“ Heart aches, memories trace
Now and then
Mourning stars and catacombs
A lion's den
You broke me down, down, down
And darling I can't, feel the sun no more
You're my lost cause
You're my last thought
You're my stained gauze
You are all I've got
Scorpio rising ”
- Paris Jackson, Scorpio rising
( credit: Paris Hilton's gifs 🠖 @minho-knows; Garrett Hedlund as Mitch Keller 🠖 @harleystuff )
Do you love me? Do you wanna be my friend?
And if you do
Well then don't be afraid to take me by the hand
If you want to
I think this is how love goes
Check yes or no
Oh! Now here's someone we haven't seen in a long time...
To those of you who remember what this blog was posting 3 years ago (my god, it's been that long already?), you may remember when we shared a silly little idea for a Dirk/Softboy fusion character named Spruce.
Well, it's actually been so long that his name has since changed to Birch. In any case, I've been sketching out a silly little thing involving him that, if all goes well, I might want to share soon. But just what sort of art piece would necessitate involving a character like Birch? Who is that figure far off in the cornfield? Why is Birch wearing a special flannel shirt? Where did he get that cowboy hat?
All of these questions and more could be answered! Maybe. One day.
Listen to 意興開始像鬼魂一樣徘徊 Attention started to wander as a ghost A playlist by chu-lan-maria on SoundCloud ♫ ◠‿◠ hope you’ll like it.
有時,最醜陋的靈魂被包裝在最美麗的包裹中。
Sometimes the ugliest souls come wrapped in the most beautiful package.
─ poetry by gigi
(PS. I don't own any music and songs right, I just make the playlist for listening easily and enjoy all musicians your works and love to share it only. all copyright belongs to musician & singer. If you want me do delete yours from the playlist, please tell me then I will do it. Blessings! Thanks! Lan~*)
●José de Ribera(Spanish-Italian, 1591 - 1652)
瑪格達琳在冥想 Mary Magdalene in Meditation, N/D Oil on canvas, 47 x 35.5 cm
他是一位17世紀西班牙紫金色黑暗派、卡拉瓦喬主義畫家及版畫家,出生於克薩蒂瓦,1616年移居西班牙帝國治下的那不勒斯王國,並再沒有返回過西班牙。他在世時是西班牙的最具領導力的畫家之一,但因為居住在義大利,其主要作品全部創作於義大利。其所繪的都是寫實而粗暴、殘酷的場景,加上巴洛克藝術的衰敗,在他逝世之後,其影響力在西班牙以外迅速降低。He was a Spanish Valencian Tenebrist painter and printmaker, He also was calledLo Spagnoletto小西班牙人"the Little Spaniard" by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy.
I didn’t always call myself a “songwriter,” but I always wrote songs.
When I was a kid, I’d write songs around one word or phrase that would pop into my head.
When I was a pre-teen, I’d write songs about real life friendships and bullies but try to disguise them as love songs because I thought that was more relatable.
I used to feel like my songs would never be “good” because I’d never been in love or had a real relationship. But somehow I ended up capturing exactly how I felt in that transitional phase of my life, between a child and a teen, between junior high and high school, between naive and a little wiser.
Are the songs I wrote between 13 and 15 fantastic, Grammy-worthy songs? Probably not. But they’re my babies, and I have a sentimental attachment to them. So I re-recorded some of them in 2022 to give them the life and perspective they couldn’t have back then.
2010-2011 produced only 5 songs I felt like sharing (again… if you were here in 2010-2012, you might have heard the OG recordings).
Been Here All Along was inspired by my first crush and the fantasy I created in my head of how it would feel to date him.
Back to Me is about leaving junior high and being separated from the little class of 12 (sometimes 13) kids I grew up with when we moved to a bigger school the next fall. Knowing not all of those kids are still with us today made this one extra emotional.
I Try was inspired by my grandfather, whom I lost when I was 6 years old. Turns out the first death you have to deal with takes quite a while to really process.
I Fell Anyway came from my first attempt at a “relationship” when I got to high school and how it felt when it started falling apart.
When the Sun Goes Down came from the same situation, but I feel like it nails how I continue to grieve all my relationships.