I don’t know much about the west coast, but it seems like Vancouver’s got this retro-soul, 50s & 60s/grunge inspired jingle-jangle thing going on. This satisfies pretty much every prerequisite I have for liking music. Think new-wave Beach Boys and plaid-wearing Supremes.
Lies, Lies, Lies - Chains of Love
Nervous Breakdown - Shimmering Stars
Pictures of Success - Rilo Kiley
I’m a modern girl/ but I fold in half so easily / when I put myself in pictures of success.
this song will always mean something to me, regardless of where I am in life.
Hear Me Lord - George Harrison
I won’t lie. I’m an extreme iPod shuffler. Unless I have a specific album that I want to pay attention to or I’m catching up on podcasts, my iPod is pretty much always on shuffle. I do it because I like to think it’s a way for the music gods to speak to me in case they need to warn me or comfort me or slap some sense into me.
This George Harrison one’s been coming up a lot. I have my favourite tracks on All Things Must Pass (“Wah-Wah”, anyone?) but this one is working its way up. It’s so full of longing and sadness and remorse, which would normally be reserved for a lover, but this song’s all about God being everywhere. Heavy stuff.
This ‘ooooooh ooooh”-ing in this song reminds me so much of a Halloween song we used to sing in elementary about a woman finding a skeleton in her closet. The only thing I can remember are the ooooh’s, but I remember singing it while walking through the cemetary by my house with my mom. Either that’s true, or it’s my mind’s way of making the song seem scarier in my head. Do you ever feel like your memories aren’t true?
King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
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I’m really sick today, so I stayed home from work. But instead of lazing and watching Degrassi High, which in retrospect would have been awesome, I started a new blog called Vogue Renting.
The purpose is to build up a collection of things that may someday make me a desirable candidate to work at an interior design magazine (since this is my dream), but I also just like making my apartment comfy and pretty and I want to brag about it.
Give me your rooms to post pictures of! Please? I’m looking at all of you!
Source: rainbowratIt’s far from being finished but I still love this image.
Even with the weird brownish colors, I still think it’s pretty.
