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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

- Thomas A. Edison

A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.

Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, shot, animated by hand and edited. The video was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was produced by Bravo!FACT http://www.bravofact.com/

For more information on Tanya, go to http://www.tanyadavis.ca or visit her facebook page athttp://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/p… You can purchase her first two CDs Make A List and Gorgeous Morning on iTunes and look out for her third CD which will be released in the fall!

For more information on Andrea Dorfman, visit her facebook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Andrea-… or http://www.andreadorfman.com

This video was shot on a Panasonic HVX 200 and the animation was hand drawn+painted and then scanned into Adobe After Effects, exported as QTs and edited on FCP.

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.

We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there.

There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).

And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta go places.

And there’s prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you’re hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.

Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.

The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they — like you — will be alone.

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.

When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You’re no less intriguing a person when you’re eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.

Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one’s watching…because, they’re probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you’re sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there’re always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might’ve never happened had you not been there by yourself

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one’s in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.

Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you’re happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.

It’s okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.

And it doesn’t mean you’re not connected, that communitie’s not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn’t get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it.

you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

thanks to arthur for putting together this amazeballs video. what a fucking great party.

and the crowd goes wild!

JKC

On the other hand…Mama Nature has her way of telling us who’s in
charge…heat waves…rip and tear thunder storms… I believe the lady
has some issues…them thunder boomers will get your attention I
guarantee….they form up in the Shenandoah valley…work their way
over the Blue Ridge…then its boogity boogity crash all the way to the
Chesapeake Bay…the weathermen argue over what knocked down
all the trees…tornados or straight winds…don’t matter…trees is
coming down…impressive…even knowing what could happen…I
still gotta watch.

No family gossip from up here…we are a dull bunch…Jo is going to
Canada for vacation…that ought to tell you something…if Canada
don’t put you to sleep…nothing will…but down home gossip is
plentiful…Paulette is moving next month to a nice house…Raymond
is getting ready to be cut upon…again…Jimmie Faye still has red hair
…natural….she says…and Joe…uh no comment on Joe’s hair.

Well imona have to bail outa here…Jo is up in what apparently is
the worlds largest shoe outlet…New Jersey…this week end so I
need to go check on her cat…nice to have a purpose in life huh.
Hug ‘em if you can catch ‘em…adios.

Sonny

saw kelis & robyn wed nigh t wit a few sexy mamas

plenty of cute boys celebratin the legalization of gay in cali

je♥nise, yuval & I had the most fun

kelis pumped it up & robyn brought it down cuz she’s a FEROCIOUS mamajama

afterward got me some calicat at big top. l♥vely

saw my adam, oh yah & amanda lepore was there. no biggie

FEROCIOUS evening. wish i had a video of the concert. maybe someone will send it to me

if only you were there with me ♥

UPDATED 08/05:

SLATE – A Brilliant Ruling: Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful. by Dahlia Lithwick

“Among his most notable determinations of fact, Walker finds: states have long discriminated in matters of who can marry; marital status affects immigration, citizenship, tax policy, property and inheritance rules, and benefits programs; that individuals do not choose their own sexual orientation; California law encourages gay couples to become parents; domestic partnership is a second-class legal status; permitting same-sex couples to marry does not affect the number of opposite-sex couples who marry, divorce, cohabit, or otherwise screw around.

He found that it benefits the children of gay parents to have them be married and that the gender of a child’s parent is not a factor in a child’s adjustment. He found that Prop 8 puts the force of law behind a social stigma and that the entirety of the Prop 8 campaign relied on instilling fears that children exposed to the concept of same-sex marriage may become gay. He found that stereotypes targeting gays and lesbians have resulted in terrible disadvantages for them and that the Prop 8 campaign traded on those stereotypes.”

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East Village Man

On the street yesterday, I walked by a man who had on a gorgeous outfit. Everything about it was perfect, it had a very awesome_old_man_in_europe vibe. I walked by and stared at him. “I love your outfit,” spilled out of my mouth. He looked behind himself, then looked at me again, a smile cracking his face. “Yah, yours” I said. “It’s amazing.”

He lit up. “Its Yves St Laurent from 1920,” he told me, pawing his scarf. “I was on the Titantic. I modeled for the Beatles. I’m friends with Patti Smith. I was a model in the 70s.”

I asked him if I could take a picture. He told me he was in a car accident a few years ago, “that’s why.”

“That’s why what?” I asked.

“That’s why I wear these things. In case I ever get hit by a car again and die.”

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01. New In Town (Fred Falke remix) – Little Boots

02. Embrace (Fred Falke & Miami Horror mix) – Pnau

03. Antonio (Fred Falke remix) – Annie

04. Monster Hospital (Mstrkrft remix) – Metric

05. 3 Little Words (Louises Lovers remix) – Frankmusik

06. Make Her Say (Sammy Bananas remix) – Kid CuDi ft. Kanye & Common

07. Obsessions (Monsieur Adi remix) – Marina & the Diamonds

08. Paris (Aeroplane vs Au Revoir Simone mix) – Friendly Fires

09. Remember the Time (Sleeper Heartbroken Telepopmusik mix) – Michael Jackson

10. We Are The People (Build remix) – Empire of the Sun

“one good thing about music, when it ends you feel okay” - bob marley

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9 great jersey shore moments

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distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold.
it’s for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone,
in exchange for a little time with the one they love.
it’s for those knowing a good thing when they see it.
even if they don’t see it nearly enough.

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