Pretty pretty song. Love the lyrics. It gives me a feelings of hope and patience…
I Don’t Know
Lisa Hannigan
I don’t know what you smoke
Or what countries you’ve been to
If you speak any other languages other than your own
I’d like to meet you
I don’t know if you drive
If you love the ground beneath you
I don’t know if you write letters or you panic on the phone
I’d like to call you
All the same, if you want to
I am game
I don’t know if you can swim
If the sea has any draw for you
If you’re better in the morning or when the sun goes down
I’d like to call you
I don’t know if you can dance
If the thought ever occurred to you
If you eat what you’ve been given or you push it ’round your plate
I’d like to cook for you
All the same, I would want to
I am game
If you walk my way
I could keep my head
We could creep away in the dark
Or maybe not
We could shoot it down anyway
I don’t know if you read novels or the magazines
If you love the hand that feeds you
I assume that your heart’s been bruised
I’d like to know you
You don’t know if I can draw at all
Or what records I am into
If I sleep like a spoon or rarely at all
Or maybe you would do
Or maybe you would do
If you walk my way
I will keep my head
We will feel our way through the dark
Though I don’t know you I think that I would do
I don’t fall easy at all
If you walk my way
I will keep my head
We will feel our way through the dark
Though I don’t know you I think that I would do
I don’t fall easy at all
P.S. Loved talking with Andre. I wrote the article right away I was so excited about it. And my favorite piece by him is his favorite, too! (The Wall… it’s so good)
Once the article makes its way into the magazine, I’ll put up an excerpt.
Filed under: lists, random | Tags: episodes, radio, radio show, this american life
This American Life — TAL for true fans — is super great. To this day, it’s the only podcast I listen to on a regular basis. And I recommend it to everyone. Anyone can love it.
TAL newbie? Here are my episode recommendations.
note: The episodes are generally broken into three acts… three separate stories on the same general topic.
ep. 347: Matchmakers — The third act, “Babies Buying Babies,” is about the life-like dolls at FAO Schwartz. The narrator tells of which dolls sell fast. Also, which special little guy wouldn’t sell at all. Hilarious. And sad?
ep. 241: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes — Great for the attention deficit. Or anyone looking to get a feel for what TAL is all about. Some are short and oh-so-poignant. Others longer and simply hilarious. Keep your ears perked for the bit about opening jars…
ep. 186: Prom — A completely touching act about a prom hit by a tornado. Maybe I’m still stuck in high school or something, but I love a good prom story.
Friends have said they don’t have time for this. Well, I recommend you do one of the following:
- Listen in the bathtub or while getting ready in the morning.
- Listen in bed while falling asleep.
- Listen in the car. Always. No more music.
- Listen in the gym while working out.
- Listen while cleaning the house.
Okay, now just go listen.
Filed under: photography, web | Tags: flickr, flickr find, jean albus, photography, this dress
Jean does lovely photos of dresses where they aren’t usually found. I find it so pleasant to see someone carrying out a series successfully over a long period of time.
Some images from Dresses Under Ice.
Winter Clothes
From This Dress.
My Windy Girls
Swing Your Partner
This is the first blog assignment from my online writing class — an analysis of how we spend our time on the Internet:
So, I use the Internet a lot. It’s how I occupy much of my spare time, it’s how I communicate with a lot of my friends, and it’s how I do a lot of my work.
I consider my Web use looking for something specific. On occasion, it’s browsing for something specific. Examples are as follow.
The Internet is my encyclopedia, my dictionary and my fact book. Whenever I want to know something specific, I go to the Internet first. When I check my e-mail, I am looking for something specific — new messages or old messages to which I need to respond. I’m not just browsing through past e-mails for the heck of it…
Then there is what I consider browsing for something specific. I find a lot of time on Flickr and sadly, on Facebook. On Flickr, I am browsing through other people’s photos to find something I enjoy or to see the sort of photos specific cameras and films produce. On Facebook, I am doing what many consider “Facebook stalking.” To me, it’s just browsing for something interesting among all the profiles I can view. Photo albums are especially nice for this. Jason went to Mexico? That’s interesting. Let’s look at these pictures.
I am notoriously a Web page skimmer. I use Google Reader, which is perfect for quickly scanning many entries from blogs I follow. Sometimes, if a blog has multiple entries since I’ve last checked and the first one bores me, I use the lovely “mark all as read” feature. An article has to be GREAT for me to read all of it. News is generally when I will read the most, but CNN’s bulleted facts of an article at the top of their pages have made it so I don’t even have to read the article.
When I search, I click on the first result if it looks right. I use the search functions on Web sites that have them. I never struggle through getting to something I want to see by using tabs and menus. With that, I am deeply saddened if the search function on a Web site does not work as well as I think it should.
My Internet use is frequent. Maybe too frequent. But I make it okay in my mind, because I don’t waste time. Skimming and search engine-ing is my style.
Remember this post about Andre Jordan’s art? I’m interviewing him for Design for Mankind! This officially marks the first time I’ve gotten to interview someone of whom I am a HUGE fan. Our editor sent out a list of possible stories with him on it, so I snatched up the chance immediately. I’m excited. And nervous.
Filed under: photography | Tags: film, lomo, lomo lc-a+, lomography, photography, tips
The blogging has taken a huge dip as other things consume my time… Film photography, for one.
I got a Lomo LC-A+ for Christmas.
Description:
A lightweight, film camera with a Russian-made glass lens. Because of the lens, it can be used in most any lighting situation without a flash. It often gives slight vignetting to photos.
The camera, as well as lomography as a whole, has a sort of cult following. Some people hate that they can’t control as much as they’re used to, others hate lomography’s “shoot from the hip” philosophy. But I love it. Film photography and delayed gratification. They go hand-in-hand. And it’s so fun to see how photos look after the fact.
Tips:
The distance equivalencies are approximately 3, 5, 10 feet and infinity.
Hold the camera still (tripods are helpful) and you can shoot in any light.
Keep the film rewind button down the whole time you rewind. That’s how stuff gets broken.
For your first couple shots after you’ve loaded the camera, make sure the film spool is spinning. I spent several hours shooting buildings at night to only find out the film was never loaded correctly.
More tips for shooting film to come. I’m hooked and I want you to be, also.
Edit: I’m being required to blog for my online writing class at least once a week — so you can count on a weekly post!
