I'm such a dork, I found out that Life magazine put tons of pics up on Google and I can't get enough of them! (and yes I am purposely not commenting on the fact that I only come on lj once a month lately, I'm ashamed!)

My two best finds so far are the photos from past Academy Awards/old Hollywood:

cuuuute!

And the Eisenstaedt(sp?) series of the departing soldiers at Penn Station in 1943:


I put the rest of the series below the cut ---->
( there's a bunch, beware )
Okay that's all I have to say for now, have a safe and cozy day tomorrow. Don't eat too much! Watch football! Go Cardinals! (is it strange that I have a crush on Kurt Warner? maybe.) I'm debating on whether or not I should face the crowds and see Australia...

There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lulled winds seem dreaming;
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o'er the deep,
Whose breast is gently heaving
As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee,
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

-- Lord George Gordon Byron

( someone on madmen_tv hunted the next photo down for me :) ----> )

I'm back.
this is beginning to get tedious. everytime I post here it's like a big return to lj world. I'm like Cher on her tenth final tour.

anyway, life's been challenging. I've got a job in administration work, and numbers aren't exactly my cup of tea. I found more old family photos and that's rather exciting. scanning time!

I never got a chance to rave about Mad Men this year on here, but now that it won the Emmy for best drama, you have no reason NOT to watch it! And even though I think Pushing Daisies is nauseating, I almost have to watch because I think Lee Pace is adorable after watching The Fall. Watch it! it's a beautiful movie.


http://www.cinematical.com/photos/the-fall-stills/719911/
scroll by these pics, they're amazing

well it's good to be back again :) I'm excited for November writing month because this month I might actually finish something! Anybody else participating??

Just thought I'd post a few pictures, I was attempting to weed out the seemingly endless folders on my computer...

scanned from "The War"
( vintage goodness. )

Last week we went on a little vacation, correction: road trip, to San Diego and it was beautiful. The main reason was to see Radiohead live, which is always amazing. Too bad for me I had the worst seat in the world, and couldn't snap one good video or picture, but the music was great. (Talk Show Host- my favorite Radiohead song? maybe) Well all was too good to be true, and I caught this massive flu on the way home and it feels like it won't go away! I look like death itself! and the worst part is that food doesn't have any flavor! boohoo. I've been watching the hurricanes and the RNC and drinking coffee, and sheepishly calling in to work. I'll never take my health for granted again! :D here's a little post to lessen the ennui.



a retro 'Mad Men' party... note the failed jell-o mold :)

( snaps of san diego and others )

It's no secret that I'm slightly obsessed with Space, but I recently I picked up a book called "Moondust" about the Apollo astronauts. It had nothing in it about the technical achievement of reaching the moon, the only objective was to see how traveling a quarter million miles away from our home changed the men that came home. The answers were fascinating, and unique. One astronaut was in the news recently, the only moonwalker to claim to have seen aliens. A few turned to religion. Others shun the press and seem to keep their experience secret. One became an artist. What they saw, he said, could not be described in words. They all agreed that the best thing we brought back from exploring the moon was discovering the earth. Nobody had seen it that way, from deep space. Here's a few photos from the glory days of NASA... each picture is a glimpse from our greatest adventure, one that seemed to be lifted from the future.


( .... over here ....  )

so it's a thousand degrees out, the summer olympics just began, the sun sets late in the evening, and it still feels like the end of a very happy summer. I had a retro party last night... been watching too much Mad Men! I made my first Jell-o mold- yippee!

here's more pictures of the landscapes around here. more of the same, I suppose... it's strange because I used to despise the desert, and now I love it. so here we go again: [be warned, I left them huge for no reason other than my laziness]


(my first photo of lightning!)

( here comes the sun )

this is where I live, a little collection of photos from my humble camera, of these last few days in the arizona desert.



( 99 miles from somewhere >>>  )

The thermometer read 119 degrees just a few hours ago and it hasn't cooled down much since. nothing much new here. It's been a long, long time since the last pic spam so I think I'll do a baby one...


First though: I've been in denial about it for a few years now, but I absolutely LOVE Coldplay. And I have since Parachutes, and if you haven't jumped the Viva la Vida bandwagon yet, do. I found an acoustic version of Yellow on youtube and it's so lovely. I can't get enough of it!



okay here I go...

( I've simply got to. )

In those days, sometimes it seemed that we lived too close to the sun. At noon, I’d sit in the slight solace of the shade and listen to the silence that emanated from the hills, and think “This is home to me.” I’d heard many different kinds of silence in my life, the desolate silence of the streets before dawn, the deafening silence of a dark room, the painful silence of death, the peaceful silence of the cathedrals—but this was the silent humming of the Earth beneath me and the sky above, and the sound of the sun melting the heavens onto the aching land. I was alone in that vast land, and yet never did I feel lonely. Every time we parted I knew he would return.
( continued... )