Lost, by David Wagoner

kaelco:

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

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[Special shout-out to Presidents who said: “I can’t believe it’s been a year since I graduated from University. I still have no idea what I want to be.” And everyone else who feels the same way.]

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Missya — Toro Y Moi
(Demo)

“It sounds a bit more like Death Cab than anything a jaded hipster would passively approve, but “Missya” proves, above anything else, that Chaz Bundick has some songwriting chops hidden behind the washed out, glo-fi haze of Toro Y Moi’s debut Causers Of This. It’s a simple little love song undoubtedly shared with the world as a Valentine’s Day present so it’s best not to pass judgment on TyM here if “Missya” isn’t your thing.” — i guess i’m floating.

Considering Long-Term Effects

Eat one meal, then another, and over time that stuff becomes who we are. It’s used to heal skinned knees, grow fingernails, and rebuild tired muscles. I find that thinking of work in a similar fashion can be used to one’s advantage. When a job is done, we’re left with experience, new skills, and a sharpened perception. Do work that you enjoy so you can be good at what you love. Frank summed that up nicely by saying:

“Daft Punk got to record the Tron soundtrack because they’d already recorded the Tron soundtrack.”

If I want to get hired to do something, I should already be doing it. People can’t always see potential energy. Instead of allowing a current job description to stand in the way, turn off the Scrubs re-runs and start a side-project. Draw a picture, code a site, or write something and share it with the internet.
Trent Walton,You Are What You Eat.

Source: trentwalton.com

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Positively 4th Street — Bob Dylan

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Do You Mind? — The xx
(Kyla cover)

Tell me,
I need to know
Where do you wanna go?

‘Cause if you’re down,
I’ll take it slow

Ugh. So, I concede. The xx is amazing.

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staff:

A personal statement from David Karp.

(via acronyms)

The Typewriter, Sarah Manguso.

Little knives in the machine insist on recording everything not once, but twice—or, as you suspect, three times, but you will never know for sure until some careful soul cuts you open and employs the scientific method. The paper, the ribbon, the head. Ticka-ticka-ticka-tock. Somewhere, all grown up, is the boy from home who once said you were beautiful but strange. You have since stopped trying to be one and not the other. Somewhere along the way you may have made a terrible mistake. Are the knives in the back of the drawer pointing in the wrong direction? It will be days before you notice. If you met him again you might never think to ask. Somewhere on the earth there is a drawerful of knives pointing the other way. Somewhere there is a list, and you have chosen the wrong thing.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
Ira Glass (via smut-to-go)

(via kaelco)

Source: nancysun

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Mr. November — The National

I won’t fuck this over, I’m Mr. November

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Blankets — The Acorn

Oh, the life you lead leads you to distraction, confusing your desires, with voluntary actions, and a hundred thousand destinations, the plans that you’ve forgotten, and the fruits of all your labor are slowly going rotten.

Oh, the world is love, strings and chain reactions, never-ending fires, heartache and attractions.

And the blanket of the city will never keep you warm, and the pages of our history have treated you with warmth.

Oh, the time we need is passing every day, you can blame it on the words we never say.

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Grass — Animal Collective