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Addy Baird

Dal Swenson

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Emilee SUDS

Ells-bells Peek

Tanner K

Charlene (the queen) Humphery's

Jack o lynn Covey

Hunter bunter Gibson

Miss B Christensen

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I know it's just a list of names, but it's a damn good one.

I couldn't get the song "Gold Lion" by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's out of my head. So I juxtaposed some of it's lyrics with some writing of my own. It's experimentational, I liked the idea but haven't nailed the execution. I hope Karen O doesn't mind...

The sun dripped from the sky in golden drops, landing heavy on the leaves above, and sifted quietly through into shadowy fragments that painted your face, a lion of light.

"Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is."

It was a kaleidescope day and the soft blue was the sky and the softer blue was the skies in your eyes reflecting my gold ones, again and again and again.

"Take our hands out of control."

And we were spinning.

"Take our hands out of control."

And we were running, but mostly looking.

"Tell me what you saw, I'll tell you what too."

We're off to see the wizard...

I'm going to start spelling like an Englander, "colour" instead of "color" and that sort of thing. Then maybe I'll start talking like one too. While I'm at it I might chop my hair and get a tattoo and change my name.

List of names I would like to change mine to if I at some point needed a disguise (or became famous):

June
Cherry
Indiana

Sometimes I think about waking up and being a different person. And this whole life is just some extremely elaborate dream. I'm tricked into memories but really this whole story has only been happening for a little while inside someone elses head which is really my head, but I'm not me I'm the person who's dreaming all of this.

I categorize things into surreal and extra real. Tonight was extra real in the cemetery with all the lightning and holding hands and the wind. The wind liked playing with my hair tonight, maybe I won't cut it after all.

No, we were. We are.

Kurt Vonnegut (excusemysemi-obsessionbutIreallydojustlovehimalot) said, "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

So today I was in the car in some cute black heels with two of my beautiful best friends in the front seat talking happily and perfect music playing and blue skies all around and I thought to myself, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

And then I sat at a farewell and got all teary-eyed while I listened to a little boy crying so sweetly with the spirit and a beautiful talk on love and I thought to myself, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

And I walked a bit under an umbrella in the rain and went to family dinner and laughed with my grandparents and took a nice little nap and read for a while in bed and got a perfect email and sat on a swing overlooking our pretty little valley all aglow with lights and two really cool people on either side talking about real things and my hands nicely occupied. And then I came home and had a big piece of peach pie from the neighbors. And I thought to myself all the while, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Make happiness a priority. Or at least exclaim it or murmur or think it when it comes your way. "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

We're golden, and we're damn funny too.

I have nothing worth saying right now, but the Cold War Kids seem to.


"Skip the Charades"

You wait on letters
Patient for any sign of life
Drinks after dinner
Your friends will get you to unwind

Let's skip the charades
Can we just speak plain?

I'm two left feet when
I'm home we tap-dance on broken glass
Somehow you managed
To keep your sense of humor intact

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like
Acting like, acting like
I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like
Acting like, acting like
Nothing's wrong

You dodged the bullet
You do your best when you're busiest
But you're disconnected
You can't find your name in the script

It was you who were wildest
It was you who floated above us all
I held on with wires
Will you come back down if I let you go?

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong
I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong

Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain

I gave up on sleep last Tuesday.