kayl parker
i start school tomorrow.
i have art history:film analysis from 9-12 and intro to printmaking from 6-9. i’m excited, but i want the awkward first day to just be overrrrrr. (ps: good luck freshies!)
September 2010
53 posts
“i feel generally horrid today. not in a sick way; not even in a depressed way. just one of those days where i can’t get past the feeling that there’s something i need to do, but never quite reaching what that something might be. i need to cry, maybe or fill myself with confidence.”
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August 2010
85 posts
jackie, september/october 2010
this beautiful minimalist editorial featured in the newest issue of jackie features a serious of simply shot photographs by marc de groot. not only are the photographs charming, but they also make me want to purchase ever article of clothing laid on marloes horst.
source: iainclaridge via fashion gone rogue
“i have never been more unsatisfied with a historical book in my life. even though dna tests say that anna anderson isn’t the grand duchess anastasia, i still can’t believe it. who was she then? anna anderson was a lady; there is absolutely no way she was a polish factory worker. she knew too much.”
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Enchanting Ghost
Sufjan Stevens
such a great ep, cody bought tickets to his chicago show last saturday.
“a boy falls, then on the ground. he kicks his legs. a girl says to him you okay? yes- but still lies there. he holds his sides. are you getting up? she crouches down. i like it here better.”
—randie lipkin, without
“see how the leaves float? they seem to belong here and not on their trees.”
—randie lipkin, without
- dr. e.s. botkin: anastasia nicolaievna, you are made of gold!
- anastasia: not at all. i am made of leather.
what i did today,
i didn’t go outside, that’s for sure. it was so cool inside that i couldn’t resist lounging around all day with my current read (a non-fiction about grand duchess anastasia by peter kurth). i also got around to some embroidery (i’ve begun outlining the buildings in black yarn, starting at the river and going south, today i managed to do twelve), and watercolors (i’ve been wanting to incorporate space into my watercolors, so i decided to let it out).
little soldier 1, 2010, kayl parker, watercolor on paper
little soldier 2, 2010, kayl parker, watercolor on paper
interested? kp
“the reproduction of her past life is spotty, like islands in a sea…”
—dr. lothar nobel, on grand duchess anastasia’s memory at the mommsen clinic in berlin (source: anastasia: the riddle of anna anderson, by peter kurth)
“oh, adhere to me, for we are bound by symmetry. and whatever differences our lives have been, we together make a limb.”
—the decemberists, red right ankle
“and then he circled the spot in the book where the period should have been.”
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“the diagnosis was “melancholia” - as the doctors clarify it, “mental illness of a depressive character.” they offered no opinion about her sanity. she simply arrived at dalldorf, in the countryside near berlin, as fraulein unbekannt (miss unknown) and took a bed in house 4, ward b. there were fourteen other women in the room. none but she, strictly speaking, was quiet.”
—peter kurth, anastasia: the riddle of anna anderson
excerpt from without
- koji: mother, could you play that song? the song where the girl's lover drowns and she throws herself into the sea.
- shige: you always ask for that song.
- koji: are you really finished playing?
- shige: i'm not going to drown those poor lovers again.
- koji: drowning's supposed to be very pleasant, once you stop struggling. you feel you're breathing the water, everything's very peaceful.
excerpt from without
- shige: what you would you call that?
- setsuko: blue.
- shige: it's very red for blue.
- setsuko: yes.
