But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun....

moshimoshi_13 @ 2008-06-03T23:30:00

2008-06-04T03:31:59Z

Yes, I am fully aware of how lame stuff like this is, but I am bored:

Post anything that you want here, and post it anonymously. A story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, what you think of me, your parents, boyfriend, anything. Just make it honest. Make sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post as many times as you'd like. Then, put this in your LJ to see what others have to say.

Comments are screened and 100% anonymous. So, don't be shy.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-09-08T12:28:00

2007-09-08T16:29:03Z

"I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, 'Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me'; and the job of the artist is to serve the work. I have never served a work as I would like to, but I do try, with each book, to serve to the best of my ability, and this attempt at serving is the greatest privilege and the greatest joy that I know."

R.I.P Madeleine L'Engle.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-08-18T16:06:00

2007-08-18T20:08:44Z

I just found this and it made me laugh. It's a conversation from last April, when my mom was working at Harvard so she lived in Boston for a few months while my sister, dad and I stayed in Toronto. She got msn so she could keep in contact with us easily. And yeah, she was hilarious on msn.

If there is something else beyond, he isn't scared because it's bound to be less boring than today. says:
I made myself an egg.
MOMMY says:
I made myself a linguist
MOMMY says:
(get it?!)
MOMMY says:
so how is life as an egg?
MOMMY says:
seriously, now, what kind of egg?
If there is something else beyond, he isn't scared because it's bound to be less boring than today. says:
Fried.
MOMMY says:
that is differentk ususally it is scrmabled (like this sentence)

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-08-14T13:12:00

2007-08-14T18:36:54Z

Home alone and bored. I haven't done one of these in a long time. I'll try and make them semi-easy. I actually think I ended up putting the title of the song in most of them (50% of them have the name in them).

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post your favorite line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! And cheating is BAD!

01. ~~"You took a white orchid and turned it blue."~~ eek_amelia

02. "The times we had, oh when the wind would blow with rain and snow. We're not all bad. We put our feet just where they had, had to go."

03. "I was going round and round the hotel garage, must have been touching close to 94. Oh, but I'm always crashing in the same car."

04. ~~"What’s holding up her face? Nothing but blue skies. Passage ways to windows that don't close."~~ countessmagpyr

05. "We want two states. North and south. Two, two states."

06. "Procrastinate, it can wait, I put it off. Let's start today!"

07. "Tell all the boys and girls from school to keep breaking all the rules, so their parents know they're individuals."

08. "Dusk at cubist castle. All the clouds are in past tense, all the kingdom is in fragments, and these paintings don't make sense."

09. "Started in '87 ended in '89. You got a garage or an amp, we'll play anytime."

10. ~~"Tiny vessels oozed into your neck and formed the bruises that you said you didn't want to fade. But they did and so did I that day."~~ runnnn

11. "I can't sleep cause it's only four in the morning. I think I ran out of dreams, and I can never be the same without you ruining my life."

12. ~~"And oh, I'm not going back to the assholes that made me a perfect display of random acts of hopelessness."~~ eek_amelia

13. "~~With cocoa leaves along the border, sweetness sings from every corner. Cars careening from the clouds. The bridges burst and twist around."~~ banjomensch

14. ~~"We don't have to be stars exploding in the night or electric eels under the covers. We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers."~~ banjomensch

15. "Tear up clothes you used to wear and you act as if you just don't care. Ohhhhhhh, Clair."

16. ~~"My friend Goo has a real tattoo. She always knows just what to do. She looks through her hair like she doesn't care. What she does best is stand and stare."~~ runnnn

17. ~~"There are times when I could've murdered her, but you know I would hate anything to happen to her."~~ countessmagpyr

18. "So you took your family and joined in the urban sprawl. Now you can’t see the stars as well but you’re near the mall."

~~19. (I needed to put all of this because it's the greatest. The artist of the song is a law nerd just like us!)~~

"So I, pull over to the side of the road
"Son, do you know why I'm stoppin you for?"
Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low
Or do I look like a mindreader, sir? I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some more?
"Well you was doin fifty-five in the fifty-four;
license and registration and step out of the car -
are you carryin a weapon on you? I know a lot of you are"
I ain't steppin out of shit, all my papers legit
"Well do you mind if I look around the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked, so is the trunk in the back
And I know my rights, so you gon' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack! You should try out
for lawyer or somethin, somebody important or somethin"
Child I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit
"Well we'll see how smart you are when the canine comes"
I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one
hit me!" banjomensch

20. "I can never be the one who saves the day, I'm just the man in the music box. It's nothing special, I'm just the man in the music box."

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-07-17T17:21:00

2007-07-18T00:25:05Z

I'm going to post a massive entry in a few weeks. I've been writing down important (or not so important) bits and pieces to remember, in my notebook in point form. But I figured I'd post a link to one of the bands from the Folk Fest, because they were really really amazing.

They're called the Fugitives. They mix folk music with spoken word poetry. One song gave me goosebumps when they played it live (Shiny Plastic Bags) and at the end of the song the man sitting beside me breathed out "Jesus..."

Heather and I saw the woman in the band (Barbara Adler) back in November or October. She was performing at Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington. She kept stopping because she had a whole bunch of snot coming out of her nose, and she was really hilarious about it all. I never got her name, but I've been trying to find her for a while, so when I saw her on stage during the folk fest I got really excited. And her band is amazing.

http://www.myspace.com/canadianfugitives

Check them out. Seriously.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-07-06T00:19:00

2007-07-06T04:27:08Z

I am in pain. :( Stupid wasps. I was innocently standing around in the kitchen, making rice, and belting along with Jack's Mannequin, when this damn wasp decides to fly towards me menacingly. So I did the only rational thing I could think of. I flung myself onto the floor, ducking away from the wasp. Which caused me to pull a muscle in my neck, and now I can't look to my right without hurting myself. Life sucks.

I look nice in my NMH shirt though. And I'm leaving on an adventure in less than a week. So maybe it's not so bad.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-06-18T13:26:00

2007-06-18T17:25:39Z

Simon... Come on baby feed the night
Paulina... "Come on Simon feed me"
Milo... Loosen if you feel uptight
Paulina... "Milo you're so crazy"
Simon... Would you like a lovers bite
Paulina... "Why you always tease me"
Milo... 'Cause we want to
Simon...'Cause we love to
Milo... 'Cause we need to feed the night

Feed the night with lovers moans
With overtures and undertones
With booty bounce and saxophones
Come on come on and feed it

Feed the night with neon lights
With taxicabs and weekend flights
With mini skirts and megabytes
Come on come on and feed it

Your bod is so delicious
Your kisses are nutritious
Your buns are bubbaliscious
I fancy your design
I've got to make you mine

It's dark
It's hot
It's coming for you ready or not dot

Chorus

Feed the night with motorcars
With super dates and pin-up stars
With photo-flash and candy bars
Come on come on and feed it

Feed the night when pleasure calls
With microfilm
And mirror balls
With party girls
And bathroom stalls
Come on come on and feed it

It's dark
It's hot
It's coming for you ready or not dot

Chorus

Your bod is so delicious
Your kisses are nutritious
Your buns are bubbaliscious
I fancy your design

You're mine, you're mine, you're mine

It's hot

Chorus

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-31T07:51:00

2007-05-31T12:06:29Z

Shiiiiiit. Jean-Claude Brialy died.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-25T15:26:00

2007-05-25T19:31:57Z

If anyone had any doubts that me and my friends are all going to be obese, here's proof. In a recent trip to the grocery store we bought:

- 12 cans of black cherry and vanilla coke
- A bag of Milkfuls
- 2 dozen donuts
- 6 packs of Gushers
- 2 packs of three Reese cups
- 1 Mars bar
- A bag of Cheetos
- A bag of Lays salt and vinegar
- A bag of sweet chili heat Doritos
- A bag of Ringolos
- A bag of Swedish Berries
- A bag of Sour Patch Kids
- 2 little bottles of Chubby (cause it's hilarious and reminds us of Chad)
- A box of 6 Dunkaroos
- A box of Reese Puffs
- White cheddar rice cakes (for Siobhan)

All to be eaten tonight, between four of us.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-23T20:53:00

2007-05-24T00:55:10Z

Pitchfork: What goes through your mind when you perform?

Chan: "Did I write that down? Did my mom really do that that day? Oh I remember that song, that bird. I feel kinda sick. Oh, that person, that's a beautiful woman. My fingers are sweating." I mean like it never ends. There's no way it that there could be a set formula for [sarcastically] "a great show every time!" You know you'd have to be a heroin addict for it to be one set thing all of the time. Or you'd have to be so braindead or so rehearsed and so theatric. Produced? You'd have to either be really directed and produced, or completely braindead to have consistent...

Pitchfork: Premeditated?

Chan: Maybe. I don't know. I'm not actually talking about myself. Like [signaling at the photographer] she's taking a picture of me right now. Maybe she's only thinking about the lighting, or maybe she's thinking, "What is that fucking bitch talking about?" and, "This guy's kind of cute. Are they drinking tea? My back itches." You know what I mean? I mean when Jon Spencer or John Lee Hooker or anyone does what they do. Aretha Franklin or anybody... you know what I mean?

Like Mariah Carey, is she only thinking [mocks her melodramatic melisma and does a screeching vocal scale]. Is that all she thinks? Or does she think, "My sister has AIDS, I've been raped by my dad, I've been so manipulated, I can't see straight, I'm on anti-depressants, I've got so much money, I don't know who to trust"? Are those things going through her mind? All those projections are so...[trails off]

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-23T20:01:00

2007-05-24T00:05:27Z

HEATHER!

Date: 2007-06-03
Bands: The Flatliners, The Expos
Venue: Kathedral - Toronto, ON
Doors: 7pm, all ages

Think you can handle it?

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-14T07:47:00

2007-05-14T12:04:42Z

It's sort of early and I have nothing to do until I have to leave to go do what I have to do, so I figured I'd waste some time the best way I know how...stupid livejournal games.:D

I'll put down the list of artists from that last post and then I'll start a new game.

01. Daggers Through The Heart Of St. Angeles - Alexisonfire
02. Grounds For Divorce - Wolf Parade
03. Butcher The Song - Cursive
04. Secondary - Brand New
05. Allison - The Pixies
06. Rock Tonic Juice Magic - Saves The Day
07. Make Me A Chevy - The Promise Ring
08. Forgotten - Gorilla Biscuits
09. Pulmonary Archery - Alexisonfire
10. Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
11. Snow Song - Neutral Milk Hotel
12. Carolina - Adam Green
13. In This Home On Ice - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
14. Engine - Neutral Milk Hotel
15. Zak And Sara - Ben Folds

1) Put your music player on random
2) For the first 20 tracks, find a picture of the artist via Google Images/Flickr
3) Get your friends to guess the artist.

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Baby Sloth in Panama

2007-05-10T07:22:20Z

I pretty much NEED a sloth as a pet. Cutest noise in the world.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-09T07:48:00

2007-05-09T21:06:58Z

Too tired to do anything but this.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post your favorite line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! And cheating is BAD!

01. I'm trying hard to forget that cold October day, when love reached beneath her plaid jumper, pulled out a switchblade and drove it directly through the heart of St. Angeles.

02. You said you hate the sound of the buses on the ground. You said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town. I said pretend it's whales keeping their voices down.

03. And each album I'll get shit on a little more. "Who's Tim's latest whore?" Now, that's not fair, no that's just obscene. I'll stop speaking for you if you stop speaking for me.

04. Past the point of trying and I'm dying here. Secondary. She laughs at every word I know came out completely wrong.

05. ~~And when the planet hit the sun I saw the face of Allison.~~ gulf_of_mexico

06. Because you're beautiful, just not on the outside. Light comes from within and your beaming eyes don't seem so bright.

07. I'm not as good as the interstates are, I just can't take you that far.

08. It's not you talking, it's your greed I hear. Nothing means nothing if you're insincere.

09. So hop on your rainbow and ride into oblivion.

10. ~~Sunday morning, praise the dawning. It's just a restless feeling by my side.~~ neefala

11. ~~Like ice cream floats and dreams, I will fill your heart with boats and bells and beans and candy-appled everythings.~~ heethakoipatty

12. ~~Oh, her lips taste just like sunk ships, but her breasts taste just like breakfast.~~ heethakoipatty

13. I don't know how you can stand next to me. You talk like a noose and only confuse my perplexity.

14. ~~For I am an engine and I'm rolling on. The world is all bending and breaking from me. For sweetness alone who flew out through the window and landed back home in a garden of green.~~ heethakoipatty

15. ~~Sara spelled with no 'h' was getting bored on a Peavey amp in 1984, while Zak with no 'c' tried out some new guitars, playing Sara-with-no-h's favourite song.~~ aprilflux

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-06T17:36:00

2007-05-06T21:35:09Z

Prozzak is officially the best band in the world. And these are officially the best lyrics in the world.

I like to watch
I like the way you bounce bounce
I like to watch
Ya ya groove 'n' move it
I like to watch
Shake it if you've got it lady
Here's my confession
I like to watch your hot box

I leave my house anticipating cruising/using
Down at the discotheque
Night time is for fun
Step to the bar
Drink with me for leisure/pleasure
I spy a frauline
The party's just begun

I like to watch
I like the way you bounce bounce
I like to watch
Ya ya groove 'n' move it
I like to watch
Shake it if you've got it lady
Here's my confession
I like to watch your hot box

You've got the moves
That make me feel so fly/high
The way you wiggle and jiggle is astounding
Feel the rhythm
It puts you in a trance/dance
You little devil
You've got my heart a pounding

I like to watch
I like the way you bounce bounce
I like to watch
Ya ya groove 'n' move it
I like to watch
Shake it if you've got it lady
Here's my confession
I like to watch your hot box

Do you have papers for being so beautiful
I spy with my eye
Something that is

I'll crack your code
Please give up your digits/gigits
Release your data
The contents of your mind
I see you blushing
Adrenaline is flushing/rushing
No need to fear me
I did not come to touch
I I I I I I I I I like to......

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-05-02T11:09:00

2007-05-02T15:15:22Z

How I've spent my sick day so far:

Q29. I am guessing that it is Jesus of Nazareth?
Right, Wrong, Close

28. Are you a leader? Yes.
27. Were you popular in the '50s? Yes.
26. Are you under 40 years old? Irrelevant.
25. Do you perform Pop music? No.
24. Have you performed live since 2000? No.
23. Do you have children? No.
22. Do you have long hair? Yes.
21. Have you ever written a book? No.
20. I guessed that it was Cindy Crawford? Wrong.
19. I guessed that it was Janice Dickinson? Wrong.
18. Are you a sex symbol? Yes.
17. Do you have a catch phrase? No.
16. Were you popular in the '80s? Yes.
15. Did you star in a blockbuster movie? No.
14. Are you part of an association or league? No.
13. Are you British? No.
12. Do you have dark hair? Yes.
11. Are you a chef or cook? No.
10. Do you appeal to teenagers? Sometimes.
9. Do you wear protective equipment? No.
8. Are you young? Irrelevant.
7. Are you African American? No.
6. Is your sport divided into quarters? Irrelevant.
5. Are you attractive? Yes.
4. Were you popular in the '90s? Yes.
3. Do you use a ball? No.
2. Are you an actor? No.
1. Are you a singer? No.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-21T23:30:00

2007-04-22T03:44:27Z

Sort by song title:
- First Song: "'87" - The Bouncing Souls
- Last Song: "Zurich Is Stained" - Pavement

Sort by time:
- Shortest Song: "One Last 'Whoo-hoo!' For The Pullman" - Sufjan Stevens (0:06)
- Longest Song: "Only Skin" - Joanna Newsom (16:53)

Sort by album:
-First Song: "Placeholder" - Elliott Smith
-Last Song: "Paper Moon" - Whiskeytown

Top 10 Most Played Songs:
1. "I Don't Blame You" - Cat Power
2. "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby" - Islands
3. "Gettin' Paid" - The Johnstones
4. "At My Most Beautiful" - R.E.M
5. "Action" - The Johnstones
6. "Mad World" - The Makeshift Heroes
7. "Consequence" - The Notwist
8. "Life Of The Party" - The Planet Smashers
9. "Naomi" - Neutral Milk Hotel
10. "Everything Reminds Me Of Her" - Elliott Smith

First five songs that comes up on Shuffle:
1. "As The Footsteps Die Out Forever" - Catch 22
2. "Too Much Attitude" - The Planet Smashers
3. "Us" - Regina Spektor
4. "Angeles" - Elliott Smith
5. "Monosyllabic Girl" - NOFX

Search...
"Sex", How many songs come up?: 17(Almost all of them are the Sex Pistols)
"Love", How many songs come up?: 103
"You", How many songs come up?: 444
"Death", How many songs come up?: 32
"Hate", How many songs come up?: 20
"Wish" How many songs come up?: 3

As of right now:
3291 songs, 8.2 days, 13.67 GB

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-17T18:49:00

2007-04-17T22:50:35Z

Saying Your Names
Richard Siken

Chemical names, bird names, names of fire
and flight and snow, baby names, paint names,
delicate names like bones in the body,
Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing,
names that no one's ever able to figure out.
Names of spells and names of hexes, names
cursed quietly under the breath, or called out
loudly to fill the yard, calling you inside again,
calling you home. Nicknames and pet names
and baroque French monikers, written in
shorthand, written in longhand, scrawled
illegibly in brown ink on the backs of yellowing
photographs, or embossed on envelopes lined
with gold. Names called out across the water,
names I called you behind your back,
sour and delicious, secret and unrepeatable,
the names of flowers that open only once,
shouted from balconies, shouted from rooftops,
or muffled by pillows, or whispered in sleep,
or caught in the throat like a lump of meat.
I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?
Sure enough—Hello darling, welcome home.
I'll call you darling, hold you tight. We are
not traitors but the lights go out. It's dark.
Sweetheart, is that you? There are no tears,
no pictures of him squarely. A seaside framed
in glass, and boats, those little boats with
sails aflutter, shining lights upon the water,
lights that splinter when they hit the pier.
His voice on tape, his name on the envelope,
the soft sound of a body falling off a bridge
behind you, the body hardly even makes
a sound. The waters of the dead, a clear road,
every lover in the form of stars, the road
blocked. All night I stretched my arms across
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing
with all my skin and bone Please keep him safe.
Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be
like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed
to pieces. Makes a cathedral, him pressing against
me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe
his mouth his heaven, his kisses falling over me
like stars. Names of heat and names of light,
names of collision in the dark, on the side of the
bus, in the bark of the tree, in ballpoint pen
on jeans and hands and the backs of matchbooks
that then get lost. Names like pain cries, names
like tombstones, names forgotten and reinvented,
names forbidden or overused. Your name like
a song I sing to myself, your name like a box
where I keep my love, your name like a nest
in the tree of love, your name like a boat in the
sea of love—O now we're in the sea of love!
Your name like detergent in the washing machine.
Your name like two X's like punched-in eyes,
like a drunk cartoon passed out in the gutter,
your name with two X's to mark the spots,
to hold the place, to keep the treasure from
becoming ever lost. I'm saying your name
in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on
the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal
covered with frost, your name like a music that's
been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud,
a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails
in wind and the slap of waves on the hull
of a boat that's sinking to the sound of mermaids
singing songs of love, and the tug of a simple
profound sadness when it sounds so far away.
Here is a map with your name for a capital,
here is an arrow to prove a point: we laugh
and it pits the world against us, we laugh,
and we've got nothing left to lose, and our hearts
turn red, and the river rises like a barn on fire.
I came to tell you, we'll swim in the water, we'll
swim like something sparkling underneath
the waves. Our bodies shivering, and the sound
of our breathing, and the shore so far away.
I'll use my body like a ladder, climbing
to the thing behind it, saying farewell to flesh,
farewell to everything caught underfoot
and flattened. Names of poisons, names of
handguns, names of places we've been
together, names of people we'd be together.
Names of endurance, names of devotion,
street names and place names and all the names
of our dark heaven crackling in their pan.
It's a bed of straw, darling. It sure as shit is.
If there was one thing I could save from the fire,
he said, the broken arms of the sycamore,
the eucalyptus still trying to climb out of the yard—
your breath on my neck like a music that holds
my hands down, kisses as they burn their way
along my spine—or rain, our bodies wet,
clothes clinging arm to elbow, clothes clinging
nipple to groin—I'll be right here. I'm waiting.
Say hallelujah, say goodnight, say it over
the canned music and your feet won't stumble,
his face getting larger, the rest blurring
on every side. And angels, about twelve angels,
angels knocking on your head right now, hello,
hello, a flash in the sky, would you like to
meet him there, in Heaven? Imagine a room,
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated
cities at the center of me, and here is the center
of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we
can drink from, but I can't go through with it.
I just don't want to die anymore.

Dexter's Lab - Dexter And Computress Get Mandark!

2007-04-14T03:33:55Z

Ahahah. Best episode of Dexter's Lab ever. One of the best episodes from any cartoon tv show ever, actually. "instead of shrinking it, they grew it! and it was on top of the world, it was bigger than the world, actually it was as big as the world, and the world was shaped like Mandark's head!"

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-13T07:41:00

2007-04-13T11:47:02Z

It's a really good feeling writing a song. I went to Heather's yesterday and we finished writing the music for "The Really Really Really Hard Life", which is all jokes but sounds pretty damn serious the way we wrote it. We spent about 3 hours on it since we didn't really know what we were doing, but the end product was worth all that time. So yes, I feel very accomplished. I can only imagine how good I'll feel when we finish writing our first album and it goes platinum three times.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-05T07:27:00

2007-04-05T11:28:41Z

AHH! It snowed. I thought we were finally done with winter. What the hell.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-04T22:06:00

2007-04-05T02:07:17Z

Love at First Sight

They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

Since they'd never met before, they're sure
that there'd been nothing between them.
But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways --
perhaps they've passed each other a million times?

I want to ask them
if they don't remember --
a moment face to face
in some revolving door?
perhaps a "sorry" muttered in a crowd?
a curt "wrong number" caught in the receiver?
but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember
They'd be amazed to hear
that Chance has been toying with them
now for years.

Not quite ready yet
to become their Destiny,
it pushed them close, drove them apart,
it barred their path,
stifling a laugh,
and then leaped aside.

There were signs and signals,
even if they couldn't read them yet.
Perhaps three years ago
or just last Tuesday
a certain leaf fluttered
from one shoulder to another?
Something was dropped and then picked up.
Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished
into childhood's thicket?

There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another
beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,
grown hazy by morning.

Every beginning
is only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

Into Action (feat. Skye Sweetnam)

2007-04-03T11:47:46Z

Woww. Skye Sweetnam (the same girl who called Shakespeare "Billy S" and sang an Avril Lavigne wannabe song about not wanting to go to school) is now playing a song with Tim Armstrong and the Aggrolites.

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-04-01T20:56:00

2007-04-02T00:59:48Z

Consolation for Tamar
(on the occasion of her breaking an ancient pot)

You know I am no archeologist, Tamar,
And that to me it is all one dust or another.
Still, it must mean something to survive the weather
Of the Ages-earthquake, flood, and war-

Only to shatter in your very hands.
Perhaps it was gravity, or maybe fated-
Although I wonder if it had not waited
Those years in drawers, aeons in distant lands,

And in your fingers' music, just a little
Was emboldened by your blood, and so forgot
That it was not a rosebud, but a pot,
And, trying to unfold for you, was brittle.

--A.E. Stallings

moshimoshi_13 @ 2007-03-26T16:04:00

2007-03-26T20:22:52Z

Reply and I'll give you a letter. Find ten songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal. flowerstand gave me G.

01. "Gardenhead (Leave Me Alone)" - Neutral Milk Hotel
02. "Good To Go" - Elliott Smith
03. "Green Typewriters" - The Olivia Tremor Control
04. "Ghost" - Neutral Milk Hotel
05. "Gloria" - Patti Smith
06. "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" - Belle And Sebastian
07. "Georgia" - Elliott Smith
08. "Ghost Mountain" - The Unicorns
09. "Good Deeds" - Owen
10. "Grass" - Animal Collective

Hopefully I didn't mess up those links.