October 2010
September 2010
Listography #5: List your biggest fears
1. Having to get a job I hate to pay the bills
2. Losing my creativity
3. Being bitten by rabid animals, especially raccoons
4. Missing big opportunities
5. Those big TV screens in the subway falling on my head
6. Being in an uncommunicative relationship
7. Choking/suffocating
8. Forgetting my purse somewhere
9. Being directly insulted by someone I respect
10. Bugs crawling into my mouth...
noise pollution
It’s really hard to be a songwriter when you live with a drummer (or, I guess, anyone who plays an instrument that’s really loud).
I’m in a really bad mood tonight, uncharacteristically. I think sometimes, when I haven’t written a song in a while, it starts to build up inside me the same way you would get a urinary tract infection if you never went to the bathroom....
Listography #4: List your past jobs
I’m a JOBLESS BUM! i.e. almost all the “employment” I’ve ever had has been creative/freelance in nature.
Jobs that actually involved work:
1. Babysitting
2. Tutoring (French, English, geography, history, math…)
Creative-type “jobs”:
1. Singing the alphabet song for a corporate video about literacy
2. Singing the Band-Aid song for a commercial
3....
Ask me anything! →
No, seriously. Do.
(No homework tonight! Might as well indulge in some Formspring-ing.)
The Answer →
This has to be one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written. I was trying it out on the piano the other day, & was reminded of how simple it is. I’m not very good at simplicity. It doesn’t happen too often. (p.s. random trivia: on this recording, I’m singing my own harmonies, which were adapted from ones that my friend Kaiya made up, & playing my own jazz...
Listography #3: List your favorite films
I like 10. 10’s a nice round number.
I love SO many movies, but these are the ones I can watch over & over & still find new things to delight & provoke me (& in some cases, make me cry my eyes out).
In no particular order:
The Shawshank Redemption
High Fidelity
Down With Love
That Thing You Do
Little Miss Sunshine
James Dean (the biopic with James Franco)
The...
“would you want me when I’m not myself? wait it out while I am someone...”
– John Mayer
rhinovirus & caffeine
today i took an hour-long nap in the school library with my face on my mittens which were on my hands which were on a notebook which was on a binder. i woke up with mitten-prints on my forehead & cheeks. then i went to an improv rehearsal.
Listography #2: List your closest friends
In no particular order:
Max, my little brother & bestie. Makes me laugh more than anyone else. A great hugger. An extremely talented & devoted musician.
Cadence. We argue all the time & she is pretty much my polar opposite, & yet we are still great friends all these years later. Interesting how that happens sometimes.
Kaiya, my musical co-conspirator, my partner in crime, my...
i wrote this after going to a community singalong
let’s sing a bit of michael finnigan
here inside this church
irish folksongs make me miss you
but it could be worse
there’s people here in every corner
singing harmonies
it’s very strange to be surrounded
by people just like me
they sing like me
they love like me
they laugh like me
they’re just like me
i go for days without release
from bondage of the soul
i...
THE RULES
1. work hard on things you care about
2. be nice to people
3. look for what you want to see
4. love yourself unconditionally
6:59am by Shane Koyczan
I’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
but if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.
Listography #1: List pets you've had & their names
There’s this book called Listography & it has some cool list ideas in it. I’m gonna blog some of ‘em.
1. My mom’s cat J.J. (which I think was actually spelled Jeje, but that looks stupid). Beautiful grey kitty. I think she died when I was about 3.
2. Goldfish named Goldie. How creative. She died by jumping out of her bowl. Suicidal goldfish!
3. Current cat, a...
Douche bag post of the day. (some of you should...
youhavetamedme:
I’m not telling you how to act/feel/post on your tumblr, this is just my opinion.
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I can’t stand when people post bullshit like “I’m not the prettiest girl, but I’m the one who will always ______________” Like blah blah blah SHUT THE FUCK UP. I’m sorry, but are you so insecure that you have to reblog something, made for the sake of being...
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
after she typed & sent me a project sheet I had...
me: thanks!!
her: No probz. How's it goin'?
me: meh. the project, or my life? hold on, i can give you the same answer for both of those... i've got all the ideas, & i can see the end result in my head.. it's just the sticking it all together that's giving me trouble now. (aha. i'm a genius.)
her: :)
Watchbloakandbitch:
I will always love them and even though the chances of them performing live again are slim, I still dream of seeing them perform live.
again - PERFECT
Watchbloakandbitch:
<3 FOREVER
you’re perfect
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rough cut from my Reverie Sound RevUKE project...
“What if loneliness was simply a feeling of impatience, telepathically sent to...”
– Notes From The Universe
Okay, but seriously?
It has been too long since I have been romanced by a charming butchy lesbian, dammit!
Bring on the girls with big biceps & breast binders. I am sooo ready.
You used to be mine all of the time. Where has it...
cashvargas:
Fucking love Kate Sloan. I need to write more music, dammit.
lovelovelove.
That song is sad. I haven’t played it much lately because it’s just so saaad.
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Top 5 Weirdest Things That Have Ever Inspired Me...
(in no particular order)
1. Sexy was written after I had an asthma attack while making out with my then-boyfriend & he proclaimed it “cute.” Needless to say, I was flabbergasted.
2. Badly & Wrongly was written after seeing Dog Is Blue play at the Riverdale Perk. Paul has homemade guitar pedals, which, he said, always make him play “badly & wrongly.”...
“Write a ton of songs before you worry about any of them being any good. Like...”
– part of an e-mail that a fan of mine received from his musical theatre teacher & then forwarded to me some time ago
“Here’s to friendship hugs & getting over it, yeah?”
– post-breakup e-mail to the ex-girlf in 2007
new song: Bus Stop
the bus stop in autumn’s my favorite place
for subtle yet fearless flirtation
the streets have been muffled with soft-crunching leaves
& there’s no use in hesitation
i sing you a love song just under my breath
that admits, for a moment, i’m scared
but you barely notice, & that is alright:
we’re still a respectable pair
i can recall, at a quarter to fall -...
Pre-Show Rituals (micro-fiction)
1. Before Allie went out to throw knives & swallow fire, she liked to do bicep curls with a large bottle of cream soda, & then guzzle the whole thing til her mouth was a shade of pink even brighter than the fire itself.
2. Minutia’s poems were useless to her on paper - she’d scribble them all up & down her arms & then practice gesturing grandly-yet-casually in front...
