58 guthrie street.

i was going to write something insightful, but i think these lyrics are better than anything i could come up with.


The days behind you are haunting
The ones you're living in now
The ghost of your past carries
The weight of your name
Where would you be, who are you
Without the scarring and the heels that stepped on you
That you cling to with all of your strength

An old letter you sent
to help close up wounds that I love to reopen
You can keep on drinking
But never drown out where you've been

The thick skin of remembering
Armor for protection
Let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils
Let go - i'll catch you
It's scary I know to understand what must be done

-rocky votolato

the man.

Here we are under moonlight
Words cannot describe
It's clear to me
You're like
The oceans and the light
Try and you'll remember what you used to be
It's clear to me this day will take you for a ride
A place that you once longed to be
And there it is...
-pete yorn

go forth.

http://goforth.levi.com/newamerican

1. play the film.
2. change the world.

for after the darkness, comes the dawn.

best week ever.

life is full of things that become a black cloud hanging over me. war. economy. death. sometimes i just have to focus on the little things that make me smile. some of them are nonsense, but i am okay with that :)

reasons why this was the best week ever:

1. monday - 2 words: Rachel Zoe. cant miss it. the biggest guilty pleasure of mine since the Real Housewives of NYC & NJ. love me some Brad. and cant wait to hear "Rodgerrrrrrr" and "i die". thank you bravo!

2. tuesday - september the 1st is an important day of the year. it is a reason to haul it to Starbucks & order a PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE!! this marks the beginning of fall, along side football season, before the leaves even begin to change. bask in the glory & drink it up.

3. wednesday - WAFFLE CONE WEDNESDAY @ TCBY!!! it IS the country's best yogurt & you know it just as well as i do. how recession friendly.

4. thursday - this is the first day of FOOTBALL SEASON for 2009!!! i can hear 2001 now. the flags are flying. let the tailgating begin. oh yeah & GOOOO COCKS! (bonus points: project runway!!)

5. friday - i drive to KY (with debbie) to reunite with my sweet boyfriend :) sheer bliss.


We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us
and less about what life has taken away.
-William Barclay

raising awareness.

A Welsh police department commissioned the film to drive home the dangers of texting behind the wheel. Thank you to the brits for being bold enough to do this to raise awareness. go watch this video ASAP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtZxT9qt1IE

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32549978#32549978

had we but world enough, and time.

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

-Andrew Marvell, circa 1650-52

siskel & ebert.

so i feel like there are a handful of movies i want to see right now. that would cost me quite a bit of money. about $30 to be exact.


The Goods
two words: jeremy piven.
i think he is hysterical & the preview alone is ridiculous enough. im hooked & ready for some laughs.


The Time Traveler's Wife
i have about 50 pages left to read in the book. it is such a fascinating and different story that has never been told before, that i know of. i am so excited to see this with linney on friday :) movie dates with her are the best. we like to go to target before it starts and stock up on drinks & candy. then we sneak it in. this time, she has the brilliant idea of $1 popcorn at target. she's awesome like that.


500 Days of Summer
i havent seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt since 3rd Rock From the Sun. Im interested to see what he's got. Zooey Deschanel is always enjoyable to watch. bottom line..... im a hopeless romantic.


Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
-Tim Burton