“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-16558723-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @maryoreilly)http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/<p><span>follow me <a href="http://marymarymarymary.tumblr.com/">HERE</a> from now on if you’re interested in my thoughts, observations, photos (sometimes) and the like.</span></p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/10969778883http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/10969778883Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:12:43 -0400<p>hahaha “literally twice as many hydrogen atoms as there are oxygen atoms.” this is so good. you should make an iCar one and submit it to that website, timz</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4406066916http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4406066916Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:12:05 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/4381986891/tumblr_lj7n8qHb0V1qa7vll&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><strong>Brindo - Devendra Banhart</strong></p> <p>do yourself a favor and listen to this</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4381986891http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4381986891Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:05:14 -0400music<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj74jsEKyG1qzdll0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yuri Pleskun by Damon Baker</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4381258759http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4381258759Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:36:23 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bYo5nEUT_o4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>if this song doesn’t make you feel something…i wouldn’t want to be you.</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4360182745http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4360182745Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:06:14 -0400music<a href="http://www.hudsonjeans.com/N0_The_Faye/pd/c/2002/np/2002/p/1205.html">i would love these like a newborn child</a>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4359141202http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4359141202Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:54:15 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj5ksjbukj1qah5ozo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4358621115http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4358621115Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:23:58 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj44slNjUU1qa7vllo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>found this old photobooth photo, taken june 2010, in my iPhoto “trash.” posting it because at college i’ve come to find that a large part of me is my very virgin hair.</p> <p>posted sideways because straight-on i look insane. no, really.</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4333357153http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4333357153Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:33:00 -0400personal<p>to shed light to one&#8217;s boredom, loneliness, and (almost always) horniness.</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4197850226http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4197850226Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:08:00 -0400<p>just spent the better part of the last half hour looking through all my old blog entries in the hope of finding a quote that i thought i had once posted (to no avail). in the process, i became embarrassed at some of the things i&#8217;d posted&#8212;much like i feel pangs of embarrassment upon reading old diary entries. will i ever be proud of my past??</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4180491698http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4180491698Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:40:00 -0400personal<p><span>A cold and wet November dawn<br/>and there are no barking sparrows<br/>just emptiness to dwell upon.<br/><br/>I fell into a winter slide<br/>and ended up the kind of kid who goes down chutes too narrow<br/>just eking out my measly pies.<br/><br/>But I learned fast how to keep my head up &#8216;cause I<br/>know there is this side of me that<br/>wants to grab the yoke from the pilot and just<br/>fly the whole mess into the sea.<br/><br/>Another slow train to the coast<br/>some brand new gory art from way on high<br/>I sink and then I swim all night.<br/><br/>I watch the ice melt on the glass<br/>while the eloquent young pilgrims pass<br/>and leave behind their trail<br/>imploring us all not to fail.<br/><br/>Of course I was raised to gather courage from those<br/>lofty tales so tried and true<br/>if you&#8217;re able, I&#8217;d suggest it <strong>&#8216;cause this</strong><br/><strong>modern thought can get the best of you.</strong><br/><br/>This rather simple epitaph can save your hide, your falling mind<br/>fate isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;re up against there&#8217;s no design, no flaws to find<br/>there&#8217;s no design, no flaws to find.<br/><br/>But I learned fast how to keep my head up &#8216;cause I<br/>know I got this side of me that<br/>wants to grab the yoke from the pilot and just<br/>fly the whole mess into the sea.</span></p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4177984530http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4177984530Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:30:00 -0400musicthe shinsyoung pilgrimsjames mercer<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/4152946880/tumblr_lir398UolB1qa7vll&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><strong>Find a Way - Santogold feat. Kid Cudi (Graeme and Switch Mix)</strong></p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4152946880http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4152946880Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:31:56 -0400<p><span><span>soon after falling into a deeper psychedelic state to escape the prison of our reality, our hero becomes trapped in his own peaceful place, which immediately becomes his sanctuary. a place filled with his wildest dreams. this&#8230;is his new home.</span></span></p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4152659124http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4152659124Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:14:00 -0400music<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/4072241443/tumblr_lil3jqQy0Y1qa7vll&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><strong>Weird Divide - The Shins</strong></p> <p>this will play at my wedding at some point</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4072241443http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4072241443Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:52:00 -0400music<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fF7Hh8jQftw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>quite possibly my favorite movie scene of all time (taken from <em>the graduate</em>, 1967)</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4040928101http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4040928101Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:28:30 -0400film<p>really never thought I&#8217;d see this day.</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4015708291http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/4015708291Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:30:09 -0400personal<a href="http://jezebel.com/#!5779905/usc-frat-guys-email-explains-women-are-targets-not-actual-people-like-us-men">USC frat-boy views women as targets as opposed to people.</a>: <p>it’s only an issue because it was put in writing.</p> <p><a href="http://postmadbills.tumblr.com/post/3924150914">postmadbills</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>This is an email allegedly sent out from the frat Kappa Sig at USC. It’s disgusting. It couldn’t even be funny were it a prank.</p> <p>It’s just everything that could be wrong about frats.</p> </blockquote>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3975628883http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3975628883Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:58:00 -0400“I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void. I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved.”<br/><br/> - <em>Eckhart Tolle</em>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3975108022http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3975108022Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:00:57 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dKQYD7wWZqY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“if we fuck i’m going to feel like shit tomorrow.”</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3934967753http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3934967753Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:20:03 -0400filmhotel chevalier<p>generation gaps - trust - balance in relationships - settling - beauty - adequacy - moderation - blame</p>http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3914347606http://maryoreilly.tumblr.com/post/3914347606Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:16:15 -0400personal