woe. the Tour is over.
Category: <span>General</span>
The internet has been keeping this secret too long! It is my great delight to begin sharing lovely and interesting things via Posterous. I am going to see how I travel in terms of if I decide to see if I can get it to auto post to the blog – that might be a bit much. I churn through rather a lot online. So much it’s quite depressing. Oh golly this is exciting. It’s like a whole new way to display a collection!
Find me here: http://becmatheson.posterous.com/
or use the Collections & Curiousities link at the top
I am inspired by the (very lovely herself) Blair, whom I share a bookclub with – she writes lists. So here are some charming ‘shares’ and some things that are pushing good buttons of late.
ONLINE/VISUAL
Bird and Banner – stationers and their blog makes me happy
Sheaf Ephemera – who doesn’t like vintage/old-school things, this person shows them off and consequently has given the internet a catalogue of superb inspiration
Fuck Yes Maps – glorious, glorious maps
The Blog on the Bookshelf – a blog about bookshelves… oh so lovely
Mad Men Cartoons – A Flickr set (I LOVE Mad Men)
MUSIC
The Smiths – pure old-school goodness
David Gray – it’ll never get old, I’m still obsessed
Vampire Weekend – Contra is golden
BOOKS
The Secret History by Donna Tartt – this is one of the best books I have read in a long time, it is totally wonderful with a perfect level of intelligent suspense and disturbing themes. Also a Penguin Classic and our current Bookclub book.
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty- a terribly enjoyable/frolicking novel that plays with characters and conversation. It doesn’t pursue the greatest depths but it kind of doesn’t need to.
THINGS
The challenge to listen and to ask
A weekend away with the Soul Survivor team
The fact that playing with words never gets old
Happy belated five years blogging to myself and this fine, old, lovely, often changing place.
I’ve been listening to some of my ‘older’ music and was really struck by Relient K’s lyrics of “Maintain Consciousness”. I think it pretty much lays out the reality of the distractions around for today’s teenager (and young adults for that matter). Distractions and lack of depth in particular areas is something that features frequently in my own life. It’s an upward climb to deal with this stuff and if the lyrics below have anything to say the upward climb is not what is in order.
Our conversations change from words to blah, blah, blah
We took prescription drugs
But look how much good that did
Well I think I had a point,
But I just got distractedLately it just seems to me
Like we’ve got the letters A.D.D
Branded into our mentality
We simply can’t focus on anythingBecause its
17, 18, 19 routine
And here at 23 it’s the same old me
And that one thing of the moment
That we all happen to like will
Only very temporarily
Kinda break the cycle
Of the double edged sword
Of being lazy and being bored
We just want more and more and more
Till it’s all we can affordTo keep out eyes open for just one more day
To keep on hoping that we’ll stumble on a way
To keep our minds open for just one more day
Cause its completely up to us
To maintain consciousnessWell no one can possibly listen to this
More that 4 reps is just monotonous
We’re losing interest,
Losing interest,
Losing interest