"It's COLLEGE. Make MISTAKES. Make the same mistake TWICE because it is too good to only make once. FORGIVE others. Forgive yourself. Forget things. PARTY on a weekday. PARTY HARDER on the weekends. Forget that you partied at all. Get SICK. Get so sick that you don't remember how you got sick. Skip CLASS. Watch movies instead of doing homework. Stay up all night before a final. Be SPONTANEOUS. Make PLANS. Break plans. LOVE. Get ATTACHED. Get JEALOUS. Fall hard. BREAK HEARTS and get your HEART BROKEN. Cry. CRY harder than you ever have, then LAUGH at it later. Laugh so hard you can't stop. Have MOMENTS that you wish would never end. Have moments you wish never began. Have conversations that you'll NEVER FORGET. Have conversations without saying a word. Say the WRONG thing at the wrong time. Get angry. Be CONFUSED. It will all become clear eventually. It's COLLEGE."

Flames & Firestorms tentative playlist
Oxford Comma :: Vampire Weekend
Pumpkin Soup :: Kate Nash
West Coast :: Coconut Records
Mr. Pitiful :: Matt Costa
*Flightless Bird, American Mouth :: Iron & Wine
No Children :: the Mountain Goats
California On My Mind :: Wild Light
In This City :: Iglu & Hartley
*Somedays :: Regina Spektor
*Where Nobody Knows :: Kings of Leon
*Dirt Room :: Blue October
Change :: Justin King
Glittering Cloud :: Imogen Heap
Love Always Remains :: MGMT
Spiralling :: Keane
Hang Me Up To Dry :: Cold War Kids
Books From Boxes :: Maximo Park
You Make It Real :: James Morrison
Everything's Just Wonderful :: Lily Allen
Sunday Mornings (demo) :: Maroon 5
0% Interest :: Jason Mraz
*If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It :: Snow Patrol

From Paul today, via facebook IM:

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

William S. Burroughs