February 2011
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(Three truths and a half-lie)
1. Stars are ash and blood, redux. Vacuums have no air. The universe, like anything, is finite
2. Everyone you know has got it wrong. They talk about love like it’s an unsolved mystery— like it’s this phenomenon, like there’s love and the pyramids and the Grand Canyon and the red tides/algal bloom and the fire tornadoes and the weird goddamn ice circles and they’re...
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January 2011
“White is the visual absence of color, but it is all colors in the light...”
depression
deadpans:
I just feel so alone all the time. Even when I’m laughing and having a delightful time in the company of my bros. I think it’s probably the human condition to feel this way. Lonely and ashamed of it. And we devour the creative output of everyone trying to escape from the feeling while searching for the hints that we are not the only person feeling this way. And even when it happens,...
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Anonymous asked: how do you stay so motivated all the time? it's inspiring :)
Anonymous asked: do you ever dabble in poetry?
“Reincarnation is procrastination for atheists”
"YOU ARE SUCH AN ASIAN PARENT"
Dad: [over phone] Do you have any college interviews this week?
Me: Yeah - Northwestern tomorrow, and one with Princeton next week.
Dad: Nice. I like Princeton.
Me: You only like it because of the prestige! Do you even know where it is?
Dad: ...Second, on the U.S. News national university rankings?
constellation asked: AMY, I JUST RECEIVED AN ACCEPTANCE LETTER FROM USC (!!!)
WE ARE GOING TO C-O-L-L-E-G-E!!
Whoa our lives.
WE ARE GOING TO C-O-L-L-E-G-E!!
Whoa our lives.
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“This is the first song for your mixtape”
– and it’s short just like your temper
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new-mythology asked: Whoa, USC?! Congrats, that is a great school.
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makingviolet asked: Congratulations!! USC is a fantastic school.
elesheva asked: Amy, Amy, holy shit, congratulations! that is amazing amazing amazing
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I want
some citrus fruits
colder weather
the ability to stop over-thinking
time for a nap
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glitter--glue-deactivated201105 asked: "dashboard confessional" YOU SLAY ME.
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Letters to real people, part two
Hey, R?
I have been in love with my idea of you for three years— since that first day (and then the second, and then all the ones that have fallen in the dreary black space between that first, and this tick-ticking unreal second). It’s devastating. In a different world, you and I— we would have been utterly magnificent.
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Letters to real people, part one
Or, Things we cannot say to each other, possibly because we are afraid:
I haven’t slept in days. I don’t sleep anymore, full stop. I don’t function within these spheres that existence has set for me - a glitch, is what this problem is, a computer error, a gap in the time-space continuum that jumps my mind into impossible haywire loops of massive internal energy - and...
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Dynamiter (Chicago Poems, 1916)
I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told stories of his wife and children and the cause of labor and the working class. It was laughter of an unshakable man knowing life to be a rich and red-blooded thing. Yes, his laugh rang like the call of gray birds filled with a glory of joy ramming their winged flight through a rain storm. His name...
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Just watched the US version of Skins
R.I.P. an entire wasted hour of my life that I will never get back
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So you want to be a writer
if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in...
“Up all night, got demons to fight”