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Archive for January, 2014

Tattoo #76

January 30th, 2014 | Category: Life,Opinions,Tattoos,Thoughts on Music
Tattoo by Kyle, Doc Dogs's Las Vegas Tattoo, Ybor City…

Tattoo by Kyle, Doc Dogs’s Las Vegas Tattoo, Ybor City

So, the way that this tattoo wraps around my leg, it’s basically impossible to photograph, properly anyway.

It reads…

One day I know…

One day I’ll be…

Looking back on me…

It’s from a Priscilla Ahn song, One Day I Will Do, which is off of her really excellent second record, When You Grow Up. The entire record is worth buying, but I’ve gotten really fond of One Day I Will Do.

To me, it’s a song about a life that’s in a drift, and then regretting that drift. You know you could do better, could be better, but you’re not. You’re just not. You know that at the end of everything, you’re either going to to see your life as a giant waste, or as something that was good and beautiful. Knowing that one day you’ll look back across the expanse of your life and might find it lacking, could easily find it lacking, is a sobering thought, a thought that could lead you toward someplace that feels… right.

I feel like this song, I’m scared of that look back on myself. I’m scared I’ll see ruin and waste. These words are kind of a prayer etched into my flesh, a prayer to remember to be better, because at the end of me, I don’t want to look back and see the waste I’m living now stretched until my last then.

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The swing

January 27th, 2014 | Category: Life,Opinions,Random Thought

So, to get back into the swing of things (as cliche as that sounds), I’m just going to do a write whatever’s ever in my head kind of thing.

I made some cosmetic, minor cosmetic, changes to the blog. I upped the font size a little, mostly for my own aged eyes, and I FINALLY figured out how to fix the search button. Since the blog launched the button read, “Se,” the box around it wasn’t wide enough. Until… NOW. It actually wasn’t really hard to fix, I just never took the time to dig through the CSS (the file that governs such things). I wonder lately (I wonder on and off) if I should totally redo the blog’s look, totally scrap and start fresh. Though, I don’t think I can bring myself to do it. It’s like my room, I see the black and purple and I feel… comfortable. Little else feels comfortable, I don’t know if I should purposefully destroy something that’s still cozy.

Aside from the blog tweaking, I’m watching this indie comedy, In A World… It’s about a woman vying for the job of being the first woman to speak the iconic movie trailer phrase, “In A World…” I wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but I just hit the end, and it was kind of amazing. The end of a something tends to make or break that something.

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Write something, now!

January 26th, 2014 | Category: Life

Something.

No, I’ll write more than a snarky, “Something.” I’ve basically taken January off, but now it’s time to get back to writing, not on a schedule, but better than not writing ANYTHING.

I have two new tattoos to post, several books to review, and just a lot of thoughts bouncing around in my… eccentric brain. Yes, we’ll say eccentric. Thoughts that need put down here, not shuddered up behind my eyes.

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2013: Over and done

January 01st, 2014 | Category: Life

So, 2013 is over and done. It wasn’t a spectacular year (overall), but at least it felt really quick. December seemed to come in a blink and now it’s January 2014, and I’m now thirty-three.

Whew.

I didn’t do a lot for my birthday this time, but I did score iTunes gift cards, and one especially spectacular gift…

Charmer on vinyl, signed, framed…

Charmer on vinyl, signed, framed…

I got my signed Charmer framed.

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