Here We Go - Mat Kearney & Counting The Stars - Augustana Doodles

as promised on this post!

[Here We Go - Mat Kearney] A lot of things go through my mind when i hear this song. Mostly things in motion: the rows of streetlights going by, an old film reeling on a white backdrop, ferris wheels, bicycle wheels, you name it. I think it's because the song talks about the cycles of circumstance; how moments in life get repeated in a different year, or a different face. it's bittersweet: the hope that comes with second chances, or the fear of repeating past mistakes. it can go either way.

[Counting Stars - Augustana]

i can't get the colors right on the camera for the first drawing, and i'm too lazy to use the DSLR. so there. lol.

Have a Happy Tuesday everybody!:)

Mondays are for Music

what usually keeps me sane through the week (other than massive amounts of food, sweets, and coffee) are my trusty headphones glued to my ears, and of course, the music that comes out of it. here are my current favorites for the past few days.

Mat Kearney - Here We Go, Breathe In Breathe Out, Never Be Ready

Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 am)

Bettie Serveert - Attagirl

Christ August - You Make Me Sing, Battle

Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything

i actually made a doodle about Mat Kearney's song, Here We Go (which i will post within the week since i was not able to take a picture of it). i think it's a good exercise for anyone who knows how to draw to incorporate a song into a sketch or any image that comes out of their minds while listening to the music. it's also good fun. :)

Of streetlights and stop signs

maybe decisions would be easy to make had the road to the 'right choice' been illuminated like the warm yellow lamp posts of a seemingly endless highway. you know you're going somewhere, and most of all, you know how to go back.

To Comment Or... Nevermind

i've been giving it a thought, and finally decided to enable commenting on this blog for a while to see how it goes. ever since i switched from Xanga to Blogger, i decided to leave the comment part where my old blog was since only registered Xanga users were able to leave comments(in short, frustrated writers or writers or bloggers or whatever). and boy, did i enjoy my conversations with them. it rarely was about the praise (although i admit, one of the reasons i disabled blogspot comments was because of my dislike of unhealthy criticism or spam), it was about interaction. it's like having your very own twin because they strung thoughts where mine ended, and made beautiful short proses out of the blue. i discovered amazing writers there, made friends with a few. it was a big comfort knowing other people felt what i felt. and wrote in the same way. :)

below are several of those comments, i suggest visiting their sites as well. it always was a pleasure to read works from these lovely people.:)

from atsixesandsevens who has been for a very long time since i started blogging, one of my favorite bloggers. he's also leaves very beautiful comments (even now), all of which i loved and taken to heart. i imagine coffee+conversations with him would be pretty awesome. too bad he lives a thousand miles away.= |

"It's kind of like watching a cigarette get flicked from a car on the freeway;

A dazzle of sparks and ash for one brief, brilliant moment, and then nothing at all."

"I like it. Lumps in the throat and words not coming out and everything. Because I think most of the major realizations in our lives come out of moments like that."

"sometimes the simplest things, in the simplest ways, remind you to take a step back and appreciate this life and this world for 
what it is. i really, really liked this. glad you made it 
through finals. :)"

"i think it's much easier to feel alone than it is to realize 
that people care for you.

it also makes for better writing."

"you can't imagine someone back to who they used to be.

that's what this makes me say, as i shake my head.

because it's such a familiar feeling."

from Perdedor

"Let's pretend we're not needy. Let's pretend our hearts still 
beat.

Let's pretend we fall in love tonight, clumsy enough to fall for anything."

from lank-and-lost

"I don't know what comfort you can take from knowing you're not alone in your affliction, but most of my life I've felt the same way. I still do. It makes me wish I had something intelligent to say but I can't really answer the question for myself either.

Still, there are so many little things that keep me interested 
that Even when I feel that constant lack of motivation holding myback to the wall like gravity, I feel contented to be living in 
the moment even if I'm not going anywhere. I know I have to breakthe habit as I'm not entirely pleased with the reactionary way 
I've been living or where it has got me.

If only I had a little push."

from isah

"sanity. what we all wish for, yet it seems so surreal. the temptation of being what we were

before lingers on.."

from degrees-of-sanity and life-complicated

it's a short post answering a question. might do this again one day. look it up here.

from amoensia

"a promise is real, the very exact moment it was made. one second after, it will vanish to therealm of memories. none of it will be real anymore. how ironic. because we tend to live and move on with the promises made and broken. convincing ourselves it WAS real."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering." -Paulo Coelho

from tolv

"the stars can't be trusted."

***

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."  ~Anaïs Nin

bonjour etranger! it's Monday again and it means another week of work and more work for lots of people. and since i'm still not giving up on keeping this blog alive, i'll just post some of my doodles i've drawn for the past few weeks.

this doodle is actually a Neil Gaiman inspired drawing. i kind of remember his unkempt hair and how it still looks heavenly on him. good thing it looked good on this drawing too. the lettering here is more or less how Delirium's (from the Sandman series) conversation font is portrayed in the graphic novel, minus the crazy rainbow colors that is.

i use technical fineline pens for most of my doodles. i discovered them early in college during my graphing class when my brother suggested them to me. they're affordable unlike those bigtime sketching pens and they don't smear (which is like, an artist's worst nightmare). the best part is that they come in 6 different line widths, ranging from 0.05mm to 0.8mm. i use the 0.1mm and 0.3mm pens, i've yet to buy the 0.05mm mostly cause it's elusive. these pens are usually available at any National Bookstore branch.

i'll probably make a bigger version of the last one if i have the time.:) who knows, it might sell!

have a happy week ahead people!:)

Wishful Wednesdays: Bedroom Edition

Bonjour and welcome to Wishful Wednesdays Bedroom Edition! :)

one of the favourite things i like to do when i have loads of free time is designing my room. it started a few years back when i had this urge to paint the walls and my closet and doors. then came the trinkets: the wooden map box for my books, the blue lava lamp, the ceramic black convertible figurine, the plaster of paris venetian-like mask and so on. here are a few others i reaaally wish i could afford or find to put in my room.

1. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelf+Nook. i would never leave my room had i this in it.

2. This chic birdcage lamp would look great next to my bed.

3. Or to this bed! i love the details on this four poster bed. it makes me think of forests and birds and leaves and not getting up for work.=D

4. If i can't have the birdcage lamp i'll settle for this intricate white birdcage and put yellow christmas lights inside!

maybe i was an interior designer or something in my past life. :) happy Wednesday everyone!