daffodils in january? oh, south carolina. (Taken with instagram)
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
Source: laurajonesMaurice Sendak, Ben Gibbard, books and indie music. That's pretty much it. Also, gratuitous pictures of what I wear to the lab on weekends.
5 days ago
I got a turntable for Christmas, and of the first few albums I bought to kick off my collection, I didn’t expect for the best sounding to be Give Up. Ben Gibbard’s voice would sound beautiful coming out of anything, but the album’s music pings out of the speakers and reverberates off our wood paneled living room walls, each beat a revelation.
Give Up is one of the first albums of my real-grown-up life, the life I live here. My first life out of my parent’s house or a dorm room. I never listen to albums when I am supposed to, nor do I listen to them how I am supposed to. Albums happen to me, a few songs collected here or there, perhaps, before I eventually pick up the whole thing. Give Up happened piecemeal, first the Iron and Wine version of “Such Great Heights,” then the Postal Service version. Then, a gifted burned cd of Ben Gibbard singing live, right around the time both Give Up and Transatlanticism were released. On that cd, Gibbard sings “Brand New Colony” with an acoustic guitar, and I had never loved a song more.
I was crazy, then, so there was a lot of that feeling. I loved songs and boys more than I ever thought I had.
2 weeks ago
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backstage at a 50s burlesque show.
I really feel like this picture is explaining a lot of things about being a woman in our culture, but I’m not sure what those things are.
Also, as an aside, I am really in love with burlesque.
(via robdelaney)
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4 weeks ago
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and I don’t feel any different.
Transatlanticism is one of the first batch of LPs I bought for my new turntable. When it arrived, I had to hold myself back from putting it on until tonight. This has been my first song of the new year for so many years now, but it never gets old.
Source: theohpioneer![My new motto for science.
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1 month ago
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I would very much like to have this shirt to wear to the lab on days like today.
Source: wordbonerstore.com2 months ago
My boss: So! Are you ready to do that all-important experiment?
….
Me: Which is….?
3 months ago
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"Novelists think a lot about God … [because] we create whole worlds and we people them and then we tell the people what to do: We make them fall in love or fall out of windows. So there is that curiosity about God that I think all novelists have."
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On today’s Fresh Air, writer Scott Spencer talks about religion, chaos, prison writing, violence and defending others. (via nprfreshair)
Also, this:
[S]tories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.
[John Hodgman]
(via nprfreshair)
