1. when you’re in love you see the best and the deepest part of the person, the real person. love is not a distortion like many people believe. i think it’s the truest picture you can get of somebody. when the romance dies my obsession to photograph the person wears off, but the photographs that I’ve taken do not lose their intensity. the emotional need comes first and then the pictures. taking a picture of someone is a way of touching them. it’s a caress. my pictures often come from erotic desire. it’s like having safe sex.
    Nan Goldin (via thelonelyindian)
    May 9, 2012
  2. [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

    i want to marry this song.  in love. 

    tinybangs:

    INVISIBLE PYRAMID

    diamond messages//liquid summer DWNLD

    we’re as obsessed with this song as we are for summer to get here and melt us away.. 

    sndcld | fcbk | wbst

    April 13, 2012

  3. i miss SXSW and all my blog babies.  it’s always such a surreal time being in austin with such amazing friends and amazing music.  my heart always bursts a little each time.  until next year.. <3 

    March 19, 2012

  4. photo friday bomb

    i’ve missed quite a few foto fridays lately, but i’ve been shooting more than ever.. my eyes are wider than before. 

    (song by scott matthews)

    Eyes Wider Than Before by Simplyx

    January 13, 2012

  5. well, it’s that time again.. time to look back on another year gone by, time to wish for certain moments to come back or certain ones to be forgotten; to somehow relive those times that seemed too good to be real and to quietly erase the ones that make the heart ache just a little.

    but as i think back on the kind of year i’ve managed to have, i’m pretty blown away by all of the pure and utter amazingness that’s come my way.  from the incredible people i’ve met and become close to, to the things i’ve somehow managed to accomplish, i’d say it’s been one of the best years i can remember in a looong time.  

    musically speaking, i can hardly believe that it was just a mere eleven months ago that i played my very first show ever with the amazing mutual benefit and holy spirits (r.i.p.) on our mini tour up the coast.  it’s been an incredible hurricane of awesome since then.  as i started to write it all down, i couldn’t help but feel a massive amount of thankfulness for being able to experience what i have, and for the people who made it all possible.  how in the HELL did i manage to- 

    -play my first show ever
    -collaborate with over TEN amazing and beautiful musicians on various projects/tracks
    -release my first ever (and very homemade) ‘album’
    -play an unofficial showcase at SXSW
    -play in the amazing first annual goldrush music fest
    -play in FMLY fest (which is today!)
    -go on tour with chrome sparks <3
    -play at CMJ with chrome sparks in NYC
    -release my first ever 7” vinyl thru the amazing JAXART
    -release a second 7” vinyl thru the amazing turntable kitchen pairings box 
    -learn more than i ever thought possible

    seriously.  i truly could not have asked for a better year.  and more than anything, i’ve met and come to love so so many amazing and talented people along the way who i truly consider some of the best humans i know.  so thank you all for ruling so hard at life and for making me better at what i love doing.  

    now if i could just get a job or figure out a way to get paid doing all the above things enough to sustain living.. haha, there’s always next year, right? :D

    lovebombs to you all.  and here’s to yet another hell of year ahead.. 

    December 29, 2011
  6. on monday i got to go down the invisible children offices in san diego and play on their live stream cam to help raise money for their latest benefit. i am always amazed by the people working and volunteering there, the kind of selflessness they possess is quite humbling. the man in the cage is a clear example of this selflessness, haha.. his name is timmy, and he&#8217;s locked himself inside this cage until 2 million dollars is raised. so, needless to say, if you have a few bucks laying around, go send em their way and get timmy outta there! and for those of you in LA, the invisible children benefit show is going down thursday and friday at the troubadour and you shouldn&#8217;t miss it!  check it out HERE
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    on monday i got to go down the invisible children offices in san diego and play on their live stream cam to help raise money for their latest benefit. i am always amazed by the people working and volunteering there, the kind of selflessness they possess is quite humbling. the man in the cage is a clear example of this selflessness, haha.. his name is timmy, and he’s locked himself inside this cage until 2 million dollars is raised. so, needless to say, if you have a few bucks laying around, go send em their way and get timmy outta there!

    and for those of you in LA, the invisible children benefit show is going down thursday and friday at the troubadour and you shouldn’t miss it!  check it out HERE

    December 14, 2011

  7. purity ring played yesterday at FYF and absolutely slayed.  it was probably my favorite act of the whole day alongside explosions in the sky.  its so fun seeing friends doing what they love and being really good at it. <3

    September 4, 2011
  8. tonight, i saw feist. she is my all time favorite musician and woman crush. and to top it off, the ladies of mountain man were her back up singers. that was a good night.
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    tonight, i saw feist. she is my all time favorite musician and woman crush. and to top it off, the ladies of mountain man were her back up singers.

    that was a good night.

    September 3, 2011
  9. love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. life is beautiful and living is pain. -hunter s. thompson-
    August 28, 2011

  10. i’d call you if i could; tell you how i am always thinking of you. every time i see something beautiful, every time i feel my heart swell a little.. tell you that you’re the only one who’s ever made me love anything this way. and i didn’t even know if i still believed in love. but i think that if you exist then it has to be real. it just has to.

    July 24, 2011