“Westfall” // Don’t Fall in Love with Everyone You See // Okkervil River
Loosely based on the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders.
It’s time for Christmas cookies!!!!!!!!
Jason: I thought this was a cookie-eating competition…
Giant Ant installation at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. September 4, 2009.
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitan, Oaxaca. Graciela Iturbide, 1979.
The colossal John Singer Sargent painting El Jaleo (1882) is one of the first pieces you see upon entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the prettiest in Boston.
Edgar Allan Poe. One and Only.
Annabel Lee
IT was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me —
Yes ! — that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we —
Of many far wiser than we —
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
If I had to pick one creepy pretty band, it’d be The Cure.
If I had to pick one creepy pretty song, it’d be “Plainsong.”
