August 2009
i dread the moment the gas gauge on my dashboard reaches that all-time low and this moment was last night around 1 in the morning and the red gas gauge light shone in my face as it taunted me with the regret of leaving this important duty to the last minute. my eyes began a routine, as i looked from the road to the Distance To Empty number to the gas gauge. i crossed the highway and the red...
sometimes i wish God would just tell me straight up if i’m doing the right thing with my life
“8am, sentimental good-byes, moon river, my huckleberry friend.”
– bryanarchy
i can't wait for my cousin to move here on the...
“This is just perfect. I try to mold us into a family that will blend in, and...”
– Dick Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)
“There are two kinds of toilet paper in this bathroom. I, and I alone, get the...”
– Dick Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)
Ripple by The Grateful Dead
the coyote howled a lot and i came home a few days ago
i thought yesterday there might have been a real tornado when the wind was keeping me awake and nervous and i foresaw my hysteria when the moment may come when i need to evaluate everything i possess and know in a matter of seconds what’s important and what’s not
coming home is a good feeling and i think everyone needs to be...
i just read a post about dreams and
it reminded me of the outburst of dreams that i’ve been having since i arrived in Europe. it seemed i had been going through a dream drought a few months before leaving and once i came here i was able to remember several dreams i had within a single night. and when i fell asleep on the train and the plane back to Holland, i also dreamed. it’s so unusual that everytime i travel here,...
going back in time
well tomorrow we leave here. the train to Amsterdam airport is at 9:15 am and our flight from there is at 1 pm. then it’s 7 hours to Toronto and in Toronto we have 3 hours to wait and then it’s another 3 hours to Edmonton. We arrive there around 8:30 pm. So i leave Holland at 1 pm on August 19th and arrive in Edmonton at 8:30 pm. seems like a short trip but...
Dirty Dancing Havana Nights isn’t that great of a movie but,
Diego Luna really makes up for it
“If you gotta work this hard, it’s not working”
– The OC
Never Use White Type on a Black Background, and 50...
1. Good designers copy, great designers steal
2. Make it pretty
3. Fashion is made to become unfashionable
4. Design is thinking made visual
5. A camel is a horse designed by a committee
6. Never use more than two typefaces
7. Style is not to be trusted
8. Good design solves the right problem
9. Design isn’t art
10. Minimalism is dead
11. Never use copy and paste
12. Make it new
...
i’ve recently been listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. i would listen to a song or two randomly but i never got into it but now listening to them, all the songs on their Greatest Hits album are those kinds of songs that feel really familiar and i like this
on another note, i looked at my bear tracks account today and i’m getting really excited to go back to school and see...
heather's tumblr :) →
i still can’t believe i came clean to my parents about certain bad habits, it’s been about a month since and i haven’t really had time to feel relieved or worried. things sort of carried on as always after that day and i like to think there is a kind of mutual understanding.
these past few days we have been doing nothing around here. we went to a market yesterday in the...
me and my brother just watched The Wrestler. so...
i wish Remy was my pet rat
it's 1:20 am
today we went to Amsterdam. well actually, first we went to Almeer to pick up a bike my brother bought from a site very similar to eBay. the people he bought it from live on Hollywoodlaan and surrounding this lane is Grace Kelly street, Judy Garland street, Cary Grant street, Humphrey Bogart street etc. The lady was super nice and lived in the coolest little house with the biggest balcony. We...
i just watched Bride Wars, i miss my best friend...
here i sit, my brother just left with John for football training so i’m in the apartment by myself as The Lion King finishes. we watched it during our supper of Dutch hot dogs (tar tar sauce in a bread tube which you shove the hot dog inside.. sounds odd and looks odd but it’s quite good) and salad. i have been downloading movies like mad because their internet here is a lot faster...
so far, i've biked 75 km
ten minutes ago i walked up the stairs and into the apartment with what my brother calls “sea legs”. everyone met this morning in my brother’s studio. me, my brother, Carl, Richard, Mike and Neils. we left around 10 30 and 1/3 of the way to Belgium, my brother was turned left and my brother’s pedal snapped off on a post he didn’t see, and he flew off the bike....
dear diary
it’s super late, but today i did some good shopping in Utrecht, and then to Bilthoven to make dinner for Heather’s non-related relative (haha) and that was nice because she lives in a very rich area in a very rich house with a beautiful brown big dog named Mickey. i better get to bed though, as tomorrow i am biking to Belgium with my brother & co. if the weather treats us nicely
Quiet Dog Bite Hard by Mos Def
dear diary
today was exhausting. this morning we caught the train right here in Eindhoven at 9 30 am, and made it to Heemstede around noon. we first went to her relative named Ingrid who gave us an extra bike, as i was previously riding on the back of Heather’s bike and then we visited Heather’s great aunt who turns 92 years old tomorrow and she is a wonder. there, we met up with Jonneke,...
