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i love music. so should you.

this is my (mostly) music blog. i wanted a space where i could wax poetically about all the bands and artists i love. (my heart and my cd collection is v. v. big.) you'll also find a smattering of writing related things, since that's what i'm doing these days, along with other pop culture miscellanea.

things you need to know: i live in chicago, but i used to live in new york city. i go to a lot of shows. i stopped being ashamed of my musical tastes a long time ago. the first time i heard "eleanor rigby" by the beatles, i was nine years old and i still get goosebumps when i hear those opening strings. i sing - trained in opera, musical theater, and everything in between.

i'm not very country, i'm mostly rock and roll.

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7 January 12
blurintofocus:

chanelleberlin:


Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Clearly I need to read this book, because it is singing my life with its words.

Feelings and thoughts.

seriously, any of you that have not yet read will grayson, will grayson need get on it. it’s the kind of young adult novel that i can only hope mine will be.  also, it has some of the greatest lines ever, including the ones above and my personal favorite: “how am i dating this sprinkled donut of a person?”

blurintofocus:

chanelleberlin:

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Clearly I need to read this book, because it is singing my life with its words.

Feelings and thoughts.

seriously, any of you that have not yet read will grayson, will grayson need get on it. it’s the kind of young adult novel that i can only hope mine will be.  also, it has some of the greatest lines ever, including the ones above and my personal favorite: “how am i dating this sprinkled donut of a person?”

(Source: Flickr / y0ungfuckup)

Reblogged: blurintofocus

7 December 11
ryan gosling + books = perfection.  toss in a bottle of jameson and it could be heaven.

ryan gosling + books = perfection.  toss in a bottle of jameson and it could be heaven.

(Source: librarianheygirl)

Reblogged: librarianheygirl

18 November 11
louisroe:

Oh my god.

oh sweet lord. i want this movie right now.

louisroe:

Oh my god.

oh sweet lord. i want this movie right now.

Reblogged: rainbowbright

15 November 11

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19 October 11

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16 September 11
the last of my required books for this semester arrived today.   yeah, you aren’t miscounting - that’s 14 total.

the last of my required books for this semester arrived today.   yeah, you aren’t miscounting - that’s 14 total.

22 August 11

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms father…. And one fine morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

— “The Great Gatsby” — F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pulsifers)

Reblogged: lyriquediscorde

31 July 11
shadesofbrixton:

I am not a Stephen King fan.  Let me just get that out there first.  My personal opinions of this man have not changed pretty much from day one.  I’ve tried to read about a half dozen of his books throughout the course of my life - until I got to The Gunslinger.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
There are moments in our lives, as readers, when we know something is real.  When something is staying.  And those words made something well in the back of my throat, something thick and terrifying, and my opinion of Stephen King changed just enough to make a crack in the world, a Door for Roland to slip through. 
I’m still reading the series.  But it all starts with one line.  The kind of book I want to read, the kind of book I want to be.  Easily in my top five first lines of any book I’ve ever read.

i am a huge stephen king fan and it all started with the gunslinger. that first line is something that makes me aspire to be a be the best writer i can be.  if i can ever construct something so succinct and perfect, even just once, i’ll be happy.

shadesofbrixton:

I am not a Stephen King fan.  Let me just get that out there first.  My personal opinions of this man have not changed pretty much from day one.  I’ve tried to read about a half dozen of his books throughout the course of my life - until I got to The Gunslinger.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

There are moments in our lives, as readers, when we know something is real.  When something is staying.  And those words made something well in the back of my throat, something thick and terrifying, and my opinion of Stephen King changed just enough to make a crack in the world, a Door for Roland to slip through. 

I’m still reading the series.  But it all starts with one line.  The kind of book I want to read, the kind of book I want to be.  Easily in my top five first lines of any book I’ve ever read.

i am a huge stephen king fan and it all started with the gunslinger. that first line is something that makes me aspire to be a be the best writer i can be.  if i can ever construct something so succinct and perfect, even just once, i’ll be happy.

Reblogged: shadesofbrixton

12 July 11

Neil Gaiman’s personal library. A little book porn for all of you readers out there.

this is pretty much exactly what i want forever.

Neil Gaiman’s personal library. A little book porn for all of you readers out there.

this is pretty much exactly what i want forever.

Reblogged: therealfoxxcub

31 March 11
slaughterhouse90210:

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.” — Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

slaughterhouse90210:

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.”
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Reblogged: slaughterhouse90210

themed by hunson. originally by josh