almosthere
June 2009
31 posts
Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital →
omg.yahoo.com
Still can’t believe this.
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
—Ten True Things (Miranda July)
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like groundfoxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
—The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
“No list of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.”
—The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Listen
The Dodos - Winter
I wish I could pretend you make me try
Listen
The White Stripes - We’re Going to be Friends
It doesn’t get any simpler than this.
And, simple is good.
Infinite
I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. I hope it’s the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he’s sad. I hope it can be that for him.
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
This playlist really is quite fantastic.
Real Madrid is unreal.
As in the they’re-out-of-their-freaking-minds-and-in-the-worst-way-possible sense.
