January 2012
7 posts
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs‘ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (via alexbeaudet)
lil' jon jon: Instructions for Life →
jonpagan:
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful…
December 2011
11 posts
the difference in this year and next year: ...
brandi carlile tour recap/year in review (long...
i’m sitting in the seattle airport, waiting to board my last flight of the year. last night was the last show of 2012…the last show of almost 200 shows in all. i honestly cannot think of a better way to have finished up our first year than by sharing a tour with our hero, brandi carlile. brandi has been a long time favorite of mine, but never in a million years did i dream of...
holla-days
well we’re on the last little string of shows with brandi carlile (full re-cap to come), and i have to say that being home is going to be amazing. my parents went to my house today to set up my christmas tree for me. i’ll have to decorate it when i get home…on december 22nd. does it makes sense to decorate a tree so late in the year? i have no choice.
i’m not really in...
in which i find my own happy.
a while back, i posted about love, a failed imperfect relationship, and my desire to develop a sense of happiness from, with, and for myself. when i wrote that post, i was in a really dark place…not optimistic, not excited about anything, without a sense of hope for the future. it sounds silly, but even though i was, and still am, surrounded by countless things for which to be grateful, i...
November 2011
23 posts
oh yeah. DEFINITELY coming down with a bug. i...
11/11/11, 11:11pm
i wished for you, and the love that should’ve been but never was.
it's so amazing when your heroes don't let you...
i love this tour.
devoted to you.
it’s another one of those days that has me thinking about love. but today, i’m thinking about love in a happy way. because today is my parents’ 30th anniversary. 30 years! it blows my mind when human beings can stick to anything for more than a few days, so the thought of two people staying together, through thick and thin, for 30 years is just shocking.
looking back over...
it’s so amazing to watch all these runners crossing the finish line of the marathon in NYC. how inspiring! i’m not sure i’m the kind of person who actually could wants to run a marathon, but i bet finishing up that last mile feels so great…yay for humanity.
today i'm on the verge of tears. for lots of...
life, today.
sending really horrible-sounding rough demos of new songs to your label rep is SCARY. especially when he has the power to choose whether or not your next record gets released.
there’s been some creepers in our neighborhood. our next door neighbor saw a couple of men looking in our front window yesterday, being all sketchy. my mom was worried, so i told her to just pretend like...
October 2011
52 posts
tour re-cap: paul simon
i almost don’t even believe it happened. a month or so ago, while in amsterdam, we were informed that paul simon had offered us a two week run of shows in the U.S. the two of us were SO excited. i mean, this is the man who wrote tons of songs we heard growing up, played absentmindedly by our daddy when he didn’t think we were listening. so obviously, we accepted the dates and were...
oy. my mother and her wal-mart sack full of...
Not about love.
Fair warning: this will be a long post. Because I’ve been thinking about love between two people. What it means, what it requires, etc. And I feel as though, lately, I’ve had lots of friends finding someone to love, getting married, starting families, etc. And so I’ve been putting together my thoughts on love and where it fits into my life.
I recently went through a TERRIBLE...
“The next record will be so amazing, you’ll have a tour bus with kittens...”
– my manager, in response to my question about whether or not we should buy a 15 passenger van for touring. i’m so glad we have the same vision about the secret sisters’ career path.