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Making a music video →

Tomorrow night we will be filming a music video with Jordan Albertsen. This is a link to one of his short films/music videos he did for a band out of LA. I am so excited to be working with him! There will be snow machines, and fog machines, not to mention I’ll get to hangout in Bellingham for the first time in forever. I’ll post some pictures and a recap soon!

— 4 months ago

Time to start writing about life again. I had a great time reading my past entries the other night, and I need to allow myself to reflect more often. It is almost the new year. I wrote a song a few weeks ago which perfectly describes the situation I feel myself in currently, and seem to find myself in over and over:

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I walk by your window and I

don’t know what I want to see.

Do I want to relive my past

or do I just want company?

Something comfortable. Something comfortable.

You don’t know you leave a trace

up and down my spine like lacing spiderwebs

invisible to the eye.

I am always the one who walks right through

and it ties me up inside.

Something comfortable. Something comfortable.


Just because you can,

it doesn’t mean you should,

go picking away, picking away at

healing wounds.

Let us grow a thicker skin,

let us let the right ones in,

let us know when to run

and when to stay….


in Something comfortable. Something comfortable.

— 4 months ago with 1 note
Little Ghost →

This is a digital single for a track by my band Cumulus. This song is titled “Little Ghost.” For the last four years I have been playing these songs by myself, but as of 2011 I started playing with a full band and we are finally getting some recordings together to show what we’ve been working so hard on. I hope you enjoy this, and I look forward to sharing more music with all of my friends and family in the future! xo

— 1 year ago with 2 notes
#cumulus  #alexandra niedzialkowski  #trever hadley  #ryan sprute  #lance umble  #seattle music  #indie pop 
"You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography."

Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he performs cunnilingus on Michelle Williams. (via agarfields

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(Source: feminishblog, via inhysterics)

— 1 year ago with 5178 notes

Patti Smith - Hey Joe (by djails)

“I thought of something I learned from reading Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz. Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine…” Patti Smith (Just Kids)

— 1 year ago
My best friends.

My best friends.

— 1 year ago
femmefeminist:

“Put rapists on trial, not women.”
(Via Rachelle Janice on facebook)

femmefeminist:

“Put rapists on trial, not women.”

(Via Rachelle Janice on facebook)

(via worsethanqueer)

— 1 year ago with 1515 notes
Untitled song

I wrote this last week and finally felt like I was able to put words to all of the anxiety/loneliness/unsettled feelings I’ve been having. It is so crazy how relieving it can be to write those feelings out, searching for the perfect words. Once the words are released I feel released from the pain too.

“I’ll sit here and watch you make the same mistakes I did.

I never meant it to end like this.

Never trust a person who doesn’t know,

who doesn’t know how to be alone.

They will wander from bed to bed,

until they make your head their home.

All I ever wanted for you was to feel content

in your own bones.

Here is a coat of armor,

don’t let anybody in.

Right now love is a game

that you do not want to win.

If you don’t believe me, go and see for yourself.

There is always room for more on the heart collector’s shelf.

They will take you,

they will take you away.

When you feel the cold,

and see the fog, you’ll know,

that you are still breathing-

your heart it keeps on beating.

Adjust your eyes to see in the dark,

we are alone in this together.

Alone is not forever.

Adjust your eyes to see in the dark,

we are alone in this together.

Alone is not forever. “

— 1 year ago
New Karl Blau record and tshirt in the mail! Best way to end the week ever.  (Taken with instagram)

New Karl Blau record and tshirt in the mail! Best way to end the week ever. (Taken with instagram)

— 1 year ago
So this looks like the best sleeping bag ever..

So this looks like the best sleeping bag ever..

(via colossalcatastrophe)

— 1 year ago with 540 notes
High school carpet.

High school carpet.

— 1 year ago