every song just makes me think of you

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” 
C.S. Lewis

Postcards from America

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Psychogeography

"Psychogeography is a practice that rediscovers the physical city through the moods and atmospheres that act upon the individual.

Perhaps the most prominent characteristic of psychogeography is the activity of walking. The act of walking is an urban affair, and in cities that are increasingly hostile to pedestrians, walking tends to become a subversive act.

The psychogeographer is a “non-scientific researcher” who encounters the urban landscape through aimless drifting, experiencing the effects of geographical settings ignored by city maps, and often documenting these processes using film, photography, script writing, or tape. In this way, the wanderer becomes alert to the metaphors, visual rhymes, coincidences, analogies, and changing moods of the street."

- Sherif El-Azma 
The Psychogeography of Loose Associations

frustrated infinity

"and what you see are not shattered streets,
but rather, within you, your own crushed walls,
your frustrated infinity …"–Pablo Neruda, "Cataclysm, Part X"

HOW TO BE AWKWARD

KATIE, let's come up with our own list of how to be awkward!
But until then, here's some suggestions I liked that people came up with (when I googled how to be awkward).
THIS LIST BROUGHT TO YOU IN AWKWARD TECHNICOLOR!!!1113j837!

• Go up to someone in a public place and pretend you know them. (I don't think I would ever have the guts to do this!)
• Stare at someone you don’t know. Don’t look away when they see you. 
• When you feel like it’s necessary, throw your head back and squawk like a bird. (This reminds me of someone I know!)
• The first handshake can make or break a relationship. It is the first form of contact you will make with someone you haven't met and pretty much sets the standard for all future encounters. So, instead of going in for the open palm, grasp and single shake method you should definitely break into a crazy routine incorporating snaps, clicks, elbow taps and the Macarena and/or Riverdance. 
• Elbows. Swing those knobby things around like you’re trying to puncture someone’s jugular with them. In conversation, be sure they enter each party’s field of vision at least five times, and in a way that makes them think they’re about to get hit in the face. This is doubly important if you’re talking to cute boys – cute boys definitely want to see your elbows pretty much all the time.
• Do everything reallly slowwwwlyyy.
• Ignore the fact that all your limbs are controlled by the same nervous system. Use them indiscriminately, illogically, and with reckless abandon. If you naturally move like a graceful lady-type, you’re not exuding enough awkward. Become hyper aware of whether or not your arms are swinging concurrently as you walk (for maximum awkwardness, they should be). Frequently decide half-way through taking a step that you don’t want to anymore, and put your foot back where it was. Fist pump when it doesn’t make any sense, and in a way that looks like you’re trying to pop your shoulder out of its socket.