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michelle williams. interview magazine, may 2011

"I want to meet her"

Jeff encountered an even more intriguing personality during rehearsals at St. Ann's on April 24th. Trolling around backstage, he caught sight of a delicate-looking woman with pearly skin, an impish smile, and straight, shoulder-length black hair cut in Caesar-like bangs, who was setting up a buffet for the musicians. "I want to meet her," he said to Feldman, making a beeline for her.

Rebecca Moore looked over and saw an exceedingly thin kid, his face hidden by a waterfall of hair, making a miniature mountain of a sandwich and singing "If I Had a Hammer" with dirty lyrics. She had no idea what to make of him, but he certainly seemed, well, unusual.

excerpt from David Browne's Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley

Some times are good, some times are bad It's all a part of life -george harrison

Moment of inner freedom
when the mind is opened & the
infinite universe revealed
& the soul is left to wander
dazed & confus’d searching
here & there for teachers & friends.

jim morrison
"You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life. Only if you find peace within yourself will you find true connection with others." before sunrise

“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.” Deepak Chopra

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.” Anaïs Nin

“Getting away from it all,” many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.” Eckhart Tolle

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. d.h. lawrence

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.” Dalai Lama

When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I’m older—see it face to face
And now I’m older—gotta get up clean the place

nick drake

Play Me Jeans Native Bell Leggings

I've been wanting these for months!! I finally found them on Spanish Moss but they're sold out! If anyone knows where else to get them....

wardrobe & litas

after bleaching my hair, i've had to spend lots of money each month to keep being a blonde.. that means i'm over due for some shopping. most of the clothes i have managed to buy are black because of work. black, dress or skirt, and heels. i'm pretty sure i own more black outfits than a funeral director. i want color! it's time for a wardrobe cleanse and investing in some nice pieces. i'm still longing for a really nice pair of bellbottoms. and drapey dresses. with lots of patterns and different textures.

i think my next purchase will finally be ........LITAs!! i'm so behind but finally i will own them.

i thought about getting a more classic kind, but in the end i know these cosmic ones best match my personality. i can't wait to walk around in them. i wish i lived in a bigger city where it was a little more socially excepted to be unique haha. i think ill get a lot of looks with these~

if anyone has ideas of how i should wear them... please help me~!

Well I used to know someone fair/She had orange ribbons in her hair

i really want long red hair and bangs. like Pamela, and like these ladies

jeff buckley fans..

read the whole article

on the may 2000 tribute show at the egyptian theater in nyc,

from the september 2000 issue of spin magazine

jeff's half-brother, corey moorhead and mother mary guibert

he chose the cello

"I think he must have been in sixth grade when he got the chance to play in an orchestra for the first time. They asked him what he'd like to play. He chose the cello, and they lent him one. I still have a photo of that moment - its priceless..."

Mary GuibertJeff Buckley: Remembered (Fall in Light) Documentary

play the one that sounds like raindrops

"Whenever I would play, the boys would come and be in the room where the piano was. They liked it; they would ask for songs. After I was done and I was getting ready to get up from the piano, they'd say, "No, Mommy, stay! Play another one!" And usually it was Scottie, or Jeff who said, "Oh, play the one that sounds like raindrops," or "Play the waltz, Mommy," or... something that he liked about it, he would give it a special name, whether it was really Beethoven or Rachmaninoff or someone else."

Mary Guibert

Jeff Buckley: Remembered (Fall in Light) Documentary

i'll be living in these for the summer

friday night i tie dyed some of my favorite white tops. i haven't tie dyed in years and i really don't know many techniques... but i'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out. i think i'll let them sit for another day, so they'll stay nice and colorful before i have to rinse them out!

i'm officially on summer and i can't wait to wear these tops on whatever summer adventures i get to do.

i'm just a river that rolled forever/and never got to the sea

“what’s the point in destroying something if there isn’t any personal investment…i appreciate destruction for it’s own sake. pushing through to the point of no return. breaking with the past. and if it can be done in a spectacular fashion, so much the better”

Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait; Letters Revealing His Life as a Painter

page 162

I so hope everything will come out right, but her future as well as my own looks gloomy. I am inclined to believe there is some latent good in her still, but the trouble is, it ought to have been roused already. Now, as she has nobody to rely on it will be more difficuly for her to follow her good impulses.

page 170

I shall find things to paint everywhere. It is spelendid here, and I think I learn to paint somewhat better while painting. And my heart is in it, I need not tell you that.

page 172

One's real life begins at thirty, infact, that is to say, it's most active part.

page 174

Zola says, "Moi artiste, je veux vivre tout haut-veux vivre" [I, as an artist, want to live as vigorously as possible-want to live]

How fundamentally wrong is the man who doesn't feel himself small, who doesn't realize he is but an atom.

What shall I do now? The common phrase is, "What is your aim, what are your aspirations?" Oh, I shall do as I think best - how? I can't say that before hand - you who ask me that pretentious question, do you know what YOUR aim is, what YOUR intentions are?

page 175

Now they tell me, "You are unprincipled when you have no aim, no aspirations." My answer is, I didn't tell you I had no aim, no aspirations, I said it is the height of coneceit to try to force one to define what is indefinable.

These are my thoughts about certain questions. All that arguing about it is one of the things of which I say "embêtera"

be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, open to the highest degree

In order to live my ideal life:

Solutions Visions 

TruthHurtsHeals

Non-Evasion and Pro-confrontation – ORIGIN ALITY - 

As far as conducting the total awareness life in which you plug into "Now" and constantly push ahead, constantly develop and grow. The thing is that I want it all next week, right now, this millisecond. The leader, the instigator, the creator, the cold origination. 

Life should sparkle and rush, burn with fire, hot melting steel, like freeze-burn from a comet. 

I know that if I was around someone who was REAL and very PHYSICAL and RECOGNIZED about, I would probably verge on envy and I'd be too repressed for fear of fucking up in front of this serious person – intimidated. Don't be! 

Be seriously involved with growing, with true development, and never fear. 

Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenius, open to the highest degree, but with no interest in coercion or pressure or power over other people. 

That kind of power is hollow. It contains nothing and brings you nothing in the long run. 

BE THE BEST. 

NO NEGATIVITY, NO WEAKNESS,

NO ACQUIESCENCE TO FEAR OR DISASTER,

NO ERRORS OF IGNORANCE,

NO EVASION FROM REALITY.

Jeff Buckley

http://mojomorriplage.blogspot.com/

good site for downloads of: The Doors, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin

i'm in love

there's a lot of strength to the self-destructive soul

The kind of people whose songs you've covered from Leonard Cohen to Alex Chilton to Nina Simone are people who have a very fragile muse to them. They are people whose personalities have often been destroyed by their art.

I think that fragility isn't quite as accurate as sympathy, which takes a huge pain threshold. Some people are just born into bodies, born into lifespans that just don't fit anywhere else and they have very little to hang onto to validate and also it's a very lonely thing to notice a certain sense of life and be able to relate that to anyone. It's probably the onset of madness, or it must seem so to the person who has it at the time, who sees the world in a certain way and it usually has a lot of real meaning. Maybe they see spirits everywhere or maybe they divine information from certain happenings and certain peoples that are invisible to most of us, and as a result people deem those experiences not valid and not important, and crazy too, and that can damage a person. Those characters you named have a lot of strength to them even though...There's a lot of strength to the self-destructive soul. Not that it's wise to be self-destructive, but it is wise.

Jeff Buckley

"Grace under Fire," by Toby Creswell Juice Magazine, February 1996, Issue 36

jeff buckley movie confirmed!!

FINALLY, the jeff buckley movie is officially announced!

it's so exciting!

and guess what, i'm planning my memphis trip! may 27th, paying my respects at the wolf river.

http://www.jeffbuckley.com/pages/node/535

whatever happens...

Life is too damn short and fucked up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. Fuck the consequences, fuck the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence

- janis joplin