Lezlo and co.

When I am away from you I feel soft and tender. I want to touch your neck and breathe into your...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:13:06 -0800

When I am away from you I feel soft and tender. I want to touch your neck and breathe into your hair. I want to smell you. And write you poetry. I want to collapse and surrender. I’m ready. I’m exhausted. You’ll never know this.

"Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how..."

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:00:19 -0700

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all,..."

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:32 -0700

“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer

I love this song. It killed me at the end of Eternal Sunshine....

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:28:37 -0700

I love this song. It killed me at the end of Eternal Sunshine. And now *I* want to have a ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ night. Thanks.

kitschfrays:

Beck - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes

This song came on shuffle today, and now I have to watch Eternal Sunshine again. Which isn’t a curse at all, but it means I might not sleep tonight because I’m already watching When Harry Met Sally. Shut up, worth it.

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world..."

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:56:16 -0700

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

- Howard Thurman

I’m not a huge fan of their music but the drummer has a...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:53:24 -0700

I’m not a huge fan of their music but the drummer has a cute Pit Bull that he rescued in Alabama and we used to hang at the park. Back when I lived in Seattle.

headunderwater:

Throw Me The Statue - Tag

Throw Me the Statue released sophmore album tuesday. Lee from Knox Road pretty much sums up how I feel about the album. I really like it but I feel there is just something missing.

“The main emphasis of labeling Creaturesque as an “almost” effort is that there seems to be so much potential in each song – certain parts seem ready to explode – like toward the last quarter of “Tag” with a textured, gorgeous atmosphere, or the brief acoustic section of “Ancestors” – yet somehow don’t want to push on further to really make any sort of difference. Instead I find myself waiting for the next track to bring out a flourish of something special and to build upon that flourish. But then, nothing. I’m left hanging as emptiness gushes from every pore. On Creaturesque, the songs end just as they’re beginning.” - Lee from knoxroad.com

yourmonkeycalled: Home Seller’s Disclosure Report (Detail) You...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:33:00 -0700

yourmonkeycalled:

Home Seller’s Disclosure Report (Detail)

You have to read the fine print, folks. We were close to making an offer on this place, until we reviewed their disclosure report.

LEZLOANDCO: Your real estate agent should also be reviewing these documents; some agents claim that they do not want the liability of reviewing the Seller Disclosure Statement, but that is crap. Your agent should be protecting you and should have caught this issue right away.

Also, what legal document spells structural incorrectly?

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet,..."

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:20:50 -0700

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered.
‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’”

- (via mongrelmind) (via brunettevixen) (via cellophanegirl)

I spy with my little eye…. (my bedroom)

Mon, 11 May 2009 23:05:50 -0700

I spy with my little eye….

(my bedroom)

"… the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is..."

Sun, 10 May 2009 19:20:45 -0700

“… the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.”

- Milton Glaser, Ten Things I Have Learned
(via somethingchanged)(via myownprivate) (via cellophanegirl)

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the..."

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:56:31 -0700

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”

- Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

robot-heart: (via victoria_h)

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:22:57 -0700

robot-heart:

(via victoria_h)

"The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the..."

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:01:54 -0700

“The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren’t even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.”

- Hugh Macleod

robot-heart: ryandestroys: Colin Meloy - The Engine Driver...

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:20:31 -0700

robot-heart:

ryandestroys:

Colin Meloy - The Engine Driver (live)

Haunting performance of my absolute favorite Decemberists song from Colin Meloy’s “Sings Live!” album. The audience singing, “…and if you don’t love me, let me go” is absolutely heartbreaking.

(apologies for the glut of Decemberists related posts lately)

Ryan! So much good music lately!

"Usually when things have gone this far People tend to disappear No one will surprise me unless you..."

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:21:00 -0700

“Usually when things have gone this far
People tend to disappear
No one will surprise me unless you do

I can tell there’s something going on
Hours seems to disappear
Everyone is leaving, I’m still with you”

- Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn and John

Yes, this is true

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:37:03 -0700

I used to be fancy. I worked in a fancy downtown office for a hip start-up and I was at the top of my 6-year career. I made good money and I even made national television.

In December of 2007, I left it all behind. I quit everything for one year and went on a ‘spiritual journey’.

And now, 15 months later I am living a state away. I am working for 1/3rd of my previous salary. And starting in a few days, my job will mainly consist of picking up dead animals. I will be scraping up all of the roadkill for the county and transporting dead animals from the vet office to our shelter incinerator.

When I was told about my new position with the county, the position we all jokingly refer to as ‘picking up deads’, I was so *happy* that I cried. I’m happy because this is the entry position into my dream job of being an Animal Cop. I believe I was so ecstatic, that between tears I muttered: OMG, I would do this for free!.

Anyway, I feel like my new off-beat job will inspire me to blog. Probably about stuff like: what happens when a girl with no muscles tries to pick up a deer that has been baking on the cement for 4 days…

"we can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end,..."

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:40:57 -0800

“we can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close are we able to come to that person’s essence? we convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

- haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle. (via paperbackgirl)

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that..."

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:34:50 -0800

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

- Rumi

yourmonkeycalled: Road Trip This is going to be what I see in...

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:11:17 -0800

yourmonkeycalled:

Road Trip

This is going to be what I see in the rear-view mirror for about 9 hours tomorrow.

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I..."

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:21:13 -0800

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”

- Sylvia Plath (flourhoneymilk) (via bellavita) (via emilyposts) (via robot-heart)