"Little Bird," Eels

Feel your own feelings out there y'all, this channeling business is pooping me out.

I'm still sick, and outraged. Holding my breath so as not to cough, I practiced anyway and did a picture perfect toe stand, hip off the heel, all of me suspended in livid midair traction. Relatedly, I believe button earrings are the sign of an inner livid. More here.

On the upside, Milk-n-cookies gave me cabbage rolls left-over (which I am currently burping up) = I'm becoming a local. O yeah.

al green - get back

'"happy thanksgiving"

[in the meantime, however . . . .]

[roar]

Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love

Make me Stronger - Bei Bei & Shawn Lee feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow (Floating points remix)
bonus: Slim Whitman “Indian Love Call” (Nelson Eddy)

Luka Bloom: In Between Days (the cure)

molvaer-song of sand

ouch

The Diamond Family Archive: Walk of Life (Dire Straits)

an extreme makeover house and related neighborhood makeover is being unveiled today - a radio piece on the makeover project here

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: Note that whatever style a person uses when relating to you he or she will likely also use when relating to others. TAURUS: Pursue your interests, even when the one you like doesn't share them. GEMINI: You'll be magnificently attractive when you highlight your so-called "flaw." CANCER: You deserve to be around people who "get" you. Seek them. LEO: A relationship will feel like young love, no matter what your age is. VIRGO: Don't shy away from a potential partner just because this person has had a bad marriage or a hard time with relationships. You'll look terrific by comparison. LIBRA: Give a massage or get one -- or both. The exchange will be healing. SCORPIO: It's time to talk money, and you'll have just the right words. SAGITTARIUS: You'll benefit from making someone dear to you more of a priority in your life. CAPRICORN: You'll want to spend time with the person who makes you laugh. All others are pale contenders. AQUARIUS: Be who you want to be, not who someone else wants you to be. PISCES: The one who keeps asking for your opinion and insight has a crush on you.

David Wilcox, The Kid

on a nirvana kick btw
about a girl but do u have a clue la la laalove this
bonus tracks: Calvin Harris ft. Nirvana – I’m Not Alone / Smells Like Teen Spirit (Mighty Mike Mashup)
laura love - come as you are gets better as it goes (she's got a gun)
Orba Square - All Apologies the 'ashes of our enemies' part kinda works sesame street jingle style
ben gibbard - all apologies (live piano version)

still pacing the length of myselps >:/
listening to, mellowing out: The Truth - Truth Theme (rt clk to save etc)

"Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful," said Goethe. Luckily, Virgo, you're in the midst of a process that may emancipate your spirit and give you more control over yourself. Here are two ways you could cash in on this potential: 1. Brainstorm about a big dream even as you attend to the gritty details of making the dream a reality. 2. Expand your imagination about your tricky situation even as you burn away the illusions you have about your tricky situation.

There’s this guy at work who is dying slowly of cancer of the everything. He’s leaving at the end of the semester and meanwhile when he’s feeling up to it, we get together for morning coffee couple times a week. I’m the unactualized love of his life, he says, a fact that seems to him both increasingly pressing and increasingly beside the point now that his life is in retrospect mode. I dunno why, but it put me in a foul mood all day yesterday until the mood itself wore me utterly out exhausted . . . I've got an 8 hour yoga class then a PTA night ahead of me today, and already I can feel that something - sorry for myself? mad at mortality? annoyed with humans? short-tempered with sentiments? I really don't know - wearing on my nerves, and I'm not even outa bed yet >:(

No song >:(

so many pet blindness hazards - who knew?

"Dogs and cats and all sorts of pets can be injured. Also cats can be blind if eating the wrong thing. That is why many pet owners are grieving the loss of their pets. Also when a pet gets injured it could take a lot of money. And disabilities cannot be fixed.

When you have dinner always push you’re chairs in or you’re pet will eat you’re dinner by using the chair for a boost. Never feed you’re pet chocolate or it might die. Do not by accident feed you’re cat dog food or you’re cat will go blind. Also make sure you’re pets collar is not loose or tight. Also at 75 degrees you’re puppy might get heatstroke. Also make sure they have their shots. Also you can get chips so when their stolen they can be found.

In conclusion a lot of people bark up the wrong tree for bad medication and caring. Sometimes leaving a piece of chocolate on the counter can kill your cat. So there are a lot of things that can hurt your pet. But there are a lot of things that can protect them. So bark up the right tree!"

(gigglegiggle - TJ is fast becoming my favorite writer)

this is good the element of need is being removed, and without that factor of implicit coersion, well, the man himself not his earning power is what counts (or doesn't add up). long run, won't that give 'romantic partnership' between men and women some integrity finally? women free to choose and men free to be.

(sigh. meanwhile, back to work . . .)

Odetta: No Expectations (Rolling Stones)

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: You have the confidence to be yourself -- and that's so attractive. TAURUS: Optimism shows in your walk, your talk and your smile. Equally upbeat people will take notice. GEMINI: You're becoming more interesting to someone you see nearly every day. CANCER: Give a loved one a break and just be straightforward. Say what you're thinking. LEO: Someone you love has been hurt in the past. You'll be healing those wounds. Be patient. VIRGO: Travel invigorates your "chi." You don't have to go far, but do go someplace you've never been. LIBRA: Act on your brilliant and romantic ideas. SCORPIO: You'll take charge of your romantic destiny, writing down exactly what you hope will happen. SAGITTARIUS: More than just a pretty face, you have depth, too. Someone notices and loves you for it. CAPRICORN: Your genuine concern for others will inspire more people to chip in and help. An admirer may be among them. AQUARIUS: You are wielding some magical energy. Those who believe in magic will come calling. PISCES: Only do what you're supposed to do if it also happens to be fun and inspiring to you. When you're in good spirits, you attract love.

(not far but someplace she'd never been, technically speaking)

I've left not one hour unassigned to an obligation in my entire life until further notice.

(fleeting presleep reading: this is kinda cool)

not better to be safe than sorry . . .

"Take on Me (A-HA cover)," A.C. Newman

Started the new teacher training today, which will be more strenuous and time consuming than I realized. I’m glad I’m doing it and hope I can keep up - it’s going to kick my ass. But. I need something to kick my mind loose of its current groove, is the thing. Everything is a level of perfect that might not be representative of reality and I've got a sinking feeling I'm on thin ice . . . . So anyway, we go pose by pose and perfect them to a teacher-degree of mastery, and now I really realize what it means when they say shit like “two feet in one line from the side”: if you pull your leg up over your head, you can see it in the mirror in front of you and it lines up with the foot on the floor, but sideways where you can’t see it there also has to be two feet in one line and THAT is how the standing splits happens. (Zephi the teacher trainer today, with whom I was supposed to go to Costa Rica, married Mark in September and is several weeks pregnant [double indemnity] so I can hardly complain when she who is trying not to panic or to barf puts my foot where it belongs and the sensation makes a Brazilian wax look like a cakewalk [YAUP!].) Welp, that leaves less room for other thoughts . . .

So guarded is the teacher‘s ‘dialog’ and even more guarded their copyright-threatening modification to it, that I have to look at it only while I’m there. As if I don’t know it in my bones, as if I couldn’t at any moment close my eyes and recite ‘first is pranayama breathing good for your heart and respiratory system feet together toes and heels touching strong legs lock your legs strong foundation interlock your fingers under your chin always touching throughout the posture never lose the contact with your fingers and your chin empty your lungs focus your intentions and begin arms up six seconds through the throat the nose is just a passage way arms up by your ears someday your arms will touch your ears slow it down warming up the body . . . . .’

cannonball adderly - dancing in the dark

bonus - tegan n sara - dancing in the dark

"Halloween is awesome! I mean, I get to pull pranks on people, get candy, and scare people out of their skins on ONE NIGHT. This is one of my rib crackingly funny Halloween stories.

Once, when me and my 11 year old brother were 5 and 7, we had weird Halloween. First off, we went to this house that 17 year olds were running away from with wide eyes. Then one of them spotted me. “Ha!”, one of them said, “It’s a little 5 year old!” They laughed. I walked up and told him I was offended,(By that I mean I kicked him in the shins), and they didn’t laugh at me anymore. I decided to go see what all the hubbub was about. To this day I think I owe it to my slow 5 year old reflexes that I got a LOAD of candy that day. I walked down the driveway and a man with a hockey mask and chainsaw ran out yelling. Before my 5 year old reflexes could register anything,(I mean 20 seconds when I say that), He laughed and gave me trash bag bigger than me. Than he dumped a huge barrel of candy into it. Secondly, later that night,(To his eternal shame), my brother jumped ten feet into my dads arms, BECAUSE a body that we had assumed to be a dummy had jumped up.

These are funny because they are odd. If some of the behavior seems odd, you must remember, we were 5 and 7 at the time. Yes, these are TRUE STORIES. As you can most likely see,(If you cannot I may suggest serius help), Halloween is very fun."

my holiday decorations

buddha the witch

kurt cobain o lantern

sam beam - love vigilante (acoustic)

No matter how old you become, there will always be a part of you that is still a small child, dreaming about what it will be like to be all grown up. Saturn, our planetary professor, is intent on giving us lessons that will push us to be the kind of people we want to be. He moves into Libra now [out of VIRGO finally! just to clarify that point], focusing his lessons on the realm of relationships.

Think that sounds innocent enough? Sucka! Saturn sticks with you for the better part of 3 years. You'll be way better off by the time he lets you out of cosmic detention, but meanwhile you're working your ass off on yourself by yourself. Look out Libra, here he comes. Me, I'm free now, free to choose . . .

Wantdog random sampler repost playlist:

A Tribe Called Quest- I Left My Wallet in El Segundo (vamp. remix)

certified bananas – kiss the girl (baltimore remix)

Faithless ft. Nina Simone – I Want More

"Wait for Love," Josh Ritter

"You Can Call Me Al," Jens Lekman

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) -Six Figure Transatlantic

Raul Midón - Pick Somebody Up (when I got to this one, I pressed repeat repeat repeat)

'the power of 3x3'

I got my yoga teaching certificate yesterday. I left the ceremony at 4:25 and went down the street to practice at my hot yoga studio for the 4:30 class, by which time I had mentioned the cert and the studio ownder informed me that they're going to be transitioning from hot-only to a varied studio - so did I maybe want to teach there? (HELL YES!) The village witch invokes the power of three by three, by which is meant something like 'may your intentions multiply organically'. Three shih tzus, 3 kids, now a 3rd yoga stage of development . . . (husbands: sudden shudder, hahahahahahah)

Matthew Crawley- Heart Of Glass

"The bands that were silken once are apt to become iron fetters when we desire to shake them off. Our souls, after all, are not our own. We convey a property in them to those with whom we associate; but to what extent can never be known, until we feel the tug, the agony, of our abortive effort to resume an exclusive sway over ourselves." - Nathaniel Nawthorne, Blithedale Romance

In my dream last night, the High Priestess from the Tarot deck came to life and gave me the following message: "Tell Virgos that when their deep hunger starts to stir, they should not eat from the bowl of delicious seeds. That meager meal would not satisfy their deep hunger. Rather, they should plant those seeds and let them grow up. The resulting harvest will satisfy their deep hunger."
["You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. If you do not find him, will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him? for there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in him also, and could therefore very well bring you together, if it were for the best." Emerson]
M. Ward - Fuel For Fire

(the dogs got into the holiday chocolate and man they smell BAD now, holyjesusmarynjoseph)