i'll jus let this speak for itself.

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written @ the back of 'love is a mix tape', nicked from the top of my room mate's wardrobe:

"i am in love with love.
if only love was in love with me."

good for her tat her wish came true.

例えば願いが　叶うなら
悲しみの涙が
もう二度と　あなたにこぼれないように
魔法をかけてくれますか？

one of the guests, hong suk chun, tat came on suju's 'foresight' is openly gay!  in korea!  and tat was a bit of a revelation for me cuz this is the 1st artiste i've encountered in wat i noe of the korean entertainment industry so far.  it's encouraging to see the work he's being doing to raise the awareness of homosexuality in korea, but at the ( Read more... )

i watched him sing this tonite & i had tears in my eyes, cuz in this, i see heechul, i see my siblings and those who have touched me. 
i see myself.

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( i bang my own drum, some think it's noise, i think it's pretty. )

this song sent shivers thru me the 1st time i heard it.  it's like a perfect union of voice & emotion & words & melody, like it's pregnant to bursting with stories to spill with every note.  more than a decade later, it still makes me feel the exact same way.

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there was a time where i did not see the point in korea.  at all.  then these ppl came into my life and my world view changed - irrevocably ♥

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catskilt jus wrote a very insightful & heartfelt entry bt growing up and living in a multi-racial society, and cuz i dun seem to able to comment on it, i will let her noe here: gem, i agree with every single word ♥

where we we grew up, disliking certain traditions or practices of another racial group did not mean tat we disrespected them, harboured a ( Read more... )

he looked round at the others.  they were all mounted up, staring at him.  four faces, as different as could be, but all with the same expression, more or less.  waiting for his say.  why did anyone ever think he had the answers?  he swallowed, and dug his heels in.

"let's go."

----joe abercrombie, 'before they are hanged'

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maybe it's cuz i've nearly made it to 30, and with each passing day, feel it even more keenly - every word is painfully depressing, heartbreakingly hopeful, cathartic, true.

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David Foster Wallace, who died last week, was the most brilliant American writer of his generation. In a speech, published here for the first time, he reflects on the ( Read more... )