Sonnet Number Three

Your beloved eyes are undercover

The hopes of mine heart are soon forgotten

Memory is with my secret lover

As if my love was but a misbegott’n

 Come here, come here in the secret places

Come close and let no other win they heart

You’re  the beauty, uncompar’d to oth’r faces

I pray, my love, that we should’st never part

 You, my love, are liken’d unto Romeo

My lost lover who nev’r did’st know thy love

Thy heart twas missed by cupids brok’n arrow

My heart’s loss twas predestined from above

 My sequestered lone heart twill soon extol

Thy un-relinquished heart hath lost mine soul.

l'amour fou

Teacup

 

(photo for "Cold Mountain")

this is how I want to live the rest of my life.

     -The Face

uncharted territory.

Well I've decided to take a break from my typical form to bring something to your attention:

"Dark was the Night"

Produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner (of The National)

Executive Producer John Carlin (founder of Red Hot Organization)

32 tracks exclusively recorded this compilation with profits going to the Red Hot Organization-an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.

Track list:

     "THIS DISC"

1. "Knotty Pine" - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

2. "Cello Song" - The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez

3. "Train Song" - Feist and Ben Gibbard

4. "Brackett, WI" - Bon Iver

5. "Deep Blue Sea" - Grizzly Bear

6. "So Far Around The Bend" - The National

7. "Tightrope" - Yeasayer

8. "Feeling Good" - My Brightest Diamond

9. "Dark Was The Night" - Kronos Quartet

10. "I Was Young When I Left Home" - Antony with Bryce Dessner

11. "Big Red Machine" - Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner

12. "Sleepless" - The Decemberists

13. "Stolen Houses (Die)" - Iron & Wine

14. "Service Bell" - Grizzly Bear + Feist

15. "You Are The Blood" - Sufjan Stevens

     "THAT DISC"

1. "Well-Alright" - Spoon

2. "Lenin" - Arcade Fire

3. "Mimizan" - Beirut

4. "El Caporal" - My Morning Jacket

5. "Inspirational Information" - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

6. "With A Girl Like You" - Dave Sitek

7. "Blood Pt. 2" - Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)

8. "Hey, Snow White" - The New Pornographers

9. "Gentle Hour" - Yo La Tengo

10. "Amazing Grace" - Cat Power + Dirty Delta Blues

11. " Happiness" - Riceboy Sleeps

12. "Another Saturday" - Stuart Murdoch

13. "The Giant of Illinois" - Andrew Bird

14. "Lua" - Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch

15. "When The Road Runs Out" - Blonde Redhead & Devastations

16. "Love Vs. Porn" - Kevin Drew

enjoy.

     -The Face

Growing Old.

Before enjoying my evening tea...

let me propose a question for us all.

How is it that people's hearts don't shatter as they watch an old man, whom can barely walk or hear, eat by himself at a fast food restaurant?

Everyone deserves this -

l'amore fou,
Teacup

Xavier here with the entertainment stuff for you. Got some time on your hands and don't know what to do with it? Well then you oughta listen.

For all of you bookworms out there:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

I am not great with reviews but I'll do my best. The Perks.. in the form of a diary in a way, through a series of letters to an unknown person moderates the life of the freshmen teen, Charlie. Charlie explains his every day life through words and phrases that hit you with a strong feeling of nostalgia and can't help you from thinking on old memories you oddly remember but love in a certain way only you can explain. Charlie writes 

"I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have(...)I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have.  I need to know that these people exist."

Through the story we see how Charlie falls into place with people that accept him and who he feels he truly loves.

Movies for all film-watchers:

The United States of Leland

This independent film stars Ryan Gosling and Don Cheadle. Leland, a criminal for stabbing a retarded boy, narrates us on how sees world and the bits and pieces that have made him who he is. We learn his opinions on love, sadness, and how it effects our lives. Leland's lack of interest to what goes on around him shows his inability to physically express his emotions..but once he can bottle his feelings no more he does something that will change his life and lives around him forever. 

And a little music for all of you head-boppin' fools:

I made myself a mixtape, and I am here to share it.

Infinite - The Mixtape

The Smiths - Asleep

1. Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
2. T-Pain - Chopped N Skrewed
3. The Jakes - Cough Syrup
4. The Flaming Lips - Ego Trippin’ At the Gates of Hell
5. Bon Iver - Flume
6. Frou Frou - Hear Me Out
7. The Fray - Heartless (Kanye West Cover)
8. Patrick Park - Here We Are
9. Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
10. Something Corporate - Konstantine
11. Frou Frou - Let Go
12. Animal Collective - My Girls
13. The Shins - New Slang
14. Something Corporate - The Runaway
15. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
16. Right Away, Great Captain! - What a Pity
17. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (Oasis Cover)
18. Sea Wolf - You’re a Wolf 
19. 
    

You can download it here

.....That's all for today kids. 

- Xavier

rattle and hum.

musical score written (or drawn) by John Cage

"It's about the music...at least that's what you said it was going to be about."

think about it.

     -The Face

2050.

I lived in a world full of reason – lacking emotion. Some, with their arms raised and flags in hand, objected to any form of social norm. Any form of garden-variety likeness was unacceptable. The first African American President was elected. The world as we knew it, was inverted. America was capsized.

Do not mistake this for a call of warning to our future generations. Recognize this as a dubious reminder of the world as we knew it.

The word “recession” had become a part of our every day patter. Our children reenacted our getting “laid off” by informing their peers that the cause was only the feared recession and everything would soon be back into its regular routine. It would not.

The earth was suddenly in dire need of saving. The call to “Go Green” was perpetual. Between “Eco Friendly” bags, organic makeup and clothes, and “Earth lover” tees – it seemed as if our earth was clothed in protection. Literally. But was it really? Were our means of advertisement really fulfilling their duty? I think not.

Babies were no longer humans. Only lifeless object with no means of fighting for their rights – no means they would ever know. We were fighting. Fighting as the lionhearted. Sadly, our adversary was waging a war greater than some thought we could handle. Human life was questioned. Human life was compromised.

Education was given but was not clutched. Those who longed for a path to excellence were rejected by a higher learning system. Those who rejected a high learning system were handed education on a silver platter. And still they declined indoctrination. Those who worked to receive high marks were shunned by institutes of their choosing because of their high income, lack of ethnicity, or rejection of deviation. My heart continues to cry out for those scholars who were cast away from the higher learning systems from which they wished to be enlightened.

As I reminisce - over my daily cup of tea - I rejoice in the trials we have overcome and I am reminded of those battles that we have lost. I am thankful for our upended history. I praise our Creator for the changes that have taken place. And finally, I pray for our future. I pray for ordinate reason and lives full of emotion and passion.

con amore,
teacup

I'm a little...

...teacup. She has finally returned to us.

Our dearest Teacup disappeared 3 years ago while Xavier and I were trekking through the Andes. As I have recently learned, Teacup was on her way to visit a friend when her car was run off a cliff whilst driving through Montana. Nursed to health by a local Indian tribe, she learned the ways of the Crow Indians. One day Teacup was out hunting, when she was attacked by a bear and, subsequently, fell off another cliff. Ironically, this brought her memory back and she hitch-hiked her way back to civilization. We've taken her back into our fold and is now safe and sound with Xavier and I.

Welcome back, Teacup.

     -The Face

image by Taylor Cornelsen (2008)

...this pretty much describes my current mood.

image by Taylor Cornelsen (2008)

I love you all dearly...

     -The Face

image by Richard Avedon (1955)

An elephant isn't an elephant without the elegance of a lady.

    

     -The Face

On the fact that rock sinks and wood doesn't

In decision to obey all vows made to my great friend The Face I have decided to further explore the process of this blog. (Note to you: My wording and grammar doesn;t always make sense).

On this beautiful evening for a blog post I have decided to present you with an excerpt from Calvin and Hobbes, a poem by Calvin, from the book, Something Under the Bed Is Drooling.

"A Quandary"

Mom once said she loved me / Just the way I am So I wonder what would happen / If I became a clam / If her son was gray and grimy / Slippery and slimy / An oversized hors d'oeuvre / Would mom still have the nerve?

That is all

- Xavier

footholds.

Born and raised in the Siberian wilderness, we were trained to hunt and kill. After Xavier nearly died from tuberculosis, he and I took vows of peace. Living as simple fisherman, we stumbled upon a Spanish galleon filled with treasure. With our newfound wealth, we are recluse, living in separate mansions on opposite sides of the world. As I was talking to Xavier the other day on my solid-gold phone, we decided to start a blog. This is that blog. Enjoy.

     -The Face