DEAR BLANK, PLEASE BLANK

INFINITE JEST

I'm currently reading this book by David Foster Wallace about substance abuse and recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising and popular entertainment, film theory, and separatism.

I find it very interesting along with the author who was a professor that he committed suicide at the age of 46. This book came out in 1996, and to be honest, I bought it w while ago and never picked it up until this summer.

[QUOTE]

"the sky overhead immense and dimensional and the night so clear you can see stars hanging in a kind of lacteal goo"

"the Disease is fiendishly patient--how in time they forget what it was like, the ones that've cockily drifted, they forget who and what they are, they forget about the Disease, until like one day they're at like maybe a Celtics-Sixers game, and the good old Fleet/First Interstate Center's hot, and they think what could just one cold foamer hurt"

Tawas City [pt 1]

Dad

Mama

Pseudo Starbucks ;)

Going to Tawas City today, again.

FASTER PUSSYCAT

My new-found obsession: Faster Pussycat.

This is an LA formed band from the 80's where Wake Me when It's Over was one of their famous albumns. If you really like the whole Glam Rock/Heavy Metal aspect of Rock and Roll, I suggest listening to these guys. It's like Hanoi Rocks and The Misfits had a baby and created Faster Pussycat. They're soft at times but will then blast the soul of rock 'n' roll in your ears. Also, the clothes they wear... insanely great.


Take a listen (you've heard at least one--Guaranteed):

Don't Change That Song


House of Pain


You're So Vain (remake of Carly Simon's 1972 hit)


Number One with the Bullet

quote

“I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair … but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.”

American Psycho (2000)

AMERICANO

I'm willing to take this risk.

Unfortunately I'm at work since about 7 am...which sucks, if you haven't already caught on.

I wonder if this comes in an Americano Drip.

Equestrian

U.S. Royalty - Equestrian

seriously U.S. Royalty is a band that I just cannot get enough of. I've been in deep thought and constantly listening to their lyrics; they're amazing. Equestrain is just one of the many songs featured on 'Mirrors' their 2011 album. I suggest you guys check this band out, they're gonna be BIG.

http://www.myspace.com/usroyalty

Don't forget, I TOLD YOU SO ;)


<3

SAY IT'S A MILLI [WAYNE-WEEZER]

"OK, you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin?
Nothing, nothing -- you ain't scarin' nothing"

Some Unholy War

"If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl."
Amy Winehouse

"My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking."
Amy Winehouse

"Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression."
Amy Winehouse



I still cant get over this; her Funeral was today.

[Find Your Jesus, Find Your] KUBRICK.

Lolita <3

A Clockwork Orange

Barry Lyndon

"I don’t think that writers or painters or film makers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form: they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I dont think that any genuine artist has ever been orientated by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.”
— Stanley Kubrick who would have turned 83 yesterday

I just wanna INSPIRE [YOU]

The Hamsa [خمسة ‎]

I'm getting injected with some art this week, and when I say "injected" I mean inked. I've been thinking A LOT about getting the Evil Eye with the Hamsa on my left side and have been inspired by a lot of art work that I've stumbled upon over the past few months of which I'll add some of my artistic ability.

BIO: Hand of Fatima

Also known as the Khamsa, the Hand of Fatima is named for Fatima Zahra, the daughter of Mohammed. It is a very ancient symbol, often used as a talisman, and in the Middle East it is ubiquitous, appearing in houses, shops, in taxis, and hotels. The hand is not really shaped like a normal human hand, but has two balanced thumbs and no little finger.

The hamsa is an ancient Middle Eastern amulet symbolizing the Hand of God. In all faiths it is a protective sign. It brings it’s owner happiness, luck, health, and good fortune.

The eye in its palm wards of the evil eye, so the Hand of Fatima is a double symbol of protection since the palm, held up, is a forbidding gesture. Khamsa actually means five and has relevance for both Muslims and Jews. Peace activists have adopted the Hand of Fatima in recent years; a reminder that the two faiths have many commonly shared beliefs.


I think I've been so attached to this concept of the Evil Eye because my family and culture (Iraqi Christians) believes in it, for one, and because I have seen its affects on people. Matter of fact, when I was born, I was given (and still have)an Evil Eye to protect me.


Here is some inspiration:

From Almost Famous

I REALLY LOVE this small one :D