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Happy Low Key Lame Ass Thursday ;-)
I think it's time for a shave.
Guess who doesn't work tomorrow.....yup, ME!
Hell in a Bucket by Grateful Dead
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Harvesting the inner song.
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C with a Carl Zeiss S-Planar 1:5.6 f=120mm lens mounted on a Hasselblad 10mm extension tube using Kodak Portra 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
Now I sit on the rooftop's edge
The muddy street beneath my swollen head
Trying to forget you
To believe we've never met
And the sky is wrecked, full of rotting clouds
From chimney mouths spewing smoke around
And I can't stop coughing
My lungs just won't calm down
But still I keep grinning
As the blood from my face stains the ground
- Radical Face, Glory
Slightly different take on this than the folks who were shooting her straight on. I've got a thing for walls from this angle. I love how small Bethy looks up there on the edge. If I'd done this, I would have leaned back and plummeted to my death. Which is why you won't see any pictures of me sitting on ledges.
Musically Challenged: Radical Face - Glory
Musically, they had kind of an Ike and Tina going. Some of my favorite music has that male-female harmonizing or call-and-response thing going. A set of pipes on both of them, for sure
- Zac Brown Band, As She's Walking Away
Well it's been windy today but somehow the giant storm cell split in half and missed my town (thankfully). Wedding hair is a success! I love it. So much. We tried it out with my hair clip and veil and now I'm ridiculously excited to get all dressed up on Saturday. :)
I wish somebody would do this to my hair everyday.
Musically Challenged: As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band
If you want more of this
We can push out, sell out, die out
So you'll shut up
And stay sleeping
With my screaming in your itching ears
I'm so sick,
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss,
Selfishness
I'm so sick
for Musically Challenged
I'm using an older shot to play in this week's Musically Challenged. When I shot this, I actually had Flyleaf's album playing again on my iPod b/c I just love her and the band's sound a bunch, and had wanted to find a way to cover this song, and when I saw it was on this week's list, I played along. That was a long sentence. Haha.
- Sage Francis, Hopeless
Am I obsessed with necks right now because I'm addicted to True Blood? I think so. I bought season one of the series last Friday and had watched all twelve episodes by midday Saturday. Then I was crushed when I found out season two hadn't been released yet. Then they posted season two to OnDemand and I started watching in hopes of catching up so I could watch season three in real time. Except OnDemand only has the first half of season two posted. Ugh. So I'm halfway through season two and stuck waiting again. I'm not very patient.
Also, I want to thank everybody who reached out yesterday, many without even knowing the recipient, and gave with open hearts. You may never fully know how much of an impact you had, but trust me when I say you will be rewarded one day for your giving spirit. Thank you.
Musically Challenged: Sage Francis - Hopeless
Happy Low Key Lame Ass Thursday :-)
Wasn't sure if this was gonna work out but I managed to turn day into night and got the low key look I was going for. 1/200, f/10, flash camera right 1/2 power in the water about 4 feet away.
Short day for me today, I am getting off work early and we are heading out to spend the weekend with my family.
Waiting For The End - Linkin Park
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dare i give in to this thing gripping my skin?
"Gimme Symphonies" by Dan Black
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i couldn't resist. that lyric just fits so well! in a very odd, puts a questionable visual in your head sort of way, but still...! (it's for Musically Challenged)
i'm feeling playful and happy. all sorts of happiness. today is a good day.
your turn now.
why is your day good today? find a reason or three and then tell me below, por favor.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
I am holding half an acre
torn from the map of Michigan
and folded in this scrap of paper
is a land I grew in
Think of every town you've lived in
every room you lay your head
and what is it that you remember?
Do you carry every sadness with you
every hour your heart was broken
every night the fear and darkness
lay down with you
- Hem, Half Acre
Bethy was pretty much custom made for modeling in urban decay. And I mean that in the best way possible. She just fit so perfectly into every scene we threw her into on Saturday. I think this pose was Vic's brainchild.
Musically Challenged: Hem - Half Acre
302/365
March 25, 2010
I'm abandoning my music idea for right now. I may have a few more musically inspired songs here and there if I'm out of ideas or feel truly inspired by a song. But I was really hating the pictures I was creating during the music...and I'll be honest, I'm not a big big fan of this one either.
Lately I've been super bipolar in my mood. Sometimes I'll wake up and feel optimistic and happy while others I wake up depressed...and I just can't seem to shake it off. It's so easy of me to think of all my flaws, all my misfortunes, and all the things I don't have when I should be focusing on the good things in my life that I do have.
I just get so angry at myself and the world. Lately I've been feeling like there's a person inside of me ready to jump out at any second...but I keep holding that person back. I don't know why...sometimes I feel like I'm not even sure HOW to let the person out. I feel held back by the limited resources I have...and then I get angry at myself for being so shallow. Who I am isn't the clothes I wear or the color of my hair or the quality of my pictures...it's whoever is there on the inside. Yet at the same time this person on the inside wants to somehow express itself...and the only way I can do that right now is through photography and clothes and hair...it's so frustrating!
I came to the conclusion I need to write in my diary more. I haven't done it for quite some time and when I kept it up every day I felt so in tune with myself...so me. I didn't feel so lost and alone...
All while recording my life...I'd like to think that some day after I die I will have done something that makes someone interested in my life. The thought of my great grandchild finding my diaries and pictures and actually being interested in what I had to say and who I was is incredible to me...to live past the day I die. But while I so desperately want to be remembered after I die like Mozart or Edgar Allen Poe I have to be honest with myself. I'm nothing special...I'm no virtuoso in anything. Yeah I can crank out mediocre pictures and hold a tune but that's it...there's a huge chance I'm going to die and that will be the end of me...nobody will care.
Wow that sounded a lot more suicidal than I meant it to be lol I swear I'm not suicidal, just meant that when I die, whenever it may be (most likely in my 90s since my genetic make up is to last that long) I fear nobody will care after awhile (like when my immediate family dies off too).
I'm just ranting now...but these are the things that are inside me...and make me just want to cry.
I'm sorry if I come off cold and selfish, I really don't mean to. I just am working on some inner struggles right now...know I really do love and appreciate you all. I'll try to get around to commenting on your pics more...I'm just so exhausted all the time. I'll do better though
TRF: Went to ethics today...talked a LOT about sex and infidelity...that class always puts me in a bad bad mood. It's such a pessimistic way of viewing people and life...it's like, as if being in a LDR wasn't tough enough I'm sitting in a class where the teacher is going on about how 75% of men will have sex with a random woman if she walks up to him and requests it. I'm having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that I am a sexual being and we all are...that sex is natural and I shouldn't be ashamed of the fact that I want/have had/will have sex. ...I'm ranting again! gah
- The Who, Naked Eye
Hey! Look at me! Not only did I take some selfies today, but I spent all last night making this bedazzled mask! AND I'm playing in Musically Challenged for the first time in forever! Applause, please.
Really, today has been a practice in avoiding the one thing I'm supposed to be doing, which is working on my evidentiary brief. But this was so much more fun.
I think I might pass along a few unprocessed shots from this shoot for folks in my new group to process for me! It'll be fun seeing how my face art shots turn out in the hands of others. What? You don't know about the coolest new group on flickr? Get on over to Me Through Your Eyes and join in on the fun! :)
Musically Challenged: Naked Eye - The Who
- The Shins, New Slang
Look at me! I finally did a Musically Challenged weekly challenge! It's sad that I'm an admin and I didn't even do a challenge last week. Well, I guess I did a few direct challenges, just not the weekly. Whatever. Tara can spank me. :)
This is also my shot for the Week 7 Emulation Challenge in My Face is My Canvas. Fun, colorful inspiration shot this week. :)
I want to thank everybody for the wonderful messages of support yesterday for Auggie. I stayed home from work today to keep an eye on him and make sure he was getting his drops when he was supposed to get them. He seems to be doing better. He's keeping both eyes open, even the one with the ulcer. It's still gooky and he closes it a lot because it hurts, but it's better than it was last night. But really, it was comforting to see everybody's posts and know you guys were sending love and support. Thank you. :)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 218
My Face is My Canvas: Week 7 Emulation
Musically Challenged - The Shins: New Slang
265/365
This is my grandmother's bassment (I know it is spelled basement, but I like to say bass...) And this is actually the bassment of the house I live in :) My parents let me move in over here a little over a year ago when they finally began to trust me again after I had my poop in a group for about 3 years. Anyway when I moved in someone had forgotten to clean out the fridge...for 2 years!! Yeah, I know. It was quite the process...It is a great house, and it is full of awesome beads, jewelry, books, and other cool ass random shit. I thoroughly enjoy it :) and am always lucky and grateful to be living here :)
I'm glad this was a song for Musically Challenged this week, because it got to me to re-read some awesome lyrics of some sweet songs! So thanks for that forty-one!
I'm going to be a photog at an event tomorrow night, so I will upload late, I promise! But it will be a busy night with lotsa photo takin' so don't expect anything fantastic! Oh, unless I get some time during the day...hmmm...
<3 Happy weekend!
(and as slow as I have been in this 365, 100 more chances to create doesn't sound like many... :(
where am I now?
upside down
and I can't stop it now
it can't stop me now
ooooooh
I... I'll get by
I... I'll survive
when the world's crashin' down
when I fall and hit the ground
I will turn myself around
don't you try to stop me
I... I won't cry
- Avril Lavigne, Alice
The middle finger on my right hand is literally kinked out of place. When I hold my hand at rest and the other fingers naturally bend slightly towards my palm, my middle finger is sort of hyper-extended backwards. It's sick. And it's all from editing nonstop all day. I'm a glutton for punishment. And I'm absolutely fascinated by this finger thing. It doesn't feel good, let me tell you.
Three more days...tick tock, tick tock!
Musically Challenged: Avril Lavigne - Alice
I couldn't choose between these 3 photo's, so I'm putting them all on my stream.
I think there's a motorcycle-chick pushing to come out of me, so why not let it do so for my photo's until I got my motordriving licence?
Inspired by TOWT - Alter Ego
This one is also for Musically Challenged - Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard (Love him!)
~Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You'll make it now~
And go ahead the gun is loaded and the bullets are for free.
Climbed up on the roof of the house for this one. SOOC, quick and easy :-)
It's my short Friday only 4 hours of work! My friend with the boat is out of town so he asked me to take some of his clients out and teach them how to wakesurf, how could I say no?? It's a tough life, but someone has to do it ;-)
TGIF Everyone, hope you all have a sweet weekend :-)
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I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here
And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest
- Ben Folds, The Luckiest
Today is our first wedding anniversary. This was one of the songs that we danced to during our reception - not our first dance, but one that I made the DJ put on the list of "must plays" because for years I'd been dreaming of dancing with my husband to this song on the night of our wedding.
He doesn't often agree to help me with my photos, but seeing as it's our anniversary, he's been pretty agreeable today so I thought I'd seize my opportunity. :) We went over to my folks' house and ate the top tier of our wedding cake too. Well, not all of it, but a slice. So good. It was fun to see it again too. My mom has had it safely stored away in her freezer since our wedding. Delicious and a fun tradition.
In case you were wondering, the song we danced to for our first dance was Dream a Little Dream, and the other absolute "must play" that we danced to was Better Man by James Morrison. Quite possibly my three favorite love songs of all time.
Musically Challenged: Ben Folds - The Luckiest
please visit me also on :
she's inside me like a
secret and i've got no one to tell
wandering like a fool through the halls of a blue hotel.
so go on and rain down on us
cause i give up,
i give up.
- "Blue Hotel", by Ryan Adams
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i think there might be some other mysterious algorithm at play here. the more busy i am and the less time i have to mess around on Flickr, the more photos i shoot.
you know how you feel when you realize you've left your cell behind on the kitchen counter at home? even if you don't need it, even if maybe you get zero reception wherever you're headed, it feels a bit like a phantom limb.
or maybe you don't feel any anxiety when without a phone and i just have issues. that's entirely possible, i assure you!
but that's that's the best way i can describe how i feel without my camera tucked into my purse. even if just going to the pharmacy or running some other equally mundane errand.
the first step is admitting you are powerless over your addiction. at least that's what they tell me.
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for Brad's list this week in Musically Challenged this week. great fucking song.
Backing up Andrea, this musically-talented Friend will assist in securing area on the board! Link to Album.
It's another Low Key Lame Ass Thursday! This is also another Copy Cat shot, but I wanted a Low Key version so it's a little different then the original. The original is in the comments as well as a color version of mine.
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I FINALLY GOT EXPLORED!!! WOOHOOOOO!
Black backdrop , with two phottix DGS150 flash heads (and softboxes) 1 infront of subjects to the left at eye level, the second behind subjects facing outwards towards backbround and hair, high an pointing down. SB600 on camera flashing straight at subjects.
Edited slightly using photoshop! a slight skin blur , no colour enhancements at all! Have noticed though that the music sheets are upside down!!! must have been from when Elin & Llyr were chucking their music in the air on their fun shoot :)
f/10.0 - ISO 200 - 1/125 Nikon 35mm F1.8
i love this city so fiercely. this is exactly where i want to be. for always.
making fun of Los Angeles will probably always be the trendy thing to do. but i am ever grateful for being able to see both the good and the bad of this town and knowing that the former vastly outweighs the latter.
i grew up here. in San Marino, a little suburb outside of Los Angeles. it was an idyllic little town with generations and generations spanning back through the years. i couldn't have asked for a better childhood or better hometown.
i lived in Brentwood for a time, just a few doors down from where O.J. murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. one night as my date was walking me home, i noticed cars doing the inevitable slow down looky-loo thing as they drove past on Bundy Drive. a few would stop completely and crane their necks trying to see past the gates. i held an impromptu tour pointing out different aspects of the double murder site (though i think i was heavily embellishing since it shocked the tourists making it that much more inappropriate fun for me!).
i moved to Brooklyn for a while in the summer of 2002 and while i enjoy so much about NYC, LA is my home and i was itching to get back to everything and everyone i loved. aside from that brief stint, Hollywood has been my home for a decade now.
if i start talking about every way in which i love this place i'd never stop. and since i already used up my overly verbose description quota yesterday, i'll just end here.
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for Musically Challenged: "No One's Gonna Love You" by Band of Horses. i love Band of Horses. a lot. a lot.
Explore Aug 1, 2012 #170
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” by Mahatma Gandhi
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“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” by Mahatma Gandhi
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“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.” by Vincent van Gogh
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“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.” by Deepak Chopra
Christina Perri - Jar of Hearts
For TOTW - Musically Inspired
This is like the opposite of how I feel lol. I do love the music video and had a different idea in mind for this, but I couldn't do it with my lack of cs4. But, it turned out alright still I think. I want to do another song inspired shot this week before the challenge is over, but It will be hard with what I want to do lol. I'll try tomorrow anyway, and just hope it works out.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
If you asked me to give you a song that described my life as I see it this would be the one. When I started this challenge this was the song I couldn't wait to do.
I'm posting early due to the fact that next week is my birthday week...I have not idea what's in store for me this year..
A special thanks to my friends for help here. This is what I pictured in my head. (Lots of photoshop but I got it! :)
Song is: Love Story by Taylor Swift
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony of summer air
See the lights,
See the party, the ball gowns
I see you make your way through the crowd
You say hello
Little did I know
That you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go, and I said:
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while
Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said:
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real,
Don't be afraid
We'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes
I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town I said:
Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head, I don't know what to think
He knealt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said:
Marry me Juliet you'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad go pick out a white dress
It's a love story baby just say yes
The Damn Truth have never aspired to be anything other than what they are, and they come by it naturally. Musically, they exist at the point at which band members’ abilities and interests intersect, “And the pieces just kind of fall where they fall,” says Tom. The very first piece fell into place when Lee-la and Tom met butt-naked at a hippie gathering. Lee-la was singing CSNY's "Almost Cut My Hair" and Tom immediately pulled out his guitar and they jammed all night. "And we never really stopped." adds Tom.
The Damn Truth - I WANT YOU (Live)
thedamntruthtube Published on Nov 18, 2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTLhs6v4FXU
!!WATCH IN HD - PLAY LOUD !!!!
I Want You (He's a Lightweight)
Recorded Live at Cabaret du Mile-End, Montreal
October 1st, 2012
Filmed by Costa Kalafatidis and Ryley Mahoney
Edited by The Damn Truth
Mixed by Freq Shop
I WANT YOU is off of our debut album "Dear in the Headlights" available internationally on October 2, 2012
Filter~Take a Picture
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
I feel so real
Chorus:
Could you take my picture?
Cuz I wont remember
Could you take my picture?
Cuz I wont remember
Could you take my picture?
Cuz I wont remember
Could you take my picture?
Cuz I wont remember
Yeah
I dont believe in
I dont believe in
In your sanctity
You privacy
I dont believe in
I dont believe in
Sanctity
A hypocrisy
Could everyone agree that
No one should be left alone
Could everyoone agree that
They should not be left alone yeah
And I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Kicking and screaming
Chorus
Hey dad what do you think about your son now
Ah hey dad what do you think about your son now
- The Offspring, You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Had a pretty good day at work despite the fact that I was fall-down exhausted all day. I think this weekend's festivities have finally caught up with me. Totally worth it.
This shot is for one of the weekly challenge song selections in Musically Challenged, picked by pikespice this week. I actually really like a bunch of the songs he picked. I love when that happens. :)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 245
Musically Challenged: The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
I ain't often right
but I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
it does in the song
Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right
- The Grateful Dead, Scarlet Begonias
Got a really good phone call today. Keeping my fingers crossed that it leads to something even better. We could use some good news right about now.
I originally processed this in color, but on a whim tried a b&w conversion and I think I like this better. Anyway, it's my submission for this week's emulation challenge in My Face is My Canvas.
Musically Challenged: The Greatful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week 104
Oh, won't you please forgive me?
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it's my week in Musically Challenged (aka Best Group Ever). my week, my song selections.
i had a tough time deciding on only 10. i tried to strike a balance between lesser-known artists that could do with some brand new ears, some well loved songs that most would know or know of, as well as choosing songs that had lyrics that weren't too ambiguous and therefore hard to pair with a photo.
as is the case with the song for this shot.
my hands-down favorite of The Libertines is "Can't Stand Me Now". however it didn't offer up as much in terms of varied lyrics, so i left it on the cutting room floor.
the photo above (and below) was from a few months back, taken in Griffith Park in LA. i am dead smitten with carousels and i watched this one for hours on a lazy Sunday at the beginning of summer.
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"Music When the Lights Go Out," by The Libertines
I no longer hear the music when the lights go out,
Love goes cold in the shades of doubt
The strange fate in my mind is all too clear.
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone,
And with her my heart had disappeared...
295/365
"Baby I'll be your soldier.
Gladly, I'll do your bidding
Just a taste of what you're holding, for just a taste you could own me...me.
Save your sermons for someone thats afraid to love.
I'll be right here, lying in the hands of God.
Here it comes, dialing into me.
Now the floor is the ceiling.
If you never flew why would you, cut the wings off a butterfly? Fly.
Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love.
You knew what I feel, then you couldn't be so sure.
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God.
If you feel angels in your hand, tear drops of joy runs down your face, you will rise.
Fillin' me up, now drain me
Skin begins to grow back slowly,
faster until I'm choking.
Really should call my mother, mother.
Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love.
If you knew what I feel, then you couldn't be so sure.
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God.
I am in love with nothing less.
Tear drops of joy runs off my face,
I will rise for someone that's afraid to love.
If you knew what I feel, then you couldn't be so sure.
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God.
Now the floor is the ceiling.
If you never flew, why would you?
If you never flew, why would you? You.
Why would you?"
Awesome Dave Matthews song, I could have tributed it in so many other ways, but this photo resonates with the line "if you never flew why would you..."
Musically Challenged this week...what an amazing Dave song...