Isobel
By Bjork

In a forest pitch-dark

Glowed the tiniest spark

It burst into flame

Like me; Like me.

My name Isobel

Married to myself

My love Isobel

Living by herself

In a heart full of dust

Lives a creature called lust

It surprises and scares

Like me; Like me

My name Isobel

Married to myself

My love Isobel

Living by herself

When she does it she means to

Moth delivers her message

Unexplained on your collar

Crawling in silence

A simple excuse

In a tower of steel

Nature forges a deal

To raise wonderful hell

Like me; Like me.....

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(moving on today.....)

Cantu

Last night i ventured out in pigtails, and we all know what that
means. I'm by myself, but not feeling lonely, and I liked all the the
interesting faces on the B Line at night as it rumbled out to Allston.
At the Paradise lounge I found Amelia, Tim, John, and Jason, and pulled
up a tall chair to listen to some good music. There was a girl called
Rachel Cantu with a guitar. I  thought her name might have been
"Can, Too", which seemed to fit with the theme of the evening. Defiant
and capable!  i felt all warm and thoughtful listening to her
song, thinking a little bit about Ohio- nine days till I fly. There
was also One Ring Zero, a crazy band which sounds like Klesmer crossed
with a Lemony Snicket tome, and after the show i was feeling brave so i
told the guy who was playing the theramin that i thought he was teh
shexay. I also winked at some guy at the bar, I think, and flirted with
somebody over short stories and salt. Like i said, i blame the pigtails.

Here is a picture of me which i took yesterday:

"Tonight I Can Write"
By Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, "The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance."

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

I have fan art!

my character, by a fellow player called Errol.

Thanks, chica!

"Love is a burnin' thing,
An' it makes a firey ring.
Brought from wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire.
I fell into a burnin' ring of fire.
I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher.
And it burns, burns, burns, that ring of fire, that ring of fire."

Johnny Cash

In a tarantino-esque moment, I sat in the local tattoo parlor about a year ago listening to this song and the buzz of the needle on my arm, looking at the wild painted devils and roses hung on the wall. It always makes me thing of the crazy brave wild things i can do, and of being newly in love, and summertime, and freedom.

Thanks for the little reminder Kerri, I needed that. love ya.

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PS Track 11 rules! It's like, DnB stirred up with the soundrack to Princess Mononoke! What the heck is it??

Sneaky Goats.