The Amazing Pilots pt.5
You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone
I think you miss me already
And I’m gonna miss you too
But after all, that’s only natural
- The Amazing Pilots The Price of Winter
Add comment February 17th, 2010
Posts filed under 'Quotes'
The Amazing Pilots pt.1
Here’s a candid shot of my good friends, The Amazing Pilots, on our second trip down to Austin together for SXSW in ‘05.
2 comments February 13th, 2010
Lady Liberty
“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.”
- Woodrow Wilson
Add comment February 12th, 2010
Iain Archer pt.2
I wasn’t drinking but you got me drunk
Must’ve lost my head for a while
I wasn’t moving but you got me stuck
You must have spiked your smile
Anyone else would have made an excuse and left early enough
Don’t believe in good fortune but you stole my luck
I wasn’t drinking but you got me drunk
Add comment February 11th, 2010
Chilao
“Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves,
dispel the clouds which hang over our brows,
and take up a little life into our pores.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Add comment February 9th, 2010
Wien pt.2
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
- Franz Kafka
2 comments February 6th, 2010
The Baking Soda Galaxy
“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
- Carl Sagan
1 comment February 3rd, 2010
Camargo, IL pt.5
In terms of my grandfather, truer words were never spoken than…
“I’d rather be fishin’.”
Add comment February 2nd, 2010
Camargo, IL pt.1
When I was a kid, I used to spend a good chunk of my summer vacations staying with my grandparents at their home in Camargo, IL. My days would be filled with fishing with my grandpa and helping him out in his garden; there was a decent amount of daytime soaps watching with my grandma; and every once in a while we would take the bass boat down to Millcreek to go swimming and for more fishing. I loved every second of it and so looked forward to going back with every school year ending.
When my grandma died a few years ago, I flew back from California a couple weeks after her death to spend a long weekend with my grandpa, just the two of us. It was late March, and unfortunately too early in the spring to do any fishing or gardening. With little else to do, we watched a lot of TV on that trip, particularly a marathon of Cash Cabs. We were addicted to that show.
One afternoon, I went out for a walk to take some photos of the house and surrounding area. It seemed all too appropriate the bleakness in the air and the lack of life in the hibernating trees and plants. As an adult, I couldn’t help but see this little old farm town, population under 500, in quite a different light. Long gone were those vibrant summers from my youth, and it made me really sad.
To quote my grandpa: “Don’t ever grow up, Ryan. It’s hell.”
Add comment January 28th, 2010
Brooklyn Bridge
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
- Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
Add comment January 21st, 2010
