i pre-ordered this book recently:




days with my father by phillip toledano


i am so excited as it reminds me of my other beautiful photo memoirs that i have.
the every day life of albert hastings
for every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

i heart chronicle books

this time 10:19 eastern standard time 12.01.1979 - i was born.
i am so grateful to have been on this earth for the past thirty years.

me & my mommy.

"Meet Rosie and Johnny Walker. I know, I couldn't believe it either but yes, his name is really Johnny Walker and he may or may not REALLY love his alcohol (I'm not judging). This chain smoking duo have enough stories to tell to keep you in their sweet-ass double wide for days. A couple facts about Johnny: he has 1 1/2 lungs, no teeth, and is beyond happy to have purchased his 1970 Ford LTD from CraigsList. He wanted to take me for a ride to show me the horse power but I reluctantly turned down the offer due to his "love of alcohol." Cheers, Johnny."

words and photos by lou mora

i just purchased a really cool sounding photography book from frankie magazine photo album volume one special edition.

i am really excited to get this because it is really hard for me to get the magazine when i've heard so much about it for the past year. it was a great price as well considering i am having it shipped to the states.

do you remember, when we met
that's the day
i knew you were my pet
come with me, my love
to the sea . . . .

the beautiful photos of kerri-anne/gingerlillytea

The song is over but the melody lingers on....

My thoughts go back to a heavenly dance
A moment of bliss we spent
Our hearts were filled with a song of romance
As into the night we went
And sang to our hearts' content

The song is ended
But the melody lingers on
You and the song are gone
But the melody lingers on

The night was splendid
And the melody seemed to say
"Summer will pass away
Take your happiness while you may"

There 'neath the light of the moon
We sang a love song that ended too soon

The moon descended
And I found with the break of dawn
You and the song had gone
But the melody lingers on
- The great Irving Berlin

so absolutely wonderful . . .

Sebastien Abes

a walk in the mountain ♥

A walk in the mountain with Julie from Sébastien Abes on Vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/sebabes

more zooey love

she did an ad and song for cotton - and there are so other pretty cool books on there too.





i don't know of many famous gals out there that can pull the vintage look off like she does. she is just so perfect.



love her!!

Blink-182 @ Hershey Park on 8.12.09

I stood in the pouring rain through the whole show...so worth it though!!


1. Dumpweed
2. Feeling This
3. The Rock Show
4. Obvious
5. What's My Age Again?
6. Easy Target
7. I Miss You
8. Stay Together For The Kids
9. Down
10. Always
11. Stockholm Syndrome
12. First Date
13. Man Overboard
14. Going Away To College
15. Not Now
16. Adam's Song
17. All The Small Things
18. Reckless Abandon
19. Josie
20. Anthem Pt. 2
Encore:
21. Carousel Play Video
22. Dammit Play Video

home <3

home is definitely where the heart is.
cliche or not.....it is so true.

so beautiful and inspiring:





not really sure of the source of the photo.
if someone knows...please tell.

alice in wonderland

i will be picking up the new vanity fair tomorrow because they are just killing me with the wait for tim burton's:alice in wonderland - i really do have a feeling that this one is going to become one of my top five faves.

in which my top five tim burton movies are:

edward scissorhands
nightmare before christmas
sleepy hollow
beetle juice
& big fish

but something tells me that big fish might be the one to drop down to sixth until i am ready to make a top ten one day.

a moonlight fable

"The trees cast still shadows like intricate black lace upon the wall.

The garden in the moonlight was very different from the garden by day; moonshine was tangled in the hedges and stretched in phantom cobwebs from spray to spray. Every flower was gleaming white or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees."

"There was no darkness in the world, but only warm, mysterious shadows; and all the leaves and spikes were edged and lined with iridescent jewels of dew. The night was warmer than any night had ever been, the heavens by some miracle at once vaster and nearer, and spite of the great ivory-tinted moon that ruled the world, the sky was full of stars."

h.g. wells

juergen teller and marc jacobs

i'm in heaven right now. i love juergen teller's work to shreds and now i love him even more. his new book of our beloved marc jacob's seems just absolutely amazing!

there are 256 pages of photo collections from 1998-2009 and i cannot wait for it to arrive!

The Paper Route

The Paper Route
Thanks Nylon Magazine for letting me find your ad.

carny life

ever since i read water for elephants back a few months ago, i have been even more interested in the circus life than i ever was. what sparked my interest was back when the show carnivale, HBO's original series. i really wish that the show made it past two seasons, but the loss of great shows happens from time to time. something tells me that i might of possibly been a carny if i lived back then. it just seemed so exciting but dramatic in the same.

the conclusion of water for elephants was just so heartfelt and touching. i had tears in my eyes because how wonderful it was for jacob to finish his life pretty much the way he started. definitely right up there with my favorite love story, moulin rouge.



:miss and love:

Oh my good Lords

not much chokes me up to where my eyes swell and then the next thing i feel as if i am about to ball. when i first heard these lines at 6:00 - i was a wreck of happy tears. the love of sookie and bill are right next to the love of satine and christian (my favorite love story). i am so psyched (almost anxious) for sunday night!



these words have to be some of the most amazing words a man could ever say (if they were a vampire) *cries*

Bill: Sookie... I cannot...and I will not lose you. For all the ways I
have...dismayed, agrieved, or failed you, I swear I will atone. But I am not
sorry. I refuse to apologize for what you have awakened...in me. You...you are
my miracle, Sookie. For the first time in 140 years, I felt something I thought
had been lost in me forever... I love you. And for that, I shall never feel sorry!
Sookie: God damn you, Bill Compton... I love you!

mr. chaplin

charlie chaplin ♥
this photo makes me beam largely...i just love imagining what it was like back in the 20's flapper time. the cars....the clothing......the whole way of life just seemed so amazing.

a couple weeks ago I needed something uplifting and inspiring, so i did what i do best when feeling this way. i went and searched for photography and design. i remembered that i saved a link called, photo eye, i all of a sudden began to feel a lot better. searching through the site i swayed into the book shop and words cannot express how i felt when i saw how many amazing photography books there are.

i came to find the day to day life of albert hastings and i was so intrigued that i bought the signed copy.

the photographer, kaylynn deveney captured the day to day tasks and rituals of albert hastings. i have just fallen in love with the man. i hope to pass down this book in my family for years. it is just so inspiring and just so amazing. so touching and heartfelt.

specs: photography: kayLynn deveney. text and drawings by albert hastings.
published by: princeton architectural press with 116 pages, 100 four-color plates., 6½x8".

and may i add how much i love princeton architectural press! i visit their site often wishing i was a millionaire.
reviews & other info

Bat For Lashes

I currently have not stopped listening to one of my new favorite's Bat For Lashes new cd, "Two Suns" because it has taken me to far off places to sit and dream for hours.

Natasha Khan

lovely zooey

Oooh i cannot wait to see my beautiful zooey deschanel - i have loved this girl since 'almost famous' in which that is where i also fell in love with miss kate hudson. oh and my goodness how joseph gordon levitt has grown up! '10 things i hate about you' and 3rd rock from the sun seem so long ago (so does 'almost famous'). and an even crazier thing is that i think joseph looks like heath ledger sometimes.

Waahhhh

Bye Bye Domino Magazine - i enjoyed you greatly for the past three years.
read about here & i also posted about it at spotlight.

the card i get sent in the mail.

i wish that i knew the source of this beautiful photography! if anyone knows please comment so that i can update this post with a respective link.

Over time I have collected quotes and made a reading book list of every book I read in a year. I used to have them at my original blogspot account but I seriously cannot handle having so many places to commit to updating all the time, so I decided not to post the quotes any longer and just share my yearly reading lists.

june leeloo

look at this beautiful art from june leeloo of france! she and her work are on my tops of absolutely adored artists. =P

*updated 7/21/09

june's etsy shop

last update *02.19.2009*

near-death experience

Mid-March 1994 I was suffering from an "unknown virus" but I was on the verge of recovering until things went in the opposite direction. I used to bowl on Saturday mornings and my parents and me decided that I would be able to go since I missed quite a few weeks. It was time to get up and get ready to leave, I put my feet on the floor and I became dizzy, next thing I knew I had black spots in front of my eyes - I thought if I tried to walk it would get better but it did not. I started to walk through the house because I knew my way [or at least I thought I did] as I bumped into everything, my mom started asking me "what are you doing??" and that is when the blackness got worse. I started screaming to my mom - "I can't see, I can't see anything!" I thought that I had gone blind. I got to the kitchen where my mom was and she was getting nervous. I could see the shadow of her with a tad bit of color where she was standing. I kept exclaiming to her that I don't know what was going on. Then this is where I thought I was dying now...in front of me was the refrigerator it was white. Out of nowhere between the white of the fridge there comes bright light...I see my dead grandparents, they are surrounded by the most beautiful light. I reached for them and that is when I fell over and hit my head on the dishwasher - HARD. The amazing thing is that I didn't get a concussion out of me slamming my head into the dishwasher. My mom's words were - "she fell over like a soldier that had been shot! Her legs didn't bend, there was nothing, I thought she was dead." She told that to the doctor when they rushed me in and then she told that to everyone that heard the story.

The doctor said it was a chemical reaction in the brain from the medication that I was taking...basically an overload. I could've died but I didn't. I was given another chance to live.

I never ever forgot this. Seeing my beloved grandparents was just what my heart needed but it wasn't my time. I was reaching for them and they were reaching for me but we never joined. I will tell this memory to everyone for as long as I live.

part ii

sometimes i need a break from the metal genres i listen to and i put on stuff like, avril lavigne, armin van burren, and rihanna even though it is something you would never expect from me - it makes me feel a different kind of alive.

i prefer to read books that are under 400 pages because i would rather read more books. i don't really like to read series' as i don't like to keep waiting to find out what happens next. i did read the twilight series and that is because a friend of mine SWORE that i was going to love it - i did. the twilight series is the first series i actually ever finished and it also marks the most pages i have ever read out of enjoyment. All four books = 2550 pages.

my reincarnation

morrie schwartz is one of my "heroes" - he has inspired me and made realize how important life is and what you do to make your time on earth worthwhile.

morrie was on the ted koppel show before he died in 1995
the link below goes to the user on youtube that has all of the videos [9 in total] while morrie explains his journey to death and how important life is. **this is a must watch**

morrie: lessons on living

after you watch the first video...the next one is off to the right on the playlist.

the running time of each part is as follows:

part 1: 6:51
part 2: 7:42
part 3: 5:56
part 4: 7:22
part 5: 6:11
part 6: 5:49
part 7: 7:03
part 8: 9:07
part 9: 2:13


mitch albom is one of my favorite writers/authors it is through his book tuesdays with morrie that i learned of the amazing morrie schwartz. mitch was morrie's student, they got re-united after mitch saw morrie on ted koppel. he didn't fulfill the promise of staying in touch with morrie as morrie asked him to after mitch graduated but somehow it was meant to be that mitch was able to be with morrie a few more times before his passing. in 2008 before i knew about tuedays with morrie i read two other heart-wrenching stories of mitch albom's as well - The Five People You Meet In Heaven and For One More Day I picked up For One More Day by chance...I was looking for something new in Barnes and Noble and it was meant for me to find Mitch's work. I haven't anymore words other than I am grateful for people like Mitch and Morrie.

Part I

i love the smell of books and magazine's.

i despise everything cherry except for cherry coke and I know this is odd but for some reason I don't taste too much cherry. =P

my least favorite color is purple. purple is the color of my astrological sign: sagittarius.

i don't like nude art. I do not think that it is dirty it just doesn't appeal to me.

when i was 7 years old i hurt my right hand and fingers badly and i taught myself to do everything left handed and since then i have been ambidextrous. almost everything i do is lefty but i can also switch up very easily. i can still write well with both hands and swing the bat [switch hitting] with both arms and that has always been a good thing in the past and present. there are some things that i don't feel comfortable doing right handed and some i don't feel comfortable doing lefty.

my favorite colors are: greens, oranges, turquoise, gray, black, dark reds, and a couple shades of pinks. i think pastel colors are nice as long as they aren't on me.

at night i have to have fresh air coming into the room or i cannot breathe well. i have very bad breathing problems. i use vicks because it is so hard to breathe.

when i have a baby shower i do NOT want the usual baby blue and baby pink as the colors. i don't want any color or theme. i don't even want anyone to buy me clothes for the baby as i want to pick things out so that i don't have an overabundance of baby blue and baby pink.

my favorite cars are German ones: VW's, Audi's, and BMW's. I then like Swedish ones: Saab's and Volvo's, and then I like Japanese ones: Nissan, Infiniti, Acura, and sometimes Honda's.

i am very time compulsive - i have multiple clocks in each room and they have to be all set to the exact same time. i never leave the house without a watch or my cell phone.

January 21, 2009

this is my story of possible reincarnation.

when i was six years old i walked through the living room...i stopped and then started crying and screaming saying that i was on there! the movie was "titanic", the original movie, and i said stuff like, "it was scary! i don't like it. there was a lot of water." i made my poor mother really worried and she thought that i was joking but i knew nothing of the ill-fated ship. and from then on i had dreams and visions of being on the boat. sometimes i hear sounds that make me shudder because it brings back some kind of memories per se. when i was out in the pool with my friend at about fifteen years old, we were joking around and she held me underwater and i started crying, i dried off and went inside. when i was changing my friend said to my mom..."i think she is afraid of water." my mom said - "i think i know why." my mom never told her the real reason. truth is - i have a fear of water and drowning and have for a very long time. i will go in water that is less than five feet and i have to be able to see through the water...literally has to be very clear. a few times i had dreams where i was drowning in some form and i have jumped off my bed as if i was jumping off a ship. in the younger years when this happened my mom the details the best that i could and she told me that she had to guess at what happened and then it was finally she could come out with what went on in the dream. despite all this i go on cruises - i love them. i found that it is a way to conquer my fear but when it gets rocky sometimes i get a bit scared but i don't tell anyone while we are supposed to be having a good time.

as i got older i became really interested in learning about reincarnation and the possibilities of being "reincarnated" from the past life. i believe in past lives and have read some amazing books and theories. i am forever learning about it all. i love to read people's personal experiences as i can relate to their memories. i have never read about another person thinking they were on the titanic though. in the past quite a few people have asked me if i have ever been to see a psychic or the alike but i refuse to. i just don't want to hear what people think my life is or was like or is going to be in the future. i am not saying that i don't believe in psychic's - because i do but for me it is not a good idea as i can get very paranoid at times.

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