There's a man in Washington Square in NY who once told me that not only would he never die, but he would never be loved either and he liked it that way... I'd give him a home first so that he wouldn't have to live in defense. But before I'd buy the same camera Jeremy Cowart uses to take pictures of the man when he hears the news and sees his new place. I would put those pictures all over his walls so that he can see and remember how much he is just as beautiful as anyone who is vulnerable. I'd then take the camera home to my family because they love pictures of each other. Even crappy camera phone pictures,... so long as they're of each other.
Then I would build a third floor to my house, half dance studio, half craft/sewing/art studio (for my mom and me) with high ceilings and completely concrete slab... linoleum floors. The dance studio would over look our woods and lake that branches off from the cliff that is our front yard which faces west... and my friend Ashley and I would play Hans Zimmer and E.S. Posthumus with a place to perform for all the angels that are watching during sunset.
Bella, Monsters, Inc., Pride and Prejudice, Bourne Movies, Last Holiday, Tomb Raider, Napoleon Dynamite (yes, still).
Music is the tool to my current. Paper Route, Sufjan Stevens, Kate Nash, Archade Fire, Band of Horses, Kanye West, Angels and Airwaves, Sleeping At Last, The Decemberists, Sigur Ros, Iron and Wine, U2, Rachmoninoff, Joshua Radin, Copeland, Matisyahu, Feist, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, The Avett Brothers, Band Marino, O.A.R., A Fine Frenzy, Dario Marianelli, Great Book of John, Postal Service, Azure Ray, Josh Rouse, Joshua Radin, Stephen Roach, Ian McIntosh, Brandi Carlile, The Frames, Gileah, Ben Lee, Rusted Root, Madison Greene, Ray Lamontagne, Moby, Ben Harper, Pedro the Lion, Mae (more so Destination: Beautiful), Jon Black, Thrice, Salsa, Merengue, Wyndham Hill, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, Mozart, The Album Leaf, Death Cab, The Apple Seed Cast, Bach, Handel, Miles, The Weepies, Garden State Soundtrack, Augustana, Teitur, Mat Kearney, Dave, Vienna Teng, Regina Spektor, David Gray, Strays Don't Sleep, Eastmountainsouth, Alison Kraus, Nickel Creek, Susan Ashton (Angels of Mercy), Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, Astrud Gilberto, Toto, Boston, Hans Zimmer, E.S. Posthumus, and of course U2.
I'm a sucker for a new way of thinking: The Alchemist, The Giver, Blue Like Jazz, Brothers Karamazov, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God Knows What, Sex God by Rob Bell.
Ever since I was 3 I was engaging in some form of art. My mind is the mind of an artist, period. I have fallen into the mundane before where life was not what I was living and art was never what I was doing. God has stopped that death. I don't know what's next and I'm not sleeping because of it. I am finally in love in every minute. I don't sleep because all of me is anticipating the beauty of the next day. I suppose I could try to sleep, but when you think about it... I just woke up.
posted Mar 18
Coley says:
Your comment is so true, especially when it concerns overweight, crazy chihuahuas.
posted Mar 24