weisheit des tages

new obsession: in love, not limbo by of oceans

happy monday♥

come & watch the pretty lights

via PL

friday night i had the pleasure of taking little DD to see Pretty Lights at the Wiltern in LA. it was an amazing performance all around. grammatik and kraddy did a great job warming up the crowd for what seemed like a five hour dance party - i actually don't know how long Pretty Lights was on because I didn't touch my phone the entire time.. yes, it was that good. a member of Jurassic 5 joined Derek on stage for a bit which was also awesome. the crowd was fun and DD was impressed :) happy to know I enlightened my lil bro with some amazing music!

via PL

theres really no way to categorize this music. I tried to explain it to a friend as alternative electronic, funkadelic, soulful techno, often mellow, sometimes with heavy bass. the best part about Pretty Lights is that derek thinks all music should be available on a 'pay what you can' basis. enjoy it here, and if you like it give em some cash! a couple songs that were especially amazing/memorable:

• if i could feel again - get to around 1:05 at least, before you make your mind up on this one :)
• after midnight - basically the reason I wanted to see them on NYE...
• total fascination - opened the show with this one, sooo good!
• the time has come - amazing live!

remix of the day

I told you to be patient

I told you to be fine

I told you to be balanced

I told you to be kind

bon iver

the so-called "little things"

she had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes

and I knew without askin' she was into the blues

she wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,

I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls

grateful dead

despite a minor breakdown at work this afternoon, today was an all around good day. it was not quite as hot as yesterday (75 in November?) and although I didn't get to spend an hour lunch in the sunshine today, I still enjoyed a couple minutes of vitamin D. 

we celebrated the birth of little CE at butterfly, then on the roof, then with cupcakes, then with wine and some groovy tunes. things we learned tonight: we must take advantage of the roof more, pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are to die for, 'juicy' is the best biggie song (and you can't like biggie and tupac), etc.

i also can't stop thinking how thankful i am for my friends. which has got me thinking about all the things i'm thankful for. and that its almost thanksgiving. which subsequently means it's kind of sort of almost christmas. 

♥ happy birthday CE, CS you're next!

weisheit des tages

to err is human

to forgive is divine

alexander pope

Variations on the Word Love

This is a word we use to plug

holes with. It's the right size for those warm

blanks in speech, for those red heart-

shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing

like real hearts. Add lace

and you can sell

it. We insert it also in the one empty

space on the printed form

that comes with no instructions. There are whole

magazines with not much in them

but the word love, you can

rub it all over your body and you

can cook with it too. How do we know

it isn't what goes on at the cool

debaucheries of slugs under damp

pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-

seedlings nosing their tough snouts up

among the lettuces, they shout it.

Love! Love! sing the soldiers, raising

their glittering knives in salute.

Then there's the two

of us. This word

is far too short for us, it has only

four letters, too sparse

to fill those deep bare

vacuums between the stars

that press on us with their deafness.

It's not love we don't wish

to fall into, but that fear.

this word is not enough but it will

have to do. It's a single

vowel in this metallic

silence, a mouth that says

O again and again in wonder

and pain, a breath, a finger

grip on a cliffside. You can

hold on or let go.

Margaret Atwood

♥

you cant stop wishing

if you don't let go

but things that you find

and you lose, and you know

you keep on rolling

put the moment on hold

the frames too bright

so put the blinds down low

breakdown - jack johnson

california sunrise

this song literally sounds like its title. i love it.

i also identify with the lyrics for two reasons -

1) i want summer back & have mixed feelings about the beginning of fall. although this means many good things like CE's birthday, thanksgiving, CS's birthday, christmas=germany=schwester, it also means its cold outside. and i prefer warm.

2) i'm very very very tired. what seems like always. which is why im going to bed now!

i need some summer sun to come and wake me up

i love our roof

sunset from pac heights, 11/3/10

it's official

they're back.

holiday cups!