Social-Political Rant

I just have to say that I don't understand this whole thing with us going into Syria.  I understand that the chemical warfare on the people there is brutal and horrific.  I understand that we (as humans, not Americans) should not let that slide.  I don't understand how America thinks it can get involved in something that has been going on for two years already and not get completely sucked into this civil war.  And what's worse is I think that we are getting somewhat pushed into it.  America has stuck it's nose in the asshole of every problem that we could up until now and when we don't want to get involved we get blamed.  Now we get looked at to get involved in everything, and I know that expectation is partly our fault.  There are plenty of other countries that could do something.  What would make the message clear is if everyone (from all over the world) could get past their religious and social ideals and look at these people laying in these hospitals and know that this is wrong.  We should fight for humanity as a whole.  Assad and his minions doing this to these citizens should be seen as traitors to the world, to humanity.  Not just in Syria.  Anyone and everyone has the ability to get involved.  We are all people.  We are all responsible for what happens in our world.  If you are sitting in Germany or New Zealand or Russia or South Africa or Singapore or Scotland or Argentina or Mexico or Canada or Nigeria or Brazil or anywhere on planet Earth and you think that this doesn't concern you then you need to wake up and smell the tear gas, because what happens in our world, no matter where it is, happens to you too.

Mav



We are 100%.

now i've thought it through

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? by Arctic Monkeys

And this happened.  Alex Turner you tease. (Pre-quiff mind you.)

Here is a live performance of Love Is A Laserquest by Alex Turner (acoustic). It's so wonderful.  His voice slides over me like slowing dipping into a hot bath.  Mmm I am going to take a bath tonight.

Mav


51 days

4 days until Dragon Con

Love Me Again by John Newman

Simply,
Mav

53 days

it's what people call the morning....

Wake Me Up by Avicii
This song is so damn upbeat! It just makes me wanna groove around. I think the people in the town though get taken all wrong.  What if they saw that they were different and were really just trying to find an escape from their own hell. Especially the girl at the end.  She looks so sad. Could they not ride the horse back out again?

Mav


57 days

Camel back Day

Sex On Fire by Kings of Leon
This song is awesome.  I love music.  It's so perfect. I want to press my skin against Caleb Followill.  Maybe that is creepy, but I don't need your approval.  Besides, you're thinking it.

And there is Jared Followill. Can I get under the covers with you?

So if my friend comes into town this weekend I will probably go get a tattoo.  I know what you're thinking, "But Mav, you just got a tattoo."  I know that.  I want another one.  It's hard to not get them when you know what you want and you have the money.  I would tell you what it is, but copycats and such.  I'll show you after I get it.  If I don't get it this weekend then it will probably be September before I get it.

Yep,
Mav

58 days

I can taste it.

Weed can get you through times with no money, but money can't get you through times with no weed.

Fact.

I'm thinking I'm addicted to Tattoos

We all knew that a post every day in my horribly sober state of mind was way too good a deal to last.  I've done well, not my best, but pretty decently.  Not much longer now kiddies.  I'm not going to promise that I will post more often but I can say that my posts will be much more enjoyable and interesting and probably funny (because I'm hilarious, you know). Anyway,  I'm almost done with work and I plan to go home and play some Mass Effect 2 while I let my kindle charge.

Let Her Go by Passenger
This song makes me so happy.  It's just so great.  I love the lead singer (calls himself Passenger) and his voice.  It's so wonderfully unique and beautiful.  So check them out.

Oh, and I wrote a thing and stuff....

Wrong Side Out

I read your words like breath they suffocate me
twirling around in my lungs needing a moment to escape my lips
I can't let them go with the way your eyes sang to me
fingertips making sense of my body's braille
laughter in droves
sighs in infinity
waving wisps of hair curling around your nose
my heart pounds with pain in my chest and I won't let it out
I can't let you out with endless pools of surf green
tangled legs wrapped in sheets of organic cotton
crackling fires and a rough corduroy couch
I am filled with your essence
separated only by the tissues of my organs pleading for release
depleting my energy holding on
I break and my body rejoices in sobs with your absence
pillows that smell like faint detergent
burgers tasting of unseasoned meat
dark strand of hair on my sink swept into the trash
a flushed out vessel waiting to inhale with pink cheeks


Hopefully,
Mav


59 days

2 months minus 1 day

Do or Die by Thirty Seconds to Mars
Love this song and this video.  I'm feeling very spiritually empowered lately.  It's amazing how a good conversation can just snap you back to yourself.  I don't have a lot to say yet though.  But I'm feeling more like myself.

Majestically,
Mav

"You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop."


60 days

It's a rainy day

I met a gorgeous man with a rugged beard, long blonde hair and nipple rings.  Then I woke up.

Exit Humanity
Great movie of the week.  If you like zombies then you'll like this movie.  It's got great filming and animation and makeup.  It's pretty great.  It's on Netflix. Watch!

Ride on Right on by Phosphorescent
vid is a bit crap, but the song is just great

Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys
here is another because music

sluggishly,
Mav

PS: Check out my buddy's page, A Vast Frontier.


65 days

time ticks on

Everyone just needs to chill the hell out.  Put this on and just veg and groove the whole time.  Light up whatever you want to as well.  The world needs peace.  Find each other through music.

Killing Me Deep Inside by Slightly Stoopid

Prophet by Slightly Stoopid


66 days

Here ya go :)

Fables by The Dodos

Mav

71 days

last day of work this week

Not a lot to say.  My friend is coming into town tonight.  More on Sunday.

Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear
This is a band I have just recently been made aware of.  I think they have some real talent and this video is trippy as fuck.  Really great though.  They remind me of a Shins/Doors/awesomeness mashup type dealy.  Well Just check them out.

Peace,
Mav

72 days

It's wednesday, ya know?

New Slang by The Shins
I know it's not a music video, but I don't know if they have any.  Not that I've seen.  This song is great though, and you may remember it from the movie Garden State, which was a movie of the week at one point.

My friend is visiting this weekend and we are going to go get some stuff pierced.  Remember my industrial closed up while I was in jail? Well, I'm going to be getting it re-pierced this weekend! Don't worry, I'll post pictures.

This whole thing about introverts and extroverts is getting silly.  I am an introvert.  I like to sit at home and play video games and smoke weed and not talk to people very often.  It doesn't mean I never want to hang out with anyone.  I like to go out and see my friends and when they come to see me.  But you probably wont see me at very many raging shindigs or huge HUGE parties or anything.  Being an introvert also doesn't mean I never want to talk to you.  I have things I want to say (or I wouldn't have this blog).  I just don't feel the need to endlessly talk about my life to everyone.  I don't even do that with my best friend.  I tell you once and that's it.  I like to listen.  I will listen and process and think and if I have something to say then I'll say it.  But don't except some ridiculously long, drawn out, explanatory speech about why I think that.  Maybe I want you to think about why I said that.  Maybe you should be the one asking questions about life. You have to come up with your own conclusions.  Don't always look for validation in another.  There is also this stupid idea that if you are creative you must only be an introvert. Not true! I know plenty of extroverts that are creative as all get out! The same goes for intelligence.  Extroverts are just as smart as introverts.  There is also this notion out there that introverts only care about what's going on inside themselves and don't care about anything outside themselves.  Lies.  I think the most important way to learn about yourself is by learning about the world.  Also, how can we ever expect to fully accept and love and have a decent place to live if we don't ever go outside of our own little mind box.  I'll admit I spend more time daydreaming than I probably should, but it doesn't mean that I am disconnected from the world and don't care about it.

Blah,
Mav


73 days

take it back now, y'all!

I'm gonna throw back today.
Say My Name by Destiny's Child
When they had way more than the final three of Destiny's Child.  And the only one who got super famous is Beyonce (but I love Kelly's face when they do the thing at the end in the pleather) .  The style in this video makes me laugh.  It is so 2000 with the pants and that hair and the weird flowers on the jeans.  This is still one of this groups most memorable songs.  It really put them on the music scene and from there they only grew in popularity.  It's pretty cool to look back at this video and remember when it came out.  It's also sad that there are kids today that have no idea what this song is, much less this group.  They know Beyonce (but who doesn't? It's Beyonce!)and they will never know this songs glory unless they take the time to find it or someone takes the time to show them.

The way the furniture moves in this video reminds me of Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. I'd bet money that Destiny's Child took the inspiration or that whoever directed their video had the inspiration.  This song is also pretty famous.  It's not many people that don't know it.  Somehow it's become a classic of sorts. I used to have shoes like his, except they were orange and red! Ah the 90's.  It's always fun to look back and ask yourself, "What was I thinking?" And it's nice to realize that no matter what you are doing you will still look back and think that (at least when it comes to fashion).  I have a friend in Memphis and I love him and he has the most rockin hair I've ever seen and only he would have the guts and the chic to pull it off.  In 10 years, however, he will look back at some old photo album and say, "Oh my god! Look at my hair!" and he'll laugh and sigh.  The funniest part will be the fact that he actually will have only upgraded his hairstyle and only because fashion is different now does the past look non-fashionable.  (well in some cases, people really don't have any fashion sense.) But that's what makes life interesting right?  Leave the same hair style for 40 years in the babies of the 30's.  This is the 21st century and we like to be bold and stand out and change ourselves and our surroundings and our ideas.  We like to try new things and take chances and make risky decisions.  It's all about the ride, and mine will be an exciting roller coaster.  What will yours be?

Watching these videos make me miss Pop Up Video.  I hear that they have started Pop Up Video again, but I never watch MTv or VH1 because they never play music anymore.  I know that is something that we all miss about MTv, is when it actually played music videos.  To soothe all your sad, sad, Pop Up Video missing souls I'm going to include this little number. Another awesome 90's song, Fly by Sugar Ray. Even this video has a kind of weird room sequence with Mark McGrath jumping all over the walls and ceiling and doing a bit of break dancing. Don't try to say you didn't enjoy the video.

Happily,
Mav


74 days

i know

I'm awful.  But my mom was in town this weekend.

Just a word to the non wise (because the wise wouldn't have this problem, though perhaps only the wise would listen) watch what you say to people.  You may think that you know a person because of your own personal experience with other people, but you don't.  You can only judge people against themselves.  If you have two daughters and they are weak and not athletic and don't really help around the house, don't assume that that is how I will be as well.  Don't belittle my strength and intelligence because you know other girls who are that way.  This goes for everything.  Be kind to your family. Treat them with love.  When they do something for you, be grateful.  Even if it takes longer than you thought it would, you still aren't having to do it.  That's not to say if they do a really terrible job or something you just don't ask them to do it again, but just be nice about it.  Whether it's just how you wanted it or not (unless its obvious that they half-assed just to be a douche) just remember that they took time out of their day that they could have been doing something for themself.

I hate the confusion surround the word themself, themselves.  It keeps telling me that themself isn't a word, but what the hell am I supposed to put instead? Them?  "They could have been doing something for them."  I think that is right, but it feels incomplete somehow.

Juicebox by The Strokes
Hello Tobias Funke, analrapist!
This song rocks pretty hard.  Looks like Julian Casablancas isn't as hopped up on drugs anymore.  He used to look so fucked up in every video.  The first one where I noticed he didn't and actually had clear eyes was in Reptilia.  Which is still one of my favorite songs of theirs, and I thought it had already been a song of the day. He is so much cuter when he looks like this and you can see his eyes.  Also, Nick Valensi is hoooooot. Yummy!

Sue me. So you haven't gotten a song every mother fucking day. I try. If you have song of the day ideas, I'm totally willing to consider them! I love hearing new music!

End Love by OK Go
But here is another. I absolutely love OK Go, and I love this video. The goose makes me laugh every time.

That's it.  Tell your friends.

Of course,
Mav

PS: Check out this fan made video that won the OK Go video competition and became OK Go's accepted official vid.  It's really good! I'm Not Through by OK Go


75 days

reverse, reverse

this song goes out to the one guy who just keeps me reeled in.  And while I want to live by these lyrics and stand strong, I can't help but know that I've done the exact same thing to him.  Give and take.  Push and pull.  Intrigue, passion, intensity, craving.  I also know that there isn't anyone else you see.  It's hard to say how we really feel isn't it?

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing by Jack Johnson


Deliberately,
Mav

78 days

Maverick Say

Sometimes people are so out of touch.  I don't mean in the mentally ill sort of way or in the old demented sort of way. I mean in the never living in the moment way.  People get so caught up in what happened in the past and where they are going in the future that they can miss what's right in front of their faces.  Surely this is the only moment we have.  The future never gets here, it always becomes the present.  So if you are always thinking about the future then you will always be living ten steps ahead of yourself and maybe missing a lot of things you should be seeing.  Yes, planning is great, but when all you do is plan then you don't gain anything but future regrets that you missed out.  This is life.  Right now.  This very second.  Not 5 years away.  That hasn't happened yet! And not 2 years ago, you can't ever change that again so remember it fondly but don't dwell on it. I think this type of "in the moment" thinking comes from confidence in yourself.  You have to be happy with yourself.  Think about it.  People who want to change are constantly thinking about what it will be like when they have changed, instead of just being who they are and loving themselves (I know that we all go through phases of future thinking--I'm saying it may not necessarily be a good thing when it is overdone). The biggest life lesson that (hopefully) everyone learns is that you can only find happiness within yourself.  You can't look for it in any other place.  Not in your mom or dad or girlfriend or boyfriend or best friend or brother or sister or anyone. Not even if they make you so happy that you can barely breathe around them.  It's a good start, but those feelings fade and if you aren't satisfied with yourself then you wont be satisfied with them.  (I'm gonna tangent) I've noticed that a lot of folks (men and women) get caught up in the act of finding that special someone.  Often times these people aren't very happy, they don't know what they want or who they are and they keep wondering why they can't find anyone.  No one is ever good enough.  But when you start to love yourself then you will be fulfilled much easier.  You start to look at a relationship as a partnership, a coming together, and working together.  It's no longer trying to find someone who "completes" you, because you are already complete. It's not some fairy-tale that you think you will never have to work.  A good relationship compromises. It's deciding to share life with someone who is your best friend, understands you, knows what being in a relationship means and loves themselves.  Only if they love themselves can they ever love you.  So don't go trying to "fix" people.  There is a reason those relationships never work.  The same goes for you.  I know that you are empty and alone and sad and just want to be loved, but trust me (I've been there) if you can't love yourself then you will have a hard time finding real happiness.

Something Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club


Unequivocally,
Mav

PS: I changed up the Songs of the Day page so that the most recent song is now on the top.


"Forever is composed of nows."

79 days