you said that hill looks far too steep.

(what better photo for this song than the most perfectly matched on/off couple ever?)

so we've put an end to it this time.
i'm no longer yours and you're no longer mine.
you said this hill looks far too steep
if i'm not even sure it's me you wanna keep.
and it's been ten days without you in my reach,
and the only time i've touched you is in my sleep.

but time has changed nothing at all -
you're still the only one that feels like home.
i've tried cutting the ropes and
i let you go but you're still the only one
that feels like home.

you won't talk me into it next time,
if i'm going away your heart's coming too.
cos i miss your hands i miss your face
when i get back let's disappear without a trace.

cos it's been ten days without you in my reach,
and the only time i've touched you is in my sleep.
but time has changed nothing at all -
you're still the only one that feels like home.
i've tried cutting the ropes,
tried letting go but you're still the only one
that feels like home.

so tell me, did you really think...
oh tell me, did you really think
i had gone when you couldn't see me anymore?
when you couldn't...

cos baby time has changed nothing at all -
you're still the only one that feels like home.
and i've tried cutting the ropes,
i let you go but you're still the only one
that feels like home
yeah you're still the only one that feels like home,
you're still the only one i've gotta love.

back.

phew, very long unplanned break in posting there kids! in the last couple of weeks, i have finished uni, been working full time & been sick for the good part of a week. how exciting!

the above photo is from the time traveler's wife movie which is due out towards the end of the year, but i'm not going to see it because the book is my absolute favourite & it could only ruin it for me. not to mention eric bana is epically miscast, as per usual.

i do love this photo though.


world enough and time

if you haven't read it i suggest you get your hands on a copy asap, it is amazing. i have read it at least 5 times, probably closer to 10.

the diameter of the bomb.

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried in the city she came from,
at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning her death
at the distant shores of a country far across the sea
includes the entire world in the circle.
And I won't even mention the howl of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of God and
beyond, making
a circle with no end and no God.

Yehuda Amichai


sorry for the filler-ish post kids, but i finish exams tomorrow & will hopefully have some time to cook up some lovelies for you :)
i do love this poem a lot though.

fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

playlist for today, 14/06/09.

lucky you, the national
book of love, the magnetic fields
i just don't think i'll ever get over you, colin hay
a song to sing, hanson
designs on you, the old 97s
get lonely, the mountain goats
see you soon, coldplay
go, hanson
orange sky, alexi murdoch

i seriously adore every single one of these songs, please give them a go.
also this is my 101st post! yay!
thanks to all of you who read :)

curiouser & curiouser!

" 'There is no use trying,' said Alice, 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the queen.
'When I was your age, I always did it for a half hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' "


extended version here (won't embed)

"My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that."



"If one drinks much from a bottle marked “Poison”, it’s almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later."



"I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."



"Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."


this song is ridiculously good. download here.

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."



"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

i don't care that i just quoted miley cyrus, because it is perfect.

"that's the best part about hanging out with a sister. you're not having conversations with beginnings, middles and ends, you're just letting unformed thoughts bounce up and down and around and around."

miley cyrus

cos birds can fly so high.

hayden panettiere.
i adore this shoot.
soundtrack: birds by kate nash.

e needs this fucking song in her life.

i can't find any information online about what guitars she actually plays, but from memory i think she plays a 12-string & a steel lap guitar, as well as acoustic guitar & drums.

in 06 she was named a "guitar god" by rolling stone, becoming the first ever female to make this list.
in 07 she was nominated for a golden globe for her musical contributions with eddie veder (of pearl jam fame) to the sean penn movie into the wild.
(which by the way is a fantastic movie- i highly recommend it. stars emile hirsch, catherine keener, kristen stewart, vince vaughn, marcia gay harden, william hurt + others)

she's fantastic though, i was first introduced to her at tegan & sara's 07 tour when she was their support act. she mostly played songs from her daysleeper ep, which i stupidly didn't buy at the gig & have regretted ever since, as you can't get it anywhere. i did, however, manage to track this song down on myspace, & i love it a lot.

e needs this song in her life.

once i'm dead i won't need gold

Preacher, don't send me
when I die
to some big ghetto
in the sky
where rats eat cats
of the leopard type
and Sunday brunch
is grits and tripe.

I've known those rats
I've seen them kill
and grits I've had
would make a hill,
or maybe a mountain,
so what I need
from you on Sunday
is a different creed.

Preacher, please don't
promise me
streets of gold
and milk for free.
I stopped all milk
at four years old
and once I'm dead
I won't need gold.

I'd call a place
pure paradise
where families are loyal
and strangers are nice,
where the music is jazz
and the season is fall.
Promise me that
or nothing at all.

Maya Angelou

daisy lowe.

some of the other shots didn't appeal to me quite as much, but you can find them here if you're interested.

wintertime.

My mouth hovers across your breasts
in the short grey winter afternoon
in this bed we are delicate
and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves
tough and delicate we play rings
around each other our daytime candle burns
with its peculiar light and if the snow
begins to fall outside filling the branches
and if the night falls without announcement
there are the pleasures of winter
sudden, wild and delicate your fingers
exact my tongue exact at the same moment
stopping to laugh at a joke
my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter

DH Lawrence

pretty ladies.

all of these can be found in my heart.

it's easy to say, but harder to feel.

digging a hole & the walls are caving in behind me
air's getting thin but i'm trying i'm breathing in
come find me

it hasn't felt like this before
it hasn't felt like home before you

& i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel
this way
& i miss you more than i should
than i thought i could
can't get my mind off of you

i know you're scared that i'll soon be over it
that's part of it all
part of the beauty of falling in love with you
is the fear you won't fall

it hasn't felt like this before
it hasn't felt like home before you

& i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel
this way
& i miss you more than i should than i thought i could
can't get my mind off of you

& i hate the phone
but i wish you'd call
thought being alone
was better than was better than

& i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel this way
& i miss you more than i should
than i thought i could
can't get my mind off of you
can't get my mind off of you

i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel
this way
& i miss you more than i should
than i thought i could
can't get my mind off of you

& i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel this way


the fear you won't fall
joshua radin & ingrid michaelson

+ bonus
sky, also by them

new necklace <3

it's made out of etched brass & is amazing.
i wear it all the time & it goes with everything.
best $25 i ever spent.

woohoo.

woohoo by the 5.6.7.8s
it's actually off the kill bill soundtrack,
but i first heard it in this hilarious video filled with pretty ladies.
<3>

random pretties from FOREVER ago.

uhhh, i just found this saved as a draft from JANUARY.
enjoy! hehe.