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Zactober - All Good Things Edition

2011-10-31T07:00:00.001-07:00

Well, can you believe it? Another Zactober has come and gone. But as my friend Q says "all good things must come to an end." Till next year.

Zactober - Hipster Scarf Edition

2011-10-30T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - Undecided on the Facial Hair Edition

2011-10-29T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - Play Ball Edition

2011-10-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

Just as I suspected, he's a pitcher.

Zactober - Sexy Unibomber Edition

2011-10-27T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Suit Up Edition

2011-10-26T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Quiet Confidence Edition

2011-10-25T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The Way We Were Edition

2011-10-24T07:00:00.002-07:00

I've pulled today's edition title from the movie The Way We Were. If you haven't seen it there is a scene (a couple actually) where Barbara Streisand brushes the bangs of Robert Redford off of his forehead. I always found that incredibly tender and chose the title for this post, mostly because I can see myself brushing Zac's bangs away from his beautiful face for all eternity.

Zactober - I Would Chew His Gum Edition

2011-10-23T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Red Carpet Chic Edition

2011-10-22T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Nice Shades Edition

2011-10-21T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - Too Cute for Words Edition

2011-10-20T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Sports Spectator Edition

2011-10-19T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - California Dreaming Edition

2011-10-18T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - Gazing Heavenward Edition

2011-10-17T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - I Will Love Him In Spite of His Outfit Edition

2011-10-16T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Golden Globe Edition

2011-10-15T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - A Look Back Edition

2011-10-14T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Filthy Gorgeous Edition

2011-10-13T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Random Hotness Edition

2011-10-12T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - Seriously Shirtless Edition

2011-10-11T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - Smize Edition

2011-10-10T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Beach Time Zac Edition

2011-10-09T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Triple Your Pleasure, Triple Your Fun Edition

2011-10-08T07:00:00.003-07:00

Zactober - Hungry Eyes Edition

2011-10-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - Angel in the Outfield Edition

2011-10-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - Go Long Edition

2011-10-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - 4th and Goal Edition

2011-10-04T15:21:00.001-07:00

Zactober - Open A New Door Edition

2011-10-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - Black and White Edition

2011-10-02T07:00:00.001-07:00

Skate on into Zactober

2011-10-01T07:00:00.000-07:00

One Day More

2011-09-30T18:00:00.001-07:00

The Trick

2011-04-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

You could practice with
things that do not break.
But you insist on using our best.

Crystal and silver.
Candles and flowers.
Everything that matters
placed on the white table cloth.

You’ve set this table for an occasion.
Not a dinner filled with conversations
about the events of our day.
Just the trick.

In your mind
you have done it many times.
Nothing ever breaks
in your mind.
But the cloth is
in your firm grip,
ready to pull.

I want you to pause,
to consider consequence.
To imagine everything that matters
broken on the floor.

- Mark Scovel

Gray Room

2011-04-06T13:54:00.003-07:00

Well I've been here before
I've sat on the floor
In a gray gray room
Where I stay in all day
I don't eat but I play
With this gray gray food

Desole, if someone is praying
Then I might break out
Desole, even if I scream,
I cant scream that loud

I'm all alone again
Crawling back home again
Just stuck by the phone again

Yeah, well I've been here before
Sat on a floor
In a gray gray mood
Where I stay up all night
And all that I write
Is a gray gray tune

So pray for me child, just for a while
And I might break out
Pray for me child, even a smile
Would do for now

So I'm all alone again
Crawling back home again
Just stuck by the phone again

Have I still got you to be my open door?
Have I still got you to be my sandy shore?
Have I still got you to cross my bridge in this storm?
Have I still got you to keep me warm?

Cause if I squeeze my grape
And I drink my wine
Cause if I squeeze my grape
And I drink my wine
Oh cause nothing is lost
This is frozen in frost
And its opening time
And there's no one in line

But Ive still got me to be your open door
Ive still got me to be your sandy shore
Ive still got me to cross your bridge in this storm
And Ive still got me to keep you warm

Warmer than warm yeah
Warmer than warm yeah
Warmer than warm yeah
Warmer than warm yeah...

- Damien Rice

Only Until This Cigarette is Ended

2011-04-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

Only until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
The broken shadow dances on the wall,
I will permit my memory to recall
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended.
And then adieu,--farewell!--the dream is done.
Yours is a face of which I can forget
The colour and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Song of Purple Summer

2011-04-04T07:00:00.000-07:00

And All Shall Fade
The Flowers of Spring
The World and all the Sorrows
At the heart of everything

but still it stays
the butterfly sings
and opens purple summer
with a flutter of its wings

The earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
And mare will neigh
With Stallions that they mate
Foals they've born

And all shall know the wonder of purple summer.....

And yet i wait
the swallow brings
a song too hard to follow
that no one else can sing

the fences sway
the porches swing
the clouds begin to thunder
crickets wander murmuring

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares with neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've born

And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer.

And All shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer.

All shall know the wonder of purple summer.....

-Spring Awakening, 2007 Tony Award Winning Musical

Glitter in the Air

2011-04-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

Have you ever fed a lover with just your hands?
Close your eyes and trust it, just trust it
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
Have you ever looked fear in the face
And said I just don't care?

It's only half past the point of no return
The tip of the iceberg, the sun before the burn
The thunder before lightning, the breath before the phrase
Have you ever felt this way?

Have you ever hated yourself for staring at the phone?
Your whole life waiting on the ring to prove you're not alone
Have you ever been touched so gently you had to cry?
Have you ever invited a stranger to come inside?

It's only half past the point of oblivion
The hourglass on the table, the walk before the run
The breath before the kiss and the fear before the flames
Have you ever felt this way?

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

There you are, sitting in the garden
Clutching my coffee, calling me sugar
You called me sugar

Have you ever wished for an endless night?
Lassoed the moon and the stars and pulled that rope tight
Have you ever held your breath and asked yourself
Will it ever get better than tonight?

-Pink

The Primer

2011-04-02T07:00:00.001-07:00

She said, I love you.
He said, Nothing.

(As if there were just one
of each word and the one
who used it, used it up.)

In the history of language
The first obscenity was silence.

-Christina Davis

Precious Things

2011-04-01T15:55:00.004-07:00

So I ran faster
But it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after Billy
Running after the rain
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things let them break
Their hold over me

He said you're really an ugly girl
But I like the way you play
And I died
But I thanked him
Can you believe that
Sick holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys
Those christian boys
So you can made me cum
That doesn't make you Jesus

I remember
Yes in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me where the pretty girls are
Those demigods
With their nine-inch nails
And little fascist panties
Tucked inside the heart
Of ever nice girl

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away

- Tori Amos

Happy National Poetry Month

2011-04-01T15:52:00.002-07:00

I've decided to try and mix it up this year with poetry and song lyrics.
Hope you'll all enjoy.

Words of Wisdom

2011-01-04T15:05:00.000-07:00

Words of Wisdom from Cousin Jeff:

You get it wherever you can. Because one day you'll be standing in front of the full-length mirror and come to the realization that no one is ever going to want to touch you ever again; except maybe to rob you. Even then, they will probably still use a stick.

I Shall Forget You Presently

2010-12-15T16:39:00.004-07:00

I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away,
And we are done forever; by and by
I shall forget you, as I said, but now,
If you entreat me with your loveliest lie
I will protest you with my favorite vow.
I would indeed that love were longer-lived,
And vows were not so brittle as they are,
But so it is, and nature has contrived
To struggle on without a break thus far,
Whether or not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

We Dance

2010-12-15T16:33:00.001-07:00

“We come spinning out of nothingness
Scattering stars like dust.
The stars form a circle
And in the center we dance.”

- Rumi

Let Your Heart Be Light

2010-12-15T11:31:00.001-07:00

I just can't... wow... beautiful.

Darren Criss - The Seven - New Music - More Music Videos

Random Acts of Beauty

2010-11-22T18:30:00.002-07:00

Cure for the Post-Zactober Blues

2010-11-15T14:59:00.002-07:00

I've been in a bit of a funk lately, you know, with Zactober being over and all. I think that I have found the cure though. Adele. Please to enjoy her new single. I can't wait until February.

Zactober - The All Good Things Edition

2010-10-31T07:00:00.001-07:00

I can't believe another Zactober has come and gone already.
Now, now, there is no need for tears.

All good things must come to an end.

In the meantime we'll keep our hopes high.

And our spirits strong.

And in the end we'll be able to look back and remember...

My weird obsession with Zac Efron.

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'. Bless you all." Lina Lamont

Zactober - The edition where Zac checks his fan mail

2010-10-30T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac takes Manhattan

2010-10-29T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac sits on a big couch

2010-10-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac tries to vogue

2010-10-27T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac finds the perfect hiding spot, almost

2010-10-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac rivals the beauty of a sunset

2010-10-25T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac enters unexpectedly

2010-10-24T07:00:00.003-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac threatens me with a good time

2010-10-23T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac hits the beach

2010-10-22T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac makes his directorial debut

2010-10-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac auditions for a Swatch ad.

2010-10-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac wears an awesome sweater

2010-10-19T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - 23rd Birthday Edition

2010-10-18T07:00:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday my beloved. I hope you are enjoying your day as much as I am enjoying this picture.

Zactober - The edition where Zac wears a turtle neck

2010-10-17T07:00:00.000-07:00

That sweater looks really itchy. You should probably just take that off.

Zactober - The edition where Zac prepares to save the world

2010-10-16T07:00:00.000-07:00

Because no one ever saves the world while wearing a neck tie.

Zactober - The edition where Zac rocks the white belt

2010-10-15T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The Edition with David Beckham

2010-10-14T07:30:00.000-07:00

It's a bogo today.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Zactober...

2010-10-14T07:00:00.001-07:00

To bring you this awesomeness...

No... words. They should have sent a poet... I had no idea.

I'm okay to go. I'm okay to go. I'm okay to go!

Zactober - The edition where Zac really listens intently

2010-10-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

Autumn Knowingly Stared

2010-10-12T16:20:00.001-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac looks broody

2010-10-12T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition with, really, a skateboard again?

2010-10-11T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac does the Sunday Crossword

2010-10-10T07:00:00.001-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac looks quite chuffed with himself

2010-10-09T07:00:00.004-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac lets me tell him a secret

2010-10-08T07:00:00.002-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac looks like a pensive farmer

2010-10-07T07:00:00.001-07:00

He looks so worried about his crops.

Zactober - The edition where Zac looks maudlin

2010-10-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac reclines in a pile of rubble.

2010-10-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zac Efron, reclining in a pile of rubble, you are still charming.

Zactober - The edition where Zac has that come hither look

2010-10-04T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac is keeping it real on a skateboard

2010-10-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zactober - The edition where Zac rocks a suit.

2010-10-02T07:00:00.002-07:00

It is upon us... Zactober

2010-10-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

Well it's that time of year again. It's what Brandon and I wait for all year. I hope that you enjoy this special holiday season as much I do.

Jar of Hearts

2010-09-14T17:11:00.001-07:00

The Death of Autumn

2010-09-10T14:48:00.002-07:00

The Death of Autumn

When reeds are dead and straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like Agèd warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe; an over the flattened rushes,
Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak,
Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek,--
Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes
My heart. I know that beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again, --but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!
Oh, Autumn! Autumn! --What is the Spring to me?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

We Found Each Other

2010-09-08T13:05:00.002-07:00

Then we sat on the edge of the Earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marveled that we had found each other. - Eric Dillard

It's in the air... I can feel it.

2010-08-26T16:24:00.004-07:00

autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

- Albert Camus

Thanks to Meg over at Brunette Bombshell for the quote. Check out her blog. It's rather amazing.

Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down...

2010-06-14T20:36:00.002-07:00

Except when there are pictures like these around.
Happy Monday everyone!

Leave Me

2010-05-27T10:58:00.001-07:00

Oh I really wished I had seen this video at the end of my day. I'm pretty much wrecked for the rest of this one.

Leave Me from Daros Films on Vimeo.

Hallelujah

2010-04-30T07:00:00.003-07:00

Hallelujah

i heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah...

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah...

baby i've been here before
i've seen this room and i've walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i've seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

hallelujah...

i did my best, it wasn't much
i couldn't feel, so i tried to touch
i've told the truth, i didn't come to fool you
and even though
it all went wrong
i'll stand before the lord of song
with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

hallelujah...

well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

Both Sides Now

2010-04-29T07:00:00.003-07:00

This song just wrecks me. I remember really hearing it for the first time years ago when Rosie O'Donnell used it in a montage on her last show. I've been in love with it ever since. I sat just dumbstruck and full of tears when the little acrobat did his "dance" to this song at the 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremonies. Even as I post this and am reading the lyrics again, I'm a little teary eyed.

Both Sides Now

Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds * that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev'ry fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

- Joni Mitchell

Academia

2010-04-25T08:00:00.002-07:00

Academia

You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
And together we'll work out on the escalator
I will time you as you run up the down
And you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town
The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights,
The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing
And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it

Oh academia you can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

I am a dash and you are a dot
When will you see that I am all that you've got
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote
I'm greater than x and lesser than y, so why is it
That I still can't catch your eye?
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Oh academia you can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
It appears to me the pen has over analysed again
And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one
And if you are five words you are afraid to be the one
And if you are a number you're infinity plus one
And if I am four words then I am needing of your love

Oh academia you can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
Academia

-Sia

The Only Fault

2010-04-24T08:00:00.002-07:00

The Only Fault

If I could have one wish
If I could have some say
I'd keep you far from home
I'd roll back both my sleeves
Dig under your skin
And fix your shattered bones

Hold on,
This may hurt you when I tell you of the truth,
We don't get two lives to live
It's true,
The only fault I've found in you
Is not being free to take what I would give

If I could bend your pain
Into something good
Make you a prouder man
If I could rough you up
And save you with good luck
And show you hope again

Hold on,
Weren't meant to suffer so very long
Leaving love that's gone has never been a sin
Hang tight,
The only fault you have tonight
Is shutting down so cold till I break in.

Oh sad young man,
I think I need you.
For reasons I don't know
I pledge myself to winter season
So it's perfectly on course
But in the end it has to snow.

If I could make you stay
Convince you you'd be lost
If we were torn apart
If it remained unclear
Between the two of us
Which one would be the one
To break the others heart

Hold on,
This will floor me differently
Than any drug that's washed me into sleep
It's true
The only fault I'll take from you
Is how to run from what you wish to keep
-Rachael Yamagata

Samson

2010-04-23T08:00:00.002-07:00

Samson

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
And kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
And he kissed me 'til the mornin' light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

-Regina Spektor

Hello

2010-04-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

Hello

Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello

If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken
Hello I am the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday

-Evanescence

All Alone

2010-04-21T08:00:00.002-07:00

All Alone
I’ve got to stop and ask directions
Cause I can’t see from here
I’m down a road I’ve never traveled
And I can’t see from here
The things I thought I wanted
Would have held so dear
Slipping through my hands like
The hourglass and the sand
I just don’t have control

But am I all alone
I’d be the only one
To hear me cry
Is this love I’m fighting for
Is it just a way for me
To say goodbye

The walls are slowly closing in
And I can’t breathe in here
Making all the same mistakes
To push you away my fear
The things I thought I wanted
I would have held so dear
Slipping through my hands like
The hourglass and the sand
I just don’t have control

But am I all alone
I’d be the only one
To hear me cry
Is this love I’m fighting for
Is it just a way for me
To say goodbye

Goodbye
The things I thought I wanted
I would have held so dear
Slipping through my hands like
The hourglass and the sand
I don’t know where I’d be
If it wasn’t for you and me
I could never understand

But am I all alone
I’d be the only one
To hear me cry
Is this love I’m fighting for
Is this just a way for me
To say goodbye
Goodbye
It’s just a way for me to say goodbye.

-Trevor Price

Gold Dust

2010-04-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

Gold Dust

Sights and sounds pull me back down another year.
I was here. I was here.
Whipping past the reflecting pool, me and you skipping school,
And we make it up as we go along. We make it up we go along.

You said you raced from Langley pulling me underneath,
A cherry blossom canopy,
Do I Have- of course I have, beneath my raincoat,
I have your photographs.
And the sun on your face, I'm freezing that frame.

And somewhere Alfie cries and says,
"Enjoy his every smile. You can see in the dark,
"Through the eyes of Laura Mars."
How did it go so fast, you'll say,
As we are looking back, and then we'll understand,
We held gold dust in our hands.

Sights and sounds pull me back down another year.
I was here. I was here.
Gaslights glow in the street,
Twilight held us in her palm as we walked along.
Oh, and we make it up as we go along. We make it up as we go along.

Letting names hang in the air, what color hair?
Autumn knowingly stared.
And the day that she came, I'm freezing that frame.
I'm freezing that frame.

And somewhere Alfie smiles and says,
"Enjoy her every cry. You can see in the dark,
"Through the eyes of Laura Mars."
How did it go so fast, you'll say,
As we are looking back and then we'll understand,
We held gold dust in our hands. In our hands.

-Tori Amos

Send in the Clowns

2010-04-19T08:00:00.002-07:00

Probably one of my favorite songs ever; another Stephen Sondheim masterpiece.

Send in the Clowns

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.

Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.

Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.

Set The Fire To The Third Bar

2010-04-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have traveled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

Enjoy the Silence

2010-04-17T08:00:00.004-07:00

Enjoy the Silence

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Enjoy the silence

-Depeche Mode

Colorblind

2010-04-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

Colorblind

I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am...

Taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stuttered shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am... fine

I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded,
and unfolded,
and unfolding
I am... colorblind

Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am... fine

- Counting Crows
Although I like the version by Natalie Walker better.

End of the World

2010-04-15T08:00:00.001-07:00

End Of The World

I don’t want to ride this roller coaster
I think I want to get off
But they buckled me down
Like it’s the end of the world
If you don’t want to have this conversation
Then you better get out
Cause we’re climbing to our death
At least that’s what they want you to think
Just in case we jump the track
I have a confession to make
It’s something like a cork screw

I don’t wanna fall, I don’t wanna fly
I don’t wanna be dangled over
The edge of a dying romance
But I don’t wanna stop
I don’t wanna lie
I don’t wanna believe it’s over
I just wanna stay with you tonight

I didn’t mean to scream out quite so loudly
When we screeched to a halt
I’m just never prepared
For the end of the ride
Maybe we should get on something simpler
Like a giant balloon
But I’ve got two tickets left, and so do you
Instead of giving them away to some stranger
Let’s make them count, come on
Let’s get back in line again and ride the big one

Don’t you want to fall, don’t you want to fly
Don’t you want to be dangled over
The edge of this aching romance
If it’s gonna end, then I wanna know
That we squeezed out every moment
But if there’s nothing left can you tell me why
That it is you’re holding onto me
Like it’s the end of the world

-Matt Alber

It Never Was You

2010-04-14T08:00:00.002-07:00

It never was you

I've been searching through rains
And the wind that follows after
For one certain face
And an unforgotten laughter
I've been following signs
I've been searching through the lands
For a certain pair of arms
And a certain pair of hands
Yes, i tried a kiss here
And i tried a kiss there
For when you're out in company
The boys and girls will pair
But it never was you
It never was anywhere you
An occasional sunset reminded me
Or a flower hanging high on a tulip tree
Or one red star hung low in the west
Or a heart-break call from a Meadow Lark's nest
Made me think for a moment
Maybe its true
I found him in the star
In the call
In the blue
But it never was you
It never was anywhere you
Anywhere, anywhere you

Fireflies

2010-04-13T08:00:00.000-07:00

Fireflies

Him:
you... looked my mother
did when she was nineteen
not afraid to die
I... started planning our future
when you were just nineteen
still a firefly

Her:
you...got terrible vision
should have seen I was leaving
when I first appeared
I...got bit by the footlights
I got caught in the headlights
in anyplace but here

Both:
never say
you'll never leave
cuz you never know till you try
in a jar
fireflies
only last for one night
only last for one night

Her:
Trains roll... like gamblers in slow mo
Tryin' to find good luck
When they couldn't find love

Him:
I'm... gonna sleep on the train tracks
It's gonna be peaceful
Then it's gonna get rough

Both:
Never say
You'll never leave
Cuz you'll never know til you try
In a jar
fireflies
Only last for one night
Only last for one night

I must have had a reason for leavin'
Not one I could see
I must have had a reason for leavin'
Must have been me
Must have been me...

Him:
You... looked just like my mother
Did when she was 19
Not afraid to die

Her:
For the last time... I'm not your mother
And I was only 19
I'm still a firefly
-Rhett Miller