“I’m like a princess in a castle high
Waiting for a kiss to bring me back to life
But I don’t want to spend my time
Waiting for just another guy”
King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
(via strangerattractions)
SPACES: Jerrold Tarog
The 34-year-old filmmaker from the Philippines talks about his favorite spots for inspiration.
I love you Jerrold Tarog.
Throw your resolution list in the trash
“Don’t look back on the year that was.
Don’t wallow in the glory of the time you were victorious and stop basking in the moments of your successes. It’s time to prevail in new things, fight new battles and win new victories.
Don’t cry about the mistakes or heartaches. Slap yourself in the face and tell yourself you have reached that nadir point of pathetic and you’re way better than that, even if you still feel otherwise.”
Read full article for Young Star here.
(Photo source: selenamonica, gabroque)
Hahaha, obviously someone missed the whole point of the movie.
Wasn’t it a parody on fairy tales? To poke fun of the overly perfect fairy tales suggesting they were stupid and not real?
Definitely not to show that “imperfect people” have “imperfect happy endings too”.
Sigh.
I Have Mastered Forgetting: A 2011 Playlist by Andrew Nieto
Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am
Listen
Do you know when you were already born
You were already you and I already me?
So take me as I am
Note: This is determinism (read: literary determinism) written in a song. How painful.Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Listen
All your life, now I understand
So many hours and no company
Note: I’ve searched the internet for perhaps an interview with Ra Ra Riot about this song, what it means, the story behind it or something like that, but to no avail. Everytime I listen to it, I keep on imagining a short story or a music video about two lovers, one is the daughter of the owner of the orchard in the song (“All your life/you were important/and your father too”) and an orchard laborer who sneak out at night to spend time together in the orchard. The story supposedly ends when the father discovers (and obviously disapproves of) their affair and catches them together one night and beats the guy to near-death in front of his daughter (“Oh this blood in my mouth/makes me hate/how we both end up”).
Cults - Never Saw the Point
Listen
What I wouldn’t give
For the chance to see you smile?
I did what I could
To be yours just for a while
Best Coast - Our Deal
Listen
I wish you would tell me
How you really feel
But you’ll never tell me
‘Cause that’s not our deal
Note: I wish Drew Barrymore kept the video to just this song. The parts for each Best Coast song in the real whole video ended abruptly and was sort of irritating. The edited version for this just thing was still heart-wrenching.
Tennis - Marathon
Listen
We didn’t realize
The forecast had been revised
Coeur de Pirate - Comme des Enfants
Listen
But he loves me still
And I love you a little more
Note: Yes. Sometimes I’m French. Coeur de Pirate is French Canadian though.
The No Twist - Consequence
Listen
Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence
And smile
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Listen
Save up all the days
A routine malaise
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay
Note: Whenever I watch the music video to this song, I keep on convincing myself that the video is about this group of organic robots (like Kathy, Ruth and Tommy in Never Let Me Go except that they’re clones) spending their last moments praying in a chapel and then finally taking their last breaths of air and exploding.
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
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But for me, I am a vector
I am muscle, I am boneOh Land - White Nights
Listen
These dreams under my pillow
In the twilight of these white nights
Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody That You Used To Know
Listen
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
Note: I had to stop myself from pasting the lyrics to the whole chorus (or perhaps to the whole song). Singing this song is such a release even if you have not recently gone through a break up. My friend Kara labeled me an angel (or maybe a fallen angel) after linking this to her one night. I was scared to ask her why.
Lana del Rey - Video Games
Listen
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
Note: This girl is making quite a controversy for her fake lips and apparently being a failed mainstream artist repackaged into a a lofi indie songstress. But who can deny? Video games really is catchy.
Bird and the Bee - Heard It On the Radio
Listen
Oh, I can still remember when I heard it on the radio
Oh, but now we are SeptemberDavid Byrne & Fatboy Slim ft. Florence Welch - Here Lies Love
Listen
Is it a sin to love too much?
Is it a sin to care?
I do it all for you
How can it be unfair?
Note: The album is an attestation to Imelda’s interesting character. Oh how I’d like to have singers like Tori Amos, Florence Welch and Sia sing a song about me too?
Cat Power - Sea of Love
Listen
I want to tell you
How much I love you
Note: That high note at “Iiii want to tell you” just makes me want to sing my heart out.
Extras:
Au Revoir Simone - Anywhere You Looked
Listen
If we could all say we’re sorry
Give up all awkward tomorrows
Finding nothing more to argue
I was right
Cults - Make Time
Listen
Give yourself a chance to take a moment
Best Coast - I Want To
Listen
I want to go back to
The first time, the first place
The No Twist - Off The Rail
Listen
We are trains ourselves
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Listen
I want you to know
When I look into your eyes
With every blow
Comes another lie
This is golden Andrew Nieto!
A 2011 playlist with matching sakit sa puso memories and hand-drawn cover art. I love you, you are golden, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This year, we will see more of each other please? :)
It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the Fox. “If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
I love you so. But why I love you, I’ll never know.
I Love You So by Cassius.
OOH! I LOVE YOU SO, but why I love you, I’ll never know.
Posted December 29, 2011 at 7:31pm
