oops hi

I've not been here for awhile.

Vacation+summer+internet disinterest and laziness+recent obsession with instagram...

It isn't what you have, or who you are,
or where you are, or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie


YES!

and there ya go

I'm going away soon - to the UK! London, York, Edinburgh, Oban...and then a 6 day hike from Fort William to Inverness!

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At every moment in every person's life there is work to be done, always work to be done, some of it small, some of it Great. The Great Work, in a sense, always has to do with healing the world, changing the world, and, as a necessary predicate to that, understanding the world. You rise every morning aware that you are called to this work. You won't live to see it finished. But if you can't hear it calling, you aren't listening hard enough. It's always calling, sometimes in a big voice, sometimes in a quiet voice.

Tony KushnerAmerican Playwright

just two things

numero uno - apollo ghosts (2008-2012) last show in vancouver. i remember seeing them in like 2008 or 2009 in the our town cafe. they are playing friday, may 10th.
you can listen to all their albums on their bandcamp page: http://apolloghosts.bandcamp.com/

#2: The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. Pablo Casals, 1876-1973 Catalan Cellist and Conductor

purity ring and blue hawaii

happened this week. vancouver. can i just say that blue hawaii is f _ _ _ _ ing amazing to see LIVE! most impressive were her screams that she took liberty to loop. they're both like a couple of hipster ravers - dancing and being adorable. And CANADIAN!

I want you

Arts&Crafts 2003-2013

for a limited time you can stream the album for free (scroll down until you see the play button):

http://music.cbc.ca/#/Radio3/blogs/2013/4/Arts-Crafts-20032013-full-album-stream

One of my favorite songs of all-time is included: a cover of 'Islands in the Stream' by Feist and the Constantines.

je ne sais quoi

"I-don't-know-what": an indescribable or indefinable 'something' that distinguishes the object in question from others that are superficially similar.

-wikipedia 

 

after years of wear and years of grrr

ok, this is even better. it hurts my eyes to look it but I like it.

i also imagine that this is what the tattoo could look like after years of wear!

a possible tattoo?

never been tempted to get a tattoo based on an image, but this one is pretty darn awesome.

I found it on a receipt I came across while doing FOI research for work. 

I think I'd put this word under the image: "Grrr"
for this reason:
Grrr /ˈɡɜrːː/^[1] is an onomatopoeic word which imitates the growling sound of predatory animals, and is often used with other related meanings. It is one of the rare pronounceable words of the English language that consists solely of consonants.

[wikipedia]

we are all so weird

recommended listening:

blue hawaii (Raphaelle Standell-Preston from Braids and Alexander Cowan) - will be in Vancouver playing the same night as Purity Ring --- on the same night. why oh why. anyways, reminds me of GRIMES but more subdued.

pick a piper (drummer from caribou and from Vancouver's MINT RECORDS)