all over you

Well, I don’t need no money, I just need a day that’s sunny
Baby, and my days are gonna come
And I grab me a pint, you know that I’m a giant
When you hear me yellin’, “Fee-fi-fo-fum”
Well, you cut me like a jigsaw puzzle
You made me to a walkin’ wreck
Then you pushed my heart through my backbone
Then you knocked off my head from my neck
Well, if I’m ever standin’ steady
A-doin’ what I want to do
Well, I tell you little lover that you better run for cover
’Cause babe, I’ll do it all over you

I’m just restin’ at your gate so that I won’t be late
And, momma, I’m a-just sittin’ on the shelf
Look out your window fair and you’ll see me squattin’ there
Just a-fumblin’ and a-mumblin’ to myself
Well, after my cigarette’s been smoked up
After all my liquor’s been drunk
After my dreams are dreamed out
After all my thoughts have been thunk
Well, after I do some of these things
I’m gonna do what I have to do
And I tell you on the side, that you better run and hide
’Cause babe, I’ll do it all over you

checking in//eleven

Thanks Alexis --- Dolly Rocker Girl --- for tagging me!

I've been pretty absent on this blog for awhile. Ireland is a dream! Words do not suffice. But it's nice to come back on here and read all my favorite people's blogs!

Here are the rules:

1) You must re-post these rules
2) Round One: post eleven random things about yourself
3) Round Two: answer the questions the tagger posed to you in their post
4) Round Three: create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer
5) Tag people and go to their blog and tell them that they've been tagged for the game

Round One

1. I wear lots of bracelets on my left wrist, most of them I've made. When I say goodbye to someone and don't know when I'm going to see them again, I let them choose a bracelet to keep (and hope I see them wear it the next time I see them)

2. My first crushes were Zack Morris, Atreyu form Never ending Story and Taylor Hanson

3. I've been a vegan for about 5 months so far, and vegetarian for over 7 years.

4. I have my nose and ears pierced, I got my eyebrow pierced in Memphis last year at a place down the street from Jeff Buckley's old house, but took it out because of work, I miss it!

5. I have an awesome idea for a Jim Morrison tattoo on my foot, but am still hesitant about getting a tattoo in general just because I change my mind so much!

6. I would love to be either a makeup artist or work in the music business industry.

7. I'm consistently inconsistent, with everything!

8. I love puzzles!

9. My mac laptop has paint, charcoal, and pastel marks all over it.

10. I love my hometown but am loving Ireland so much, I won't want to go back in May!!

11. I'm going to Paris in a couple months, I've dreamt about it since I can remember and am so excited about actually being there. Finally!!

Round Two

1) If you could eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be and who makes it (be it your mother or your favorite little diner)?

Thai food is my favorite, but for the rest of my life... I'd probably want steamed/grilled asparagus with lemon and garlic, pasta and bread. My sister would cook it, she is my favorite cook!!
2) What is your favorite piece of clothing in your wardrobe? Favorite piece of jewelry?

I have some awesome jeans from Zara that are so 90's grunge that I love wearing with my flower Dr Marten boots!

My favorite jewelry piece is probably this anchor/compass necklace I got the day I left NYC the last time I was there.
3) What is your go-to karaoke song?

I don't have one, but I would probably do the Doors!! That's be fun!
4) What is your can't-live-without-it beauty product?

Makeup Forever HD Foundation in 120. Best foundation EVER
5) Which foreign accent is your favorite?

Australian!
6) What song is the soundtrack to your life?

Gloria -The Doors Version :)
7) What's the last law that you've broken?

I don't know... probably not worn my seat belt! ha I'm a rebel!
8) What's the one piece of advice that you can't live without and where did you get it from?

Whenever you are feeling anxious or worried just take a breath and remember that it's all going to be ok. Simple but my aunt told me before I left on my trip and it works.
9) What's your favorite word? Favorite curse word?

Actually, and Chingao!
10) What are your thoughts on Ryan Gosling? No thoughts... except my sister does a really good impression of him

11) Which fellow blogger do you wish you were best friends with in real life?

All the girls who love Jeff Buckley, Jim Morrison, and George Harrison.

Round Three

1) Which song do you wish was written about you?

2) What two musicians/bands would you like to see collaborate?

3) Have you been to any music festivals or which ones do you want to go to?

4) Your favorite site to online shop for clothes?

5) How many shoes do you have off the top of your head?

6) What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

7) What's your drink of choice, if you drink?

8) Small town or big city?

9) Favorite travel destination?

10) Favorite thing to eat for breakfast?

11) Movie you always cry when you watch?

Well I think everyone has been tagged by now, but I still want people to answer my questions so if you read this comment and post your answers???!!

now is blessed the rest remembered

"Keep the channel open.
No artist is ever pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction;
a blessed unrest that keeps us marching
and makes us more alive than the others."

— martha graham

"Talking to other people helps. Reading helps. And heroes People you want to honor, not exactly trying to emulate them, but by living according to the same principles they did. Sandino, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Vanessa Redgrave, willing to jeopardize her career. There are a lot of people who inspire you. My family helps; my wife thinks the same way I do. And friends.
Also, you’ve got to think of the consequences if nobody does talk. You’ve got people driving this machine who are going to drive it right off the cliff. If you care anything about the planet and the people on it, you’ve got to keep out there.
I think it’s important to continue to be vocal. Sometimes it seems like nobody’s listening, but people are listening What it eventually gets down to, though, is just living with yourself. If you don’t live by the principles you believe in, then you become this hollow person."

— Kris Kristofferson

"Come away, o human child:
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world’s more
Full of weeping than you
Can understand."

— william butler yeats

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."

art school in ireland

i used to be addicted to this blog! but lately.... haven't had time to put together my inspirations into a post, i blame that on tumblr and school.

i have one more week of finals, then i'm getting ready to move to IRELAND!!!!

that's right. I'm going to a little art school in a village in ireland.

i intend to make a separate blog about that and my travels through europe afterwards.

PS

Happy Birthday Jimmy my Sagittarius Love

and RIP John

christmas driving beatles memories

I must have been 4 or 5 when we were driving to my grandparents for Christmas in Missouri. It's a drive that should only take 6 hours. I remember everything about it so much better than any other memories of my childhood. I remember packing, my dad putting the suitcases in the car, waiting in the living room, gathering last minute things. My aunt from Mexcio was visiting and going with us. I don't remember BEING at my grandparents or Christmas, it just flashes to the drive home. It was night, there were snow flurries, and I was laying in the back of the van, all of a sudden the car was swerving off the road into a ditch. My aunt held on to my so tight. I think she was more scared than I was. We all sat in the car, I have no concept of time, but then a couple in a car with towels on their seats pulled over and took us girls to a Taco Bell a few miles down and went back to help my dad. We stayed in a motel that night. The next day we drove home, and I remember getting lost and going down all these twisty bump, hilly roads into woods and then turning around. I kept thinking about Johnny Apple Seed or whatever he's called thinking about whoever planted all the trees in the mountains on the side of the highway and how old they are and what it looked like before the highways were there.

I've made that drive countless times since then and they are never as eventful or memorable as that one.

One thing that brings the memories back are specific Beatles songs, I remember listening to You Know My Name, From Me To You and others. We listened to them over and over.

I love that my dad has such good music taste and introduced them to me at such a young age.