Achtung Baby!

Alone with my radio

Alone with my radio I lift up my hands. Welcome to you who read me today. Welcome to you who put my heart down. Welcome to you darling and friend, who miss me forever in your trip to the end.

Leonard Cohen

+ Regina Spektor: On the Radio with November Rain intro
+ Beck/Record Club: Songs Of Leonard Cohen
+ Paul McCartney: The End—Live @ Coachella

Higher by *monislawa

I'm still here cause I need love

Marvin Gaye: Everybody Needs Love (Paul Prince Mix)

Photo via "All Things Pretty"

Now that I'm clean

[ Depeche Mode - Clean (demo) ]

Photo via "Ache."

[articulate]

My Guitar Hero 5 Avatar.

Hello there you handful of faithful readers I know and you multiple little lurkers. I hardly ever ask anything of you but today I'd like to know: Can you articulate what makes you come back to read this blog?

bookshelf

My favorite part of my bookshelf (at the moment). 

Green Lantern, because Amazon doesn't sell Vicodin

My birthday is next week and my Amazon Wishlist is mostly made up of Green Lantern books because I'm in a major Green Lantern kick. In the comic books there is currently a war going on and all these different light/corps factions are at it. I gave myself the challenge to find a song to go with each.

GREEN LANTERN CORPS

Emotion: Willpower

(Diplo Dade County 1988 Mix) - John Legend & Andre 3000: GREENLIGHT /via

RED LANTERN CORPS

Emotion: RAGE

Rage against the machine - Killing in the name

AGENT ORANGE

Emotion: AVARICE
Tori Amos: Agent Orange

SINESTRO CORPS

Emotion: FEAR

Pulp - The Fear

BLUE LANTERN CORPS

Emotion: HOPE

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

INDIGO TRIBE

Emotion: Compassion
Nina Simone: Mood Indigo

STAR SAPPHIRES

Emotion: Love
Prince: Purple Rain

BLACK LANTERN CORPS

Emotion: DEATH
Nick Cave + Kylie Minogue - Death is not the end

+ Corps Bios

The other side of the screen

A signed James Jean print waiting to be framed, photos for the long in the making "Friends Collage", Lost in Translation era Scarlett looking at Manhattan, a stack of all of my Criterion DVD's for a future marathon, the PS3 game Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction which I scored for $14 bucks - thanks CAG, a macbook named Alfred with a Batman sticker.

Mr.

via

autostraddle: Girl-on-Girl Letter: Girl-on-Girl Blogger Q&A: "The first one’s funny ’cause it ain’t a lady. I interviewed John Moon over at Achtung Baby!"

Damien Rice: Woman Like A Man

a cute lesbian once said I was "Quite Cryptic"

being a new feature in which I answer fan mail.

[ 1 ] "Why do you like "Achtung Baby" so much?

Because when I was 16 this album saved my life. It is my alpha and omega. My religion.

[ 2 ] "What are your favorite lyrics from "Achtung Baby"?

When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed .

+ U2 - Ultraviolet Light (Light My Way)/Live
+ U2's Kiss The Future Tour
+ U2's new album is truly gospel