A still // Feb 07, 2010

January 2010:

The way we were // Feb 03, 2010

NH, November, 2009:

Also, love you Jenne. Thanks for this:

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes and aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever (only) rejoices me and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

-Emerson

Same // Feb 02, 2010

yup

From another M // Feb 02, 2010

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”

-Emerson

“Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”

-Emerson

Thanks, good timing.

Review // Jan 25, 2010

I love it when someone says something that is so true and they say it in the simplest way that it seems so obvious like: why didn’t I say that, in that way, first? Part of a review from a recent New Yorker:

How much do teen-agers know about love? Not much. Desire? A lot. Anxiety, anticipation, regret, frustration, delight, fear? More than most of us, maybe.

It’s nice // Jan 21, 2010

Birds, Departure Bay, Nanaimo, BC, December 26, 2009

The xx // Jan 20, 2010

Sweet but moody as f*ck.

Bright Young Things // Jan 20, 2010

Polar bear swim, Nanaimo, BC, December 26, 2009:

You don’t see me // Jan 19, 2010

After a show:

Okay okay // Jan 11, 2010

Somebody I know told me quite a number of years ago that he liked movies about things that weren’t real over “real” life movies. He said that people get so used to the “reality” in these “real” movies that they start to see their own life as surreal and the lives they see in the movies as real. I feel like Sontag keeps repeating this in various iterations in her book:

“Knowing a great deal about what is in the world through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when they see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do abound are, largely, not those we have in real life.”

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