tell your

happy easter.

2009-04-12T21:14:00.001-07:00

these are my cousins.

take me by the hand,

2009-03-26T19:33:00.000-07:00

and tell me you would take me anywhere.
-t & s

2009-03-22T05:34:00.000-07:00

'i tried to do handstands for you
but everytime I fell for you.
i'm permanently black and blue,
permanently blue for you.'
-chairlift

2009-03-19T15:58:00.000-07:00

'this is the story with the fantastic lies
or some facts to help us minimalize'
-mates of state

2009-03-17T12:36:00.000-07:00

her house has been a home to all of us. they're a couple. and the separation is sad.

it was sixty outside,

2009-03-15T04:27:00.000-07:00

but mittens were required.

day 2, day 3. grand canyon.

2009-03-10T22:01:00.000-07:00

it was windy. and big. it made me dizzy.

day two. new mexico.

2009-03-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

she didn't look anything like her obese bordering cousin. new mexico was thin and damp and layered.

day one. columbus was right.

2009-03-09T12:52:00.000-07:00

the world is flat.

day one; EARLY morning.

2009-03-08T23:03:00.000-07:00

it was hard to leave our home in the darkness of the morning. sleepy fort worth, she bribed us with warm pastries in paper bags. and with her beauty.

and like a child,

2009-03-02T21:11:00.000-08:00

my thoughts were consumed with its presence.

2009-03-01T02:26:00.000-08:00

'you put a note into my pocket
said “be good to yourself”
and that was all'
-kaki king

2009-02-24T16:45:00.000-08:00

the son of my mother's brother. kristofer lives in colorado with big mountains. I see him once a year. usually summer. so come winter, I get to missing him. I found these yesterday from summer in ventura.

2009-02-22T22:51:00.000-08:00

'everything I say, I say to me first.
everything I do, I do to me first .
so what, I lied. I lied to me too.'
-tegan & sara

2009-02-20T19:11:00.000-08:00

its wrong that Im prematurely attached. she's seventeen years old and could be rotting and unreliable. but she looks so good. its puppy love. and Im smitten.

v.day oh nine.

2009-02-15T17:07:00.000-08:00

because one of us had a real valentine this year. not just their little brother. or their dog. or their mom. womp.

2009-02-13T21:59:00.000-08:00

you're not mine any longer. but I feel you in my bones.

the threads of my thoughts,

2009-02-11T22:20:00.000-08:00

her words were woven in and out of mine. her voice replacing my own.

2009-02-07T23:42:00.000-08:00

I think mia and I share similar feelings about the move. shes curled up in the same spot now, her head beneath the blanket. california's a long way for a carolina dog.

'the kind of girl who laughs and says get up off your knees.

2009-02-06T14:40:00.000-08:00

because I will start to forget but she will always remember'
-teeegan and sara

2009-02-04T16:14:00.000-08:00

'something filled my heart up with nothing, someone told me not to cry, but now that Im older, my hearts grown colder, and I can see that its a lie. children wake up, hold your mistake up.'
-arcade fire

I founds my fambly in a box.

2009-02-01T10:26:00.000-08:00

because they're rare. and because they're beautiful.

homemade happiness.

2009-01-31T11:11:00.000-08:00

'and all the shy lights in the cracks,
and all the walls are close enough
to make me wonder
hows its like when you are here.'
-tender forever

2009-01-26T14:24:00.000-08:00

favorite conversation overheard during transit across campus thus far this semester: from one slightly effeminate guy on his cell phone, "girl, its colder than a witch's titties out here." well said sir. well said.

this won't be my life for long.

2009-01-25T01:16:00.000-08:00

its hard to look at your home and say goodbye. its hard to understand it won't be there. its hard to look at your dog, and your desk, and the sheets of your bed and realize they don't need you. the spaces of carpet you haven't seen for years, walls bare, and card board boxes. and suddenly I want nothing more than to keep it. to keep it in me.
because maybe Im not me without it.
and that scares me.

2009-01-23T17:47:00.000-08:00

say no to soda. drink sweet tea.

2009-01-18T12:01:00.000-08:00

yesterday I found this tiny lisa frank notebook I wrote in as a six year old, just months after moving from texas in 1996. and I think it made the last three days, spent in the haze of dust induced sneezes and benadryl hangovers completely worth it.

2009-01-12T21:14:00.000-08:00

after maybe forty forced and uncomfortable shots, of what had began as an organic moment, my mom, defeated, shot these last three. and I love them. even the scowly one. I could bear-hug her in happiness, but I wont.

2009-01-11T11:01:00.000-08:00

because maybe they'll make you happy too.

2009-01-08T16:19:00.000-08:00

2009-01-07T00:18:00.000-08:00

'miscommunication leads to fear and hesitation
and it wont leave me alone,
but in my tree Im living free as any child, would I be.'
-priscilla ahn

2009-01-06T11:37:00.000-08:00

'you're breaking branches on your way down
just someone new to throw your arms around.'
-seabear

2009-01-04T13:00:00.000-08:00

they stood like a million little fingers over my home like every night before, but I was suddenly in awe of them. and nighttime didn't feel quite so alone in the glow of our lives reflected back from the clouds.

the last sunset of the year i was expected to look forward to from birth.

2008-12-31T22:16:00.000-08:00

'so long lost loves,
I haven't forgotten you just yet.
your face still drifting inside my head.'
-mates of state

2008-12-28T20:07:00.000-08:00

'and I miss you, even when you're around.
I'm a black cloud,
sending lightening to the ground.'
-seabear

2008-12-27T08:29:00.000-08:00

'I let the day go by, I always say goodbye
I watch the stars from my window still
the whole world is moving and I'm standing still'
-the weepies

2008-12-26T09:20:00.000-08:00

process.

2008-12-24T09:03:00.000-08:00

'If you're gonna get up, you might as well get up with me
If you're going downtown, I might as well be on your way'
-tegan and sara

circumstances.

2008-12-21T20:40:00.000-08:00

because even in the absence of tradition and christmas trees, we can be happy. (yes, I unwrapped a blowdryer.)

2008-12-17T22:28:00.000-08:00

'so it goes, the ordinary people they do not know
who we are or what we're doing here
dancing together at night until two
you're cheering me up and I'm thanking you'
-New Buffalo

2008-12-12T11:11:00.000-08:00

my dad sent me these a while ago.

twinkle lights...

2008-12-11T01:40:00.000-08:00

'those windows, these eyes
don’t worry, I won’t cry
and if you go, should I stay?
and if I lie, which way?'
-Tegan and Sara

2008-12-07T13:58:00.000-08:00

'I should be suspended from class
I don’t know my elbow from my ass.'
-Camera Obscura

2008-12-05T09:23:00.000-08:00

'somehow I'm leading someone else's life,
I cut a star down with my knife,
and right now I still see the way the moon plays this tune.'
-Joshua Radin

remember that night?

2008-12-02T10:31:00.000-08:00

the difference in networks:huh.
the sad republican...

2008-11-30T21:07:00.000-08:00

'but you can sky rocket away from me
and never come back if you find another galaxy,
far from here, with more room to fly,
just leave me your star dust to remember you by.'
-Gregory and the Hawk

2008-11-28T20:23:00.000-08:00

'oh Im just a fall leaf,
something simple and shy like that,
thats how my heart lies down beside the sidewalk.'
-CocoRosie

2008-11-25T01:54:00.000-08:00

'but its late in the day
and your well on your way
what was golden went gray
and Im suddenly shy.'
-Joanna Newsom

2008-11-23T16:14:00.001-08:00

'tangerines are hanging heavy, glowing marigold in hue,
teasing a half-pale moon,
and I feel a pull to the blue velvet dark and stars.'
- The Weepies

2008-11-22T21:28:00.000-08:00

'I sang instead when other girls only cried.
I called it grace,
I am a mindless child.'
-Mates of State

2008-11-21T07:39:00.000-08:00

'half in love with this
half in love with that
nothing but a change of heart
to set you back'
-New Buffalo

2008-11-18T18:06:00.000-08:00

'sameness is the same

fighting is the game
nameless is the lady who has gone insane.'
-New Buffalo

unrelated comforts

2008-11-17T15:59:00.000-08:00

'rivers sweep away my memories of children's things,
a young mother's love.'
-cocorosie

on over analyzing every word you spoke, face you made.

2008-11-16T10:29:00.000-08:00

'its a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown,
its a silly time to learn on the way down.'
-Tegan and Sara

pwitty pwitty

2008-11-14T19:23:00.000-08:00

I just REALLY love this commercial. not the shoes or cars or screaming women, or the stereotypical male response, just the song.
If I could choose a new voice it would sound an awful lot like hers.

'Ive been slipping through the years,

2008-11-09T14:50:00.000-08:00

my old clothes don't fit like they once did
so they hang like ghosts
of people Ive been'
-Death Cab

what is this surreal reality?

2008-11-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

'my brains repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out,"
but they never make it past my mouth.'
- Death Cab

2008-11-06T08:57:00.000-08:00

'I know there's an answer to your question,
but I don't know if I could word it right.'
-Beth Orton

she died today. yesterday she was warm beneath my fingers.

2008-11-03T23:06:00.000-08:00

'rainbows wept color all over the streets
when you went away
maybe one day we'll meet'
-CocoRosie

sweet company

2008-11-02T23:42:00.000-08:00

an eight year old who really wanted to blog, and a furry senior citizen.
could anything be sweeter?
nope.

2008-10-26T00:06:00.000-07:00

'its a shoreline and its high speed,
its a cruel world and its time'
-Broken Social Scene

sweet greensboro

2008-10-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

'love is a dress that you made, long to hide your knees

love to say this to your face, "Ill love you only."'
-Iron and Wine

2008-10-20T00:32:00.000-07:00

'and you can tell the world what you want them to hear
I've got nothing left to lose, my dear
so Im up for the little white lies
but you and I know the reason why'
-Rachael Yamagata

2008-10-18T18:46:00.000-07:00

'I’m not really scared
I just like the way that those words sound when
they fall from my mouth'
-An Horse

mornings

2008-10-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

'When I was a child everybody smiled, nobody knows me at all
Very late at night and in the morning light, nobody knows me at all'
- The Weepies

2008-10-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

'You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
With a single pillow underneath your single head.
You used to think that someone would come along.
And lay beside you in the space that they belong.'
-Death Cab

2008-10-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

'Turned on the lights, the truth hit home.

Its okay if you wanna play dumb.
Its okay if you fool everyone.'

-KaiserCartel

2008-10-07T07:08:00.000-07:00

'hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first'
-Imogen Heap

2008-10-05T10:07:00.001-07:00

'What I am to you is not real
What I am to you you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me'
- Damien Rice

2008-10-03T21:24:00.001-07:00

'My fingertips are holding onto
the cracks in our foundations,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't.'
-Kate Nash

2008-09-30T19:15:00.001-07:00

'If I could take you away
pretend I was queen
what would you say
would you think I'm unreal
'cause everybody's got their way I should feel'
-Rachael Yamagata

It would be wrong not to...

2008-09-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

I know it may not be a photo, and it may not be mine, but I am in love with this song and video, and it would be wrong not to share it when you probably wouldn't see it otherwise.

Call it Off by Tegan and Sara

Overcome your Apprehension

2008-09-25T09:46:00.001-07:00

Overcome your Apprehension, originally uploaded by picknbluebonnets.

I will be the irresistible misfit
who sends up over the ledge of flowers
sounds no woman has ever heard-
the one who longs to see your face
-Billy Collins

2008-09-21T15:10:00.001-07:00

'Sea lion woman
She drink coffee
Sea lion woman
She drink tea
And a rooster crows'
-Feist

2008-09-19T14:05:00.001-07:00

'You lay awake in the night
Just staring at the ceiling above
Pulling pieces of it out
Its such a waste of time'
-Sara Quin

2008-09-18T19:24:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by picknbluebonnets.

'Darling
Don't got to worry you're locked in tight
Darling
Don't got to worry turn out the light'
-Santogold

2008-09-16T14:45:00.001-07:00

'This is way beyond my remote concern
Of being condescending
All these squawking birds won't quit.
Building nothing, laying bricks.'
-The Shins

2008-09-15T14:35:00.001-07:00

'I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time
Oh what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you'
-Ben Gibbard of Death Cab

2008-09-13T20:40:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by picknbluebonnets.

'I feel like I wouldn't like me if I met me.
I feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me.
And don't worry theres still time.'
-Tegan Quin again

2008-09-12T17:50:00.001-07:00

'A woman isn't complete without a man; but where do you find a man- a real man- these days?'
-Lauren Bacall

2008-09-11T18:53:00.001-07:00

'You’re funny, my mom used to tell me that all the time, you’re funny, as if that matters.'
-Tegan Quin again

2008-09-10T11:21:00.001-07:00

'So I thought I’d let you know it was beautiful slow dancing to tunes of Billie Holiday.
The city looked wonderful that way.
And love just like blood will always stain.'
-Tilly and the Wall

flew home, back to where we met.

2008-09-08T18:29:00.001-07:00

'I felt you in my life before I ever thought to, feel the need to lay down beside you and tell you, "I feel you in my heart and I don't even know you." And now we're saying bye.'
- Tegan Quin

2008-09-05T12:03:00.001-07:00

"The headlights look like diamonds
The taillights burn like coals
Tell me how this story ends
Before the fires go cold'
-Win Butler of Arcade Fire

2008-09-03T06:37:00.000-07:00

, originally uploaded by picknbluebonnets.

'How I wish you could see the potential of you and me.
It's like a book, elegantly bound, but in a language that
you can't read just yet..'
-Ben Gibbard of Death Cab

2008-08-28T15:58:00.001-07:00

'Is it enough to write a song and sing it to the birds?
They'd hear just the tune, not understand my love for words
But you would hear me and know'
- The Weepies

2008-08-27T20:27:00.001-07:00

'Those teenage hopes with tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie'
-Leslie Feist again

2008-08-26T15:48:00.000-07:00

'I want to draw you a floorplan of my

head and heart. I want to give directions,
helpful hints, what you'll be looking for.'
- Sara Quin

2008-08-25T19:33:00.000-07:00

'So much present inside my present
Inside my present so..so much past...'
-Feist