and she wrote it so Kind.

yesterday our power was off for almost a whole day (old houses & thunder storms don't match i guess). i gathered all the candles i could find on my bed side table, so i could read my new books that arrived yesterday.

these are the books that i was happy to find in my mailbox. i've been wanting to read John Green's Looking for Alaska for a very very long time, and i'm a huge fan of Amber Tamblyn's poetry, that girl is as sharp as a knive. here's one of my favorites from her newest book Bang Ditto:

Dear Demographic by Amber Tamblyn 

  

I’d like to say:
As a former memeber of your clique
(and a current memeber of your representation)
I know it’s hard to be a young woman ages 18-to-24-years-old.

They put you in a time slot
that doesn’t reflect your views
with a rating system
that doesn’t respect your truths.

Listen:
From one cynical self-hater-by-default to another,
please put down the magazine article that has bored you
into hair extensions and reality television.

Stop with the 20th century redux:
Make your own era. You are not out of your own league.
Fake eyelashes will not get you Ryan Gosling.
Nor will sporting a Barack Obama keychain.

No need to break the rules:
Just bend them into balloon animals,
give them to your little brothers and sisters.
Show them how silly and cute American culture is.
Time will naturally deflate all of it.

Start mosh-pits in the crowded thoughts of tycoons:
Stir something up with your tongue.
Sip someone else’s logic then spit it out
(preferably when they’re looking).
Taste test your own style.

Get your mind into the gutter of others:
Search for the things they let go down the drain or threw away.
Everyone’s scared to tell you how they really feel.
Including Oprah.

Stop getting wasted and throwing up
your individuality outside of clubs.
There is no fast food to help you cope with that.

Leave your mark on the world
with something that can’t be chosen from
a tattoo book of Chinese symbols
for the lower back.

Pierce something other than your skin:
When i tell you to think for yourself,
don’t give a shit what I say.