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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

bookmarks:
listography GIVE A GIFT OF MEMORIES
oldfilmsflicker movies (new-to-me 2024)
movies (directed by women 2024)
s. to do (thirty-five before thirty-five)
podcasts (two thousand and twenty-four)
  • older father, weary soul, you'll drive back to the home you made on the mountainside with that ugly, terrible thing those papers for divorce and a lonely ring a lonely ring sit on your porch and pluck your strings and you'll find somebody you can blame and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea and you'll find the peace of the Lord. ~ The Middle East//Blood
  • Soldier on, keep your heart close to the ground" ~ The Temper Trap//Soldier On
  • I wanted love but not for myself, but for the girl so she could so she could love herself ~ The Black Keys//Next Girl
  • "I was on the fence and I never wanted your two cents

Down my throat in the pit, with my head upon the spit Oh reverend please can I chew your ear? I have become what I most fear. And I know there’s no such thing as ghosts but I have seen the demon host. ~ Timber Timbre//The Demon Host

  • "You desired my attention but denied my affections," ~ Mumford and Sons//White Blank Page
  • "life's a game we're meant to lose.

but stick by me and i will stick by you." ~ Jeremy messersmith//A Girl, A Boy, And a Graveyard

  • And how can I make amends for all that I took from you?

I led you with hopeless dreams My brother, I was a fool. ~ Brothers [english trans.]

  • What I did not know has cost you dear,

For there is no cure for death. ~ Brothers [english trans.]

  • Lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me ~ Evanessence//all that im living for
  • I was born in the arms of imaginary friends. Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I’ve been.

Half of My Heart by John Mayer

  • Sorrow found me when I was young/Sorrow waited, sorrow won/Sorrow, they put me on the pill/It's in my honey, it's in my milk/Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water//Cover me in rag and bone and sympathy/'Cause I don't want to get over you" ~ The National//Sorrow
  • And What I am to you is not real

What I am to you, you do not need What I am to you is not what you mean to me You give me miles and miles of mountains And I'll ask for the sea" ~damien rice//Volcano

  • "I would rather be alone than pretend that I feel alright." Arcade fire// Ready to start
  • Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you" ~ Florence + the Machine//Cosmic Love
  • Now i’ve been sitting on this abandoned beach for years

Waiting for the salty water to cover up my ears But every time the tide come in to take me home I get scared, and I’m sitting here alone Dreaming of the dolphin song…"~ Regina Spektor//Folding Chair

  • There’s a sadness in your smiles now,

and an edge of desperation in your voice. We have all this independence, but it still feels like we never had a choice.❞ -Frank Turner

  • "You loved me 'cause i was fragile, when i thought i was strong. but you touch me for a little while, and all my fragile strength is gone" -Sara Bareilles|Gravity
may 21 2011 ∞
mar 19 2013 +