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My Favorite 125 of 2007

2.0.0.8.

my favorite 125 photos of 2007.

Come on back and see me when you can.

for you.

Do What You Gotta Do

Do What You Gotta Do

by Nina Simone

(covered by Okkervil River)

Man I can understand how it might be kinda hard to love a girl like me.
I don't blame you much for wanting to be free, I only wanted you to know

I've loved you better than your own kin did from the very start.

It's my own fault what happens to my heart.

You see I always knew you'd go.

So you just do what you gotta do, my wild sweet love.
Though it may mean that I'll never kiss those sweet lips again,
Pay that no mind.
Find that dappled dream of yours;

Come on back and see me when you can.

Now I know they make you feel sad, they make you feel so bad.
They say you don't treat me me like you should, they got ways to make you feel no good.
I guess they got no way to know, I had my eyes wide open from the start.
And man, you never lied to me.
And the part of you that they'll never see, well that's the part you've shown to me.

So you just do what you gotta do, my wild sweet love.
Though it may mean that I'll never kiss those sweet lips again,
Pay that no mind.
Find that dappled dream of yours;

Come on back and see me when you can.

I used to think it was good enough just to be here.

Down In Virginia 1

Down In Virginia

by Emily Sparks

Well, I don't know why I always go for the unreachable.
Sometimes my head is so cluttered with dumb ideas,
I must seem unteachable.

Last night I fell in love, and this morning I just feel sad-
Thinking about all that I lost and once had.

Down In Virginia, visiting true friends.
Trying my best to put on a smile for their new friends.
But my heart is aching for what they took down here,
Always aching for something that I have some other year.

There have been obstacles, but I've had it better than most.
Death doesn't scare me much, so many of my friends are ghosts.

If all the pain I feel is the price of life, then I'll pay.
'Cause it's getting to be a part of me now,

and you can't just take it away.

I used to think it was good enough just to be here,
But holding my place in this old race seems harder each year.

And emptying down a brown bottle don't make it clear 

It's no better to be safe than sorry.

Take On Me [Demo Version]

Take on Me

A-Ha

We're talking away.
I don't know what I'm to say.
I'll say it anyway.
Today's another day to find you shying away.
I'll be coming for your love, OK?

Take on me
Take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say, I'm odds and ends.
But I'll be stumbling away,
Slowly learning that life is OK.

Say after me:
"It's no better to be safe than sorry."

Take on me
Take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Oh, the things that you say-
Is it life or just to play my worries away?
You're all the things I forgot to remember.
You're shying away,
I'll be coming for you anyway.

Take on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone in a day.

Left only with love.

10 Left Only With Love

Smog

BOX in NYC: Saturday

Box is releasing Issue #6.2 on the 22nd, as well as officially announcing the blog, so what better way to celebrate the end of the Summer of Play than at Rated X: The Panty Party? Join us on September 29th at Rififi with Burning Angel and Babeland to have hot breakup sex with the summer of 2007. • Hot Body Contest at 2am, Hosted by MC Peppermint Gummybear, prizes include a Box Magazine/Babeland sexy gift pack, goodies from Burning Angel, and $250 ,courtesy of Bass Ale,. • DJ's Jess, Theo and Michael T • Special guests Randy from Box, plus Joanna Angel and the girls of Burning Angel • Panties not required, but you get 2 for 1 drinks when you check your pants at the door. There's also an open bar fro 10-11 featuring Bass Ale and Zygo Energy Vodka. Also, from 3-4 it's 2 for 1 drinks and $3 kamikaze shots! Looney! • Doors are at 10pm. Cover is 00, or $5 before midnight ($7 after) if you mention Box at the door. 21 and over, please. Be there. (for a primer of what you're in for, check out pictures from our last party, here.) (photo from new work by Rose and Olive, featured in 6.2)

The River Guard

River Guard

Smog

The River Guard

Smog

When I take the prisoners swimming
They have the time of their lives
I love to watch them floating

On their backs
Unburdened and relaxed

I sit in the tall grass and look the other way
And when I haul them in they always say
Our sencences will not served

We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free

Most nights I go for a drive
To the highest place I can find
Stand there on a cliff with gooseflesh
Watching the wind rip the leaves from the trees

Death defying
Every breath
Death defying

Soon we will all be back in the yard
Behind the wall
Living hard
Dreaming of cool rivers and tall grass

We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free

We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free

Graceland

Graceland

"She comes back to tell me she's gone,
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed,
As if I'd never noticed,
The way she brushed her hair from forehead,
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody sees the wind blow"

It's not for a fuck, or a kiss.

03 Crowd Surf Off A Cliff

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

Cursed with a love that you can't express
It's not for a fuck, or a kiss
Rather give the world away than wake up lonely
Everywhere in every way I see you with me

Crowd surf off a cliff
Land out on the ice
Crowd surf off to sea
float towards the beach

If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been

Are we breathing, are we breathing, are we wasting our breath?
It won't be enough to be rich
All the babies tucked away in their beds
We're out here screaming,
"The life that you thought through is gone!"
Can't wind down, the ending outlasting the move
I wake up lonely

Crowd surf off a cliff
Land out on the ice
Crowd surf off to sea
float towards the beach

If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been
When you phone me tell me everything I did
If I'm sorry you lost me you'd better make it quick
Cause this call costs a fortune and it's late where you live
It's late where you live

Rather give the world away than wake up lonely
Everywhere and every way I see you with me
All the babies tucked away in their beds
We're out here screaming,
"The life that you thought through is gone"
Can't want out, the ending outlasting the move
I wake up lonely

I wake up lonely

Size Too Small

I Lied. One more. This one is for M. It should've been on your mixtape, instead of Lord God Bird.

Size Too Small

Sufjan Stevens

Size Too Small

Sufjan Stevens

I was the best man in a size too small. 
You were my best friend, going at it all. 
And what if I put off my inheritance? 
Where is the best man? 
All arise us all in peace. 

I still know you. 
And I still like you, the best man. 

I still owe you. 

Everything rises, going at it all. 
All the surprises in a size too small. 
And what if I told you 
I was in love with this? 

Would you surprise us 
in a size for all of me? 

I still know you. 
And I still like you, the best man. 
I still know you, the best man. 

I still owe you.