Monday, May 3, 2010

From her, to me

I've Got Your Number, by Passion Pit

I’ve always felt so scared of all this needing
Everyone that I’ve met has been somewhat mistreated
That’s how it feels when you know that something’s wrong.

Then you came along like a swan off of the lake
You flew across my eyes and out into space,
And I ran and I crawled and I chased to get a taste.

That’s what I did… (Whoa!)

If there’s just one thing you got to remember;
Is to write down your name and your phone number
That way I’ll have it and we’ll make something out of this mess, Oh!

And if all else fails then the ship won’t set sail.
God forbid but I guess the both of us will bail
But as far as I can tell I think things will be swell.

Have you seen me cry tears like diamonds
Down and down they fly,
Faster and faster like the speed of our love
Batting a thousand,
but a homerun crack at love
This is where I tell you that,
I know love's what I need to work at

So now the two of us rely on each other
With our premonitions out in the gutter
Who would have thought that I’d make it this far

I’ll make it seem like I’m stronger but I’m quite the actor
And now I’m so caught up and I can’t escape this pattern
But when I started losing hope, there you were, there you bloomed

Have you seen me cry tears like diamonds
Down and down they fly, faster and faster like the speed of our love
Batting a thousand, but a homerun crack at love
This is where I tell you that, I know love's what I need to work at
(Whoa!)

Diggy diggy diggy diggy diggy boom boom!
Diggy diggy diggy diggy diggy boom boom!
Diggy diggy diggy diggy diggy boom boom!
Diggy diggy diggy diggy diggy boom boom!

Have you seen me cry tears like diamonds
Down and down they fly, faster and faster like the speed of our love
Batting a thousand, but a homerun crack at love
This is where I tell you that, I know love's what I need to work at, oh
What I need to work at, oh

For someone else's poetry, this hits us fairly square on the head. And I love her for seeing that. Oh, all "diggy diggy's" and booms aside, of course. :)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

remember, remember, the 4th of November

It is not the fool one must fear, it is the fearful. It is not ignorance one must combat, for intellect can be just as easily paralyzed by fright, or distracted by the magician's other hand. Just as passion sets the field upon which reason plays, one must win the heart in order to win the mind.

I have myriad more thoughts on this line...but this, I needed to get out of my head.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

for sale

Mindhacks posts some interesting research on motivation in the workplace. This falls very strongly in line with an 'operating assumption' slash credo I've had for many years now. Some of you may have been present on occasions when I've mounted the soapbox and preached about the dangers of monitizing a passion. Or, in other words, the partial myth that having a job in the field that you love most is the best thing. Money, or other externalized measures of worth, have a powerful tendancy to hijack your value system.

Some things just aren't worth taking money for.

internet time-killers

totallylookslike.com
lpcoverlover.com

Enjoy. :)

Sunday, August 10, 2008

This Is It

Dance In America, a short story that, for me, rivals Bullet In The Brain. It's enough to make you heave deep laughs in public, and leak small tears in front of strangers.

This is it.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

physics porn

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

God, I can't help it. It's so...beautiful. I don't even care if it destroys the universe.

Well, I care a little bit. I've got plans the Friday after they fire it up. :)

Friday, August 1, 2008

Two years!

Two! Two years...

I freaked out, moved to Portland, went into business with myself, I'm a professional hipster. That's what I did!