Jazz Age Lawn Party @ Governor’s Island
channeling The Great Gatsby
for all of it
the rub of things
the protest songs
the chaos and
the medicine
for all of it
the slight of hands
the sideways glances
the forgiven and
the unforgiving
for all of it
the half-truths
the broken promises
the shallow breathing
and the violence
for all of it
the guilty and
the innocence
the crossed hearts
and the consequences
for all of it
I wouldn’t
change a thing
except maybe
the timing
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(Active Child - Hanging On)
“Active Child is the one-man project of Los Angeles-based laptop musician Pat Grossi, who layers influences and sounds like a ladder to the heavens or, more accurately, like a New Age Bon Iver.” -
The album releases tomorrow, but you can stream here.
Escaped the city for a few days in the Hamptons. Next off, Chicago and LA..
“Robert turned twenty-three. Then I turned twenty-three. The perfect prime number.” - Patti Smith, Just Kids
I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
Bon Iver - I Can’t Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt cover)
on repeat and i cannot stop.
(photo by Mert & Marcus)
fickle minds breed fickle words
words half spoken
spoken only to hang mid-air
we whip our hair back and forth @Harvard & Stone (my new favorite bar in LA, discovery of jahn).
[Alice Sebold] has in mind the dirt that love inevitably splatters on the mirror of our self-regard.
The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t like at all, things that shatter your self-image as a fair, kind, cool, attractive, in-control, funny, likable person. Something realer than likability has come out in you, and suddenly you’re having an actual life.
The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t like at all, things that shatter your self-image as a fair, kind, cool, attractive, in-control, funny, likable person. Something realer than likability has come out in you, and suddenly you’re having an actual life.
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