More Audio Bliss. "This is Twice Now" - Lydia

The lyrics to this song are not only beautiful, but pertinent to someone I used to know.

Baby just ask once more
Cause I saw your door wide open,
but the floor is still freezing
Hailey I was sick and I'm still quite unwell
but tell me it's you or nothing at all

Cause I stole your soul
You said I'd never be able
But oh the whole world is still on my string

Second time now and you've done this before
Drive around the back so I can't see them
But you're still freezing
Let me take your coat and your keys and this car
Cause I've been unwell far too long now

But oh, the whole world is still on my string
Yeah, its still on my string
You said I'd never be able

Today's Audio Bliss. ("I Can Feel A Hot One," Manchester Orchestra)

I could feel a hot one taking me down, for a moment I could feel the force
Fainted to the point of tears, you were holding on to make a point
What's the point?
I am but a clean man, stable and alone man
Make it so I won't have to try, so I face the fact that I'm just fine
I said I'm just fine, I'm just fine
I remember head down, after you had just found out
Manna is a hell of a drug and I need a little more I think
Because enough is never quite enough, what's enough?
I took like a grown man crying on the pavement
hoping you would show your face, But I haven't heard a thing you've said
in at least a couple hundred days, what'd you say?
I was in the front seat shaking it out, and I was asking if you felt alright
I never want to hear the truth, I want to hear your voice, it sounded fine
My voice, it sounded fine
I could feel my heartbeat taking me down and for the moment I would sleep alright
I'm dealing with a selfish fear to keep me up another restless night
The blood was dry, it was sober, the feeling of audible cracks
And I could tell it was over from the curtains that hung from your neck
And I realized then you were perfect, and my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew, back when my thoughts weren't entirely intact
To pray for what I thought were angels ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter, she was crying inside your stomach
and I felt love again.

"i like this ship! it's exciting!"

Star Trek (2009) exceeded even my loftiest expectations for what it could be. It was decidedly nerdtacular enough to feel like a true Trek film, but ridiculously accessible for the non-traditional Trek viewer. Honestly, just perfect. The plot gets a little slippery at times, but hey, this is Star Trek; we're talking warp speed, photon torpedos, phasers, aliens who look just like humans but have pointy ears (elves?) etc. Suspend your disbelief and I'm sure the Trek black hole science will make some sort of sense. That aside, the actors got the job done admirably with a very healthy mix of the dramatic (John Cho was really good) and incredidbly comedic (Chris Pine and Karl Urban are hilarious together) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) was insanely hot and only the second most beautiful part of the movie, behind the newly designed U.S.S Enterprise. I'm one pleased Trek fan. Please bring me the sequel, thank you.

shake it out.

I felt the world begin
to peel off all my skin
and I felt the weight within
reveal the bigger mess
that you can't fix
-m.o.

yawn.

So I've been getting really tired around 11:30pm and just giving in and going to sleep then waking up at 4:30-5am the last few days and I have to admit that I kind of like this schedule better. Hopefully I can do it all semester long so getting up for work won't be a problem in the fall. Pretty sure HVA starts at 8:30am although I've heard some rumblings that Knox County was looking into pushing Secondary start times back to 9:30am for bus route issues. I guess I'd be cool with that. Speaking of HVA, all us interns are supposed to be there Monday afternoon for the official tour/meet & greet and hopefully finding out which classes we'll be teaching. Have to say, I'm getting more and more excited for the fall to get here.