something. and...”
– edward everett hale
“live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.”
twelve: my favorite artist's life story
josh ritter:
i just copied this from wikipedia…
Josh Ritter was born in Moscow, Idaho in 1976, to two neuroscientists. As a teenager, after hearing Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” on his parents’ copy of Nashville Skyline, he attempted to write songs on a lute that his father had built, before abandoning the lute and buying his first guitar at K-Mart.
...
ten: a dream i had this past week described in...
so i tend to remember a lot of my dreams, but i can’t tell where they end and where they begin.
i was in florida, flying (peter pan style) along the banks of a river. all of the grass around the banks of the river was dead, burnt to a crisp. i was on my cell phone talking to some anonymous person about how i like virginia better than florida because the grass is greener there. as i’m...
“i like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. i myself am...”
– augusten burroughs 