wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug.

12.22.2010

I Have A Dream...

I have big dreams….
I just don’t know how to make them small enough to grasp.
My   -- i m a g i n a t i o n --  takes up the most room in my head.
I am easily capable of imagining + good emotions + so that I can feel them in order to feel alive.
Everything else is shoved.in.a.closet. and locked away because I don’t want to stop ima g in i n g . . .
But I have the key.
I feel as though I should open the closet door and let the contents within it   s p i l l o u t >>> to overcome the vast space that my imagination takes up…
But I am afraid of losing the ability to have control of my own world.
To create it how I want it to be...
Rather than just follow the same conventions that everyone else does when growing up.

I believe this is only possible with imagination. 
This is something I have to do -
But first I must build up the courage to   | build a wall |   to create a great divide:
Of imagination as something = as equal to everything else that is in my head
but continue to keep it separate.
[Because I refuse to let imagination go]
Without it, I could not live my life.
To imagine feeling, is to feel it.
To imagine creating, is to create it.
And to have the ability to imagine life in the way you want it, is to live it in the way you want to.
This possibility creates the reality.
And without imagination, none of it would be possible.



12.21.2010

Music VIII: God


God isn't something above us.
           God is something among us.
                      God is something within us.


It is a living thing.
And when we learn to love ourselves and our place on this earth --
We come to know God, and the form that it takes within us.


Every one has a different form of God within them, but there is one thing that we all share in common:        
the gift of life.
There is also one thing that only some of us share in common:
the value of it.
And there is one thing that we all must do in order to value our gift of life:
love ourselves....

12.02.2010

Music VII: Twilight Galaxy

Don't you love it...
when you find those songs 
that seem to tell your life 
with its words?


...
It's a new dawn.


Did they tell you: "you should grow up"
When you wanted to *dream
Did they warn you: "better shape up
If you want to succeed"
I don't know about you....who are they talking to?
They.aren't.talking.to.me.

I'm higher than HIGH, LOWER THAN deep
I'm doing it wrong, singing  a l o n g

Did I ask you: for attention
When affection is what I need
Thinking sorrow is perfection
I'd wallow 'til you told me:
There's no glitter in the gutter
There's no -- tWiLiGhT gAlAxY

Go higher than HIGH.
     GO LOWER THAN deep.
          Keep doin it wrong.
              Keep singing  a l o n g .

IM. ALL. RIGHT...c'mon baby!!
I've seen all the demons that you've got.
If you're NOT. ALL. RIGHT...now c'mon baby!!


I'll pick you up & take you where you want.

[ Anywhere you want ]




Go higher than HIGH.
     GO LOWER THAN deep.
          Keep doin it wrong.
              Keep singing  a l o n g .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7U8wz78fIM&feature=related

-found this acoustic version of the song and totally appealed to me differently than the original version. 
Goes to show how things become better in a different light.

11.11.2010

Piece Of My Heart

there isn't any female artist who has the ability to soak up the agonizing pain of every woman known to man kind --


B E L T  it out so that it tears her own soul back into the   p ie ce s   of every woman in which she took --


while releasing the anxiety in others with the tension of her own voice -




and yet...


still remain exquisite and beautiful in doing so...


but this one. 


my sentences strain to come to a close.
        like this late woman.
                  whose close.
                        came too soon.




no one will ever compare to her highness --


miss--






11.06.2010

Music VI: To Build A Home

This post is very special to me and i hope you all take a few minutes out of your hectic days to feel something beautiful.

...

I don't want to say much because i don't want to tell you how to feel.

That's not the reason why i started this blog.

The reason why i started it was to share the things that have made me passionate about life - 
with all of you = the people i love.

Some people are numb to feeling and i hope the things i share with you will break whatever walls your have to your emotions and change you in a way. That is the beauty of the human being. We are constantly changing. And as each second passes by - we become more and more different.

...



10.31.2010

The Eyes of a Stranger

It was basically a bad day.
I didn't know it was going to rain so I wore my suede-fur boots. My feet were SOAKED the entire day. I forgot my umbrella.
All these fall sweater and under shirt layers get to me after a while...I think that's why I always get depressed this time of year.
- I'm always:
  • Covering my head up with hoods so I can't think. 
  • Covering my neck up till I can't speak.
  • Covering my feet up in the wrong shoes so that each step I take feels heavier and heavier
  • Along with the heavy school bag on my back that makes my muscles cold, tight and sore.

The only highlight of that day was my African-Canadian literature class because of the professor. Taking this class was the best fluke decision I made this year. By the time I leave the 3 hour lecture from 6 to 9 on Tuesday nights, I'm between a world of utter exhaustion from the day that started at 6 and a world of whirling thoughts and ideas. I've never met a man like him in my life before. He is so passionate about what he teaches that sometimes i have to hold back my tears and rub my arms to flatten the goose bumps. I wish I could carry him around my pocket so I could get this riled up about my thoughts all the time. Its rare that it happens to me nowadays.
But anyway, I'm feeling crabby walking to the subway after the class finishes at 9, and I'm soaked and tired but my mind is a contained firecracker underneath the hood that's covering me from the firecracker rain drops dancing on the top of my head. I’m feeling so miserable because my boots are still sopping wet. I get on the crammed subway and something really weird happens….

10.15.2010

Music V: Downside Up


"This is essentially a kid's story...
but at one point the world turns upside down and you have to imagine
 lying on a field of grass and looking up at the sky long enough 
that you start to see the sky as down as an ocean below you. 
That is the state:  
D O W N S I D E   U P"



This performance put my mind downside up.
Enjoy.

This post is dedicated to Sandra C.

10.10.2010

All Or Nothing

The Beamer & I.

Out of all the songs i could have recorded and sang, i'm glad it was one with such raw and beautiful lyrics.

All or Nothing...
* Read the attached lyrics

9.25.2010

The Pursuit Of Happiness

There are fri-ends.
and then there are friends.
I've got a bunch of friends, but only a few that i can really call FRIENDS.

I met up with one of my FRIENDS and it had been a while since we caught up. There's catching up.
and there's   C    A   T C HING UP^^. 
and i mean that this FRIEND of mine isn't afraid to  C    A   T CH UP^.
and i love him so much because he isn't afraid to cut himself open and show you his guts, ya know?

Some of the people i love are afraid of this (as i'm sure many people in the world are) but i think i can say that i truly see through the people that put their guard up to the world.


Some people look at the world and think like this:
- everything sucks
- nothing is working out
- i hate him
- im jealous of her
- leave me alone!
- ughhh
- this is so goddamn boring.
- when will this end?...
- This life isn't good enough

and then there are people that look at the world and think like this:
- everything is great!
- everything is working out alright 
- we have our differences but i appreciate him in my life
- i wish i could be her, she's wonderful
- i don't like being lonely, let's chat
- wow!
- this is unbearably amazing
- i hope this doesn't end!...
- This life is too good to be true

What kind of person do you want to be?









9.09.2010

Speaking Through Art: Part V - Film

I really enjoy film for the main reason that it incorporates so many of my favourite things into one.
Cinematography.
      Music.
             Acting.
         Writing.

But i think the most important out of all of these features of film is the writing. 
the  s c r i p t. 
Script to me isn't solely about the monologue of a character or dialogue between characters.


A well fabricated script, to me, is the +marriage+ - between - the dialogue and the cinematography. Audiences that are oblivious to certain marriages like these in films are not appreciating film for all that it has to offer. 



8.22.2010

Speaking Through Art: Part IV - Sound of Music continued...

There is music...
an then there is music as  a r t.


I think there is a  -  difference  -  between the two. 


There are songs that you can listen to, sing along and relate to...


& then there are those that completely consume you that you can't help but become a part of it.





8.11.2010

All That You Are

To have pity towards someone is to look down on them.
To have pity is to feel sorry for that person.

This video I want to share with you really shines a light on the direction i want to go in life.

I hope it does the same for you.



..and when you watch it, the only person I want you to have pity for is yourself.


Because if you got 2 arms and 2 legs and you don't act the way this beautiful man does right here,


then thats completely pitiful on your part!



Love 
yourself 
and 
all 
that 
you 
are.

8.03.2010

Speaking Through Art: Part III - Sound of Music

I spent a desperately needed long weekend at my best friends cottage and finally got the chance to clear my head and think of a few things. A cottage is always a perfect and quiet place to do these kind of things, and i really got myself thinking about SOUND


I woke up on the Sunday morning at 7:30 am and the weirdest thing happened. 
Most of the time i have BAD cases of writers block but when i don't, my brain can spill out more stuff than niagara falls. When these moments do occur i HAVE to get everything out as soon as possible because i'm afraid my brain will close up again. So...


on my blackberry after 5 minutes of waking up, i wrote a 800 word write up about sound in complete silence. 
Ironic isn't it?





7.26.2010

Speaking Through Art: Part I - Dance

Communication with words. The mouth. The lips. The tongue. The breath....
 Is never enough for me. 


I'm not good at it...writing either. Nowadays it is so difficult for me to cram my thoughts, emotions and experiences into words. It's all too simple. It's all so generic. I don't want to follow standards and rules anymore when it comes to communication. It's all so boring. 


How about all you people reading my blog right now? Would reading paragraphs and paragraphs of my thoughts be more appealing to you than actually seeing and experiencing examples of what I mean? That's my main goal for my blog. I want to draw you people in on what goes on in my head,
using more than words.

Using ART.

...


7.07.2010

I was born a fetus....and still am one.

People seem to always be completely baffled when i tell them that i am 19.


It normally follows with a:
-jaw drop
-wide eyes
-accompanied with a "huh!?!?" expression


because they normally think that i'm 12 when they see me. like...ACTUALLY 12.


I get offended half the time by it but the other half of me doesn't really care. Because whether i like it or not - that's who i am.


I think a part of me will forever be juvenile. Not just in my looks but how i act too. I choose to act that way because i have fun doing it. I don't act immature, just....juvenile at times. I have gone through many scary "grown up" situations that one would think to make me some serious and depressed 19 year old adult. But whats the fun in that?! I've learned from those experiences. I have built the strong core i need and then proceed to having my fun most of the time.


No offence to all you adults out there.....but i'm in no rush to grow up. I'm sure many people close to me have heard me say:


"I NEVER WANT TO GROW UP. I WANT TO LIVE IN NEVER NEVER LAND WITH PETER PAN"

Well.......it's true folks! During my grade twelve year i had an extremely hard time accepting the fact that i was leaving high school and actually had to start turning into an adult. I still am having a hard time. 

Deciding which road i want to go down when i see none made with yellow bricks, isn't such an easy decision to make........until recently - when i got my new summer job:




Working with kids.



7.04.2010

"They're starving back in China, so finish what you got..."-JLennon

So apparently i'm a terrible blogger.
Well.....sorta.

I've had a few people tell me that they actually really enjoy my blog and that i should update it more often. Thanks so much folks! I sincerely thought no one read this thing....So i'm going to try and update this a lot more.


___________________________________________________________________


There was this one girl (that will go unnamed) in my high school that i will never look at the same for a particular reason. I'm not the type of girl to hate people or hold grudges, but i think it's only natural for human beings to have different beliefs and different approaches in how they express them. In this case, this girl and i are 2 completely different people.
This girl is hilarious to be around (some of the time) but sometimes i take her humour offensively.


I will share a story with you all that i will never forget. 




6.17.2010

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Everything depends on our frame of mind.


I believe that certain realms of our mind go unlocked, unless you embark on a trip down the rabbit hole.

Drugs aren't the only thing that change our perception on things. It just makes the process faster. Emotions are a natural drug, and if you overdose on anger - 
you will slowly kill your soul.

Overdose on love and happiness today.


6.11.2010

Nonsense.





"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change..."

6.07.2010

2nd Star to the Right & Straight on 'till Morning

I want to know what it's like to fall asleep outside during the night.


 Yea sure, i've fallen asleep in a tent while camping but it's not the same. You're still enclosed in something. I guess it's the natural human instinct to want to be enclosed in something while sleeping - for safety and all that.
But i think it would be such a beautiful thing to take that risk and open up your mind and body to the night.
I'd do it just for the wild dreams...


The night can completely eat you up - that's what i love about it.
    I think it's the only time your organs can experience peace and quiet, because the world at that moment looks the same whether your eyes are open or closed. 


Will you stay up late with me tonight? 


5.28.2010

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I GOT A GAL!

This song and video gives me the same happiness that i experience when i listen to disco music.


Watch the beautiful woman in the middle. She is LOVING EVERY MINUTE.


It truly would have been amazing to have lived in this era. 
Watch the entire thing - the dance break is unbearable.


If you don't know what original swagger is, go to 4:20...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv_PoZ2iP0

5.23.2010

Someone's Missing

I love when songs have surprises.
a surprise is a moment or an element in a song that gives you happiness even if you don't feel like smiling - but most of the time, you will anyways because you just can't contain all the goodness that arises within you.

... these surprise moments make me forget the world around me 
-- and make me turn into a dancing fool.

because
i'm too busy completely zoned out to the song.
i close my eyes and it feels like the sun is inside of me.

this song has one of those "surprise" moments:


it's best to listen to the entire song so you don't spoil the surprise. 

this post is dedicate to Flash.




5.21.2010

Wuthering Heights

Have you ever read a book in any English class that you absolutely DREADED reading, and then after you finished it, realized that you actually really enjoyed it?


This happened to me when i read Wuthering Heights in my grade twelve English class. It can be quite boring because of the old style language that it is written in, but the story itself is wonderful. Here is one of my favourite quotes from the novel written by Emily Bronte:


My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I have watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. 
If all else perished, and he remained, I should continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. 
I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - 
my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rock beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary.  
He's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself,
 but as my own being. 



Love has been defined in MILLIONS of ways and I really enjoy the approach Emily Bronte took here. She talks about two kinds of love, and i'm going to go ahead and make up my own names for these two different kinds of love. 

There is lust-love and love-love.

LUST-LOVE can be found with many things, at many times during your life.
LOVE-LOVE can only be found once.

Emily Bronte describes this love-love into words that leave me breathless - for stones are solid and circular, representing eternity. Love-love lasts forever. Love-Love makes you feel more alive as a human being more than anything else ever has in your past and ever will. 

I LOVE LOVE-LOVE, DON'T YOU!?