December 2011
29 posts
“Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.”
– Lily Tomlin, via Reverend Kathianne Lewis, via Buddy Wakefield
November 2011
38 posts
WatchOne of my favorite new bands of this year. Poliça. Twin Cities, you can do no wrong.
“Let her love the shovel.”
Brian Omni Dillon - for Kait Rokowski →
brianomnidillon:
My friend Kait is the type of person who shows up on your fucking stoop at 3am. Smokes your weed, sleeps on your couch. Then misses the goddamn bus out in the morning.
My friend Kait is the type of person who pours whiskey into red wine and then names the new concoction after herself.
My friend…
Frank O'Hara - Steps
How funny you are today New York like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime and St. Bridget's steeple leaning a little to the left here I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days (I got tired of D-days) and blue you there still accepts me foolish and free all I want is a room up there and you in it and even the traffic halt so thick is a way for people to rub up against each other and when their surgical...
“You said: I used to invent love when necessary. When I walked alone on the...”
– Mahmoud Darwish
“So, consent is like the opposite of this poetry slam. If you don’t like...”
– Rob Weekend (via kaitrokowski)
“In fourth grade, I lived by this tobacco field on the edge of a town called...”
– Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
“Ever since then, I’ve been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get...”
– Justin Vernon
“Well, I think I’m a pretty overt emotional person, and I think I get...”
– Justin Vernon
please take a second and vote for my friend's band... →
Watchoddballsdontbounce:
Dessa- 551 (live at the Fitzgerald Theater).
super super girlcrush, everything this woman is as an artist I NEED TO LEARN ASAP
“We headin to the top, if you you comin, come on!”
– Jay-Z
the family
a pitbull named Gun silk fringe on widemouth sleeves a little black one hitter a buzzing tube amp an ear for counterpoint stunner shades a red-wheeled chopper a feathered crown a boom lacka lacka a 7 inch of “Yellow Moon” a girl on the trumpet bottom-dwelling bass two bites of gristle a haughty stride to the front a hymn to break a weapon a bridge across the bay
back in the game?
No one may give a fuck about this post, but what the hell…it’s Tumblr right? This is what this thing is for…so I’m gonna just reflect for a second.
A few months ago, shortly after the 2011 college slam season (in which I slammed for Wesleyan University, our first year team placing 7th in the country at collegiate nationals), I promised myself I would not slam again until...
WatchI’m sorry. This is not as impressive as everyone is saying. In fact, if it wasn’t for the low expectations we all have going into watching it because he’s Justin Bieber, it wouldn’t be anything special at all. If any random rapper went in and rapped this verse on Big Boy’s Neighborhood, it wouldn’t really have even been talked about. That verse sounds like...
