HAPPY HUNGER GAMES!

may the odds be ever in your favor.

collective: part III

scenery:

left: flowers at the Melting Point during a "Protect Athens Music" panel for music business center: the pretty sky at the Melting Point that same day right: a mysterious bone in the woods behind my house... CSI where are you?  

puppies everywhere: 

top left: sweet baby Corgi at Petland i got to play with top center: baby king charles spaniel at Petland top right: Kodah fell in the pool, hahaha middle left: i wanted to take this Australian Shephard puppy home so bad middle center: i like to entertain Cali with fun noises during car rides middle left: i was about to sit down... but they stole my seat. silly puppies bottom left: Packing for my trip to California. Cali decided the best place to lay down and play was on top of all my clean, folded clothes bottom right: someone left these poor babies in the car at Publix :( 

day-to-day art:

left: the final line of Mockingjay. the Hunger Games trilogy was phenomenal and everyone should read them. i can't wait for the midnight premier center: weeding some vinyl at my internship right: my friend, Braden's, shower was at Artini's... i didn't follow the guidelines...   

dream of californication

i cannot believe that this time tomorrow i will be getting ready to board a plane to California... 


i'm not going to be able to sleep tonight because it's going to be like Christmas Eve... but better. i don't know how i'm going to go everywhere that i want to go in less than 5 days (about 2 days each in LA and San Diego). in LA i will definitely be making sure to hit the fashion district and Santee Alley, Santa Monica pier, Venice Beach Boardwalk, and Last Bookstore. in San Diego i'm staying in the Gaslamp District and can't wait to explore that area, the harbor, and also the Museum of Man (Egyptian and Mayan exhibits here i come). i'll also be going to a few interviews for potential internships while i'm there. that, plus apartment searching, and all the places i want to go? looks like sleeping won't be in my schedule. i'll be posting lots of pictures!
until then...

Mass Communication Through Music

Jimmy Page on the power of music (He read my mind on this):  

“If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn’t it wonderful that we’ve got all that good medicine? I think it’s got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That’s what it is. It’s got to be, hasn’t it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.”

I Don't Care About Valentine's Day

collective: part II

Once again, I've been MIA from the blogosphere for quite awhile. So here are some pictures I've taken since the last time I posted. 

coincidental moments                       

Left: Cali caught in the sunshine, looking like a majestic wolf. Right: I discovered a little bonus 45 hiding in the sleeve with my Cage the Elephant record 

creative outbursts

 Left: Random doodle I did on the dry erase board on our refrigerator. Right: Bracelet I made out of wire during College Night at the High Museum of Art

 captured sunshine

 Left: The weather was so nice this day, that my Message Strategy class took place outside. Center: Sunshine filtering through the sheer drapes in my room. Right: Another wonderful sunset on my drive back to Conyers from Athens.

On The Road

I've been reading On The Road by Jack Karouac for the past few weeks (yes, I said weeks). With all the other things that have been going on this month, finishing this book has kind of fell by the wayside. However, I thought I would post some of my favorite quotes from what I've read so far. Going through them I realized how religious this novel actually is, which I definitely did not expect from the Beat movement's golden boy. Brace yourself, there are a lot (and I still have 2 "parts" left to read):

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"Looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad."

"Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in. The thing is to not get hung-up." 

"Love is a duel."

"Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!"

"Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"All kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see."

"God exists without qualms. As we roll along this way, I'm positive beyond doubt that everything will be taken care of for us." 

"Only damn fools pay no attention to visions."