Remember when you said I’m sorry to the vines and no one saw it

Merry Christmas. Some typewriter drawings for you.

Post title from I Need My Girl by The National.

This mystery only leads to doubt

Today I get the keys to my new apartment! It is so odd that this now empty apartment will contain some of my future and final memories of college.

Enough sentiment. This lovely apartment belongs to a textile designer who lives in Brooklyn. Look at that bookcase. 

Post title from Say it To Me Now by Glen Hansard from the movie Once.

Give a smile and turn around

I love tattoos. These are absolutely beautiful.

Post title from Freak Like Me by Santigold. She be on repeat all day long.

I'll be here til the colors fade

My friend and I have recently started a wordpress for writing (Waiting for an Echo). Basically we are trying to write more. My friend Jody is actually quite talented, so do check it out. Side note, reading and writing writing poetry is extremely therapeutic. Everyone should do it.

Hope you enjoy your Wednesday! I be wishing I was outside in this beautiful weather instead of writing this paper.

Post title from Sing Loud by Alpha Rev. They are great live. Beautiful art by Richard Leach.

She's up all night for good fun

Midterms are stressful.  Coffee is beautiful. Get Lucky by Daft Punk is glorious.

Can I get a minute of not being nervous

I love this. One lady put up a wall where folks can write down what they want to accomplish before they die. It started in New Orleans and has been continuing in other cities and countries. I need to find the one in Chicago!

"It was an experiment and I didn’t know what to expect. By the next day, the wall was bursting with handwritten responses and it kept growing: Before I die I want to… sing for millions, hold her one more time, eat a salad with an alien, see my daughter graduate, abandon all insecurities, plant a tree, straddle the International Date Line, get clean, live off the grid, build a school, be someone’s cavalry, be completely myself…  People’s responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I’m not alone as I try to make sense of my life."

Berlin

Chicago

Johannesburg

Brooklyn

Post title from Slow Show by The National.

The silent smell of paper

You know that amazing smell when you receive your books for class and you flip through them? That scent of crisp paper as you put your nose in a freshly printed book. Pure ecstasy.

Well they did it. They made a scent for it. It is called Paper Passion, made by Geza Schoen, Gerhard Steidl, and Wallpaper magazine, with packaging by Karl Lagerfield and Steidl. I don't know what I love more, the perfume or the packaging.

Now all they need to invent is clean laundry scent and coffee bean scent.

I must give credit to my sister for showing me this beautiful perfume. 

Ah, he got the velcros

It is annoying to do that thing called homework again. But what gets me through is listening to Macklemore. Check out this video of Macklemore performing Same Love, Thrift Shop, and Can't Hold Us for npr music. He is a genius.

My whole life is filled with posters

This was my sister's Father's Day card to my dad this year. The four of us are represented by our glasses (and our nicknames). Yes I would be bitty. Check out her work here.


Post title from Posters by Youth Lagoon. Listen here.