love defeats logic

..and so the story goes. theres something inspiring and beautiful about this fucked up mess that just makes sense. they'll never part. true love finds you in the end. this couple is strikingly uncanny to a certain someone i know. and love remains. oh, and you inspired me again. thank you for the help. writing songs like these havent felt this good in months.

what once was old, is new again

last night we said goodbye to the northpark house. quite a party it was. records. beers. dancing. lamps. empty. 2 nights ago, i said goodbye to a familiar face. and hello to a not so forgotten one. for now, im off to go have mid-day whiskeys with a room of old friends. today, anything can happen. and just might.

"it was the afternoon of extravagant delight"

I'm sending away my 120 film roll from my new holga. This is the first time i've used one, so i hope what seemed simple to use, turns out ok. it should be a montage of silly, wonderful night and days (ie: erikas visit to victoria, halloween, home made tattoos, good looking gentlemen, and so forth). lately all i want to do is visit new cities. i have the same curious feeling i had almost 5 years ago now. like when i first wrote "packlight" that one summer morning. i guess now, it's back. maybe i'll be that wandering gypsy again soon. i can hear the open road..

all hallows eve

(photos courtasy of Agata Wysokinski)

drop acid, not bombs

make love, not war.

its hallow's eve. my dear dear friend agata and i are being late 60's freedom rights-hippie-activists. we've made the signs, bought the fur coats, scrounged around for the perfect shoes, and are ready for tomorrow. these are some of the photographs i found around the endless internet that led to the inspiration for such costumes (and thanks to agata's great suggestion). i've purchased 120mm film to try out my new Holga camera. so i will post photos once its all said and done. we're having the party at our humble abode, and i couldn't be more excited. i'm watching forest gump and is it ever making me more excited.

you can kill the revolutionary, but you cant kill the revolution.

the perfect leather jacket

Alexander Wang.

(image courtesy of papermag.com/style.com)

lablogotheque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Swa9CYgRk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7wdq03Rfo

samuel doores - when im out in the wind

bob dylan - song to woody

billie holiday - the very thought of you

paul simon - duncan

the tallest man on earth - the gardener

aidan knight - magic cupboard

the beatles - cry baby cry

fionn regan - put a penny in the slot

grizzly bear - on a neck, on a spit

melanie - brand new key

along side a million and one youtube videos under the search: la blogotheque take away shows. absolutely stunning these raw take away shows are, and from such brilliant musicians. to name a few: Bon Iver. Pricilla Ahn. Fleet Foxes. Grizzly Bear. Tallest Man on Earth. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's. Richard Swift. The Kooks. Arcade Fire, and more. each and every video is done so originally, never to be duplicated through its creative approach. the above links, are 2 that have struck my attention this morning next to a cup of tea.

good morning love

here's to the beginning. here's to a story untold.

i wanted a place where i could post photos, words and songs that have and continue to inspire me through my days. whether is be a simple song, an article of clothing, a taken photograph, or a familiar face; just somewhere to gather all my lovely findings. here is my little home away from home, welcome to the silver swan.