The opening notes… the increasing volume… the bass line building… and suddenly I’m there, my headspace back, what, ten years prior? It’s as if I was here yesterday. My head and heart start moving in the old, familiar places. The dusty corners have cobwebs, but otherwise they’re the same. The feelings swell back up; the fun, the bitterness, the ( Read more... )

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They will tell you, you can't sleep alone in a strange place
Then they'll tell you, you can't sleep with somebody else
Ah, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space
Either way it's okay to wake up with yourself
- Billy Joel by way of Richard McGraw


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I still think about him.

"Nobody does the right thing."
-Marie, The Bourne Identity
ORD. The only reason it resides in a slightly different spot in my head is based purely on emotion; Chicago will always be the closest thing I’ll consider to be home. But an airport’s an airport, whether it’s a giant international hub like ORD or LHR or LAX or SFO or some tiny domestic ( Read more... )

You're my favourite moment.
You're my Saturday
-Goldfrapp

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Kate looks me right in the eye. Honestly, it's hard not to stare at your coxswain when she's barely two feet away and facing you directly. She covered the boom mic extending down from her headband for a tiny moment of stroke/coxswain bonding. "It's not even a choice ( Read more... )

My eyes snap open to more street light than morning light, panic rising instantaneously to dizzying nauseous stratospheric heights; the cold sweat forming immediately on my forehead, the back of my neck, a torso now heaving faster and faster. I stumble to the chest of drawers, fling them open and bat away flying clothes, then paw at the top of the ( Read more... )

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I could sleep when I lived alone.
Is there a ghost in my house?
-Band of Horses, Is There A Ghost


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