death of the imagination

"what i fear most, i think, is the death of the imagination."

- sylvia plath

vulture stock:http://amandadrage.deviantart.com/art/Stock-Hooded-Vulture-3-157983214

chair stock:http://deathbycanon-stock.deviantart.com/art/A-Chair-3-58358284

letter to God

"oh dear God i'm writing this letter to you

cause i don't have a clue

can you help me?

i'm sitting here

simply trying to figure out

what my life's all about

can you tell me?

i lie awake conducting this symphony

that you have gifted to me

but i don't ever sleep

don't get mad

cause i get weak inside

and i start to fall apart

cause i feel nothing

i never wanted to be

some kind of comic relief

please show me who i am

i been tortured and scorned

since the day that i was born

but i don't know who i am

oh dear God i'm writing this letter to you

cause i'm coming undone

please help me

me

-from "letter to God" by hole

another kind of light

"darkness as well as light. or do i mean darkness, another kind of light? lucifer would say so, and i have a weakness for

fallen angels."

-jeanette winterson, art and lies

what a ride

"life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

"wow! what a ride!"

-hunter s. thompson

model:http://faestock.deviantart.com/
hair brushes:http://falln-brushes.deviantart.com/

borrowed world

"borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

- cormac mccarthy, the road




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the angel

"i dreamt a dream! what can it mean?

and that i was a maiden queen:

guarded by an angel mild;

witless woe, was neer beguil'd!

and i wept both night and day

and he wiped my tears away

and i wept both day and night

and hid from him my hearts delight

so he took his wings and fled:

then the morn blush'd rosy red:

i dried my tears & arm'd my my fears,

with ten thousand shields and spears.

soon my angel came again;

i was arm'd, he came in vain:

for the time of youth was fled

and grey hairs were on my head"

- the angel by william blake

dark side

"we all need to look into the dark side of our nature- that's where the energy is, the passion.

People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying."

- sue grafton

the passionate evil

"this is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us."

- d.h. lawrence

downward spiral

"i feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true- if you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely?"

-cassandra clare

my whole world

"had i not created my whole world,

i would certainly have died in other people's."

-anais nin

i open every door

"not knowing when the dawn will come,

i open every door..."

-emily dickinson

for collage obsession weekly challenge (doors)

modern romance

"don't hold on

go get strong

well don't you know

there is no modern romance

time is gone

it stops who it wants

well i was wrong

it never lasts

and there is no

well this is no

modern romance"

- from modern romance by yeah yeah yeahs

(hear song on project playlist on right)

i am doll parts

"i am doll eyes

doll mouth, doll legs

i am doll arms, big veins, dog bait

yeah, they really want you, they really do

i want to be the girl with the most cake

i love him so much it just turns to hate

i fake it so real, i am beyond fake

and someday, you will ache like i ache"

- from doll parts by hole


(hear song via project playlist on right)


doll head from falln-stock
http://falln-stock.deviantart.com/

body and head images are public domain but shared by
hello-tuessday
http://hello-tuesday.deviantart.com/

i come undone

"oh make me over
i'm all i wanna be
a walking study
in demonology...
...when i wake up
in my makeup
it's too early for that dress
wilted and faded somewhere in hollywood
i'm glad i came here with your pound of flesh
no second billing, cause you're a star now
oh cinderella they aren't sluts like you
beautiful garbage, beautiful dresses
can you stand up
or will you just fall down?"

- from celebrity skin by hole

(hear song on project playlist on right)


unmodified head is public domain but shared by hello-tuesday:
http://hello-tuesday.deviantart.com/

i dance without sleeping

"walking on the edge of rage and understanding

between the black and the white

this child is so angry

alone here tonight

alarming desperation

leads me to believe

with all my shields and protection

it's only me i deceive

dance without sleeping

dance without fear

dance without senses no message i hear

dance till i'm numb

dance till i think i can overcome"

- from dance without sleeping by melissa etheridge


unmodified head from The Graphics Fairy

http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

catch the wind

"in the chilly hours and minutes

of uncertainty

i want to be

in the warm hold of your lovin' mind

to feel you all around me

and to take your hand

along the sand,

ah but i may as well try and catch the wind"

- from catch the wind by donovan

(go to project playlist on right to hear)

"found yourself in a new direction

aeons far from the sun

can you come?

would they come to breach you?

let you know you're not the only one

you can't keep hangin' on

to all that's dead and gone

if you built yourself a myth

you'd know just what to give

do you lie?
oh, let the ashes fly"

-from myth by beach house

(go to project playlist on right to hear song)

*my new most favorite song.. totally obsessed

metal heart

"it's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do

be true 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad sad zoo

oh what cha trying to prove

hiding you're not worth a thing

sew your fortunes on a string

and hold them up to light

blue smoke will take

a very violent flight

and you will be changed

i once was lost but now i'm found was blind

but now i see you

how selfish of you to believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

metal heart you're not hiding

metal heart you're not worth a thing"

-from metal heart by cat power


heart graphic from graphics fairy

"i heard you were here then you disappeared last night

when they killed the lights

words we didn't say

your eyes that took us down two more

and we were ready for

you came up behind me, grabbed my wrists in the dark

and said 'don't look at what you can't see'"

-from all night by sam phillips

"with piranha teeth

i been dreaming of you

and the taste of your love so sweet

honest its true

through my heart flows sleep

and the dark heavy rain

where the gravedigger's song is sung

you've been torturing me"

- from the gravedigger's song by mark lanegan band
(completely obsessed with this song right now...)