February 2012
5 posts
“Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about...”
– Brian McLaren
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
I’m beginning to think that when a person really changes (for the better), it’s really quite underwhelming. You can’t just change your attitude or the way that you are. But at the same time, if I’m managing my actions on an action to action basis and patting myself on the back every time I do something right, there’s no permanence to that, and I haven’t really...
January 2012
9 posts
I realized that a lot of times when I think “Why can’t you be more like ______” or “Do _______ more often” or “can’t ________ act more __________ly more often”, what I’m really thinking is “Why can’t you be more like me?”
A pattern in the dreams I've been having lately.
The only memorable dreams (nightmares?) I’ve had within the past couple of years have all involved a post-apocalyptic or in the processing of becoming post-apocalyptic (just apocalyptic?) Earth. Never the same dream, but the world is always ending in some fantastical way. And I’m always under extreme anxiety. So much so that I wake up the next morning completely and utterly mentally...
“Don’t ever sweat the distance between emails, I am always happy to find a...”
– A good friend of mine.
Isaac, Esau, and Jacob
After reading the story of the birthright and the blessing, I’ve been struck by the weight of words in that time. All it takes for something to be passed on is words, no written out contracts necessary. The words that they spoke were final. Even Jacob’s lies had permanence to them; though they may not have been true, they really meant something and changed the course of life that was...
Abraham
I’m struck by how often God repeats his promise to Abraham to him. As if Abraham thinks it becomes less true with time. Why is trusting people so difficult? Why is trusting God so difficult? Sometimes, I think it’s because I see the fallibility in myself and expect to see that in everybody else when in reality, I should trust others and trust God way more than I should trust myself.
December 2011
3 posts
Here’s a song I wrote about doubt. Thanks...
God wants me to give up my vices.
God wants me to give up my vices. It isn’t even that I feel guilted, but I feel a conviction. It isn’t that God’s shaking me; I’m the one shaking. I’m a child that recognizes that I’m doing something wrong. When God tries to hold me and tell me that I’m alright, that I know that I’m doing something that I wasn’t made to do, I go into a tantrum,...
November 2011
3 posts
“This idea of surrender had a perilous attraction for his mind now that he felt...”
– A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.
I’ll sing of you today
Of a bottomed out foray
Where I saw the sea so close
To touching feet of those
Who stayed.
I’ll sing of you today
At the thought of my relief
I jumped back from the sea
Relief was tainted deep
With fears that I’d have to leave
My heavy home.
So I’ll sing it today.
My home was heavy of me.
Me, I couldn’t ask to...
Shakespeare
“This is the excellent foppery of this world, that,when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our ownbehavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, themoon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity;fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, andtreachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards liars,and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetaryinfluence; and all...
October 2011
2 posts
Those days where you start thinking about the fragility of life are never fun days.
August 2011
1 post
2 tags
I think my tumblr is becoming defunct....
July 2011
1 post
Haven't tumbled in a while.
This is all I got.
May 2011
13 posts
WatchBon Iver - “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
Mom
My mom is as ridiculous as the things she and my dad ask me to do for them. For example, they asked me to look over a lease contract today that was 18 pages of legal jargon that went right over my head. I told them that even if I did, I would have no idea what to look for, to which my mom replied with a few emphatic “Please?”s in English, as if saying “Please” a couple...
“Perth” - Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver...
Earlier in the month, I said I’d write 3...
Super Sunday.
It’s been a while since i’ve tumbled about anything. So today, I’m going to tumble in the form of text, pictures, AND audio. Here’s the text portion. Embarrassing thing that happened today. Hopefully you get a kick out of it.
I was out at Camp Geneva today, and we were hanging out in the dining hall. A friend of mine isn’t able to make the “-ing”...
Everything is a Remix →
WatchHey, whadda ya know, my cousin’s old keyboard was under my bed. First take, no patience today. I don’t know why it rings out like that at times. Anyways, here it is. Such Great Heights, by Postal Service, or Iron and Wine, or whatever indie band/person that covers it.
April 2011
24 posts
“Borders” - Chris Bathgate
I’ve...
1 tag
Thanks, Sierra
Hadn’t checked my mail in a while, and I received this. A literary crush of mine sending me postage. What a trip. So, Sierra Demulder, thanks. Too bad I can’t place it where it’s supposed to be: next to my heart.
If you haven’t read/heard her stuff, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyKKoL1NSM
Watchazizisbored:
Watch the First Trailer for “30 Minutes or Less” starring myself, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, and Nick Swardson. Coming to Theatres in August!
All my dreams are coming true. →
“Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
– Charles Bukowski, Women: A Novel (via imfantasyparade)
“It Don’t Matter To the Sun” -...
donghyunhan:
just close your eyes and chill.
...
I wish I had all the time in the world to write just one perfect song. It takes me long enough to write one cliche-ridden, half-assed song that requires me to compromise my original intent at some point, and that only happens at a rate of once a year. And even if I had all that time, I would probably still be disappointed with some part of it by the end, but at least I’d have another song...
WatchDon’t tease me like this, Justin. Don’t do it! But if this is a teaser for the supposed new album in June… then I like it.
“As Long As I Can Go” - DeYarmond...