Catharsis

Squeeeee! I LOVE DJLanceRock!

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:20:20 -0400

Squeeeee! I LOVE DJLanceRock!

vivalaglamourpuss: findyourlovely: one day ill be cool enough...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:02:33 -0400

vivalaglamourpuss:

findyourlovely:

one day ill be cool enough for these

Alladis. I’m here for alladis.

Awesome.

Like most people, where I am on the continuum...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:07:32 -0400

Like most people, where I am on the continuum of extraversion–introversion varies day by day. This video is the fulfillment of a personal goal I made awhile ago. More to come if I can get over how awkward I feel seeing myself from the outside. O.o Do you dare to watch my first cover? It’s Blossom Dearie’s “A Doodlin’ Song.”

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:07:47 -0400

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:37:04 -0400

Sweet.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:00:07 -0400

Sweet.

Love it.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:24:33 -0400

Love it.

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Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:50:08 -0400

Daft Punk

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:16:22 -0500

Daft Punk:

As I was riding in the car with my brother on my way to the airport this evening, I noticed a lot of the songs on current top 40 radio are mostly shitty dance singles proclaiming the need to ‘dance like we’re gonna die’ or ‘live for right now’ and it occurred to me that if you’re making “good” dance music, shouldn’t the music evoke that reaction without having to loudly proclaim it using unoriginal lyrics? I felt a huge smile cross my face as I realized, Daft Punk has a new album coming out! All the current popular dance music is influenced by these consistent heavy hitters. Kanye West sampled their “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” which influenced rappers and pop stars alike. To me, this new album is about to shift a pop paradigm in current music. I CANNOT WAIT.

It's been a while....

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:52:00 -0500

Happy New Year Earthlings! I hope everyone made it through the holidays unscathed and are ready to face a new calendar year. Like many of you, I’m full of hope for 2013’s possibilities and am transfixed on developing tangible ways to improve my daily life. I don’t bother with diets because I don’t like making promises I won’t keep. I’m more concerned with the preservation of my mental health, specifically, dealing with the insecurity of my existence. In the last weeks of December, I pondered my best experiences of 2012 and after a messy curatorial process, I made a list. In 2012 my top 5 life lessons were, as follows: I learned to stop focusing on painful thoughts, I conquered my stage fright and (most) of my shyness, I learned that anything I want to be good at I must do habitually and, perhaps most importantly, I learned to kill my ego at every available opportunity.

Around the same time that I was facing a metaphorical death and rebirth of the year a good friend gifted me author Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Initially, I assumed it was some weird “new age” drivel and convinced myself I wouldn’t read it. But a few days before the New Year I lost sight of the 2012’s lessons and got lost in a tumultuous blizzard of future-fearing delusions and self-loathing. This mental storm, caused by a combination of a near sleep overdose and an intense 3 day marathon of the History channel’s violent show, Mankind, inspired scary-vague questions like; ‘who am I in the history of human beings?’ and ‘what are my creative capabilities to be used for?’ I started the book desperate to quell my anxiety and found many of the life lessons I lost sight of waiting for me among the pages. If you find yourself looking for answers to life’s complicated questions, I highly recommend reading A New Earth. The following 4 ideas are pearls of wisdom gleaned from the book that I believe everyone will find are true if they stay still and think about it for a bit. I hope you’ll find them helpful to carry with you throughout the start of this bright, shiny year.

In no particular order:

1. In everyone’s past there is some heinous source of pain that affects us in ways we can’t change or control; it’s called, circumstance. I know this may sound like a line from Good Will Hunting but, it’s not your fault. We’re all vulnerable sometimes and must learn from our past. As I mentioned earlier, in 2012 I discarded the cloak of stage fright (that I’d been wearing since that traumatic performance experience I had in 8th grade drama class…) and realized that I won’t live forever. Leaving the past behind inspires me to live my life the way I want. I recorded vocals for the first time in my life; one song with a local producer and backing vocals and a hook on some of Chrome Pony’s songs. I attended my first political rally against Personhood Amendment legislation at the capitol in OKC, I planned performance ensembles, and learned to take a compliment gracefully; regardless of how creepy or racist it may be, and I followed my heart and relocated to Des Moines, Iowa as an unpaid intern on President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.

2. Life really is a never ending cycle. We’re all born and will die after a finite number of revolutions around our sun. Do you have something in your life that stands unfinished? Remember that all of life is quite temporary. I kill my ego as much as I can because it blocks me from my own objectives. In the second chapter of, A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle defines the ego as our connection to the things of this world. It’s the voice in our head that believes in ownership, content and structure, and unfulfilled wanting (25-47). The ego is “an expression of the collective human dysfunction” (62). The sooner I understand that most people are acting unconsciously, the sooner I can stop taking things personal and get back to fulfilling my life’s purpose.

3. Suffering leads to Transcendence. Life on Earth is mostly survival driven innovation. From the simple microbes living in the super-heated cracks of the ocean floor to human kind’s (especially the American variety’s) never-ending, paranoia driven arms race. Most of life’s progressions are made adjusting to situations we have no control over. To survive the distant past all living things either evolved or died over time. This is where habitual action comes in; from dance moves to blog posts, I can’t just pick something up and expect to be an expert at it. I’ve learned to work hard or give up. The life I’ll have in 5-10 years depends on what I do with my time now. I’m constantly working on developing my idiosyncrasies into a skill set.

4. All I can do is live RIGHT NOW. To reiterate, the past is over and I refuse to worry endlessly about the future. I want to spend more time living the best possible life I can muster in the present moment. Tolle writes that, “…whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all-from the most simple task to the most complex…if you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others” (295). 2012 was the first year that I was my unadulterated self most of the time, not just around friends and family, I worked at a place that I denied, didn’t enjoy and was not enthusiastic about and got fired. I learned to be very careful of how and where I spend my time.

As an aspiring activist and advocate, I have a strong desire to help others. However, I realize right now in my life that before I can help others I must master how to help myself. Each of our lives is a microcosm of all life in the universe. If you’re looking to take control of your life and be the change that you want in your home, community, country, or world, I humbly recommend starting small. 2013 will be the year that I get more out of everyday by being present in every moment; I sincerely wish the same for all of you.

Hausu (1977)

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:15:22 -0500

Hausu (1977)

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:57:33 -0500

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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:57:41 -0500

scorpiondagger: no ice cream.

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:59:33 -0400

scorpiondagger:

no ice cream.

Film: Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) , Directed by...

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:58:15 -0400

Film: Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) , Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Country: Mauritania

awritersruminations: “Precisely because death awaits us in the...

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:55:12 -0400

awritersruminations:

“Precisely because death awaits us in the end, we must live fully. Precisely because an event seems devoid of meaning, we must give it one. Precisely because the future eludes us, we must create it.”

—Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea

(via the-holocaust)

"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:12:21 -0400

““I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.””

- Toni Morrison (via humanformat)

THIS. hate hearing people from minority groups who have gotten a chance in life bitching about how ”if THEY can do it, so can everyone else! its so fucking SIMPLE! You guys just need to stop being so lazy”

its NOT fucking simple and how DARE you belittle the struggles of those like you just because they aren’t lucky enough to be in ur position.

(via queerhairyvag)

"Dear Sir: I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:11:31 -0400

“

Dear Sir:

I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.

I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.

I have just returned and I still like words.

May I have a few with you?

Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024

”

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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!

(via Letters of Note)

We like words too.

(via good)

My Mom has always been cool. (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:28:47 -0400

My Mom has always been cool. (Taken with instagram)

The key to unlock my imagination! (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:57:21 -0400

The key to unlock my imagination! (Taken with instagram)