Regina Spektor “Us”
______sometimes i like to listen to Regina Spektor in the bath and, you know, just think about “life”, then i drive around in my Jetta with the windows down.
If you’re ever me, and you decide you do not ever want to seem cool to anyone you know ever again, just start singing ‘Paris’, snapping, and banging on the table when some stupid chick goes “Margaret Atwood couldn’t stop me” in your physics class. Just do it. Works perfect, I swear.
I’ll wear any color as long as it’s black…
what are you, the gothy art student Dementor?
I can’t concentrate lately. I feel trapped, but if the cage door were to open I would run to the opposite corner and hide inside. Nothing I do is fulfilling, or useful, or even interesting, really. I’m always going to be a misfit, no matter what. I even make it worse for myself. I lie, I’m mean, I make sure people don’t get me or understand what I’m saying, and I love it when they don’t but I also hate it when they don’t. I see nothing in their eyes but blank incomprehension. I see nothing in the mirror but someone who wouldn’t mind not waking up tomorrow morning. My thoughts don’t come out in Arial or watercolor, but in snatches of someone else’s dialogue and anger and muscle strain in my stomach.
underthesheets:hellovagina:hunting:infinitebutterflies:eemmaa:maxistentialist:
I want your handwriting.
Have you ever considered how strange it is that handwriting fonts have come to convey a kind of folksy authenticity in the design lexicon of our age? It’s disingenuous. Handwriting fonts - especially the ones you see everywhere (Comic Sans, Papyrus, Lucida Handwriting) - are mechanically reproduced and manipulated into a kind of cloying, fake, plastic perfection.
Penmanship is mostly a lost art - it is (rightfully) taught less and less in school, and the opportunities for people to see your handwriting are few and far between. As a result, modern handwriting looks really cool. What’s authentic and charming and inviting about real handwriting are the little imperfections that prove it came from a real person.
SO - I have decided to become a collector of handwriting.
Here’s how it works:
- You reblog this or email/Facebook me
- I’ll arrange for you to pick up a template
- You’ll fill it out
- I will create a TrueType font from your handwriting and send it to you
As I collect handwriting, I will periodically post things rendered in the handwriting of the donor - things they have taught me, important aspects of our relationship, jokes they have told me… we’ll see.
Please donate today.
