recite: sequins

"i'm just trying to change the world one sequin at a time."

lady gaga

[photo via retales botijero]

recite: sweet talk

sweet talk

You are not the Mona Lisa
with that relentless look.
Or Venus borne over the froth
of waves on a pink half shell.
Or an odalisque by Delacroix,
veils lapping at your nakedness.
You are more like the sunlight
of Edward Hopper,
especially when it slants
against the eastern side
of a white clapboard house
in the early hours of the morning,
with no figure standing
at a window in a violet bathrobe,
just the sunlight,
the columns of the front porch
and the long shadows
they throw down
upon the dark green lawn, baby.

[poem by billy collins via oscar pr girl]
[image edward hopper, cape cod morning via smithsonian american art museum]

recite: looking forward

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."

neil gaiman

[photo via dan higham]

recite: true currency

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool" 

almost famous

[image via flickr]

recite: audrey hepburn

"for beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

audrey hepburn

[image via dwellers without decorators]