....Take a chance 'cause you might grow...
...Damn, you got some wicked style...

It's still weird how much insight I find in pop music. I'm not apologizing for it. We humans used to read the entrails of animals for answers.
What You Waiting For? | Gwen Stefani ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, venus_in_green! WE LOVE YOU! :D

It's like somebody actually broke into my brain and pulled out an internal monologue (maybe even a dialogue, perhaps, all things considered) and posted it on the Internet. From the awesome site Television Without Pity and the genius that is Jacob (yes, yes, Figgy, you and I disagree about Jacob, I know) recapping American IdolBut first, Adam ( Read more... )

...fundamental differingThe world feels strangely tilted today, or at least the path I thought I was on has been re-paved and re-directed. I'm not sure. Perhaps the dangers of fully engaging my mind in whatever I'm working on in any given moment aren't really dangers at all, but the inevitable and highly productive by-products of intense and ( Read more... )

...in a very strange and real way ( Read more... )

...my heart goes out to the family and friends of Natasha Richardson. The world has lost a very wonderful and loving woman. I always admired her verve in the pursuit of a cure for AIDS.
Poor Liam Neeson. I can't imagine what he's going through right now. I have a friend, Mike, whose mother just passed away. She'd been battling cancer for a while, ( Read more... )

"Fear and faith follow the same pathways in the mind, the road called awe: something you can't see yet, vastly bigger than you but able to see you, like a mustard seed, like the sparrow."
This is me, now: I feel like I've failed to return to the human race after my last illness. I feel like I never really hooked up the cords right, flicked all the ( Read more... )

"...you have to be really fucking slow with your movements and monitor your vocal tone carefully, or they are going to put you in jail for murdering everybody."

--Jacob, from the recap "All My Darling Daughters" from Battlestar Galactica

...not really. Nothing but actual distance feels far away this morning. All the people in my life, regardless of geography, feel close this morning, around the corner. It's a nice feeling.

...spin me back down the years and the days of my youthDidn't get birthday cards bought, and consequently not worked on. Need to fix that SOON, like TONIGHT. ( Read more... )

....I'm just....burning. Restless. The fact that it's kind of overcast isn't dampening the glorious weather AT ALL. And a day like this is bound to make a person's blood hum, even if they aren't being set on fire by a pounding metallic doom song like "Mother." (I think I have developed a bit of a crush on Glenn Danzig, srsly.) Aren't thriving in ( Read more... )