i’ve been pining a lot lately over the deterioration of what i thought was one of the greatest, most genuine friendships in my life.  until recently i never questioned the value of our friendship.  we’ve been through so much together.  there has always been mutual respect, understanding.  its one of those friendships that doesn’t permit awkwardness – the…

yesterday’s tomorrow by marc hendrickx (book) while rummaging through a record store to buy some new music, a dusty bookshelf tucked into the corner distracted me.  i must admit – a book will trump my interest over music any day.   i don’t know if it was the image of canadian icon leonard cohen rugged up…

a strong articulation of how i am feeling if only i could pen such words like mr. leonard cohen: “we all want to dissolve.  we all need that experience of forgetting who we are.  i think that is what love is – you forget who you are.  forgetting who you are is such a delicious…

i feel it all by feist.   “i will be the one to break my heart….i know more than i knew before…i didn’t rest, i didn’t stop….i love you more…i don’t know what i knew before…but now i know i want to win the war”   let’s face it, feist rocks.  beautiful, ecletic and trailblazing. …

it was in breakfast at tiffany’s where i read that you love the person that gives you confidence.  you love this person because they instill in you an aura of esteem, a humble humility that perhaps before you didn’t know existed.  or merely due to the fact that it was hidden beneath a layer of insecurity, just…

there is something that I find masterfully compelling and utterly poetic about mark oliver everett, front man of the blues-folk-rock band, the eels. perhaps because his music has been the soundtrack throughout this transitional time or perhaps it is because I find his lyrics eerily identifiable.  then again, it is probably just because he is…