buffalo lockjaw

I think some houses shoud get funerals. Favorite bedrooms deserve obituariaries. Certain kitchens have earned memorials. Instead we just walk away from the wrecks like amnesiacs.

This is the last book I read from the York library.

A+

songs from humpback whale

Let me tell you a little something about love. It's different everytime. It's nothing more than a chemical reaction, an arrow over an equation, but the elements change. The most fragile kind of love is that between a man and a woman. Chemistry, again: if you introduce a new element, you never know how stable the original bond is. You may wind up with a new union, with something left behind. I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship my be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better than the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.
The problem is that when you're old enough to really find a soulmate, you're already carrying around all this extra baggage. Like where you grew up, and how much money you make, and whether you like the city or the country. And sometimes, most of the time, you fall really hard for someone who you just can't squeeze into the limits of your life. The bottom line is: when your heart sets its sights on someone, it doesn't consult with your mind.

Not my favorite JP. It felt like the leftovers from too many other books that were smushed together and made a meal that lacked order and originality. It lacked that awkwardness that is necessary for the characters to feel real and the plot to seem plausible. It felt like it could have been her first book.
B-

follow the leader

I loved:
-Sawyer and Juliet's love.
-Sayid crouching in the jungle like a neon tiger.


I disliked:
-The fact that every line that Sun delivered was a variation of, "Where is Jin?"
-That Kate just had to show up to ruin Sawyer & Juliet's love.
-Young Charles Whidmore looks like a Narnia character.

I want from the season finale:
-Some solid information on Jacob.
-Sun & Jin reuniting.
-Some more time travelocity.
-Claire.
-The Jack & Kate break-up.
-Identity of Penny's mother.

Best quote:
John Locke: Beautiful day, isn't it?
Benry: Yes. So far.

honey

"Put up Christmas lights and the musicians will come."
-Devin Zito, quoting someone I forget.

Goodbye to Newcomb Road. You have brought me many happy hours and eaten the majority of my posessions.

the shape of things to come

I am trying to figure out where I am supposed to live now. York seemed like the best option, but the island seems to be saying not so much anymore. It would be too hard to return to New York right now (let's blame the economy for all our problems). So it's looking like I'll be going to Colorado.

On an afternoon in the spring of 2004, my dad and I asked a fortune cookie if I should go to Massachusetts. The cookie said:

You have been offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
Say yes.

On an afternoon in the spring of 2009, my mom and I asked a fortune cookie if we should go to Colorado. The cookie said:

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

window's shadow

"The prayer flags are always the last to go."
Mama Bear

starbucks

the other day in Tennessee, I bought the book How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill for 75 cents. It was an easy quick read, but I finished it, which is more than I can say for most of the books I have encountered lately. It was a beach or bathtub read, but was well-written and held my attention. The storyline was about a man who earned six-figures & had everything, then screwed it all up and found himself, at 64 years old, with a brain tumor and a job at Starbucks. He made the best of the situation and ended up the better for it. I think the book struck a chord with me because of the many hours I have worked at coffeeshops and the common ground of a life splintering. It was a good book, but I’m glad I spent 75 cents instead of the suggested retail of $14.00. Some quotes I liked:

Zelda Fitzgerald: She realized too late that work was dignity.

On the end of a summer love: Its tragic, but not serious.

The funny thing was my feet didn’t hurt when I was actually working. It was like when I was playing high school football: you didn’t notice the aches and pains until after the game.

At Yale, he didn’t even consider the fact that anyone could “fail” at life. Life was life--with all its bizarre twists and turns.

E the G

Elizabeth the Golden Age is my new favorite movie ever. I was first introduced to this movie by the NYPL and have since become a missionary for it.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Threat | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

but that does not compare to the speech:

Oh, Elizabeth!
How blessed am I to stand in your fabled presence, warmed by your greatness as by the rays of the sun.

Oh Elizabeth! To speak your name is to hear celestial music. May that sweet sound guide me through my life to come -

Elizabeth! Elizabeth! I have travelled here, to this illustrious court, in the hope that our two great nations might be joined in love. But now that I am bathed in the radiance of your glory, I am overwhelmed. I am conquered.

I die.
Only your love, great Elizabeth, can restore me to life.

there's a reason my daughter's middle name is elizabeth.

inauguration

My inauguration day fortune cookie said:
The will of the people is the best law.

My favorite quote from Obama's inauguration speech:
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

I love Rick Warren and his prayer was perfect.


Now on to Lost.