Boys:

• Emerson
• Orion
• Noah
• Theo

Girls:

• Merida
• Kira
• Hollis
• Arya
• Anil
• Elsie

Andro:

• Kitt

Surnames:

• Maud
• Murphy
• Fitz

• Yeah yeah yeahs
• Karen O **
• Sufjan Stevens **
• Sharon Van Etten
• Explosions in the sky **
• Godspeed you black emperor
• Sparklehorse **
• Pixies **
• Built to Spill
• Tom Rosenthal
• Pavement
• Modest Mouse **
• Joel P West
• Spiritualized
• Yo La Tengo
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Cocorosie **

• rheumy
• halcyon
• proclivities
• vagaries
• enigmatic

• if you see someone being interrupted in a conversation, acknowledge them, don’t let them be pushed to the side. if you see someone lagging behind, walk beside them. if someone is being ignored, take the step to include them. always remind people of their worth. it hurts when it feels like you’re being forgotten. that small gesture can mean a lot.
• be soft
• don't forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them
• welcome your own meagerness, be better at being scared
• have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. what appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism, is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. you do not know wha...

John Mulaney

• I'll Be Your Mirror by Velvet Underground

Stephen Colbert

• The Hound of Heaven
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Tolkien:

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

• ON JOB'S DILEMMA: GOD'S INJUSTICE

I heard upon his dry dung-heap That man c...

• listen to fade into you by mazzy star. feel 80 years old and nostalgic for a life you haven't yet lived
• (stolen from K.steele) you've spent an infinity years not being born yet and you will spend another infinity years being dead. Finish your cereal and go outside.

• Little Motel by Modest Mouse -> walking through parking lots with alex
• Mr. Grieves by pixies -> a nervous child in quiet rebellion (cat's eye atwood)
• The Winner Is by Devotchka -> elementary school bus rides, the few rare peaceful ones
• Romulus by Sufjan Stevens -> my years-ago mom, the one who felt deeply
• Over my head by The Fray -> my childhood emo antics, unbeknownst to how melodramatic it was, felt genuine
• Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs -> summer car rides, headbanging w/ alex
• My Favourite Things by Brad Mehldau -> overwhelmingly weird childish emotion,a boring song that once made me cry???? (so strange how different i am now)
• Wish You Were Here by Sparklehorse ft. Radiohead -> gloomy walks through p-mall, the abysmal silence of my family

• The chapel by a21studio, in vietnam

• "The house has grown into a knowledgeable witness. It has been party to early seductions, it has watched homework being written, it has observed swaddled babies freshly arrived from hospital, it has been surprised in the middle of the night by whispered conferences in the kitchen. It has experienced winter evenings when its windows were as cold as bags of frozen peas and midsummer dusks when its brick walls held the warmth of newly baked bread. It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary. It has been a guardian of identity."

- The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton (p10)

• Van Gogh
• Antoine de saint exupery
• Monet
• Flannery O'Connor
• Maya Angelou
• Margaret Atwood
• Sufjan Stevens
• Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler
• Wes Anderson
• the Wachowskis
• Sylvia Plath
• Caspar David Friedrich
• florencia durante
• Florence Nightingale !!!
• Vivian Maier !!

Liu Tao photographer

• Untitled /15

Children pray late at night when no gods hear their whispers. Silence filled right to the brim with tears made out of blisters.

• Untitled /15

Some many years ago, she was born to a mother and a father who were too old to be in love. They gave her what she knows and what she knows is not enough. So if you asked her what she loved, she would say she does not know. Though when the moonlight shined through those thick curtained windows, her clasped hands rose to her head and she whispered to her heart, “I know you are not there, but living in some elsewhere.”

• mother’s ark /15

borderline six and cheekbones mum dizzy w...

Writers:

• Charles Bukowski
• Jack Kerouac
• Pablo Neruda

Books to Read:

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Deep River Night by Patrick Lane
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'connor (done)
• NW by Zadie Smith
• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (done)
• When I Was Gone by Sue Miller
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• Robert Langdon Omnibus by Dan Brown
• Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley(*)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (done)

• the crooked family tree
• CPR - Heart it races
• 3A.M. Spiritual
• ad infinitum
• coexisting epilogues
• late night days
• apple juice break
• the mistress witch
• the mind that knows itself (a mind to kill the other)
• oracular spectacular
• familiar fever
• floral morals
• where spirit meets bone
• alter then falter
• nebulous head
• reduction division
• codes and clones
• the devotion motion
• purple light it’s a quiet night
• the days burn blue

• guys holding flowers in their hands because you know he’s about to make someone’s day
• couples who are obviously on a first date and are still in that shy yet eager getting to know you phase
• anyone who gets up for old people on the bus or train
• the pleasantly shocked and surprised face of said old person because they realize that kindness isn’t dead
• handwritten letters
• people holding hands with their parents (especially if they aren’t children anymore)
• friends saying ‘i love you’ to each other because platonic love is so so underrated
• the face of a student who studied so hard for a test and actually did really well
• people who admit that they are wrong with...

TV Shows

• Fleabag
• Farg0

To watch:

• Honey Boy
• Whisper of the Heart
• Trainspotting
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Dogtooth
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Laurence Anyways
• The Pianist
• Russian Ark (2002) - shot in one take!
• Atonement
• Being John Malkovich
• Frida - Julie Taymor
• *Katatsumori - Naomi Kawase
• Bogowie
• The Shining
• Roma

• "Whatcha thinka the NEW PLANET? HOT STUFF!!!! It is probably Yuggoth." - H.P. Lovecraft, 15 March 1930
• Honey, you've got a big storm comin'
• Punk is Dad
• If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. -lemony snicket
• Despite all our accomplishments we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains. - Farm Equipment Association of Minnesota

• “The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.”

-- Terrence Malick, Tree of Life

• "When we form our own beliefs independent of those around us, we set out to sea. The waters of the future are unclear. As the ship sets sail, there is no way to know if the new life you are living will be ...