I’ll Give You the Sun :: Jandy Nelson :: Book Review
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Category: Book quotes
Friday Five :: Songs about New York
Songs About New York For the month of September I will be picking a city to do a Top 5 Songs of Post for the weekly Friday Five theme. The second installment is a city I still haven’t gotten to … Continue reading Friday Five :: Songs about New York
Friday Five :: Songs about Los Angeles
Songs About Los Angeles For the month of September I will be picking a city to do a Top 5 Songs of Post for the weekly Friday Five theme. To start off with, of course, my hometown, place of my birth, and place I always find myself back in no matter how many times I try to leave, Los Angeles. The city of angels, of broken dreams, of Hollywoodland, of tinsel and stars on the sidewalk, and maps to the stars handed out by the homeless, and of mountains and oceans and palm trees, and yes, really nice weather (except … Continue reading Friday Five :: Songs about Los Angeles
How to Kill a Rock Star :: A Book Review
How to Kill a Rock Star :: Tiffanie DeBartolo A Book Review “It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a benevolent god, a good song will never let you down. And sometimes, when you’re trying to find your way, one of those gods actually shows up and gives you directions.” Some books are like old friends that now live far away, too far to visit with often, yet they are still with you, still a part of your … Continue reading How to Kill a Rock Star :: A Book Review
It’s in everything we do :: SOTD
“But we’re trash you and me. We’re the litter on the breeze. We’re the lovers on the streets. Just trash, me and you.” Do you ever have one of those moments where you pick up a book and randomly, by chance, open to a page and just see what it says? And that something you find is just what you needed to see, or feel, right at that very moment? Or, have you ever had one of those conversations with some one, either in-person or in-writing, and the words exchanged are similar, if not the same? Like those couples that … Continue reading It’s in everything we do :: SOTD
The Beginning of Everything :: An Audio Book Review
The Beginning of Everything :: Robyn Schneider An Audio Book Review Listen to an excerpt here “Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone’s life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary-a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen..” Ezra believes that within everyone’s life a tragedy lies waiting, and that only after said tragedy occurs does one’s life truly begin. Or, maybe, that is just … Continue reading The Beginning of Everything :: An Audio Book Review
Middlesex :: An Audio Book Review
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides An Audio Book Review Listen to an Excerpt here “Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to … Continue reading Middlesex :: An Audio Book Review
In the Pleasure Groove – Love, Death and Duran Duran :: An Audio Book Review
In the Pleasure Groove – Love, Death and Duran Duran (2012) by Nigel John Taylor (written with Tom Sykes) An Audio Book Review Listen to an excerpt here “This was a fantastic moment for hair color, as the Crazy Color and Manic Panic hair-dye brands had been launched the previous year and had definitely helped us define our look. Simon was no longer a blond, he was now a brunette, which gave an opening for Nick to go all the way blond. Andy trail blazed the black-and-blond two-tone skunk look that Kajagoogoo’s Limahl would popularize, and Roger was adding blue … Continue reading In the Pleasure Groove – Love, Death and Duran Duran :: An Audio Book Review
It was you :: songs and quotes
“Who wants to see life as it is? It’s the three gorgons in one. You look in their faces and turn to stone. Or, is it Pan. You see him and you die — that is, inside you — and have to go on living as a ghost.” ~ Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill Into Dust :: Mazzy Star “I could possibly be fading, or have something more to gain. I could feel myself growing colder. I could feel myself under your fate.” Continue reading It was you :: songs and quotes
They spell Alice :: song of the day
Keep Art Alive :: Art by Jeremy Enecio “And so a secret kiss, brings madness with the bliss, and I will think of this, when I’m dead in my grave. Set me adrift and I’m lost over there, and I must be insane, to go skating on your name, and by tracing it twice. I fell through the ice, of Alice.” There is comfort in the madness sometimes, the split of sanity that is required to tumble down into those unrequited fantasies. Things about green grass and the want of what is out of reach circle through the inner workings … Continue reading They spell Alice :: song of the day