Style Board: August 30, 2010

For the gents...

Have an amazing and amazingly stylish week!

Let's Go Back to School!

I have confidence in me!

I wish everyone a spectacular start to the new school year! But, I know waking up early is a bummer, so here are some songs to both get you motivated and dancing around the halls in your skinny jeans!

1. The Way We Get By: Spoon
2. Wake Up: Arcade Fire
3. New Slang: The Shins
4. How It Ends: DeVotchKa
5. Here Comes the Sun: The Beatles
6. We're Going to be Friends: The White Stripes
7. Opposite of Adults: Chiddy Bang
8. Alice Practice: Crystal Castles
9. School Days: Chuck Berry
10. Dear Prudence: The Beatles
11. I Have Confidence: The Sound of Music

Here Today

Last week I had the opportunity of a lifetime: to see Paul McCartney in concert. If you know me at all, you know I am an absolute Beatles fanatic. Even if you don't know me, you have probably gotten the hint. 

That being said, you can imagine what an experience this was for me. For half of the show, I stood in a stupor, unable to comprehend that 1/4 of my favorite human beings was standing right there, making jokes and telling us stories.

I finally managed to compose myself after the first few numbers; Then lights dimmed and Paul took the stage alone with an acoustic guitar. Yeah, so much for that composure. 

We were serenaded with "Blackbird," and all was quiet for a moment. Paul murmured into the microphone,

"We often wait until it's too late to tell people we love how we truly feel. Then, all we can do is wish we had that moment back. Just to make sure they know."

By then, I knew what was coming. 

Paul wrote "Here Today" in 1982, following the murder of John Lennon in 1980. I truly believe it is the most beautiful, honest, and haunting song he has ever composed. Seeing Paul perform it was the most moving experience of my life.

Even my dad cried.

Love,
Katie F.

What Blew My Mind Today

Fears are a normal part of life. Some of my biggest fears used to be: Kelpies, heights, failure, and torture. Then, as I was going through my bookshelf, I found a quote on the back of "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" that perfectly worded what I was always truly afraid of:

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."

-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956

Yours Truly,
Katie W.

Style Board: August 16, 2010

Have an amazing and an amazingly stylish week!