You only see what you want to see, and what I show.

i made this country mix for a friend and i just cant stop listening to it myself now.
older -> newer.
what i think are pertinent and best right now.

taylor swift's first big gig was opening for george strait- who did

carrying your love w me

garth brooks. the people's favorite, before tim mcgraw.
friends in low places.

trisha yearwood. married garth brooks. did the real version of how do i live.
walkaway joe

waylon jennings. momma's dont let your baby's grow up to be cowboys.

my dad used to sing this at my mom sometimes- 

she dont know she's beautiful 

THE losing your virginity song. strawberry wine

sexiest song tim mcgraw ever did- real good man

chris cagle- i'd be lying

these are my favorite in general lately,

hard to love
drink on it

There've been moments when I thought I really saw into a person. Looked into their eyes and they were completely open and honest.
But it's just a moment and that person will never be just like they were right then.

Alright 2014. 

Happy and safe holidays, the Chen's. 2013

i love my life. and everything that's mine.

the world isnt round, it's a prism.

I don't know anything.
& you don't really, ever.
know anything.

All you have is feelings.
that something
is right or wrong,
based mostly on your gut
and what you choose
to believe from what you hear.

So you go with feelings 
and change the world
around you till things
inevitably change & you
realize everything is just
fragments of reality
folding and unfolding
planes of a prism.

and where you look the longest
depends on those feelings and
people who hold your heart the most.

Don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.
-harvey milk