i would like to be her...now or in 50 years, either way.  i understand some aspects of this are impossible (i.e. i'm caucasian)

brother lawrence

"This made me resolve to give the all for the All, so after having given myself wholly to God, to make all the satisfaction I could for my sins, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none by He and I in the world."

this is coming...

remember the "we are the world" gem from the 80s?  a trillion more people are getting together to re-do it for haiti.  and by a trillion i mean:


Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Wyclef Jean, Josh Groban and Will.I.Am, T-Pain, Kanye West, Bizzy Bone, Kid Cudi, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Drake, Mann, Nipsey Hussle, Busta Rhymes and Swizz Beatz, Miley Cyrus, Keri Hilson, Zac Brown, Barbra Streisand; Carlos Santana; Natalie Cole; BeBe Winans; the members of Heart; Freda Payne; Harry Connick Jr.; Earth, Wind & Fire; the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, Tony Bennett, A.R. Rahman, Randy Jackson; Patti Austin; Celine Dion and Gladys Knight, Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughan, Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones, Nicole Richie, Rashida Jones, the 3T's, Joel and Benji Madden, Akon, Brandy, Melanie Fiona, Mya, Musiq Soulchild, Katharine McPhee, Trey Songz, Faith Evans, Orianthi, Sugarland, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Mraz, India.Arie, Mary Mary, Tyrese Gibson, Raphael Saadiq, Pink, Jordin Sparks, Rob Thomas, Usher, the Fray's Isaac Slade, Ethan Bortnick, Enrique Iglesias, Robin Thicke, Jamie Foxx, Adam Levine, the Jonas Brothers, Nicole Scherzinger and Julianne Hough.  


Stacked, huh?  And now here's a preview:

She and Him (aka zooey deschanel and m. ward) have their second album coming out february 23 and this is the first single called "in the sun" and guess who sings along with them on this track?  tilly and the wall.  ookay.

Donald Miller

"And as I worked on the novel, as my character did what he wanted and ruined my story, it reminded me of life in certain ways.  I mean as I sat there in my office feeling like God making my worlds, and as my characters fought to have their own way, their senseless, selfish way of nonstory, I could identify with them. I fought with my [character] who wanted the boring life of self-indulgence, and yet I was also that character, fighting God and I could see God sitting at his computer, staring blankly at his screen as I asked him to write in some money and some sex and some comfort.

I feel written.  My skin feels written, and my desires feel written.  My sexuality was a word spoken by God, that I would be male, and I would have brown hair and brown eyes and come from a womb.  It feels literary, doesn't it all, as if we are characters from books."

peter gabriel covers

Peter Gabriel is releasing a sick album of covers on February 15.  I got the Flume (bon iver) cover today and it sounds incredible.  I'm realllly excited about the rest of these!

Take a look at the tracklist:


01 "Heroes" (David Bowie)
02 "The Boy in the Bubble" (Paul Simon)
03 "Mirrorball" (Elbow)
04 "Flume" (Bon Iver)
05 "Listening Wind" (Talking Heads)
06 "The Power of the Heart" (Lou Reed)
07 "My Body Is a Cage" (Arcade Fire)
08 "The Book of Love" (The Magnetic Fields)
09 "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Randy Newman)
10 "Après moi" (Regina Spektor)
11 "Philadelphia" (Neil Young)
12 "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (Radiohead)

holly miranda + marques toliver

so i've been listening to holly miranda a lot recently (really really good) and then this morning when i wasn't in class because of this eternal snowdayweek i youtubed her song "waves" and guess who she plays it with?

marques toliver!

that probably doesn't mean anything to you but i came across marques' myspace probably sophomore year and thought he was incredible because he sings and plays violin at the same time and i've allllways wanted to be able to do that.  he's also really cocky but to me it's just really funny.

so here, listen to this gorgeous song: