January 2012
25 posts
You
Regina Spektor
In this rare, live performance by Regina Spektor, she sings her hauntingly simplistic and emotionally driven song, “You”. This live gem is truly a Spektor treasure that is satisfyingly buried beneath hours of other notable tracks. If you listen through the song, there is also a humorous transition as Spektor prepares to play one of her (at the time) new releases, “Blue Lips”. Please enjoy and reblog. Thank you. (:aaronhasslehuff)
Favorite lyrics:
Never give up loving
unless you have to.
Never leave your lover
unless you must.
Cause it will haunt your
empty heart forever,
til your body turns to dust.
Zen Men, or, The Four Noble Truths
1. Life means suffering:
- To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in.
2. The origin of suffering is attachment:
- The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable:
- The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment.
4. The path to the cessation of suffering:
- There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth.
Play
“I like sleeping alone, stretching out like a skydiver… Cool patches to roll onto. I just appreciate it more.”
Unattainable
Little Joy
Hal: Well, let’s say that since you were little, you always dreamed of getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait but the lion doesn’t come. And along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I’d wait for the lion.
Hal: That’s why I worry about you.
Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man
Bright Eyes
I know you try and play it cool,
But there are some thoughts you just can’t hide.
Only in (y)our closest friends do you confide.
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
A Case of You
James Blake
I met a woman
she had a mouth like yours
she knew your life
she knew your devils and your deeds
And she said,
“Go to him, stay with him if you can,
But be prepared to bleed”.
The Only Living Boy In New York
Simon & Garfunkel
Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where,
And we don’t know where.
Here I am…
