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Jul. 11th, 2017 05:15 pm
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cleaned the bathroom! one big thing on my list done. still gotta get my car fixed up and cleaned out, and basically spend the next two weeks cleaning the whole rest of the house, but i got the bathroom done in one fell swoop. and put away a bunch of stuff we never actually use, for simplicity's sake. yes.

listened to our Alt-J cassette while doing that, because somehow that album is just... made for listening to in our tiny bathroom. it was the first tape we ever bought and there are so many good memories of soaking in Lush baths while listening to it. the whining intro to "Dissolve Me" will never sound quite as good on any other medium as it sounds on tape tbh.

also, i'm not sure why, but cleaning the bathroom has always been a bit... iffy. i guess it's close enough to washing dishes sensory-wise that triggers can occur. i don't have any specific trauma related to cleaning bathrooms [i do have some incidents related to sweeping, and some related to taking showers? is that close enough?], but i still have to be careful. it's alright though. i just have to open the window so the fumes don't crowd me, and i have to be picky about what scents i use. [still to this day cannot stand pine-sol, i will feel sick as hell if i even smell it]

just cleaning with ghost boy over my shoulder, just hanging out as always, what a freeloader :P [with love i promise, u don't have ur own body so u don't need to pay rent]

i fell asleep at 10 last night and straight up slept. for like. 13 or 14 hours. i woke up for a bit around 3 am, but was able to get back to sleep, and woke up again every 3 ish hours and just kept sleeping until like 11 am. i felt like i needed it. u gotta sleep straight through the night and most of the morning some days.

it's been real good to finally get a few solid days off work. and we got everyone's tickets to nightBEAT i think now, so it's definitely happening. 18 days. a few less than that and the LC will be here. gosh that's only like just over two weeks?!? do you know how long we planned for Utah?? like eight months? and then these kids are just like hey i'm gonna fly to ur house in like three weeks. omg. [not that i'm complaining holy shit hell yeh]

murphy is complaining to be let outside. pff. outside on the balcony is his favorite place in the entire world. but you gotta supervise him, because he can AND WILL sneak out into the stairwell and terrify his father by casually climbing over above a three story drop. not that a three story drop would do probably anything at all to a ten pound cat, BUT STILL. no plz. also he would get out and promptly get terrified by the traffic and bolt somewhere probably. i'm always terrified he'll sneak out when a maintenance guy comes in, or one of us half-asleep opens the door too long, something lol. but it's alright. he's only really gotten out one time, and he just climbed to the balcony below ours and cried at me to be brought back home cuz he couldn't figure out how. my dumb baby. i love him. i just always worry too much about those i love. that's how it be.
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[copypasted from a tumblr chat with friend]
i sold a rare item on flight rising for MEGA MONEY and went on a crazy shopping spree, it was great, now my dragons look amazing and i'm so proud of my lair rn

also i am feeling the mega itch to clean and rearrange my house, but unfortunately, i am still a hollowed out carcass of a human from the crazy holiday work and i must recuperate. i really REALLY WANNA DO THINGS though Fuck

i'm going to move furniture between the bedroom and the playroom [spare bedroom where all my retro games and pokemon collection are kept], and when we take the tree down we will also clean and vacuum the whole house really good. i have wednesday through sunday solid off work, and i have nothing to do then except band practice thursday [thank GOD, i've been working with almost no break since dec 22 because of the craziness of the holidays and having to train a new girl at the same time! and my house, body and hobbies have all suffered lol]. so i am hoping to take the momentum of the new year to blow through the house like a storm of cleaning

but for now i'm just way too tired so i've been listening to hours of streaming progressive trance music on soundcloud, holy shit, i forgot how much i love trance. i realize now, a decade after i first discovered it, how stimmy it is for me
and playing dragon gamez

i know for most people, this kind of psy trance goa stuff is... nightclub stuff, all sweaty and dancing up on strange sexy[?] people and being drunk/high and maybe getting laid? which is so fuckin alien to me lol. to me this music is for being alone in a dark womb of a room, surrounded by glowing lights and a cocoon of bass-heavy music that sounds like glowing lights in its own right
i feel a tiny bit self conscious about "admitting" that i love it so much when it's a world away from what the music is ostensibly "for"... but i'm working on not apologizing for being myself. maybe it's a new year thing.
just... something about people learning of my music tastes and thinking i'm one kind of person, when i'm WAY different than that... and idk maybe worrying they think i'm a "poser" or something lmfao i dunno. but the important thing is that it's stimmy goodness and i could bliss out to it for hours

and thank god too because kids were throwing firecrackers outside and it gave me a legit panic attack, so much that mason had to go out and ask them to stop because it was "scaring the cat" lol. [the cat didn't give a fuq. the fuq was given by me] and now i'm still a bit hypersensitive, mason's playing mount and blade warband and it involves a lot of male voices shouting aggressively which is bothersome. so. music time instead.

//

Jul. 15th, 2016 01:30 am
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Now let me hammer this point home,
I see us all as lonely fires
That have burned alive as long as we remember
But like all fireworks and all sunsets,
We all burn in different ways-
You are a fast explosion and I am the embers

And though your flames are quick and mean,
They will not last the year
But expire like a sudden falling star
That only nightingales had seen
Before migrating to southern jungles
And in this way you will come find me in December

He said he'd like to move to Nashville, to master the guitar
Where he would live a single day the way I live a single year
Covered his body in mud, went hunting for the sun
Then went swimming in the lake of holy water

Oh, you are too hot for me, I am too slow for you
You are a fast explosion and I am the embers
You need the one who slowly burns, and burns to stay alive
And in this way you will come find me in December

Now let me hammer this point home,
I see us all as lonely fires
That have burned alive as long as we remember
But like all sacrificial virgins,
We all burn in different ways-
You are a fast explosion and I am the embers

And although your flames are quick and mean,
They will not last the year
But expire like a sudden falling star
That only nightingales had seen
Before transforming into bluebirds
And in this way, you will come find me in December
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holy shit a new outdated media for me to play with AND IT AIN'T EVEN EXPENSIVE USUALLY!!!

kazimier - ? https://graveyardorbit.bandcamp.com/album/-
werewolves - what kind of pet defines you? https://lostsoundtapes.com/item/Werewolves-What-Kind-of-Pet-Defines-You-Cassette-Tape/414/c1
your heart breaks - america https://lostsoundtapes.com/item/Your-Heart-Breaks-America-Cassette-Tape-CD/415/c1
Slime Girls put out a cassette of their album Vacation Island but i don't think it's available rn. chiptunes on cassette would be amazing so... hopefully later :v



WELLP I DID A /LOAD/ OF OTHER ONES BUT THEN I CLOSED THE TAB LIKE AN IDIOT AND THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT AND NOW IT'S 2 AM dgzdfgs SO Y'KNOW WHATEVA ITS TIME FOR BED NOW >:|||||||||||||||||||||

http://distro.weirdcanada.com/collections/sale
https://burnwardrecords.bandcamp.com
https://graveyardorbit.bandcamp.com
https://lostsoundtapes.com

just google stuff like 'cassette distro'



i am also going to A: raid Goodwill asap for either old tapes that I'd actually listen to, or ones that look to be in good shape that i can record over easily at some point. bc yes.
plans to make my own mixtapes. and maybe even if it's cheap enough, starting a sorta audio diary in analog. yep. definitely. blank tapes are cheap af. as long as the recording function actually works.

i wanna write more about today's adventure and about my love of analog media and how i need to get the ribbon in my typewriter working and practice on it again, but i lack spoons currently so. hopefully later. just know that i ended up buying a tape player out of the blue and i shouldnt've spent that money but MAN I'M SUPER DUPER EXCITED. i got alt-j's album an awesome wave on tape and holy shit, this is the best discovery of January by far. [i also got Zaba by Glass Animals which i'd heard nothing of before and i'm happy to report it is also v good.]

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Dec. 31st, 2015 04:36 pm
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Sad cuz 'retrojam' didn't last any time at all. went to check on it and it was long gone. oh well.

what i should do now is get on spotify and re-create that but for myself. a personalized playlist by year. go research the top 40 of every year starting in 1991, and make elementary school, middle and high school playlists. haha.

so that might be what i'm gonna do before i get ready and head out. i scraped together a few dollars in change so maybe i'll get to have myself a drink or two tonight! as soon as the fuckin huge bomb my roommate dropped in the bathroom clears out, i'll get in the shower and fancy myself all up nice. use that new shower gel. yup. get my hair all nice and then spend time getting dressed and pull up as many people as i can find in headspace haha. EVERYONE. actually i feel them setting a room up in the Order now so that's fun 8D


this might be my actual entry for the end of the year so be good, take care of yourselves tonight, we love you all and have a beautiful 2016!!
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All that I have is the river
The river is always my home
Lord, take me away
For I just cannot stay
Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
with my dying

Please help me build a small boat
One that'll ride on the flow
Where the river runs deep
and the larger fish creep
I'm glad if wood keeps me afloat

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
with my dying

Now deeper the water I sail
and faster the current I'm in
But each night brings the stars
and the song in my heart
is a tune for the journeyman's tale

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
with my dying

Now the land that I knew is a dream
And the line in the distance grows faint
So wide is my river,
the horizon a sliver
The artist has run out of paint

Where the blue of the sea meets the sky
And the big yellow sun leads me home
I'm everywhere now,
the way is a vow
to the wind of each breath by and by

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
with my dying

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Oct. 6th, 2015 11:50 am
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GOOD MORNING~*~
we're thinking about riding the bus uptown and running around in the sun since thE SUN IS FINALLY OUT HOLY SHIT. it's been overcast and damp for like two or three fucking weeks it's absurd and i wanna run around in the sun. but everything is so muddy that the park is just not feasible rn lol. so.... uptown?? :D

but for now, a thing on our minds: acquiring actual CDs of music that we like. we have never been CD collectors but after our trip to Utah we're thinking maybe we'll get a couple of them for various people. it has to be a case of we like the entire album or at least almost all of it, which is rare. but we don't buy CDs for one or two songs lol. that's what MP3 is for.

ones on top of the list rn:

Fanfarlo - Let's Go Extinct [kyo but also Oliver]
Arctic Monkeys - either AM or Favourite Worst Nightmare [kris obviously :v]
Shearwater - Animal Joy [Oliver, Hiccup, general system music tbh]
some album by the Servant because we have literally never owned one??? [Core music]
Freezepop - Imaginary Friends [Owen, but also pretty general Nd music]
The Killers - Day & Age, Sam's Town, Hot Fuss [i have no idea which one i'd pick but this is just general Core music <3]
Bastille - Bad Blood [Hiccup, general System music]
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues [ollie but also Kris]


i'm sure there's others but ya. this is an idea that we have. i mean once our car is actually functional again lol :|

for now we gonna get ready and head uptown~!
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lyrics here because I can't find lyrics for this song anywhere on the internet anymore? which is bizarre and a shame so: a testament to this song. which found me randomly in the year 2008 and carried me through a semester of high school.







[Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time]

Complicated, it's alright
Complicated, it's alright!

Well, sorrow is an angel
that comes to you in blue right
And shows you what is wrong,
just to see if you said it right

And I've fucked up so many times in my life
That I

Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time

Complicated, it's alright!
Complicated, it's alright!

Well tell me something, someone,
and help me get it right
Or hit me over the head,
box me up and say goodnight
I can't stand to see myself go through the motions
That bring me back into these same old sad emotions

Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time

Why don't you get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
Woo!

[Good morning, Baton Rouge!
Hey, ???? your sun!]

Sometimes I get so afraid of life
I'm not afraid of death,
I'm scared of going through this thing twice!

Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time

Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time
Wanna get it right this time


Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]
Get free with it
[Tell me!]


Complicated, it's alright!





[in the year that this song came to me we went to the beach, and i showed my mom this song. she just made a face and said it sounded like gospel music. as if that were a bad thing]

090115

Sep. 1st, 2015 06:12 pm
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Don't know what's up with me these days. Nothing terrible but I'm in a... slump, I guess. Gotta worm my way back out of it. Feel displaced, like my feet aren't planted on the ground properly. This isn't unexpected after a shift like this, but I still have to figure out how to fight it. It's kind of like I'm losing my anchor, my ties to who I truly am and my place in my life, and in headspace. Keeps me from feeling things properly and acting truly as myself. Already after typing this entry [I typed this part last :p] I feel a little more anchored, slightly. Remember the vague location of where and what it is.

Watched the rugrats movie that I used to watch a lot back in the day. Not that I really liked it that much? I was never super into the rugrats even though I saw it a lot, just because it was on TV a lot. So then my mom recorded it on VHS so it was just there to watch, lol. That's how I used to do I guess. It isn't that good, no surprises there, but it was kinda neat to watch it again so it's cool.

Another reason I feel so weird is that... I've spent a lot of time helping Bird out whenever she has an issue, this year I guess. Or at least over the spring and summer. I'm almost proud to say that I can always offer help. But this time it feels like I need to stay out of it. Or at least stay back some. Feels like me being too close is part of the problem right now. And that's fine but it sure does leave me feeling at a loss for what to do. It's like... I can always help, except this time. But I still want to lol. It's been kinda weird since she came back from her trip and all, because it's just been... when she came back, my drama with work, and then this weird state of mind that we both find ourselves in respectively, heading into this month. But I won't let it consume me. I hope she won't either. It's nothing so bad that we can't handle it. Just a matter of time I think.

Also feeling that dependency on other people, but in this... self blaming kind of way? Feels irrationally like everything bad that happens to my loved ones is my fault for quitting my job. And I gotta find the courage to start my job search. To figure out what to say to places about why I quit. Drop this guilt as if I'm a bad dog with my tail between my legs, as if quitting was a shameful thing, and it's not. I just need to find my smooth talking skills. That's a thing to discuss with my stepsister, the queen of job hunting. And I have to... find my power. Get locked back in like I was. Somehow I lost that confidence, but it's not far out of reach, i think. Just gotta find the magic words to get it plugged back in and feel like I'm in control of my world again.

But on the plus side, I'm doing so much art. I got clean fresh sketchbooks in both brown and grey. I have barely touched white paper all year, lol. I'm cool with that. Maybe this is my toned paper period, idk. Just sketching like crazy. Guess I have a new medium to focus on. I just hope I don't burn myself out, but it doesn't feel like that. Just feels like.... I can page through a fresh sketchbook and not feel intimidated, which is rare and feels really good for me.

Facebook is so... negative these days. So much complaining and shitty opinions and bad vibes. I'm spending less time on there these days. Not even a matter of cutting myself off, just... less and less interest. It's an important thing to have though, it keeps me in touch with people that I'm very bad at keeping in touch with though. So. But there's very little in the way of real life that I can even update about pfft.

I downloaded this new music player program Nightingale and then discovered that it has a lyrics function. And that a lot of my songs need lyrics written in. And if you know me, you may know that I love love love writing up lyrics, it's like therapy for me lol. So. I will gladly do that. And I made a new last.fm account to scrobble to, trying to make myself listen to music out loud like I did in high school again, that was good for me.

Think I'm going to make food and then go for a walk, it's been too long and I'm getting really sedentary now without work shifts. And it's starting to cool off so I don't have an excuse. I'll go the opposite way from usual so that i don't feel tempted to stop and get food.
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In Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning,
and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost -
Ay-ay-ay...
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

Oh, I want you - I want you - I want you
In a chair with a dead magazine;
In a cave at the tip of the lily;
In some hallway where love's never been;
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Ay-ay-ay...
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

There's a concert hall in Vienna,
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking;
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
with a freshly-cut garland of tears
Ay-ay-ay...
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz, it's been dying for years

There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanters
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lillies of snow;
Ay-ay-ay...
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

And I'll dance with you in Vienna;
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

Oh, my love, oh, my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now. It's all that there is.




[trying to write my own words underneath these feels so crude hah]
I heated up a pot of tea and used the remains from our smores night to make tea, as in the meal. As soon as I got back to the bedroom to set down my plate it started raining. The most beautiful of brief afternoon summer downpours. I propped open my broken window and put on Leonard Cohen - the song that stuck with me like a burr, the song that I first listened to almost as a joke but somehow has become so close to my heart so quickly - watched the flooding and listened to the cars on the wet road and dreamed of the girl that I love teaching me to waltz. I needed that moment. Felt so myself, so pure and true and clear. And I have since then. Like I might finally know who I actually am. At least when all the rubbish gets cleared away and I can see it, like right now.



I'm someone who is really into antiquated technology. Who chases after these things. And doesn't really think about it, about what my interests all seem to have in common is that they're sorta outdated. My typewriter [sadly neglected, needs a ribbon], my game boys and other old game systems, my Polaroid camera, my hopefully soon to begin vinyl player and record collection... these things are all so tactile, so tangible. I'm such a touch-based person, so to feel the shift and clunk of typebars as you write or to feel the hinge on your camera swing back and kick into place, the healthy heft of a full film cartridge in your camera or load of batteries in your game boy... it's so right. How things should be. I've got no grudge against things like cell phones or computers, hardly, I love them and can't get away lol. But to me there is just something about certain older technologies that I'll always pursue and make part of my life I think.



Want to write about some thoughts I've been having regarding my sex lately. I know this isn't the universal opinion but I more or less fall in line with the idea of sex being your physical geno/phenotype [i.e. what's in your genes/between your legs at birth] and gender being your identity and personality. So my gender is male, effeminate but solidly male. My sex is what you would call female although we really need a different word for these things that isn't the same word for a gender presentation :p. My sex is... "receptive"? I'm a vagina person? LOL. What I'm saying is... although I'm solidly a male person and want only to be treated as a man by society, I'm pretty happy with being born the way I was. Being the smaller, alluring sex. The one I find almost universally appealing. [I maintain that girls are magical and mysterious creatures with awesome intoxicating powers, and the more they know how to wield it the more helpless I am to resist them lol]  Like if only society was set up in such a way that a boy of short stature with big hips and a vulva was widely accepted bc I feel happy that way. Happy invoking my feminine side even while my body is so feminine that everyone thinks I'm a girl. Feel solid enough in my masculine identity that I can wear pretty rocks on my finger, paint my nails, actually like the color pink. Feel comfortable in my cute and somewhat femme demeanor. It's been a long time coming.

And god almighty I'm a fucking nerd but another thing that's made me more comfortable in my sex is steven universe LOL. Like yes the gems aren't TRULY female but you know what, they all present female and seeing so many strong capable female bodied people doing work and getting shit done makes me feel good about myself. When I get dysphoria I always feel so weak and stupid and seeing these women [alien women, but whatever :V] being shown as no-bullshit powerful and wise and worthy of respect and even awe from the protagonist.... feels really good. Makes me feel more confident in my shapely legs and big hips. And even my hated chest feels a little better knowing I'm shaped like a gem. :p

071115

Jul. 11th, 2015 06:40 pm
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feel like I should update :V

rn listening to Estelle for the first time, hadn't really checked her stuff out before and yep she's gr8. i love artists like this, like Janelle Monae and that type of work. but lol the way she pronounces words, the shape of her vowels... or anytime there's a speaking part and her voice goes down to its more normal range, every SINGLE time it's like WTF ITS GARNET??? [and yes i am listening to this because i'm gem trash, and ALSO I'M PRETTY DAMN SURE THAT SARDONYX IS VOICED BY JANELLE MONAE???? OH MG IM GONNA FLIP. and she and Estelle did a song together and IM LOVE]

IM SO HYPED for stevenbomb in like 1.5 days oh my god. u cannot stop me. especially since i've now seen Sardonyx [holy SHIT THAT FUSION DANCE WAS THE GAYEST THING ON EARTH IM IN LOVE pearl's gayness cannot be stopped]. this show is taking over my brain it's been YEARS since i've gotten into something so deeply haha. i love it. loooove iiiitttt

i haven't written about it but this has been like the POLAROID ADVENTURE WEEK!!! that's right my long awaited foray into instant film has finally happened. ive wanted this since i watched that documentary at the beach last year. and on wednesday bb was going around goodwill and picked up this camera for me for 6 bucks bc i begged him to LOL. when he sent me a photo i said OMG immediately i had to have it. it's in great shape. and then last night i went to urban outfitters for film [boooo only bc their film was on sale and nowhere else can u just go out in person and buy it instead of getting it shipped to you] and took my first polaroid photo, of Murphy.
then today!! i went to plaza midwood and wandered around until i found a photo subject. when i wandered down Central i found the King of Pops finally [omg coconut lemongrass popsicle for 3 bucks no regrets], and right there nearby was someone playing banjo and singing, busking. looked cute and queer and around my age. immediately knew i had to get a shot of this one hahah!!
so i approached her. my first time asking to photograph someone like this. her name was Beth and she played really well. only had been playing the banjo since january. she had all these nice tattoos and a little doodle of Finn on her wrist that her girlfriend had drawn on her earlier that day. she was homeless, just travelling through the country. was from Virginia, had seen almost every state except south dakota. [told me utah was great hahah im trash] so i took a photo of her with her banjo and case and sign, and she wanted to keep the photo. hahah. ugh i couldn't say no, she was too cute. and sang and played these folk songs, some covers and some she'd written herself. simple but so well. so i sat in the shade there with her [it was still so fucking hot] and hid my photo from light while it developed. because Impossible's film develops a lot slower and is a lot more sensitive to light than polaroid's was. gave her some change and talked about everything.
immediately had a tiny crush on her pfft. so i knew i was gonna have to let her keep the photo. so when it developed after 30 ish minutes, i gave it to her face down and had her turn it over while i took a second photo. and that one i kept, her genuine smile seeing herself in the first polaroid photo she'd seen in ages. it's a shame i didn't think to get a phone pic of the first one because it came out super well, but this one is almost even better in composition if not in development. [it developed in my pocket on the drive home LOL]

so yeah. suffice to say that i'm having a hell of a time with instant film just like i knew i would. no regrets whatsoever. and i'm definitely budgeting for packs of film to bring to utah with me LOL! oh yes. so many photos will be taken there. real tangible photos that you can hold and touch and show people and take with you anywhere.

every day is up and down for me mentally, lots of job stress lately again and i know i gotta find my way outta there. i can't stay like this anymore. but lol job hunting is so hard it's the worst. but you know what? this has definitely been the happiest year of my life too thus far. i feel more fulfilled than ever. starting to draw a lot more again [i started drawing gems and now i can't STOP HELP] and even coloring stuff and working on this tarot project, doing spiritual things and crafting, getting into hobbies i've wanted for a long time like instant film and retro gaming, getting into another super good relationship... moving out was so fucking good for me. it's still a struggle to stay afloat some days with anxiety and stress and sometimes depression but like. this is the happiest i've been in a long time and i'm so grateful.

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Mar. 26th, 2015 06:50 pm
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wow i didn't write yesterday, think that's been the first day all month :v

idk. what's on my mind? other than the usual trash?

been listening to a lot of Daniel Johnston. and thinking that i should bust out the big keyboard that's living in my car rn. i should find someplace where i can store it because. i should start playing with it. i never learned the proper fingerings but that same exact situation for computer keyboards never stopped me from typing 80wpm, right? idk. i should definitely do that especially since i'm actually home alone semi-regularly now. WHICH IS REALLY GOOD FOR ME BTW. really important. once i can get the guts to actually do stuff.

 thing that i think i should maybe write a song about is Stormy's death. maybe. i dunno. that'd be a fucking sad sack fucking song. but. that's a pile of sludge that's been lurking around in my insides for two years and i've never quite hacked it all the way out. and i mean honestly it's the death of a loved one, essentially the death of a child, it NEVER WILL be completely gone and that's fine. but. idk. i think that might be a subject. among MANY OTHER ONES I PROMISE NOT JUST SAD ONES

and i can tell you too that this is a HUGE sign that i'm growing. changing. i'm afraid to say the b-word, but... maybe even that. slowly. which is so wonderful. what i can also tell you is that things that used to jar the shit out of me or be legitimate triggers that would stop me cold and make me have to sorta reboot my brain - loud noises like a big rig hissing right in my ear while driving, for example, or the sound of a door knocking - just make me flinch now. they still bother me but they don't turn me into a curled up ball of terror anymore. i feel like bones that were exposed to the world are covered in new, healthy tissue now and thus when things bounce off them, it doesn't hurt so bad.

yesterday i talked to Bird in the morning on skype and THEN AT NIGHT I TALKED TO POE ON SKYPE LIKE ALL NIGHT. SO WOWOWOW DOUBLE SKYPES IN ONE DAY AND THEN!!! THIS AFTERNOON i got home from our outing and THEY WERE ON AGAIN SO LIKE 3 SKYPES IN 24 HOURS. so great. hell yeah. maybe the universe is kissing our ass to make up for the 3 days right after they got back from their trip. [i literally cannot believe it's been a week since they left jesus christ. the weekend felt like it alone took a week. that week or 2 that i'll spend up there in Utah is gonna last 5 seconds I swear to god]

idk. i seem to be back in this tuned into outside space phase again, where it's hard for me to let go of the front and pay attention to what's inside. but like. the other night hiccup had me just not even use my eyes inside, not try to focus on seeing visually, and just use all of my other senses. hearing and feeling. and i can do that!! i can do that even right now while i'm looking at things outside!! i can hear and feel and use inside senses that have no analog on the outside, and i at least keep track with that when my inside eyes won't focus properly. but if i AM in this phase again at least it's for a good reason because life outside is kinda amazing right now aslkjalkdjfasd

the trees outside my window are budding and IT'S AMAZING SPRING IS HERE IM SO GLAD ;w; winter is DONE AND OVER.

so our outing, when we woke up bb and i went to Red Lobster. and he didn't believe me that a $25 gift card wouldn't cover much :V but we were cheapo and actually managed to only go over 50 cents!! the amount of food we got was truly disappointing for 25 bucks, but i mean for the 50 cents that we actually paid, it was a lot LOL. so then after that bb convinced me to go to the cracker barrel and get some candy. which i mean we probably shouldn't have but. ya know. it was nice. :B and also i have strong associations with Cracker Barrel being THE PLACE WE GO ON ROAD TRIPS [would go like every year to see my maw maw in WV, and ALWAYS stopped at cracker barrel. and i would ALWAYS get myself a beanie baby while there lmfao. so we didn't eat there but the inside of the place was the exact fucking same even tho i've never been to this particular one. [they even still had a beanie baby corner. and it was the same corner. omg wtf. even though beanie babies suck ass now and look like crap] it was pretty awesome and we got some neat candies. YE. so that was a fun time.

WHAT ELSE idk. feeling kinda hyper right now but also like i don't want to do anything?? lol?? idk maybe i'll clean up because the room looked SUPER NICE and now it's a bit cluttered again. idk. only got like 2 hours until work and it's a long work night ahead but should be fine. thursdays are pretty easy and it's the most legit manager tonight so.


IDK LIFE IS GOOD TALKIN 2 MA BIRD AND LIKE. FEELIN LIKE IT'S OK TO BE SAPPY AND ROMANTIC AND BOLDLY STATE MY FEELINGS LIKE WOW AMAZE. I don't have to be ashamed and secretive and hide my feelings about everything????? Like they're not repulsive or disturbing????? Like what the hell lol. AMAZING FINDINGS

Only thing is Hiccup misses being up front so I'm gonna do my best to let go and let him have it completely tonight. Mostly anyway. I'm a little concerned about some hints I've been picking up about tomorrow so I'm gonna also have A Presence for the night. But work is allll his because he's the one who actually ENJOYS it. And he misses having a body and stuff so also that. God imagine if he ever physically got sexy with anyone lmfao i'm just sayin JUST SAYIN DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT
thebrokenarrows: (general)
I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
of the space between our chairs
And I was a cartographer
of the tangles in your hair

I sang the song that silence sings;
it's the one that everybody knows.
Oh, everybody knows the song
that silence brings.
And this
this is how it goes:...

These looms that weave apocrypha,
they're hanging from a strand.
These dark and empty rooms were full
of effervescent hands

Awkward pause
Fatal flaws
Time, it's a crooked bow.
Oh, time's a crooked bow.

In time you need to learn to love
the ebb just like the flow.

Grab hold of your bootstraps, oh, and pull like hell
until gravity feels sorry for you,
and lets you go.
Until you lack the proper chemicals to know
the way it felt the last time you let yourself
fall this low
Time... it's a crooked bow!

... Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
at the bottom of this gigantic crater,
an armchair calls to you.
Yeah, this armchair calls to you,
and it says that, someday,
we'll get back at them all
with epoxy and a pair of pliers.
As ancient sea slugs began to crawl
through the ragweed and barbed wire.

You didn't write, you didn't call!
I didn't cross your mind at all!
Oh, through the waves
the waves of AM squall
You didn't feel anything at all
You're fifty-five and three-eighths tall!
Fifty-five and three-eighths tall
Tall...

Time...
thebrokenarrows: (general)

Daddy please, hear this song that I sing
In your heart there's a spark that just screams
for a lover to bring
a child to your chest
Who would lay as you sleep,
and love all you have left
Like the boy you used to be,
long ago wrapped in sheets warm and wet.

Blister please, with those wings in your spine
Love to be with a brother of mine
How he'd love to find
Your tongue in his teeth
And struggle to find
secret songs that you keep
locked in boxes so tight,
sounding only at night as you sleep.

In my dreams you're alive and you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet!
Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you
for the rest of your life, when you're ready!

Brother see, we are one in the same
When you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains
fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place,
make your smile sweet to see!
Don't you take this away,
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek.

And when we break,
we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
When we break
We'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Two-headed boy,
she is all you could need.
She will feed you tomatoes
and radio wire
And retire you to sheets safe and clean...
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave

thebrokenarrows: (general)
[seriously this fucking song. begins like a meditation, i feel the light, i feel the warm gentle blaze. and then all the lovely imagery that just screams headspace, screams the Order, the country, the Cityscape and all the faces i love. my family. my home. and the other imagery - the unknowable thoughts of a bird's face. and the very end, like an ominous undercurrent, the hook of Red Sea, Black Sea. ugh. fuck. this band seriously]



My only boy, be not so blind;
Open your eyelids wide...
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light...

There are no words, no hands, no eyes
to show where a door stands wide...
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light...

Let your heart stand open
when silence trickles down, bright
and softly, slowly...
surrounds
your little ghost town.

Set all the silver lamps alight!
Open the windows wide!
[Come to me now, in soft light.]

Show every world in its separate light --
-- a gull's wing; a crow's dark eye --
Where all the City's foundlings lie.

When your heart stands open
and offered to a crowd,
draw lines around your chosen life.
And let it burn, bright,
over all the lovely faces.



[ in  place  of  the  sun,  in  place  of  the  moon ]
thebrokenarrows: (general)

Something is breathing in the air
Something is moving in the water
And the winds in you are blowing

Bring back my boy
I loved him
I loved him

Little flakes of snow
On the roads and the fences
My head is a flame
My body’s distant
And I am fading out
I can tell it all in time
I’ll go down in a flame
And wheel in the air like a swallow
Diving


------


I came to love spaces inside of me
The winds that blow
The leaves of the almond trees
That would grow by the road
Brushed with light and with snow
And I would ride as far as it goes

Oh, joy of mine, swelling inside of me
I feel your eyes, hands as they form in me
I said it once, said it twice
While you live, when you die
You are free again
You are free

------

His little hook, your little eyelid
The iris dilates while the heart implodes
And when he comes in your dreaming
His mouth still denies
What your heart just knows

Oh no
Nobody would ever have known
No light in the dark would have shown
How you would reply


------


My only boy, be not so blind.
Open your eyelids wide.
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…

There are no words, no hands, no eyes,
that show where a door stands wide.
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…

And your heart stands open,
when silence trickles down, bright,
and softly, slowly surrounds
your little ghost town

------

And we march in our rows and rows
Under a burning hand
Past the scars of the wounded land
Into a country of thorns and spines
Wild and unbroken

------

So then he rose, and he rubbed his eyes
Crawled through a hole in a lake of ice
Just to show you all the way
Though the queen has died
She has multiplied

------

If you could ring the sky like a bell
Even such a sound would never suffice
If you could bang the world like a drum
It would only show it was hollow inside

------

Hey, little birdie, catching my eye
Sing little sweet things into this mind
And tug at my darker side

------

In place of the sun
In place of the moon
A terrible light
Will flood every room
And bathed in this light
We will swim again

------

Took me out on the tide
to make pearls of my eyes
and uncover me, oh.
Tore every stitch, every line,
every hook, every eye

------

A wind that lifts the leaves against the night
The reeds that bow and bend beneath its weight
The holy sap, its smoky light
I will not hide

The fish that swim inside the murky deep
The island shores that loom above the sea
The holy, holy melody
Will bring them all to me

------

Daddy, come back to me now
I would beat them away
I would pull you out
I would have washed
All the cinders from your eyes
And with silver and gold
I would adorn you

Let it all come out tonight
When they pull me out alive
Alive!

------

Oh, the falconer awakes to the sound of the bells.
Overhead, and northbound,
they are leaving his life.
And each empty cage just rings in his heart
like a bell,
underneath these cold stars,
in their trembling light.

And he cries, “Amen, let their kingdom come tonight.
Let this dream be realized.”

------

and the hunter’s cry
is still on the air
as the bullet flies home
but the heart that’s pierced with it
still is racing
still is racing, alone

The silver shoals
of the light in the deep
brush the glittering skein
where the great, dark body writhes
and the trembling jaw
the unfathoming sounds
of leviathan, bound
as his heart, though weakening
still is racing
still is racing, alone

------

On cliffs that tower from the rising seas
their bonfire glow
where a tiger lies
and, cleaning their weapons,
they laugh at his useless
claws, and all:
it is a beautiful night
to be born to this life
and grind his every bone to powder!

------

My winged children, all
will fly over the mountain wall
to the lid of the sky,
and slice its belly full wide
with their warm knives
-not the pin-pricks of starlight-
but to bathe in the bright blood
of the world above!

------

In the forest on the branches and the clotheslines
a fierce little wren singing loud, and high
while his eyes, insisting on their own life,
gave legs to the lie
that there was the world, and time
to grow old in its light

------

Only now would you long
for the ancient boughs,
the moon, overlapping the long white clouds
and the home life of a love
who will never return again

------

“The way is to climb
the way is to lie still
and let the moon do its work on your body

and then to rise
through forests and oceans of lives
and through the way of the black rocks,
splitting, wide,
and flow
ten thousand miles.”

------

And in the dark,
from the sea marbled and moon-blue
into the burning eye of the sun
without feeling

My end was imminent-
Steady your course now, sparrow
but I remembered him-
Fear for your home life, sparrow

------

Galloping into the void,
you are rolling your eyes like a horse,
all to turn from the beam,
from the eye of that screen.
“Turn it off! Turn it off!"

------

and your hands on the balcony
as a spine
pricks the world
and the shudder, deep, is unheard,
but you feel it
oh my god
as the spindle
flies apart
turn your bow to the biggest wave,
but your angel’s on holiday
and that wave rises slowly
and breaks-

------

And over the ocean
winging low
I saw the first wave
and the flares that fall
like fireflies
on the islands

In the boom and swell
from the waves to the heights
reverberations
of our old lives

Like a golden bell
that would ring through the night
and then the front moves
and we raise our eyes
in the silence of the islands

------

Come down from the iron wheel!
Come back from the endless labor!
Look down on the rolling waves
that strike on the crumbling reef
now.

Is what the body becomes
in the bellow aloud
in the crack of the drum
and as the body dies
what is left of the heart
burns white

No light on the western shore
No sign of the ships at anchor
No sound but the roaring winds
No warmth but the life behind the eye

------

In a power dive
in a slow burn
over ancient fields
over islands
from the slope and the rise
of the mainland
unfamiliar shapes

------

My father climbs to the top of the rail
his head above the roaring world
his body burning
his eyes on the waves
and a god below the waterline

------

Effortless gulls in the wake
silver and white on the bow
as the island is broken away
from the world

------

Give us back to our lives
on the waving blue wild
and remove every mark
down to the waterline
and with your arms at your sides
turn homeward.
thebrokenarrows: (general)
You're such a loud voice,
such a strong back,
such a hard return
of the backhand blows of life

and I know that sometimes
I'm like a stranger,
and I hide myself from everyone --

I'm so glad you reached me

I was a live one,
I was a cold light
But you were piercing my heart
with your lucid eye

And I'm so glad you reached me

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Feb. 10th, 2015 06:12 pm
thebrokenarrows: (general)
SUCH A GOOD FRICKIN DAY just yes. wow. had a really hard weekend so i feel like i deserve today.


SO YA we're in. we're on the lease, signed my name away. february will be our last month totally rent-free. i'm just so glad. rly glad about all this. finally we can BREATHE. and we may get to move in before mid march or whatever, we really don't know what's gonna happen yet so i guess we'll just... remain 75% packed up and wait it out to see what happens lol. it works for me.

so ya then we went the EXTREMELY SHORT TRIP from the apartments to Save Point Games and just. oh god. love. that place is way too damn close to my new home lmfao. just went in there and picked up a couple replacement wiimote protectors [bc the brother wrecked the ones that we've had forever] and Metroid Prime for the gamecube, which i'll try out in a little while. i don't even mind if the gamecube can't play it bc i'm fixing to be able to just drive 5 miles from the house and drop $30 on a 'new' gamecube. which is on the list of stuff to buy from there lol. along with a cable for the little ps2 and other things that i can't think of right now.

and we stopped by subway and SURPRISE this happened to be the subway where my old manager works now! we only worked together for like three months so not that big a deal in the long run, but i was like woah sup!! she asked me if i still had a turkey wing in my car LOL. i guess that's what she knew me for. [in retrospect i rly shouldn't have kept that preserved bird wing in my hot car. no wonder it's so sticky now around the bone -^-] so yeah saw her for the first time in forever. that was cool. glad i'm so far removed from that old job that it wasn't weird or awkward for me at all.

yup. good day. and now the sun's setting and i'm tired from the short amount of sleep that i got but now we can relax a bit. it's nice. so nice.


inner life stuff:

- hiccup and me are getting so close it's ridic. just a really good fronting team. i'm becoming kinda self conscious about not paying attention to most of headspace besides my immediate fronting vicinity which usually includes Hiccup and a couple others. it's kinda like the internal version of staying in my room all day. but it's just something i'm going through right now. and i think folks understand that.
- the River. i have learned of its existence but not its name. Thirteen told me about an offering that needs to be made, most likely blood. nothing violent, just... introducing myself on the River [and its spirit]'s terms. imagery of flood waters, the water version of plains fires, harsh but necessary cleansing. and there's Irelia on the horizon, the great orca in the stormcloud, the matriarch female with the huge bull dorsal fin. that's how i see her. a female, dominant in orca culture, but with that giant tall fin, flashes of black and white showing through a stormcloud, an ominous eyepatch peeking out. i'm going to have to introduce myself to her, too.
- that fucking Shearwater album permeating my entire existence. some song or other from that album is constantly floating through my head and has been for like a week. it's so so important. i need to get more Shearwater but rn i'm just too tired. just gonna plug in my ps2 and put on Avatar because hiccup needs to watch that and i've been meaning to get around to it for a long ass time. watch a movie in bed and r e l a x. finally.
- moved the last stuff out of the room. [they're painting over the grey and blue walls whhhyyyy TT___TT i worked SO hard on those and they're so damn beautiful but apparently the grandmother 'won't like it'... im cry those walls are so beautiful even they agree wtf man. rip my beautiful hard work] my last act was to formally close up the altar space for good. i let it get dirty and stagnant, and temporarily closed it before, but this was a permanent goodbye. as with all good witchcraft, it was improvised as i went along, doing what felt right.
this time what felt right was approaching the altar from the middle of the room, bowing on all fours and touching my forehead to the [now carpet-bare hardwood] floor in reverence, as i had so many times before. thanking all the spirits i had spoken to and communed with here. then after a moment of silent reverence, abruptly standing up and clapping sharply into the echoing silence, as if to scare off an animal that had gotten too close. immediately turned on my heel and walked out of the room, at normal speed, but not looking back. i felt shadows following after me, nameless vibes and echoes, and felt chills run over my back, little pangs of inexplicable anxiety as i walked away from that sacred space, feeling the long maintained wards finally collapse down from the walls and floor. i just felt like it was important to formally close it up, say a loud and clear goodbye, not just drift away and let it be forgotten.

02415

Feb. 4th, 2015 05:49 pm
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we discovered the band Shearwater and i'm so grateful. and this album Animal Joy... i just... cannot. i can't deal.

all of the fucking music. all of it. is Hiccup and me.

it's so crazy. i'm literally about to cry. after THAT WEIRD NIGHT WE HAD LAST NIGHT.... and now this. i just. lkjadijdfsdfsfgasd


i'm gonna have to hoard the shit out of this artist. shame i don't have time to do all of it tonight, it will have to wait until later tomorrow after we go run errands. but. it will happen. absolutely.


but the first song especially... Animal Life. can i just say NEW BROKEN ARROWS GOSPEL SONG? like holy shit. with heavy Hiccup intonations, but you can see the Order, you can see the landscape, the whole place is there in that song. the delicate balance of human and beast, daily social dramas, everything. it's so perfect.

the entire album though:



Charging down the maw of the ocean -- I want to come close, I want to come closer
I held your name inside my mouth through all the days out wandering


--

Change: the river is blocked, the road is hot, the sky is blazing
Black smoke on the rise; the weather rolls until it's on you and suddenly breaks
I come right back into the sound - I take one breath and spiral down
And you're not watching the road -- or watching the flood stage rise


--

Maybe I'm lost; maybe I'm not ready; maybe I was not properly socialized...
But when you drag me under - when you pull me over the line --
That's when you really reach me
I know the night drives; I know the afterglow; I know I look quieter than I feel


--

The electric charge of a change in the weather
You were touching my arm, you were holding a feather
And I opened my eyes and the world goes racing, suddenly changed


--

Sometimes I think I welcome in what you are frightened of...
...It is effortless -- ranging and diving
Effortless as fire!


--

You only get a look at your life when you're leaving it;
And in the silences when you're arrested in flight
When you lie on your back with your eyes on the firmament...
...Your burning mouth, your blazing eyes -- come on!


... Or follow the loneliest road, and run in the dark 'til the light comes screaming in


--

I was waiting; I was reconstructing the memory
Unbelieving of the changes looming inside of me
The pulse of an irregular life...


--

I'm not talking about a wade in the shallows, I'm not living there anymore.
You could spend your life fighting the river, or you could look me right in the eyes


--

Now that we have pulled away, is it better on the inside?...
... I believe in the rush, I believe in the gathering radiance!
I could walk alive through a burning wall...
... While the sun slips away from the crest of the barricade
Radiant in the winter light...
Starry-eyed, and inveterate, and invincible
You make it easy


--

While the buildings fall in silence and reverie
Among the islands of our minds - among the stars of the age
Oh shining world! where nothing is happening but what is in our minds...






* a note: hiccup's new text color is now 44803c. eventually i will make a masterpost of these

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Jan. 25th, 2015 06:16 pm
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[Hey, one month since christmas. :3]

Another thing I wanted to mention briefly: Josiah. He peeked out at me back in 2012 when I was carless and toting my laptop around various fastfood restaurants for the entire day before work [bc my only ride was at 5 am and my work was at 2 pm] for a couple weeks that summer. Showed himself first through music - his music, large swathes of genres that he 'claims' as his own. After that he dropped off the radar for a while, but last fall and this winter he's been kinda lurking around more. Owning a possession on the outside [the ipod belongs to him] certainly helps. He's also taken a bit of an interest in Hiro, so maybe they'll be buddies. Kid needs some friends.

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