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My New Personal Blog

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:17:49 -0500

My New Personal Blog:

I will be putting personal things up there from now on.

I had a lot of fun making this. Maybe I’ll make a series...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:11:00 -0500

I had a lot of fun making this. Maybe I’ll make a series of them.

Oh, Sawyer. You’re so damned obnoxious.

Makes me unbearably happy. :)

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:03:52 -0500

Makes me unbearably happy. :)

This was my favourite Cirque Du Soleil song. “Rain...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:32:20 -0500

This was my favourite Cirque Du Soleil song. “Rain One” from Varekai. I love the story of Varekai, Icarus falls into from the sky and is inspired by his love for a caterpillar to fly again, though it was Cirque Du Soleil’s weakest show.

Music I'd always associate with my parents

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:11:00 -0500

Papi

1. Dire Straits - Not the popular songs like “Money For Nothing”, but the dark, moody ones like “Fade To Black”, “Your Latest Trick”, “Rüdiger”, “News”, and “On Every Street”, which supplied my childhood (and early adulthood) fantasies with scenes from film noir.

2. Pink Floyd - Weird, wonderful, experimental, and highly political music that my mother hated. Just hated. Made me love it all the more in my strange, rebellious way.

3. Paul Simon - Mainly his album, Graceland, which my mom also hated. Again, I loved it, but not out of rebelliousness but in response to its positive, playful attitude.

Mami

1. Gloria Estafan – I can’t think of a single song that she has written, but for some reason I’ve always liked Gloria Estafan and associated her with my mother in a positive way. She was always heads and shoulders above most of the other Spanish female singers of the time. I guess, in retrospect, she’s like the Shakira of the late 80s, a sexy, intelligent, and totally respectable Latina musician.

2. Gypsy Kings - These guys were incredible. Just incredible.

3. Assorted Kurdish music. At some point my mother decided she was Kurdish and Lebanese, and so came a wave of wonderful, incredible Kurdish music. (I should really figure out who those artists were.)

So Kate Bush’s “Sunset” from Aerial always reminds me of my parents. It just sounds like a conglomeration of all of those musicians in one.

Each Kate Bush song has a deeply personal meaning to me just like this.

I don’t care what anybody says about Ace of Base. They...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:36:00 -0500

I don’t care what anybody says about Ace of Base. They were awesome. (No…really, they were totally ridiculous. But they were all the more endearing for it.) Besides, they were my first introduction to Swedish artists. Although the music reminds me more of Australia, journeys through the desert (to the Grand Canyon with my family in our van), and the smell and feel of the Native American gift shop we stopped at along the way (which seemed so much more personal and spiritual in memory than in how I just described it.)

Kind of wonder why I don’t like M. I. A. and Lady Sovereign more, listening to this again. Huh.

This was my favourite song when I was 3 or 4. My brothers and I...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:23:00 -0500

This was my favourite song when I was 3 or 4. My brothers and I performed this to my parents one day while standing on sofa cushions we used as our stage. Seems like a sad song for kids to perform, but anything you do as a child is adorable in the eyes of one’s parents (generally speaking). And I’d always sing the melody to myself, so I would never forget it and always carry it with me. Probably why I related so strongly to Peter Gabriel later on. I always feel close to people who express compassion towards the poor.

My second favourite was “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” by Eurythmics. God, I wonder how that must’ve influenced me later…haha! (Appreciation for androgynous red-headed British electro-pop artists, perhaps?)

I haven’t truly listened to this in years. It brings back...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:17:00 -0500

I haven’t truly listened to this in years. It brings back memories of when I was 14-16. I would listen to this constantly, in between my regular fixes of Charlie Parker and Joe Hisaishi. This song was one of the many which heralded in my awakening from my extremely depressive and unhealthy mental state which came after puberty. I didn’t know who Kate Bush was at the time, but I felt a considerable rapport with her even from this one little song and I learned to associate her voice with warmth and total benevolence. She always seemed like an artist I should listen to some time later. Little did I know just how incredible she truly is and how strongly I would feel about her work.

So sad and touching.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:47:39 -0500

So sad and touching.

beer commercial.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:46:00 -0500

beer commercial.

Remember when we used to value romance (enough so to put it in...

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:38:00 -0500

Remember when we used to value romance (enough so to put it in our car commercials)? I miss those days.

(via losetrackoftime)

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:43:44 -0500

(via losetrackoftime)

dowelikeit: Baltimore Homeless Donate $14.64 To Haiti...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:42:50 -0500

dowelikeit:

Baltimore Homeless Donate $14.64 To Haiti Relief

Donations for Haiti have poured in to the American Red Cross of Central Maryland from a range of sources. Nothing, though, has stood out like the coins and crumpled dollar bills that spilled from one envelope.

That gift - $14.64 - came from the pockets of homeless people at a downtown Baltimore shelter.

Feel like shit yet Rush Limbaugh? Oh wait, you are made of shit.

“You sit there and think, ‘Oh! Where’s my...

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:21:00 -0500

“You sit there and think, ‘Oh! Where’s my purpose? I’m nothing.’ A-and then something will happen that will make you see that you’re just a tiny, little thing trying to do your best and that’s all you can do, so that’s cool.”

Oh, Kate, you always make me feel so much better.

Dinky Fellas by Morrie Turner. Printed in 1963. Late...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:37:03 -0500

Dinky Fellas by Morrie Turner. Printed in 1963.

Late contribution to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. :)

From Jackie Ormes’ 1940s comic strip Torchy’s Tog,...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:01:00 -0500

From Jackie Ormes’ 1940s comic strip Torchy’s Tog, featuring the a cut-out paper doll version of comic character Torchy Brown.

Top-right outfit seems very Janelle Monáe-ish.

David Tennant briefly defends Kate Bush (8:15ish), and Coldplay,...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:39:00 -0500

David Tennant briefly defends Kate Bush (8:15ish), and Coldplay, who I like as well. :)

God, what a warm, funny, and all-around lovely person he is.

P. S. Catherine Tate is adorable.

P. S. S. Its actually an unsubstantiated rumour that Kate Bush was ever president of a UFO investigation group, though she has stated once, in an interview, that she doesn’t see why intelligent life couldn’t exist on planets out-side of our own.

Kate Bush's Billie Holiday sculpture for War Child

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:25:48 -0500

Kate Bush's Billie Holiday sculpture for War Child

thebleedingheartshow: apassingfeeling: (via hui+) Plum love.

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:59:07 -0500

thebleedingheartshow:

apassingfeeling:

(via hui+)

Plum love.

Girls And Body Image: It's Apparently Worse Than Ever

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:05:29 -0500

Girls And Body Image: It's Apparently Worse Than Ever:

fuckyeahfeminism:

“Girls as young as five are preoccupied with body image, and ‘Between 2000 and 2006, the percentage of girls who believe that they must be thin to be popular rose to 60% from 48%.’”

[via Jezebel]

News like this makes me seriously consider homeschooling my child instead of sending them to Elementary School. What a sick society we’re living in…