January 2010
51 posts
“It was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.”
– You’ve Got Mail
Baby help me to calm down, cuz I think I’m...
It feels like old times. My heart is racing, my stomach sick with nerves and the slow-moving clock. The combination of the two is like orange juice and milk. I am about to willingly step onto the front lines once again, taking sure fire to the chest and lungs, the ego and the reputation. I accept this inevitably ugly fate with the single rational thought of protecting my left hand. For although I...
F or-T
It is a matter of effort. As all relationships might expect to be. A question of; did you try hard enough, for long enough, being honest enough before you raised a hand and pointed you vain little finger at somebody else?
Relationships are not generated out of thin air. Even if you do believe in chemistry and meant-to-be’s, it takes one person’s effort to light the fuse. One person to make the...
she said god damn baby live or let up and so all i need is the summer sun or maybe all i need is this town to be enough
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“Should I write myself out of the history books,
and mark a place in time for...”
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Don't stop, make it pop.
Let it be known: These words come to Streetlight as the very first posted about the long-since noticed band, Set In Color. I have not written about these boys based upon an agreement with their singer, but there is a new arrangement and…well, it’s kind of exciting. Set In Color is the band you all know, the band who’s individual faces you’ve seen at shows and been caught remarking, “Damn. Those...
“Its not the crown that makes the queen, its what’s in (your heart.)”
I guess these thoughts of old pictures came to be when Berg was sharing a handful of his own memories with me. His evidence prompted me to take a look back into my database and say things like, ”when the hell was that taken?” or “why the hell did I ever wear that?!” Old pictures are good reminders, and bad motivators, reliable friends, and telltale signs that maybe..the...
“Enlighten yourself.”
I know what I am
and what I am not.
I know what I am capable of, and what you will allow me to do. I know how you look when you think no one else knows. But I know.
I know who I am from the name under which you’ve saved my number, from how you send your smiley faces, and from the times in which you text me. I know by the way I get everything I want, and nothing of what I need.
You think that I don’t...
Watch-from Jessie Niemiec
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All the girls from high school have babies, husbands, homes. They all still have pool parties and cook outs and club nights together and I can’t help but wonder if they have got it right. I have a house, that I can barely pay for, with a cable service that sure airs lots of shows about weddings and babies. The last ‘pool party’ I was at was at a then-stranger’s house in...
“I have become the character I was always afraid to write.”
– …Tera.
“Some nights I have this blurred vision where we dance in a dream to the songs...”
you don't love me.
I’m not gonna lie, most of you are completely full of shit. I know that. You are here for now, or last week, and maybe this weekend. So why then, can I get so concerned with doing my hair and that text, this stupid song and the things about you that are like absolutely no ne else? Well…because there’s just nothing else to do.
I am sick and hopeless in the daylight hours. Today...
preview. title tba.
Going against my obsessive preference of never sharing any piece of art until it is completely finished, I have painstakingly decided to post a preview of the mini-book that has now been 5 months in the making.
Threaded by a collection of my TC tour memoirs, it is a story of exploration and camaraderie…about a girl stepping out of her past for the first time. The pages read full of first-hand...
Happy Birthday, Streetlight.
In celebration, there is posted almost 2 full pages of not words I wrote…but work my muses have created. Whether it be a poem or picture, a pop song or promise, it’s always been you guys inspiring me. every word.
As some of you know I am currently elbow deep in writings about my experience touring with This Condition this past summer, all material which I plan to get out in the form...
in the wake of saturday
best. this morning when i woke it was from a dance where our arms were linked and your smile, your smile was like summertime and summertime is my favorite. this morning when i woke i could still see the thrill in blue raspberry tongues and mustard-colored socks, in sweetly sung riffs and bent silver strings. (here we go) tattoos on the chests of crashing hearts kept the time that did not pass and...
“It’s all happening.”
And I think this is what we are made of; of playgrounds and practice spaces, of show venues and sexual innuendos. We are made of mattress pumps that plug uselessly into cars we aren’t sitting in, and of pretending we don’t care when they look at other girls. We are made of folded youth larges and candids in his bedroom, of memories you can’t untag and nights she can never comment...
Chords Will Cure →
Miss Sara Dick, 2009
The distance, the time I could make them go away I try and try, but the miles always stay If there was something I could do Anything- I would do all of it for you. You’re gone, near, you’re far. If I could choose one, I’d choose far Gone to begin with, right where you are This is wearing me way too thin While you sit, relaxed, with a grin You’re so afraid, I see it clear It’s something I’ll work...
One Love.
Ashleigh McNew, 2009
Tericadactyl.
Erica Martin. Ricky. Terica. My scene girl idol. Who I want to be. She teaches me, she learns from me.
Rule one with falling for band boys: never let him know now much power he has over you. And nothing is ever unrealistic for a scene girl, you just need to know how to play the game. And you have to be good at it. But it’s never easy. She keeps me attached to the scene, never...
“Happy Birthday, Streetlight. thank you everyone for reading <3”
– terica.
“We don’t say when because there’s something about the possibility of...”
To commemorate getting my credit card back, I went to the grocery store and picked out a ton of shit I don’t know how to prepare. I know my mom must have attempted to teach me, but I clearly paid attention no further than the delicate groundwork of turkey sandwiches. So proving only further that I’m neither great at being an adult nor a home-savvy woman, this is what I got:
Artichoke, one. I...
maybe a secret that we can hoed onto when...
“i see in your eyes that you’ve had these doubts for all this time, but you...”
– someone you will know
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Getting down to the bottom of this.
Who are Set Phasers To Stun?
Set Phasers will tell you, they are not just another band. They are not typical. But I have been in their company now on several occasions, and have yet to be able to answer this question. So, on a chance mission to Paramus, New Jersey, I bring the Book and a pen and hope to find my words.
I think there are a lot of the standard positions within Phasers that I see in...
