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my name is allie.

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i love art, photography, good southern barbeque and sweet tea, dancing, hipsters and hippies in small doses, thrift stores, cooking, comfy furniture, sewing, making things, the summertime, the beach, giraffes, hall and oates, naps, impromptu dance parties, used books, getting lost, pretty little things, journals, gmail, and music. i drive a minivan. i make lots of pop culture references. i can beat you in a burping contest. i'm awesome.

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6 July 09
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heavenisforeasygirls:

make right with you- luke temple

perfect mid-summer tune.

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Tags: music
Posted: 12:07 AM
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file under: what i want to be when i grow up

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file under: what i want to be when i grow up

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3 July 09

while driving back 'home'

i realized i didn’t miss durham or chapel hill at all. next year is going to be strange, but i know that i’ll be going somewhere else in the end, and that makes me smile.
Tags: journal
2 July 09

these make me smile

governor’s school
inappropriate jokes that are completely appropriate
frankenstein
making art
my first artwork in a gallery opening
‘flow’
red oak
krispy kreme
mellow mushroom
MJ tribute dance
healing knee
sunshine
foot rubs
back rubs
guitar
compliments on my photography
real photoshoots
booking more gigs
orangeade
strawberry lemonade
whole foods
veltopalooza
wearing whatever i want
intelligent conversation
hugs
cuddling
quad time
glowsticks
didgeridoos
pulling things off with little to no hitches
golf carts
the trail
blackberries
not making a to do list and then doing everything i would have put on the list…and then some
journaling
planning
open mic night (minus most of the acts)
the jackson 5
my barefoot 3 ladies
a room that feels like home and is full of things i made
making my bed every day
fresh flowers
the fire pit
ice pops
puppies
x-rays in my windows
agnes, quieter than usual
Tags: i love
Posted: 10:45 AM
X-tremeGeek.com - Stokyo Soundwagon Portable Record Player, Black NONE

 i would but this in a hot minute if it weren’t for the darn recession!

X-tremeGeek.com - Stokyo Soundwagon Portable Record Player, Black NONE

i would but this in a hot minute if it weren’t for the darn recession!

Tags: music want
26 June 09

perez hilton, i am not.

i think a small return to tumblr is okay. i deleted my twitter account and am slowly but surely untagging terrible photos on facebook/deleting some of my stupid albums. the internet is a disease, but if i use it right, i can find things that inspire me and i can learn, not use the nets to reference things.

so now, a pop culture blog: michael jackson died. i’m actually pretty upset about this. i’ve been a big fan since i was little. i was well aware that i missed his golden age of music-off the wall, thriller, bad before he got really crazy, etc. i lamented that fact as an 8 year old while i listened to HisTory. I watched thriller and moonwalker over and over again one summer. i learned the dance (and not just the little zombie arms part that everybody knows), i knew all the trivia, i was pretty much obsessed. his music was that good. i had an epic search for the thriller album (successful, thank goodness. i’m sure the value of these albums has skyrocketed, but i’m keeping mine for the music).

billie jean, beat it, thriller, off the wall, pyt, baby be mine, workin’ day and night, rock with you, leave me alone, state of shock. i can’t even name a quarter of his hits.

and now someone who created all this beautiful music is gone. the kids at gse flipped out yesterday. i think we’re wearing all black (which is kind of a joke) and having a michael jackson dance on saturday (not a joke).

other thoughts: what’s going to happen to the beatles catalog? when are the tell-all books coming out?

Tags: pop culture
11 June 09

and now for something completely different.

i haven’t been posting recently because i’m super busy at governor’s school and because i’m pretty tired of blogging. i don’t post a lot of original content, and when i do, it is random and usually fluff. this might be the end of my blogging for a while.

here goes: [written in july of 2008]

governor’s school is more important to me than any internship or job. it’s an opportunity for me to be myself and encourage others to be themselves.

it is a place where you meet 460 other people and become best friends. you learn, you think, you’re frustrated and pushed to the breaking point, but in a good way. i have received so much support from my coworkers and students there. even little things: one faculty member said that if his sister were to attend governor’s school, he would only want her on my hall. i’m trusted and respected, and in turn encouraged to work (and play) harder.

this has made me realize that i can’t continue with photojournalism. i want a job that is fulfilling, or at the very least, fun.

i learned a lot about myself. not in that complete life-changing way like i did at gse in 2003, but in a way that shakes me to the core. i love music and art and being creative and helping others and planning things, and i don’t always care that i’m not the smartest or best at everything. i am me, and that should be enough.


and what did i do? i chose to move into an apartment i couldn’t afford and work a job that ate away at my soul. i graduated from college. i moved home. i got an internship. i found my creative outlets but was too afraid to pursue them. i hung out with people that were devoid of substance and character, and made me feel that i should be the same. people who i encountered regularly but could not-and should not-trust. i spent months without people who truly understood me. it was lonely, and it was sad, but i didn’t cry. i felt empty. i was empty.

all the while, i was struggling with who i am and what i want to be, and feeling so odd for wanting to do things that i’ve always done-music, art, reading, writing. i’m a person of many interests. i’ve learned over the past year that many others are not. many people settle. i can’t settle. it will cripple my very being.

during orientation this week, jenn was discussing the idea of ‘giftedness’ and explained that gifted people have a high disposition to overexcitability (which explains my extreme dislike and discomfort over the past year) and often deny that they are gifted (ie, i played guitar in my bathroom for a year because i didn’t think i was good enough. i stopped reading. i put off doing anything of value to sit in front of the tv and zone out).

i am gifted. i have always been smart. i was taught to be a hard worker and a helpful and creative person. i like to read. i like to sing and interact and make things and fix things and do things and experience things. and somewhere along the way, i forgot how to do that. i forgot how to take pride in myself.

now i’m surrounded by this overwhelming community of thinkers-artists, educators, and friends, always ready to help me out, to have a discussion, to roll around on the quad. it’s great, but it also makes me worry. how do i sustain this beyond this summer? chapel hill has nothing for me. i’m too comfortable and simultaneously unhappy in durham. i’m going to have to stay there indefinitely because of my financial situation, but i am ready to go and find a place where i can be happy. i’m going to try, because that’s all i can do, and for the next two months i will go to bed smiling.
9 June 09
smokeandacoke:

This is why I decided not to get into photojournalism, as I almost did.

the only person that got a good picture is the one not in the picture. i hate these old-school douchebags. khaki vests and hiking boots and NO people skills.

smokeandacoke:

This is why I decided not to get into photojournalism, as I almost did.
the only person that got a good picture is the one not in the picture. i hate these old-school douchebags. khaki vests and hiking boots and NO people skills.

reblogged via smokeandacoke

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh