“Stone In My Heart” performed by Graffiti6, written by Thomas Danvers & James Needle.
i saw you in a crowd
and the sound of your laughter brought me back
to an unfulfilled love of years past
a fantasy of unrealized perfection
i don’t know you yet
but i recognize you
it’s the things that make you smile
and the way you toss your long brown hair
you are a mystery
yet i see that spark in you
a silver lining so divine, brings me to a time
when love was whole and unspoiled
is it true i see a ghost in you
a shadow of unrequited love
longing to fulfill its purpose
to give love and be loved
here i stand, unrecouped
carrying my debt to another
but i know you are not the one
and i catch myself in a waking dream
-Dana Rose (c) 2012
it’s always the same
you play the victim in this game
and i play the monster
or a wicked impostor
round and round we turn in a dizzy cycle
grappling for the reason why
why we make each other spin out
and seeking a way out
but a tornado has no windows
a tornado has no doors
the only option is destruction
our only exit is eruption
holding a matchbox behind my back
i walk into the eye of the storm
and in the very center
all is false, serene and warm
before i lift my hand to strike our fate
i say farewell to what we had
i touch your hand and kiss your face
lingering to remember your ways
soon you will fly away from me
soon you will love another
soon this will be a memory
to carry as we walk farther
it was all gone in a bright white flash
and you hate me for striking the match
my long lost darling, sweetness of dreams past
be bold and walk strong
Onward, hands of time!
heal these wounds with haste
a new day has begun
and only time can prove my faith
still i send kisses into the wind
hoping it might brush your cheek
and you will think of me
the way we used to be
-Dana Rose (c) 2012
In a kingdom by the sea
where angels smile and pout upon glittering rooftops
the people below dream hungrily
of a kingdom by the sea.
Yet in the shadow of the mountain
I press wishes into the pavement with every step
breathing fumes of gasoline and ego
and whispering prayers into the wind.
On this island of dreamers we contemplate ourselves
and recognize each other
for we were meant to meet here,
and march together into the promised land
that swelters beneath our nostrils.
But when the desert air cools
and the kingdom settles under the moon
I place my sack of doubt and worry next to the bed
and dream of a home that never was.
-Dana Rose
(Source: serialstranger, via swinters)
(via swinters)
For some reason, the online privacy debate is dominated by concerns that marketers will use information gleaned from online behavior in order to more effectively target advertising. You know what I don’t feel as a harm? Targeted advertising. I’d rather the ads I see have something to do with my interests rather than nothing.
On the other hand, it does seem to me that there is a serious problem about online privacy, and one that is only ever discussed tangentially. The problem that I’m thinking about arises out of the fact that the web is a social space, and yet because of the implicit threat of punishment, one is all but forced to show a false face in this part of one’s social life.
To the extent this issue is discussed at all, the presumption is that those who are punished deserved that punishment, either because their honesty showed them to be a bad person or because their honesty showed them to lack prudence. Which is to say we see a lot of discussion about what you can or should do to protect your reputation online, and no discussion at all of the norms behind our expectations.
To the extent that this way of thinking about things is plausible, it is because we think of the web as a public space and we believe that it is right and proper to expect that people show their best face in public. That’s not wrong, exactly, but it misses the fact that the existence of the social web has moved all kinds of interactions that used to be personal into this online sphere — with the consequence noted above that social interactions which used to be honest as a matter of course are now either disingenuous or dangerous.
What I’m getting at is that we don’t have a norm of minding your own business online in the same way that we have a norm of not looking in your neighbor’s windows. Instead, we just assume that a public/private distinction developed under different technological and social conditions applies seamlessly to the world we find ourselves in.
To be clear, I’m not sure what those norms would ultimately look like and I’m not claiming that all online activity should be regarded as private. My point is rather that the web’s potential for connecting people together is undermined by the failure to develop norms respecting some area of the personal online.
-From Source, February 22, 2012
