for the cynic/for the loved

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one of my newest obsessions is making playlists.
so tonight, i decided to make a couple in honor of valentines day (since i promised myself i wouldn't write a pathetic blog about love).

for the cynics:

breaking my heart//aqualung
the boy who blocked his own shot//brand new
therapy//t-pain
how to say goodbye//paul tiernan
congratulations//blue october
lover i don't have to love//bright eyes
you could be happy//snow patrol
nicest things//kate nash
you don't know me at all//ben folds
grace is gone//dave matthews band
i go all to pieces//ray lamontagne
uninvited//alanis morissette
just another suck one the vine//tom waits
we are nowhere and it's now//bright eyes
sing for absolution//muse
glorious ballad of the ignored//pas/cal
why does my heart feel so bad//moby
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for the loved:

i want to hold your hand//the beatles
before cologne//ben folds
first day of my life//bright eyes
marching bands of manhattan//death cab of cutie
i get a kick out of you//frank sinatra
oh, it is love//hellogoodbye
we were made for each other/you can breathe now//jack's mannequin
all i want is you//barry polisar
brown, brown, brown//paul baribeau
piazza, new york catcher//belle and sebastian
birds//kate nash
i melt with you//modern english
take me there//rascal flatts
i will be your lover too//bobby dupea
watermelon sugar//the robot ate me
wedding dress//sam amidon
madly//tristan prettyman


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all smiles tell one thing: happiness

there's always the debate: who would play you, if your life was a movie. finally, i think i have found an answer.
thank you, katie for pointing it out to me.

♥

flops are good.

The English department recently took a trip to Rollins College in Orlando to see the poet, painter, playwrite, writer Derek Walcott. He read several chapters from the book he published in 1990 Omeros, one of my favorite quotes from the section he read being: "Why did I never miss you until you returned."

But I think the most influential tidbit that I left the reading with was that we (as artists, as people,) have to take risks; we have be put ourselves out there and if we fail then we can say to ourselves "hey, so what you failed, you tried." One of the works that he was the most proud of was a flop, he made it to the "big time" with a paul simon score, but the show didn't do well; it was a "flop," but he could be proud of himself, because he gave it a try. In his opinion, "there are not only a sequence to flops, be a reason," he concluded with this: "the artist is the ulitmate judge of a work."

What I'm saying is: we should do everything with all our might, because in the end, we have to live with the things we've accomplished, or didn't try for.

Pillow Fight!

Pillow fight in front of Toronto City Hall.

I was browsing a site that won the Photoblog of the year: http://mute.rigent.com/index.php
and I found these sets of pictures. I thought it was great!