beats.

So nelly showed me this song and it keeps bouncing around in my head so I thought I'd share. 

& this song I just love cause phil wickham is amazing.

& well when has laura marling not been brilliant?

let me know what you think :) hope you enjoy!

movies and books and such

hello semester 2, goodbye life. here's a list of things i would love to have time for... soon, maybe. until then study study study.

Movies:
Perfect Sense
Midnight in Paris
The Ides of March
Beginners
Moneyball
Comrade
The Artist
The Hunger Games

Books:
The Screwtape Letters
Crazy Love
Dragonfly in Amber
Redeeming Love
The Sermon on the Mount
Inheritance
A Game of Thrones

the carsons.

so for any of you who were wondering, this was annie & spencer's wedding. or at least pieces of it filmed and put together by spencer's youngest brother riley carson. it's beautiful & like i said the wedding was amazing. enjoy!

Spencer & Annie's Wedding from Riley Carson on Vimeo.

exhaustion.

so this break flew by. & i haven't had time to do much of anything regarding updates. so here we go. short and to the point. i start school tomorrow at 8am. annie and spencer's wedding was beyond wonderful and i already miss her and everyone and everything about my little bit of freedom. overwhelmed already but this too shall pass. forgot how to sleep, so that might be a struggle but again i think i'll manage. anywho figured i'd write a short poem since nelly has been bugging me about it for some time and since she is always ever so artistic. gosh do i miss her and home.

'how do you fly?'

sang the blue jay 

'simple' said the dove.

'lift your wings and float away.'

'simple for you' cried the blue jay.

'but how ever do you get so high?'

'isn't it obvious?' the doves reply,

'catch the breeze and touch the sky.'

ramble.

"The person you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

Chuck Palahniuk

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it is impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them."

Orson Scott Card

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

C.S. Lewis

"-You're a monster. 
-Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
-No, just a medal the budget isn't inexhaustable." 
Orson Scott Card

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

J.K. Rowling

"Nobody's perfect. Well there was this one guy, but we killed him..."

Christopher Moore

"In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice."

Richard Bach

home

 wood floors and a this tub. yes.

how cute is that sign?!

french doors + that wonderful window. 

maps maps maps.

love this as a wallpaper. 

perfection.

& i love this color scheme.

that is all.

that's all the fantasizing i shall do for the day.

enjoy!

so basically obsessed

so i've felt like death the last 2 days which is more than a bit unfortunate as i've done pretty much nothing as a result. i did go and bake/decorate sugar cookies with the girls from church last night but had to stop talking towards the end of the night because my throat hurt too much. but since i've done nothing but rest the last few days i finally finished eldest (the 2nd book in the eragon series) and started brisngr.  it's taking me more than a lifetime but it's simply amazing to actually have time to read something i enjoy!

& today, since i took a break from reading i was perusing tumblr when i came upon one of the versions of a song from the london cast's spring awakening performance. let me just say holy crap i'd give my left arm to have seen this cast, or the original broadway cast of this play. it's fricking brilliant. here's a few of the videos. it's just super intense and amazing. makes me want to act again and just be away from here. i can't wait till i can runaway to england. 

moritz's suicide

totally fucked - london cast

those you've known - london cast

those you've known - broadway cast

there's a number of youtube videos that break the entire performance (broadway) into like 12 sections so i may just have to watch it but i desperately want to watch the london cast! my little obsession with iwan rheon and all things UK is a little overwhelming i know. gah. that and the london version of much ado about nothing with david tennant, which you can buy/rent online for like 10$, that's a must as well. if only i wasn't so poor. sigh. well i hope you all enjoy these as much as i have!