Ready to Start/Arcade Fire

I adore this song. It's catchy as hell and the lyrics really sum me up right now. I've pretty much been playing it on repeat for the past few days. Totally weird as I was never massively into Arcade Fire and I especially didn't think I'd like their new album, but it's really great...

businessmen drink my blood

like the kids in art school said they would

and i guess i'll just begin again

you say we can still be friends

if i was scared, i would

and if i was bored, you know i would

and if i was yours, but i'm not

all the kids have always known

that the emperor wears new clothes

but to bow down to them anyway

is better than bein' alone

if i was scared, i would

and if i was bored, you know i would

and if i was yours, but i'm not

now you're knocking at my door

saying please come out against the night

but i would rather be alone

than pretend i feel alright

if the businessmen drink my blood

like the kids in art school said they would

then i guess i'll just begin again

you say we can still be friends

if i was scared, i would

and if i was pure, you know i would

and if i was yours, but i'm not

now i'm ready to start...

if i was scared, i would

and if i was pure, you know i would

and if i was yours, but i'm not

now i'm ready to start

now i'm ready to start

i would rather be wrong

than live in the shadows of your song

my mind is open wide

and now i'm ready to start

now i'm ready to start

my mind is open wide

now i'm ready to start

my mind is open wide

and now i'm ready to start

not sure you'll open the door

to step out into the dark

now i'm ready...

"Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression…depression is pure dullness, tedium straight up. Depression is, especially these days, an overused term to be sure, but never one associated with anything wild, anything about dancing all night with a lampshade on your head and then going home and killing yourself…The word madness allows its users to celebrate the pain of its sufferers, to forget that underneath all the acting-out and quests for fabulousness and fine poetry, there is a person in huge amounts of dull, ugly agony…Remember that when you’re at the point at which you’re doing something as desperate and violent as sticking your head in an oven, it is only because the life that preceded this act felt even worse. Think about living in depression from moment to moment, and know it is not worth any of the great art that comes as its by-product." - Elizabeth Wurtzel

"I can’t stand “real” men. Masculinity is trash. Go cry in a corner, write in a diary, hug your mom. Please. I’ve felt the painful consequences of this posturing for too long; seen fragile men who never should have been told to be anything else in the first place crack under the weight of our flawed expectations. Let our boys paint. Let them wear skinny jeans and read Ellison. However soft spoken or uncoordinated, leave them be. If you don’t, you and me will have a serious problem." - Joshua Bennett

Galaxie 500/Ceremony

Magnetic Fields.

This mess we're in

Quarantine the past