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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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13 April 12
survivethatcarpet: “Hepburn was the patron saint of the independent American female. She parlayed Yankee flintiness, determination, and independence into one of the most successful stage and film careers ever. In doing so, she became the cultural model of the ambitious, smart and savvy career woman now familiar from coast to coast.” - Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times

survivethatcarpet:

“Hepburn was the patron saint of the independent American female. She parlayed Yankee flintiness, determination, and independence into one of the most successful stage and film careers ever. In doing so, she became the cultural model of the ambitious, smart and savvy career woman now familiar from coast to coast.”

- Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times

Reblogged: katharinehepburn

30 March 12
“i’m such an unholy mess of a girl.”

“i’m such an unholy mess of a girl.”

(Source: katharinehepburn)

Reblogged: katharinehepburn

13 March 12

empires - spit the dark & hello lover(acoustic, live at pianos nyc)

god, this band.  they are ridiculous and i adore them.

i also love the acoustic version of spit the dark so, so much.

10 January 12
“ Then I started thinking maybe we actually represent something to people, maybe when they hear the name “Foo Fighters” they just think rock’n’roll, and I thought, “Wow, that’s cool.” Then over the years playing shows I’d look out at the audience and see kids with Nirvana shirts and their parents with Foo Fighters shirts — which seems upside down — and I’d see moustaches and kids at their first rock concert. Our audience became so diverse I thought, “Man, they just want to see a rock show.” Go see Bruce Springsteen. Go see Tom Petty, AC/DC, Roger Waters, any of these people. Go see Pearl Jam or Soundgarden. I went to see Soundgarden four or five months ago; I didn’t stand in the VIP section, I ran down and got crushed in front of the stage and danced around sweaty with a bunch of people I didn’t know for an hour and 45 minutes.
—

- dave grohl, billboard magazine

seriously, how is he so awesome? 

25 December 11
merry christmas.

merry christmas.

21 August 11
awesomejuice: My Chemical Romance at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL (by Michael Roman) werk. i think gerard might be my spirit animal.

awesomejuice:

My Chemical Romance at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL (by Michael Roman)

werk.

i think gerard might be my spirit animal.

Reblogged: awesomejuice

18 August 11
“ New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.

He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there was no necessary regard for the past. The city lived in a sort of everyday present. It had no need to believe in itself as a London, or an Athens, or even a signifier of the New World, like a Sydney, or a Los Angeles. No, the city couldn’t care less about where it stood. He had seen a T-shirt once that said NEW YORK FUCKIN’ CITY. As if it were the only place that ever existed and the only one that ever would.

New York kept going forward precisely because it didn’t give a good goddamn about what it had left behind.

— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (via sarahspy)

Reblogged: sarahspy

17 August 11
“I always think of Linda still as my girlfriend. That’s how we started out in the ’60s, just as friends. Whenever I was working late somewhere, I just never fancied it. I thought: Well, I could stay overnight in this posh hotel, or I could go home to Linda. And it was always the brighter of the two options: Yeah, go home to Linda. It was just I liked being with her, quite frankly. I think that’s the most difficult thing about losing her, just how much I enjoyed being with her.”  — Paul McCartney, 1998

“I always think of Linda still as my girlfriend. That’s how we started out in the ’60s, just as friends. Whenever I was working late somewhere, I just never fancied it. I thought: Well, I could stay overnight in this posh hotel, or I could go home to Linda. And it was always the brighter of the two options: Yeah, go home to Linda. It was just I liked being with her, quite frankly. I think that’s the most difficult thing about losing her, just how much I enjoyed being with her.” 

— Paul McCartney, 1998

24 July 11
lavishness: pantslessprogressive: Tomorrow, our country won’t implode. Tomorrow, God isn’t going to swoop down on the U S of A and curse the Empire State. Tomorrow, mounds of people aren’t going to ask their state legislatures to allow them to marry their household pets. Tomorrow, if I wanted to rush to the chapel, the married gay couples in New York will not magically invalidate the value of my nuptials.  Instead, tomorrow, these married couples will wake up together knowing their love for each other is now recognized in the eyes of the law. Tomorrow, even more same-sex couples will wake up together knowing they now have that possibility. And tomorrow, lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual individuals across the state can envision exchanging vows with a future loved one as a reality. Congratulations, New York. [Photo: Lino Caminha and Luke Strandquist after exchanging vows at the Manhattan city clerk’s office. Credit: Michael Appleton/NY Times] Reblogging for my lovely musicismyboyfriend!  They look so happy!! this is my amazing friend luke and his partner, now husband, lino.  they are two of the best and talented people i know and like i told luke earlier today, i am honored to share my birthday with this amazing day for them and all the other same sex couples that got married in new york today.

lavishness:

pantslessprogressive:

Tomorrow, our country won’t implode. Tomorrow, God isn’t going to swoop down on the U S of A and curse the Empire State. Tomorrow, mounds of people aren’t going to ask their state legislatures to allow them to marry their household pets. Tomorrow, if I wanted to rush to the chapel, the married gay couples in New York will not magically invalidate the value of my nuptials. 

Instead, tomorrow, these married couples will wake up together knowing their love for each other is now recognized in the eyes of the law. Tomorrow, even more same-sex couples will wake up together knowing they now have that possibility. And tomorrow, lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual individuals across the state can envision exchanging vows with a future loved one as a reality.

Congratulations, New York.

[Photo: Lino Caminha and Luke Strandquist after exchanging vows at the Manhattan city clerk’s office. Credit: Michael Appleton/NY Times]

Reblogging for my lovely musicismyboyfriend!  They look so happy!!

this is my amazing friend luke and his partner, now husband, lino.  they are two of the best and talented people i know and like i told luke earlier today, i am honored to share my birthday with this amazing day for them and all the other same sex couples that got married in new york today.

Reblogged: lavishness

2 June 11
dedaumier: for jess. &lanaface; do want.

dedaumier:

for jess.

&lanaface;

do want.

(Source: misswallflower)

Reblogged: dedaumier

themed by hunson. originally by josh