Bittersweet

Tumbl weed

2010-09-14T14:40:00.000-04:00

I will most likely be closing my blogspot blog and moving to Tumblr this week. My tumblr is up. If you have one, let's be friends! http://coilycoquette.tumblr.com/

She said fear is the heart of love, and I never went back

2010-08-03T01:50:00.000-04:00

Things are slow but steady this summer. I mostly have been going through new experiences and awakenings in many ways for the past month or so. They all seem to revolve around self- discovery. Have I said this before? Probably. I almost 20, though, and now seems like the best time to work on growing. I have a lot of things coming up for Fall and I hate the idea that some of my bad habits won't

From sea to shining sea

2010-06-17T14:27:00.000-04:00

I have kind of a funny story. A friend of mine told me he got drunk one night and was playing Mario Kart. There are oils spills on the road sometimes to make you skid. Daisy, the character on the bike, seems a little inebriated, too. He hates the spills. So, because he was intoxicated and socially aware, he decided to email BP about the oil spills. He meant on Mario Kart, they meant the gulf

She's not broken. she's just a baby

2010-06-12T15:00:00.000-04:00

I'm back. I've been on vacation. Obviously. When you wake up at noon pretty much everyday and don't do much day by day, you get a lot of mixed emotions. I'm staying in a house with people in and out. It's hard to get a job around here. So most of our friends can't pay rent. Orlando's not really a college town, which is the principle reason I moved here for college. I didn't want to feel like the

Young and sweet only seventeen

2010-04-30T01:17:00.002-04:00

I was reading one of my FAVORITE blogs, The Sassy Curmudgeon, by Una, Magazine writer and blogger extraordinaire (who has a cute husband that does some awesome photography) when it hit me. She was weighing the pros and cons of mythical creatures to see which one could be the next Twilight. One contender was the werewolf, a personal preference of mine over the vampire ever since I was seven and

No one sleeps. One lies up while the other lies down

2010-04-25T18:35:00.001-04:00

So, it's pretty offish that I'm staying in Orlando for the summer. L and I are going to share a room at our friend R's house. Yes, he is the same age and owns the house slash rents it out. If you are impressed and astonished (impstonished?) you had the same reaction as my mom when I told her. So, yeah what I'm trying to do is call you old. No, I'm sure your young and vibrant as a spring chicken.

Oh it's the other way around baby what's that sound? One by one baby, here they come

2010-04-19T13:21:00.000-04:00

Bitter: Being overwhelmed by work and floaty plans that may or may not happen. Being annoyed because the best your past can do is haunt you like a cheap sheet with two eye holes cut out. Sweet: Realizing you have options and are being (somewhat) repsponsible. Reading an article about zines in Spin Magazine. Having stuff to do and getting the majority of it done.

Call me Mr. Flintstone, I can make your Bed Rock

2010-04-17T12:43:00.000-04:00

Welllllll, Young Money. You thought you were being clever, huh? I'm sorry to interrupt, but Rhino Entertainment had the best Flintstones pun of ALL TIME! in the MOST RANDOM CD I have ever heard or or had the pleasure of purchasing. Behold!: This is a compilation for kids, which starts with the Flintstone theme song as the first track (score) and follows with 90s R&B?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?????

It's the same on the weekends as it is in the day

2010-04-17T01:49:00.001-04:00

So the zine is going pretty well. We're a little backed up and my friend P, who is acting as Art director to my Editor at Large, is running out of patience. Maybe I will buy him a present when we have a final product in the distros (businesses that will distribute our little independently produced magazine). School is kicking my behind right now. I have such a looooonnnggggg to-do list. I have

I can hear my heart beating like a hammer, beating like a hammer

2010-04-12T01:05:00.001-04:00

This weekend:Bitter: My best friend L and her heartbreak over a year of trying to figure out where to go after a four-year relationship with her first boyfriend and high school sweetheart. Her ex's heartbreak, because he's my friend too. My heartbreak, because yup I has it too. Your heartbreak, because I'd hug you if you needed a hug or someone to talk to. Messages that your phone have

I don't want to talk anymore I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor

2010-04-07T23:13:00.000-04:00

I went to a Spoken Word even tonight. I just found out about it yesterday and almost didn't go because I have an assignment due (that I'm procrastinating right now...oh for shame). They're called The Dynamic Duo. They have been on Brave New Voices, a spoken word competition that takes groups nationwide and showcases their talents. They did a special on HBO a few yeaars back. I'm not sure why it

Can you give it?

2010-04-06T00:07:00.002-04:00

I feel like I've been really temperamental lately. Maybe It's getting close to that time of the month (don't you ladies hate when that is actually the reason behind bad behavior?). Or maybe I'm angsty and frustrated by life. Or maybe I should start smoking, I couldn't tell you. We had to watch Quills in a class and the one laundry maid character tells the priest (abbe) that she indulges in the

Her guess is always good as mine, I'm blessed she treats me so damn kind

2010-03-28T15:31:00.002-04:00

Upon listening to Corrine Bailey Rae's album The Sea, I realize I like it better than I thought I would before. Her music is like a certain kind of poetry where it seems so simple on the surface, on first listen, then you go back and are blown away. It has the feel of a woman singing to herself alone in a church, sitting on dock or pier, so quiet the organ player who is practicing can't hear

I've got to let go, I've got to let go. Said the hours they ran slow and every night she just keeps on sayin...

2010-03-25T11:45:00.000-04:00

So, I'm a dirty liar.Take that how you will, Sailor. I definitely have not been keeping up with the 10 minute challege. To be fair, my computer died (RIP Steve) and blogging feels weird with everyone around you in a library. I have, though been super productive lately. It's like that cliche in songs about "doing things you don't usually do". I think spending less time in the virtual world makes

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, but he talks like a gentle soul...

2010-03-21T13:35:00.000-04:00

Have you seen Wild Fox Couture this season? Wildfox Couture Spring 2010 from Wildfox Couture on Vimeo. It's like a dream for girls who want to look bad-ass and sexy without changing out of their sweatshirt. Score. They lost me with their vampire items, but I'm sure they won some one else. Someone who makes old people use the word "teeny-bopper" then says "what?" and goes back to texting.

Man, I feel like a woman

2010-03-18T23:11:00.001-04:00

So every December I get a premonition about how the new year will go for me. I am usually right. 2008 I predicted it would be a great year like none before. It was pretty much the best year of my life. I graduated high school without a baby or an arrest record, partied like half the summer away at grad parties, and met some of the best friends I've ever had at college the following fall. 2009

Baby you're all that I want when you're lying here in my arms

2010-03-17T20:36:00.000-04:00

Bitter: I have been pretty rebellious lately. And I'm not just talking about how I procrastinate something fierce...not that that's even rebellious. I can't even really be all that bad. Dang. I won't tell you what I actually did, sorry. My rebellion, if you can even call it that, feels good because I'm at a point in my life when I can't afford to let what people think dictate my actions. No

Roll me in designer sheets I'll never get enough

2010-03-17T02:34:00.000-04:00

Today a kid in one of my classes cut his beautiful hair. He did it for locks of love and that makes everyone smile. Is it wrong that I kind of wanted to know him because of his hair and now I'm a little sad? His hair was equivalent to this guy's hair, only my classmate is less Fabio, more actual approachable person. Other than that I read an article about Reinhold Messner, this hardcore

He can't recall my name, even though he once told me I was the most talented person that he'd even met

2010-03-16T03:31:00.000-04:00

So, despite having a lot of cool ideas and projects coming up, I haven't been motivated to do... well anything in a while. This is probably obvious with my bad track record for updating this blog. That was until one of my teachers suggested I withdraw from the class because after a bad week filled with "Mental Health" days, I got pretty stacked on my absences. I considered it, but no ma'am. So,

You know I take the 110 to the 105, get off on Crenshaw, tell my homies look alive

2010-02-03T21:22:00.000-05:00

3 things. Entering a Poetry Contest The first thing is that I submitted some poems to FlatmanCrooked, a website that publishes, publicizes, and just generally pays attention to literature. They mostly deal with reviews, pretty funny or profound essays, and novellas, among other things. They were doing a poetry prize and the first place winner gets $500. Winning would look good on my resume,

You hope that he get what he deserves. Word?

2010-01-13T17:34:00.000-05:00

To everyone's relief, I'm sure, I found a better nail place to go to. My mother introduced me to yet another new place, but this one called Nail Zone in Jacksonville on University and Beach was fantastic. It is as close to the nail salon of my dreams as my budget will allow. They have chic tips, some youthful and others classy enough for the mature crowd. From zebra stripe to pigmented acrylic

It's good to live expensive, but my knees get weak intensive when...

2010-01-05T17:48:00.000-05:00

Everyone who has read the book scolds me jumping almost out of their seat and says "You didn't finish reading it?!" when I tell them I hadn't finished the incredibly accesable yet undeneyably moving The Road by Cormack McCarthy. If you're crazy and you don't know who that is, he also wrote No Country For Old Men and All the Pretty Horses among many others. But everybody can cool their jets

What can I get for ten dollars? Anything you want.

2009-12-24T01:36:00.001-05:00

This might be lame, but I just finished watching Julie & Julia on DVD and it got me thinking. This may be a terrible blog, is what I'm thinking so far. I like blogging, but I still haven't found a center for it. My blog must be incredibly boring for whoever stumbles upon it and reads it. It just doesn't have much to do with you. Makes me feel like a real narcissist, to be honest, and a hypocrite

I'm just no good at giving relief

2009-12-22T20:16:00.000-05:00

I had this blog on feed to Facebook for a little while, but it felt weird to put the two together. I wasn't posting anything, so I separated them again. Now I'm posting. Look at that. I've been thinking about a lot of things lately. Things like writing as a career and internships. I really want to spend some time out in San Francisco or New York. I'm trying my luck with internships in those

Thankful

2009-11-14T13:19:00.002-05:00

So, while this may seem like another shameless self-promotion, it isn't. Modcloth is having a thankful blog contest where you can win a $100 gist certificate if you win. http://blog.modcloth.com/2009-11-09-thanksgiving-thank-a-thon-blog-contest?utm_source=NL_thanksgiving-blog-contest_11-9-09&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thanksgiving-blog-contest All you have to say is what you are thankful for

Will it be just like they're dreaming?

2009-11-14T12:53:00.000-05:00

So, it has definitely been a while. A lot has happened in the last few weeks. It is the end of my school's homecoming week so there have been lots of exciting concerts and things like that. I almost got to interview T-pain, but almost doesn't count. The concert was still fun and Daniel Tosh was our comedian this year, which is fitting since he went here. They did a good job booking people who

Tao Lin!

2009-10-26T05:44:00.001-04:00