j-83:

Man meets squid. They fall in love. Typical stuff.

This is one of my favorite versions of one my favorite Andrew Bird songs. Although I was familiar with this video, we watched the original film, Mermaid, in animation class today, which I had never seen before. I didn’t know that Lisa Barcy, director and animator, made this using stop motion as opposed to computer animation. That explains the aesthetic and makes me appreciate it even more.

j-83 <3 my love for you continues 

This is an incredible song. The video … impressive as well. 

I found the lyrics I like the song that much. They’re below. 

I feel like I’m in a lull. 

I feel like I’m loosing yet more of my belief in magic and love. Coming to Rome and seeing thousands and thousands of years of history, it just depresses me. Life is so short and unpredictable and in the end, matters to no one but you. I’m loosing my sense of true love. Lossing my hope that one day, all my dreams will come true. They might but even still …. what does my happiness and my finding my true love mean in the long run, in the big picture. Why do I allow it to take over so much of who I am and what I do and how I go about my life?

I’m in fucking Rome and I’m sad because I feel so alone because I have it in my head I won’t be happy until I have a love in my life. You know what that’s called? A crazy controlling bitch :( everything I hope never to be.

And well it’s all coming together now … what will be will be. Such a general and honest statement. To the point and never wrong. Everything happens as it should eliminating the true love thought because no matter who you end up with … they will be your true love because, well, it worked out because it was or is to just work out. That’s just how it is to be. 

I don’t know. I don’t know anything and it doesn’t matter and it never will. The nothing … is coming. Where’s Atreyu when you need him????

Being alone, it can be quite romantic
Like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic
A fantastic voyage to parts unknown
Going to depths where the sun’s never shone
And I fascinate myself when I’m alone

So I go a little overboard, but hang on to the hull
While I’m airbrushing fantasy art on a life
That’s really kind of dull
Oh, I’m in a lull

I’m all for moderation, but sometimes it seems
Moderation itself can be a kind of extreme
So I joined the congregation
I joined the softball team
I went in for my confirmation
Where incense looks like steam
I start conjugating proverbs
Where once there were nouns
This whole damn rhyme scheme’s
Starting to get me down

Oh, I’m in a lull
I’m in a lull

Being alone, it can be quite romantic
Like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic
A fantastic voyage to parts unknown
Going to depths where the sun’s never shone
And I fascinate myself, sure I do
When I’m alone

I’m rambling on rather self-consciously
While I’m stirring these condiments into my tea
And I think I’m so lame, I bet I think this song’s about me
Don’t I, don’t I, don’t I?

I’m in a lull…

(Source: 01001010t)