i found| amber run
(earphones are essential)
two way street| kimbra
dancing on my own (cover)| kings of leon
sense| tom odell
locked out of heaven (bruno mars cover) | bastille
teardrops (remake) | peter & kerry
i don't know | peter & kerry
losing you| solange knowles
get going| the stella's
runaway| kanye west
burgandy| warpaint
(love.love.love)
deep in my heart| marques toliver
lying to you| keaton henson / 12.05.12
1901| birdy / 12.05.12
be the witness | justice mukheli / 25.02.12
this fall | big tree / 02.01.2012
still | bombay bicycle club
(linked to bedroom hyms post)
self evident truths | iO tillet wright
"is a photographic record of LGBTQ america today. my aim is to take a simple potrait of anyone who is anything other than 100% straight or feels that they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way. my goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us through the simplicity of a face."
for more information here for her website or here to follow her blog.
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francis firebrace|
i'm not entirely sure the motifs of this man but there is a sincerity in what he does. there is a purity in him that comes through the work that he does. he is strange in comparison with what the "norm" is but his common message seems to be about humanity and love and how we can all find a common love within ourselves as a community and a country.
"the greatest thing that we can give each other as human beings is love"
flaws| bombay bicycle club
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common dreads | emma braham
this is a video that one of my dear friends,emma, created for her art final. this video is so moving that every single time i watch it, it has some sort of effect on me. raised arm hairs, a swelling feeling in my heart or a feeling that something needs to change in this world. she worked hard on this video and no one can deny the power of the content captured in this video.
(so proud of you my em.)
find yourself | shortstraw
what the water gave me | florence and the machine
strangeness and charm | florence and the machine
"you're the chemical that burns, there is nothing like this"
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How to be Alone
by
Tanya Davis
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.
There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in.
And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places.
And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.
Start simple. Things you may have previously based on your avoid being alone principals.
The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone.
Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.
When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.
Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.
Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.
You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.
Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.
It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.
And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. Take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it.
you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.
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