a birthday present from claire to mer

Batty for Bat for Lashes

http://www.batforlashes.com/

seriously folks, if you haven't heard this chick
you need to
now

speaking of folks
i should probably tell some of them
i'm posting again

maybe

mer to claire

bffr + boyfriend + tulips = teh awesome 29th

Mustache Monday, Vol. 21

Please, please do your soul a favour and go see Lars and the Real Girl. It's Oscar time for Mr. Gosling, that's for sure. It's so "feel good" without being cheesy, and perfectly poignant and subtly funny without resorting to the easy jokes about a life-sized sex doll.

And best of all......

It didn’t take much time for Gosling to settle on the right look for Lars. “Those things, like I had a beard and I was shaving it off for the film,” explained Gosling. “Then I caught a glimpse of myself with the mustache and I saw him. I thought, ‘There he is.’ So the mustache just came that easily.

From Rebecca Murray at: http://movies.about.com/od/larsandtherealgirl/a/larsgirl100807.htm

I'll come that easily!!! Thanks, Ryan!!!

inspired by an Irish man

This was written last night after i texted
"why am i awake @ 4 am? it makes me want to write melancholy poetry about the crisp autumn air...scuttling leaves and feeling alone"
to which was the reply, "So write! Six stanzas minium"
What resulted follows, a portion of the currents running through my mind

xo, merlikethesea
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When you loll awake at four am
You become aware of all the little things
First off, you know it’s four am
For the church bell just rang four times

Crickets seem to chirp softer
As if in reverence to the sleeping populace
Crisp autumn air meets skin
You grapple for more covers

Anticipation culminates to hear
Leaves scuttling under foot
Brushing gently the grounds surface

Roadways grey sound off in the distance
Railways sound approaching
Distant trains echoing like autos
Aerating through mountain side tunnels

Acutely aware of existence
Holding your breath to hear
the slightest sound
of what happens next

nuh uh.

there is a song that goes with this. we will record it for you and figure out how to upload for the maximum newborn baby panda experience. thank you!

--Management

Mustache Monday: Vol. 11

Welcome to merlikethesea's first m.m. contribution.

Irish Author Edition

Sorry Oscar Wilde, you were clean shaven, but still aces in my heart!

" When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."

i feel ya James...Dublin rules. it is so much fun in fact that for a while my HLM and i referred to having a keeck arse time as "Dublin".

WB Yeats

teh man who forever owns my soul, and author of my favorite poem...

When You Are Old

When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes once had, and of their shadows deep

How many love your moments of glad grace
And loved your beauty with love false or true
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face

And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars

Last, but never least.

John Millington Synge.

Brilliant playright, ethnographer, and back up plan if William Butler rejects me in teh afterlife...for he stole my heart.

"If one could only teach the English how to talk,

and the Irish how to listen,

society would be quite civilized."

the zonky pegacorn

says "Happy Thursday"

i love you.

love IS a many splendored thing (i forgot)

lately i find myself
out gazing at stars
hearing guitars
like someone in love
sometimes the things I do astound me
mostly whenever you're around me

lately i seem to walk
as though i have wings
bump into things
like someone in laaaavvvve
each time i look at you
i'm light as a cloud
and feeling
like someone in love

-cole porter sung by björk

yer tuesday soap opera

Craig finds out Mer is cheating on him, sends...

Mer: that's not me!!! it's cholë sevigny!

Claire B: I got some pics of Chloe. And she uses her mouth differently…

CM: I KNEW it! it's YOU cheater wifey!

M: it isn't my fault that i'm insati@ble
God made me this way
so he can't send me to he11 for it either

CM: I lobe you

C: Mer is a

O

M: ugh, i don't get it. who is that painter?

C: NYMPH
Hahaha
(Daphne and Apollo)

M: you know what they say about women approaching their 30s?
wait, do they say anything?
they should...specifically about me.

CM: how old are you? 30 is the new 20

C: 17 is the new 25. Huh huh.

craig guest "glogging"

mer is luna in a late-twenties format?

craig and mer, only with really bad taste in fashion

claire n' craig

claire makes me feel nuts

craig turns me on

i love these people

wimbledon is all strawberries and cream

he fought gallantly to a fifth set

but the Spaniard proved to much for our brave knight

you have the heart of Britain

and this Irish-loving West Virginian too

God save the queen

(no really don't, she is dumb)

ode to craig

i ain't sayin' i'm a golddigger

but i sure would love to have a rich boyfriend!

west virginia weekendz: vol. 2

last weekend was crazy
my hetero-life-mate (HLM) was in town
i’ve got enough shake face pictures for 3 blogs
so many in fact
that i think i’m suffering from a mild concussion
which was exacerbated by doing cartwheels and interpretive dance
also, i fell out of a rocking chair
Charlie had to carry me and apparently i commented
“Charlie, you’re so strong”
hilarious

alienated an already annoyed captain awesome
by texting such brilliant bits of comedic genius like
“we can’t find the mescaline”
while drunkenly exploring Cameron’s cacti
(non-hallucinogenic of course)

i feel guilty about bothering him
and am def-o giving myself a mental nine rounds as penance
if only things were as Ferris Bueller said,
“you can never take it too far”

there are plenty of “mer loves everyone” photos
i kissed some dude at the scourge of the earth, Tony’s, ugh
so class
i really do love everyone

unfortunately, i am suffering from post-weekend insanity depression
(that’s in the DSM-IV…totally legit)
and really just want to curl up in bed and have a good cry
so, if my blogs seem less inspired this week
blame it on PWID which probably has something to do with
this crazy Peruvian liquor i was doing shots of

p.s. Jim Sheridan’s “get rich or die tryin” is better than you think…50 cents story is reflective of the archetypal Irish immigrants, totally.

goldilocks thinks this beer is just right

BUY MER AN OLD SPECKLED HEN AT THE BRICKSKELLER

and yes, she realizes that this references two different fairy tales

a loaf letter to mer

Philosopher Phriday: Vol. I

Questions for the Philosopher?

Email them to mer.de.clair@gmail.com

that's Ka-Blamo!

http://www.thelonelyisland.com/shorts.html

mer is such a girl...hanging with just 2 guyz.