Fight Club.
“I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation, pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
"“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”"
- ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via crazylifeofa)
“When all the world is spinning round like a red ballon way up in the clouds, and my feet will not stay on the ground, you anchor me back down.”
It’s Time: Imagine Dragons
“It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.“
-Stephen Chbosky, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yeah you gave me wings, and I used them, I used them, I don’t want to lose them.”
-“In My City”, Ellie Goulding
3 songs from her new album that I am currently addicted to (:
Explosions: “Explosions, on the day you wake up, needing someone and you’ve learned, it’s okay to be afraid, but it will never be the same.”
My Blood: “Alarms will ring for eternity, the waves break every chain on me, my bones will bleach, my flesh will flee, so help my lifeless frame to breathe.”
In My City: “But you gave me wings, and I used them, I used them, I used them on my youth.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
"‘The moment’ is a figurative expression, and therefore it is not easy to deal with. However, it is a beautiful word to consider. Nothing is as swift as a blink of the eye, and yet it is commensurable with the content of the eternal… An outburst of her emotion, a sigh or a word, already has a sound more of the determination of time and is more present as something that is vanishing and does not have in it so much of the presence of the eternal… The moment is that ambiguity in which time and eternity touch each other, and with this the concept of temporality is posited, whereby time constantly intersects eternity and eternity constantly pervades time."
- The Concept of Anxiety (A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin) : Soren Kierkegaard
A Wake feat. Evan Roman- Mackelemore and Ryan Lewis
[Intro]
I need love
You need love
Give me love
And I’ll give you my love
[Verse 1]
They say thirty is the new twenty
And twenty is the new thirty sh*t I guess
Makes sense, cause fifteen year olds seem twenty
And twenty five year olds seem ten
I used to drink away my paycheck
Celebrate the mistakes I hadn’t made yet
Our generation isn’t the best on safe sex
We forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patients
Synthetic heroin is the new basshead
So much to escape, f*ck a straight edge
Walk around looking through a fake lens
Apps this good, whose got time to make friends?
I wish I didn’t care
Acynical hipsters with long hair
Cocaine problems, like my music
It’s not my issue, I can’t solve it
[Hook]
My flight has finally landed down
And the ground has stopped moving all around
Eyes open, awake for the very first time
We both forfeit this game of crime
[Verse 2]
They say it’s so refreshing to hear somebody on records
No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth
The guns that’s America, the drugs are what they gave to us
And sex sells itself, don’t judge ‘til it’s you
Ah, I’m not more or less conscious
The rappers rappin’ ‘bout them strippers up on the pole, copping
These interviews are obnoxious
Saying that it’s poetry is so well spoken, stop it
I grew up during Reaganomics
When Ice T was out there on his killing cops sh*t
Or Rodney King was getting beat on
And they let off every single officer
And Los Angeles went and lost it
Now every month there is a new Rodney on YouTube
It’s just something our generation is used to
And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew
Unless they’re gentrifying, white people don’t even cruise through
And my subconscious telling me stop it
This is an issue that you shouldn’t get involved in
Don’t even tweet, R.I.P Trayvon Martin
Don’t wanna be that white dude, million man marchin’
Fighting for our freedom that my people stole
Don’t wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable
But you don’t even have a f*ckin’ song for radio
Why you out here talkin’ race, tryin’ to save the f*ckin’ globe
Don’t get involved with the causes in mind
White privilege, white guilt, at the same damn time
So we just party like it’s nineteen ninety nine
Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying
[Hook]
My flight has finally landed down
And the ground has stopped moving all around
Eyes open, awake for the very first time
We both forfeit this game of crime
"As summer neared, as the evenings lengthened, there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind- of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind, of stars flashing in their hearts, of cliff, sea, cloud, and sky brought purposely together to assemble outwardly the scattered parts of the vision within."
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
“We have to create
It is the only thing louder
Than destruction”
Andrea Gibson
