Au Revoir Charleston!

Today is my last day of vacation *sigh*. I'll be leaving Charleston tomorrow morning and will arrive in the Big Apple at night. I'm going to miss this place, but not the people, ugh!. Charleston is very beautiful, but the people - mainly the white people - are rude. When we went downtown the looks that came our way were ridiculous. There are very few racist people I've encountered in New York, but no match for ol' Chucktown.

What I mainly love about Charleston is the country aspect because deep down I'm an outdoors girl; I love to be surrounded by trees, plants and flowers, taking deep breaths of fresh air, however I love the convenience of a city where everything is at reach. 

Anyways, I'll see about uploading some pics when I get back home, for some reason my sd card is too big for laptops *sighs*.



Catch ya later :-)

xoxo

Fiona Apple Playlist

Since my last post was about Fiona Apple, I thought I'd just share my favorite songs with you guys and who knows, maybe get you hooked on her music as well. So I wrote a few lines of lyrics that I really love from each song.


"Criminal"
"...Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay/Give me room to lay the law and let me go/I gotta make a play/To make my lover stay/So what would an angel say, the devil wants to know!..."

"Sleep to Dream"
"...I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream/You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem/This mind, this body, and this voice can not be stifle by your deviant ways/So go forget what I told ya, don't come around/I got my own hell to raise..."

"Paper Bag"
"I was staring at the sky, just looking for a the star/To pray on a wish or something like that/I was having a sweet fix, 'bout a daydream of a boy/Whose reality I knew, was a hopeless to be had..."

"Shadowboxer"
"...Ohhhh it's so evil my love/The way you've no reverance to my concern/So I'll be sure to stay weary of you love/To save the pain of once my flame and twice my burn/So I'm a shadowboxer babe, I wanna be ready for what you do/And I've been swinging around because I don't know when you'll make your move..."

"Oh Sailor"
"...And after waiting, fighting patiently on my knees/All the other stuff tired itself out first, not me/And in it's wake appears a touch and call of a different breed/One of the steps getting wise and got me there and then got me..."

"Every Single Night"
"...If what I am, is what I am/Then I does what I does/Then brother get back 'cause my breast is gonna bust/Open the rib is the shell/And the heart is the yolk/And I just made a meal for us both to choke on..."

"Werewolf"
"...The lava of our volcano/Shot up hot from under the sea/One thing leads to another/And you made an island of me..."

"Jonathan"
"Jonathan, call again, take me to Coney Island, take me on the train/Kiss me while I calculate, calibrate, and for heaven sakes don't make me explain/Just tolerate my little fists tugging on your forrest chest/I don't wanna talk about/I don't wanna talk about anything..."

"Hot Knife"
"If I'm butter, if I'm butter/If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife/He makes my heart a cinemascope/He's showing, dancing, bird of paradise..."

There's Something About Fiona

I can't sleep now, I was just watching "2 Days in New York", which is pretty cool, but for some reason I just had the urge to write yet have nothing to really write about, so bazaar!

Hmmmm.....I know! Music!

I used to post lists of songs that were on my mind weekly on my old blog and write a line of lyrics that I loved the most from each song, which I'm going to start up again.

There have been two songs that I've been obsessed with since last month, both by my favorite singer, the great and wonderful Ms. Fiona Apple: "Every Single Night" and "Werewolf".

I'm a HUGE Fiona Apple fan ever since her first song Criminal invaded MTV in the 90's. Her songs are so deep and blunt and her voice is just so raw and lovely.

"Every Single Night"
Every single night, I endure the flight
With little wings of white-flamed
Butterflies in my brain
These ideas of mine
Percolate the mind
Trickle down  the spine, swarm the belly, swelling to a blaze
That's when the pain comes in
Like a second skeleton
Trying to fit beneath the skin
I can't fit the feelings in, oh

Every single night's a fight
With my brain...


"Werewolf"
I can liken you to a werewolf, the way you left me for dead
But I admit, I provided a full moon
I can liken you to a shark, the way you bit off my head
But then again, I was waving around a bleeding open wound
You were such a super guy till the second you got a whif of me
And we are like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
But we can still support each other, all we gotta do is avoid each other
And nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

The lava of our volcano
Shot up hot from under the sea
One thing leads to another
And you made an island of me....



These days, there are very few artists out there who really goi in on one's psyche and tap into their emotions. She exposes herself so eloquently. I think I sound like I'm high right now hahahaha.

What can I say, I simply think she's the truth.


Bonne Nuit!


xoxo

Window Seat

"...so can I get a window seat? Don't want nobody next to me. I just wanna ticket out of town to look around and a safe touch down..."  - "Window Seat" by Erykah Badu

So my journey down to Charleston, SC, wasn't such a pleasant one. My train was supposed to depart at 6:15am, but there was something wrong with a wire and the train was 2hrs delayed. Mind you, I had to take a cab all the way from north bronx down to penn station which ended up being a $50 ride and normally I would have to took my cheap ass on the local bus and train, but it was a Sunday and local buses, express buses, nor metronorth trains run that early until 6am so I was left with no other choice.

Anywho, I had a window seat all to myself until probably after 2 hrs and that passenger sat next to me till we reached DC and I specifically remember this because we had to wait 30min because of a change of engine or some crap...like seriously...*rolls eyes*. After that there were no more delays and got to Chucktown at 9:20pm. *Sighs* ridiculous, but I know the ride could of been worst, I could've been stuck sitting next to someone for a whole 13hrs!

So far this vacay has been great for me. I know it would be boring for others, but the fact that I can actually relax and not hear my name called several times a day, is good enough for me.

I'm far from going back home yet, but I'm already planning out what to do next when I touch down in the Big Apple. There's no doubt I'm going to apply for jobs like crazy, but I do want to go in a certain direction. I'm not sure if I should attempt to get into film casting, stick with fashion, or something different. I am a bit interested in becoming a wine connoisseur, even bought a book of wine, but who knows. 

So now I'm going to catch up on my internship.


Bonne Nuit!


xoxo

Sweet Home Carolina

So finally, since 2004, I'm going on vacay!!!! It's to no where exciting, just Charleston, SC, but any escape from stress is a vacation to me :-). It couldn't have been at a better time too, it's FREEZING here in NYC, like WTH!! We haven't had a cold winter like this in a long time, probably 2 or 3 years.

Anyways, hope everyone is well and had a happy start to the new year, but if it was crappy like mine, just remember to keep your head up and know that everything happens for a reason and that good things always follows bad things.


xoxo