Video 11 May 506 notes

As always, Jay Smooth for the win, this time on Obama and gay marriage.

jsmooth995:

On marriage equality and symbiotic evolution.

Video 9 May 12 notes

This is one of my favorite poems in the world right now.  Please please please watch.  Nate Mondschein’s “The Ostrich,” backed by an incredible ensemble of musicians at his Wesleyan senior music thesis performance.

smallsholmbo:

audiblemoonshine:

The first video (and last poem) from my senior thesis recital. More to come.

This man inspires me. What a lucky thing that I get to call him my friend.

Nate Mondschein, “The Ostrich”

Quote 9 May 6,271 notes
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
— 

Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)

(Source: elkdogmen)

Photo 7 May 7 notes My friend Jami is a badass                             warrior.

My friend Jami is a badass
                             warrior.

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Audio 3 May 12 notes [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

This is my favorite new blog.

oddballsdontbounce:

2lw:

Blaque- Bring It All To Me feat. JC Chasez

so, my roommate and i have started a tumblr honoring and musing over music from the early 2000s. some questions we’ll be tackling: what happened to mya? when did ashanti stop being the go-to hook singer? WHAT HAPPENED TO BLAQUE? also we’ll be talking about 3LW a lot (hence the name).

www.2lw.tumblr.com

:)

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Audio 30 Apr [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Judith Hill - Desperation

This song is my new jam.

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Text 30 Apr 22 notes 9.30 GOLDEN BOY

meganfalley:

GOLDEN BOY

My brother’s hair looked like someone cooked a porridge comprised entirely of sunshine and poured the bowl over his head. It was a yellow traffic light that everyone slowed down for, then stopped. Complimented my mother, told her she was lucky. It was as if angels weaved all their halos together and crowned him. He was a dandelion of a boy—but when we picked him up after his first day of high school, he instructed my mother to the barbershop. This memory comes before recovery. Before relapse. Before the longest winter. Before heroin came to the suburbs, became a household name. He slammed the door as he walked into the $7 barber—alone—he demanded. I am six years old and don’t yet know what this means, but I am watching my mother’s eyes in the rearview mirror like twin lakes that flood and dry up and flood again. She knows what happens when dandelion boys are thrust into lawnmowers. He returns to the car years older than he was when he left it. I almost think he’s a hijacker but I don’t have the word for that yet. He changes the channel on the radio to something faster, harder, slides the volume knob up loud over the words no one is saying. Back in the barbershop, someone is sweeping that gold-spun hair and trashing it. My mother knows a war is going to come, the way animals know before the rain. The way they know, but can’t do anything to stop it.

Video 27 Apr

Yes!  New Spike Lee Joint…and it’s set it BK.

Video 26 Apr 1 note

Sadly, pretty much no poem has summed up my romantic history better than this one. Beautiful work by my friend Dylan Garity.

audiblemoonshine:

yeah. this.

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