Take a Walk on the Wild Side.

Always be prepared to embarrass yourself and make mistakes. Lately before I go do anything I listen to some rock 'n' roll and tell myself, "Just say (or don't say anything at all if that's what you want) and do what you want even if it's embarrassing or not right... because everyone, including myself, is going to die someday. Care, but only care enough. Mainly, have fun in life because it doesn't last forever... and when you're gone you're gone for good." I'm not joking. I totally do this at least once a day. I am constantly reminding myself not to care about anything too much but to mainly enjoy myself and the company of others... this totally helps with any anxiety or stress. It totally dissolves. It makes me love my life a little more each time I do it. So try it, cause I love it.

"It's not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for Christ's sake. There is no point in going through all this crap, if your are not going to enjoy the ride. And you know what... when you least expect something great might come along. Something better then you even planned for."

ANYWAYS...

Let's talk tunes.

Can I just say... I love music from the 90s. Maybe it is because that is my era... or just maybe because this era rocked musically. I think it's both. Most of my favorite songs and bands are from the 90s. So here is one example of why I love 90s tunes...

(please excuse the chinese animation)

ALSO.

This is my pre summer jam. I hope you enjoy as much as I.

Love the video.

(Not from the 90s...just sayin')

Vast Open Fields.

Listen to this song and tell me it does not make you want to be in at least one of these pictures.

It really is...

Life is Not Fair.

This post might be sort of depressing, but whatever, it is what I am feeling right now. I feel like I just had an epiphany. Lately I feel as though I have been so wrapped up in myself and my own problems like stupid things like school, location, breakups, friends, cars, money.... The world is bigger than me, much bigger. I feel so sad today, sad that I have been so selfish. I just got done telling my mom about a kid I met not to long ago who wished he had the opportunity to go to St. Joe and so on, but didn't. There is more to the story, but when I was finished telling it my mom said something like this, "Life is not fair, I don't care what anyone says. Some people are just born into shitty situations and work so hard to make it better, but sometimes it just doesn't happen." Thinking about this makes me sad. I feel so guilty for worrying about the stuff I have lately. Lately when I pray, I pray for my dumb little problems... How selfish. Seriously. I should be thankful for what I have now. I should be thankful for actually having options. I should be thankful for this big house I have and all this stupid material shit I have, not asking for more for myself. It almost disgusts me thinking about it all. I should be thankful that I have an opportunity to even get an education instead of sitting here deciding if I want to do it far away or close or in a big city or a small city... how selfish. But today I do realize now that I am thankful, and I do lead an amazing life it just sucks I couldn't see this before. I have always said thanks in my prayers, but now I feel as if I really am thankful and grateful.... I'm not sure if anyone who reads this will actually get anything from this because it is so hard to actually explain how I feel. I just hope you realize how good you might have it, because life truly is not fair to everyone.

"Be thankful for what you have. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

Turn Off the Sun

"There are two ways to look at life. Actually, that’s not accurate; I suppose there are thousands of ways to look at life. But I tend to dwell on two of them. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone’s life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don’t realize it."

— Chuck Klosterman

In other news... Green is my favorite color.

Jam of the Day, clearly...

I think I'm starting to come alive lately.

(Not that I wasn't before)

Feel me?

Life is Filled with Options... Too Many.

A ceiling was beyond the world i could afford.

Matt Pond PA.

Rainy...

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

It's not necessary to eat pizza on Sunday, but it sounds like a good idea to me... Maybe it should be.

I wish I could post a picture of what I look like today... But to sum it up I'm a mixture of the 1970's and... death... I'm going to see how long I can go without brushing my hair, teeth, changing, showering, or anything. Gross, yet extremely satisfying.

ANYWAY...

Bottoms up... Cherry Limeade, drink of the day.

I've been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately. I love how the intros to most of their songs are like 900 minutes long, it just makes the song 10 times as good, not to mention the anticipation kills. Taking me to the dark side... of the moon.

So I'd like to dedicate this song/video to myself...

Photograph of the Day, because I simply enjoy it.

By the one and only Irving Penn, god rest his soul.

Quote of the day for sure has to come from a Pink Floyd song lyric, cause I want this to be a themed blog entry...

One more thing...

Happy Birthday Eddie Money... As well as Kevin Federline. (but who's that anyway?)

Hey you...

In other news...

I am totally feeling these two songs this morning...

Pretty much opposites.

That's all.

First Blog! Can you dig-it?

So I have recently decided to start a blog due to the fact that my facebook is always overloaded with junk that should belong on a blog... And when I say recently decided, I mean decided a few seconds ago when I stalked an amazing/inspiring blog via google.

I'm usually pretty good about understanding new things on the internet like Xanga, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc... But somehow I'm sort of totally confused about Blogs. I wasn't sure if it was like a online journal type thing or just a sharing thing about "stuff"... ANYWAYS. A few moments ago, when I decided to sign up for one of these "blog" deals, I wikipediaed(sp?) 'blog'. Apparently a blog is exactly what I thought. I think maybe they call it a 'blog' because it's sort of a big 'blob' of whatever you want it to be.

So I guess I'll let my blog be whatever I want it to be each day... Today it obviously, so far, it is just a big blob of my thoughts typed out. BUT, let me get to something a little more interesting...

I have been really obsessed with quotes, not just lately though. I've been obsessed since probably, give or take 5th grade. I've also been obsessed with lyrics, but those totally come hand in hand. So I bet this blog will have a lot of that. I just realized I'm still typing my thoughts and I have not gotten anymore interesting. OKAY, seriously this time...

I'm going to post quotes of the day on here. These will be something that has to do with my mood throughout the day... or maybe just something I keep thinking about during the day... SO today's quote is...

True. I want to discuss this quote in detail but if I did that would be boring...

I also have a song of the day. Today's winner is...

Went for a run this morning, this song came on my

iPod, made me feel on top of it! Good stuff.

Hopefully they have a Bruce Springsteen night on

American Idol. Crossing my fings!

"Crushed velvet seats

Riding in the back

Oozing down the street

Waving to the girls

Feeling out of sight

Spending all my money

On a Saturday night "

ANWAY.

Along with quotes and music I also am in a healthy relationship with photography and movies. Therefore I will be sharing a "movie of the day" as well as a "photo of the day" (one that I took and one that I like from another photographer). Awesome.

Movie of my day surely goes to...

Fight Club. I actually have not watched this today but I'm thinking I will eventually, before I am sleeping. Something this film makes me feel empowered, and, you know, that's what I'm about these days. Not to mention Brad Pitt really hit it out of the park body wise... acting wise too. Tyler Durden is probably the coolest guy that will never exist. One might often ask them-self, "What would Tyler Durden do?"...no? I know I do.

Photograph of the Day (not mine)

By Richard Avedon. Just so happened to like the flying hair in this. Believe it or not I learned about Richard Avedon in photography classes during my short time in college life. ANYWAY. Obviously this guy is a classic. I wont bore you with his biography, but let me just say I like him a lot because he was one of the first fashion photographers who actually wanted models to move around as well as smile, be happy or sad or have some emotion... Stuff like that. I think that's pretty cool and that's the way it should be sometimes, no?

Photograph of the Day (by me!)

By Carly Jenkins. I took this yesterday. My mother and father have tremendous amounts of records stored away and I thought I'd bust a few out for some pics. The irony of the situation is that I was listening to some of these artist via iPod while taking the pictures... Hmmm. Not so cool. In some weird way I feel like that's a little disrespectful.... Oh well! Maybe someday I'll blow this up and use it as a poster! Not a bad idea...no?

Well that's all I got today!

Thanks for reading my first blob of a blog!