#shane koyczan

[more-than-ideas]

“Dear me, silence is not a song you should know all the words to.”

— Shane Koyczan, A Letter to Remind Myself Who I am

[imy2]

to this day - shane koyczan

[entity56]

To This Day - Shane Koyczan

[may-odaigahara]

that Shane Koyczan poem about the army is one of the most monstrously evil things I've ever read in my life

[anxiety-disaster]

And when that kid in you falls, turn around, pick them up, dust them off, then continue. Trust me, you are gonna need that kid. You are gonna need someone to remind you that every weed is a flower, just trying to make shit work, that every jerk you ever encounter is just another someone who somehow forgot that it's okay to need a hug. It's okay to be afraid.

- Shane Koyczan

[memoriesofthingspast]

🦗🪽✨🌈🌊🌻

[wocado]

"To This Day Project" - Awesome Video Shows What Words Can Do to Everyone

  “To This Day Project” An Awesome Video by the award winning perfomer Shane Koyczan shows the importance of Words and how they can affect our lives in such a dramatic way. Powerful, Inspiring, and one of the best examples of what Words Can Do to All of Us… To This Day When I was a…

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[siennalauren]

And despite an army of friends Who all call him an inspiration He remains a conversation piece between people Who can’t understand Sometimes being drug-free Has less to do with addiction And more to do with sanity

"To This Day" by Shane Koyczan (x)

[lamlelywriter]

“Tomorrow, I want to bring you a piece of paper with the telephone number of a taxi cab company that knows the exact address of my arms, so the day you need a hug I’m going to be there for that.”

The poet that made me.

[herfavoritethings]

6:59

i’ve been told

that people in the army

do more by 7:00am

than I do 

in an entire day

but if I wake

at 6:59am

and turn to you

and trace the outline of your lips

with mine, 

I will have done enough

and killed no one

in the process

Shane Koyczan

[acallfromolympus]

I don’t share my writing on here but I’m in my final year of getting my English/creative writing degree :D I actually got into writing bc of the spoken word poet Shane Koyczan! I was introduced to his work in my English class when I was 12.

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[secretsynapse]

i don’t often believe in angels

but on the day i left, Louis pulled a feather from his pillow and said "this is for you"

i half expected him to say

"see,

this is the first one i grew."

[semiotomatics]

for anyone who needs it today, or any other day

[dejaruhe]

No one gets me saying amen like Linkin Park. Been listening to the one that's not Meteora... Minutes to Midnight, which I have the CD for. Lost my Meteora :( MtM is not as good overall but is still beautiful and sincere and 'Hands Held High' is just. I love them so much. I will learn most of the rest of the album while I'm fixated on "hands held high into a sky so blue and the ocean opens up to swallow you" for the next bit of time, except for 'Valentine's Day' which is the only one that grates on me and 'Leave Out All the Rest', which breaks my heart.

I'm listening to this music on a CD that coincided with a Twilight movie release, pre-Obama, so a couple presidents ago (and I promise to rock it til it's threadbare, bet on it), driving around in my 2001 Toyota momvan, in which I can play CDs and cassettes and based on how many ashtrays there are I should be smoking more cigarettes — the point, which I am always losing, is that listening to CDs and cassettes is such a different way of experiencing music. I can't easily hook my phone up to the speakers, which aren't amazing anyway, so I am not Shuffling Playlists and looking at my phone sucks, especially when driving. So I choose a tape or CD and stick to it for a while. Study it. Very different from shuffles.

The charm of shuffling playlists is the charm and romance of the gambit, which has incredible charisma stats. +20 to persuasion. Nothing better than an archetype with sketchy edges and cards or dice. What will I get next! The algorithm decides. The algorithm is rigged dice, because it responds to data with different implications than like. Microfractures. One of its strengths, however, is that it has more data than I do and is connected to other people and allows new artists to reach me, and they are all performing themselves for me in my inbox now because I want CDs and so I end up on their listservs, and that's both very cool and very weird. Bard services. I love it truly but it's also so much?

I think the repetition and focus of physical media is probably my general preference in a lot of ways. In some ways, the *cloud* feels like a secure repository of my playlists, but even if I transcribed old mix CD playlists to somewhere on the internet, I would still be devastated to lose those lovingly written CDs. I have had Spotify and Pandora and I suppose now Google is the source of all my music, but I do wish they'd do a better job of separating the music app from the video app. YouTube is its own thing in a way that shouldn't be subsumed by... You know, as I start this rant I know I'm losing the point again and also, anyway, one of the benefits of that lack of separation is getting the music stuff that was only uploaded to YouTube in any playlist I want.

The point was about focus, which I lack, and now that I think about it, the deliberation of physical media has profound implications. I tend to be suspicious of things that feel like spiritual epiphanies, but if the alternative is being miserable all the time anyway then why not just treat these objects as the arcane and sacred things they will be, if so treated? The velveteen rabbit becomes real with love... I spotted a slightly rough-hewn wooden box in my uncle's garage that looked designed for cassettes, which was empty, he has switched entirely to smart home Spotify Amazon Google everything, and I asked if the box was designed for cassettes and he confirmed that yes, it was, he made it himself and if I wanted that instead of the cardboad Amazon box I am currently using to contain my cassettes in the van then I should take it, but also I should sand and stain it, and his garage has all the supplies with which to do that so I left it there so I can go back and do it. Take the time and take it seriously and mean it. And I will listen to all of these tapes and CDs (except the ones that make me cry while I drive) and I will PONDER them. How did they come to me? Do I want them? Do they work well enough to keep playing or should I turn them into art? Can I figure out a way to create an homage to the trash room at Meow Wolf Santa Fe that won't make me feel derivative? Why does derivation have such negative connotations? Why can't we all just hang out and make stuff and sing songs and not fight? It's because the world is devoid of justice and the exhaustion of being one drop in the ocean is overwhelming. Shane Koyczan's 'Shoulders' addresses this feeling with more poetry and hope than I can muster. I have to put a period at the end of this essay and stop writing now.

[bakhetbek]

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I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day

But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Shane Koyczan

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