Tommie Jean.


Photo by RJ.

I'm a senior at the University of Oklahoma. Broadcast & Electronic Media major.
I read mad amounts of books and I think I'm going to change the world.
Also, I'm pretty tall.
Thu Jul 9
Stressed and worried to the point of sadness.
I am mostly happy, truly.
This month is just…
a gutache,
less sleep,
weary,
fast-blood,
throat-blocked,
sad.

It’s late at night, and I think of the past year, and everything wrong and awful.
And I just want to get lost in a hug for about 3 days.
Tue Jul 7
I haven’t read in the past few days. 
This is of major concern.
Fri Jul 3
(via ryanfuckingadams) About how I feel today. Come pick me up, take me out, fuck me up, steal my records.
(via ryanfuckingadams)


About how I feel today.




Come pick me up,
take me out,
fuck me up,
steal my records.
surrounded: I may or may not have found a McGruff the Crime Dog head to wear.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present you with my new roommate.

surrounded:

I may or may not have found a McGruff the Crime Dog head to wear.

 Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present you with my new roommate.

Tue Jun 30
madeinthedark: Lovely engagement photos by Stephanie Williams for Next Exit more here (via Oh Joy) LOVE<3Adore, even. 

madeinthedark:

Lovely engagement photos by Stephanie Williams for Next Exit

more here (via Oh Joy)

LOVE
<3
Adore, even. 

Mon Jun 29
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Dear Christopher, 

This song was playing when you called just now to tell me you were leaving Florida. 
I thought you might appreciate this coincidence.
Can’t wait to see you!
Can’t wait til you build your fort in my apartment!
Here’s to sleeping bags, feeding ducks, my tiny televisions, and of course, Ryan Adams.

I expect living with you to be swell.
:] 

Self-Imposed Summer Reading List

Music

  • Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley  by David Browne
  • Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life by John Sellers
  • ***Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
  • ***Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

Memoir

  • Cherry by Mary Karr
  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
  • Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
  • Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • ***Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Fiction

  • Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • ***Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
  • Oil! by Upton Sinclair
  • Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac

Short Fiction

  • ***The Best American Short Stories: 2007 Edited by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor
  • Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury
  • ***40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Second Edition) Edited by Beverly Lawn

Poetry

  • ***The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
  • ***A Breeze Swept Through by Luci Tapahonso
  • ***Blue Horses Rush In by Luci Tapahonso
  • ***The Woman Who Fell From the Sky by Joy Harjo
  • ***Sheridan Edwards Review (Vol. 13—2005) Published by Newman University
  • ***The Southern Review (Vol. 43, Number 4, Autumn 2007) Published by Louisiana State University
  • ***250 Poems: A Portable Anthology Edited by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl

Writing

  • ***Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated by Nancy Kress
  • Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

***Indicates a book I’ve previously partially read and never finished. 

Wed Jun 24
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Lover, You Should’ve Come Over by Jeff Buckley

“P: Thank you for her,” Jeff in the liner notes of Grace, to Peter, the father of one of Jeff’s girlfriends, Rebecca Moore, whom this song was about. By the time Grace was released, the two had split. 

This song is one of the most achingly beautiful to exist, and that dedication is one of the most achingly beautiful I’ve ever read. But then, that’s Jeff Buckley, isn’t it? 

11 Quotes That Prove Kanye Is A Douchebag
(via fuhleesh)
Sat Jun 20

I’ve heard a lot lately about the young man who died in Norman this month in a train incident. People keep asking if I knew him since I live in Norman and apparently he and I share many mutual aquaintances. People then proceed to tell me every painful detail even though (or maybe simply because) I did not know this kid. Still, it absolutely breaks my heart. I somehow came across a few tumblrs of some of his good friends tonight, and I can’t help but cry when I read their posts.

It’s been almost one year since Carlos. I think about him every day. I took off the bracelets thinking that removing the constant reminder would help, but I only end up looking at my bare wrists and feeling all the same.

If I could do anything for these kids, I would sit outside with them and let them talk, laugh, cry, smoke about 50 consecutive cigarettes. I would let them browse photos, drive aimlessly, stay up all night, break showers, spend a day riding shitty rides at Frontier City, talk shit like Dane Cook because “You don’t know!!! You don’t even fucking know!!”, make a summer to-do list with their unfortunately reunited friends. I would answer every phone call before the third ring and be there at any time.

I could say that yeah, I know. And I know it really fucking sucks. And yes, everything from this point on will be different, and no, it doesn’t go ever go away nor does the reality fully settle in.

But I would not ask inappropriate questions and I would not look at them strangely. And I will definitely send some positive vibes their way.