rum or whiskey?

today i'm listening to: the noisettes - never forget you

whatcha drinkin?

rum or whiskey?

now won't you have a

double with me?

yes dahling, let's grab a drink.

and yes... let's make it a double.

i've gone through the whirlwind and

i think i've decided

things are starting to settle

and nothing is worse

than when things start to settle...

it's time to shake things up!

they can't scare me if i scare them first - lady gaga

i dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession

- william danforth

take me by the tongue and i'll know you

-maroon 5

to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

- ulysses, alfred tennyson

i wish a lot of things... some things more than once....

the only dream worth having

is to live while you're alive

and die only when you're dead.

- arudahati roy

hey moon, please forget to fall down

- panic at the disco!

he was born with a gift of laughter

and a sense that the world was mad

- rafael sabatini

to do a dangerous thing

with style

is what i call art

- charles bukowski

xoxo. - jess

wild hearts

today i'm listening to: helplessness blues - fleet foxes

they blow me away...

i was raised up believing

i was somehow unique

like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes

unique in each way you can see

and now after some thinking

i'd say i'd rather be

a functioning cog in some great machinery

serving something beyond me

but i don't, i don't know what that will be

i'll get back to you someday soon you will see

oh hey new york, i've made it.

for a while there i felt like i was on a

really long vacation

it's always like that when i move...

when does it start to feel solid?

then again... does new york ever feel solid?

best part?

i don't care. i like that i can be a

stranger in new york

but... it's creeping up on me that i may not be that much of an outsider...

and THAT, is secretly awesome.

i used to think that when you grew up,

you actually stopped growing.

how wrong was i

- katie couric

i'm not interested in preserving the status quo;

i want to overthrow it - machiavelli

i'm feeling quite human today -

therefore, i'm a bit impatient and slightly moody....

we'll all float on anyway...

i don't dream at night, i dream all day; i dream for a living. - steven spielberg

"when i was 5 years old,

my mother always told me that happiness

was the key to life.

when i went to school,

they asked me what i wanted to be

when i grew up. i wrote down "happy."

they told me i didn't understand the assignment,

and i told them they didn't understand life."

- john lennon

i had a genuine freakout moment yesterday

(when i first typed "genuine" just then... i started with a 'j')

--i may be going crazy--

does that make me more of a new yorker?

or more of an artist?

....or a bigger artist-in-ny cliche?

blame it on my wild heart

marilyn liked to fly too

i got an unexpected message from someone tonight

which prompted me to send someone else a message

(but that is neither here nor there)

anyway - some people may think it was creepy

i think it was ballsy. and brave.

and i respect him for it.

and out of the whole conversation...

and i hope i'm the me that he thinks me to be

until then, i'm walking fast, talking fast, and folding my pizza

keep the change you filthy animal

xoxo. -jess

flutter.by

today i'm listening to: agesandages - souvenir

this is our answer:

brace yourself for the hour

never too old for

cotton candy.

well folks, looks like i'm headed to NY in a couple weeks

(one way ticket)

it's gonna be bad. ass.

"remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. you are already naked. there is no reason not to follow your heart.

...stay hungry. stay foolish" - steve jobs

R I P

Mr. Jobs

"your time is limited,

so don't waste it living someone else's life.

don't be trapped by dogma -

which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice

and most important,

have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

they somehow already know what you truly want to become.

everything else is secondary" - steve jobs

he shook all our parades

"you can't connect the dots looking forward

you can only connect them looking backwards.

so you have to trust that

the dots will somehow connect in your future.

you have to trust in something --

your gut,

destiny,

life,

karma,

whatever.

this approach has never let me down,

and it has made all the difference in my life."

- steve jobs

can't wait to get to NY to do some of this....

and by default, some of this:

"your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

if you haven't found it yet,

keep looking. dont' settle.

as with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

and, like any great relationship,

it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

so keep looking until you find it. don't settle."

- steve jobs

"i want to put a ding in the universe" - steve jobs

xoxo. - jess