PARKER ESSICK: a blog

Oct 15

This city and I have a very intimate relationship.

This city and I have a very intimate relationship.

Oct 13

Want to spice up an ad?  Just add a beagle!
Definitely picture of the day (from Point Zero)

Want to spice up an ad?  Just add a beagle!

Definitely picture of the day (from Point Zero)

Sep 20

Check this out: Christoper Chu "EchoMix 2" -

Sep 19

For those days when you think “If only I had a tepee…”

For those days when you think “If only I had a tepee…”

Sep 10

jakehathaway:

I am so stoked for this movie!

jakehathaway:

I am so stoked for this movie!

Aug 26

I’ve had an idea for a while now:

Everything beautiful stems from a mountain breeze.
If that’s not true, I really have no idea what is.

I spent an hour or so at the overlook in Sam’s Gap on the trip back from Asheville. It was the most exhilirating, refreshing, loving, perfectly beautiful experience I’ve had in a very long time.

Though I hate to admit it, I’m going to miss these mountains when I’m away.

Aug 22

First song? maybe. Hamlet? I think so.

Look at the night sky
The stars are humming brightly
Black oceans nearby
Pasts held reflections slightly
This night could last forever
We are young and alive
Ophelia, I see the fire
And you know this house won’t survive

I’m going home
Where ghosts don’t cloud my vision
Where broken seas don’t rage

Ophelia, the question’s growing stronger
Stronger every day
To be a noble suffer’r
Or just to blow my life away
I doubt the sea is turning
I doubt the earth will ever move
I doubt this boy is learning
I doubt I love

Just as the clock beats faster
This divinity that shapes our ends
Misshapens gold’s luck-laster
Time’s slipping slowly from my hands
Where is the fate I’m after?
Where are my fearful sins atoned?
On what grounds may I now save her?
When the only fault here is my own

I can’t go home
Where ghosts don’t cloud my vision
Where broken seas don’t rage

Ophelia, the question’s growing stronger
Stronger every day
To be a noble suffer’r
Or just to throw my life away
Just doubt the sea is turning
You doubt the earth will ever move
You can doubt this boy is learning
But never doubt I love…

These walls are crashing
I can’t escape the sound of
The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Ending Silence
Ophelia,
Ophelia,
Ophelia,
Tonight the world is asleep for you.

Aug 18

In the late evening poetry

Once there was a maple tree

In the western woods of Westphalia

It proved freedom and life to the local Austrian children

Who played in its branches

and swallowed its leaves

But one day, the axe just fell.

Though, don’t worry—

it made a very nice kitchen table.

Jul 21

Old Spice Commercial Popular--Old Spice Not So Much -

The Old Spice commercial with the hyper-masculine Isaiah Mustafa has been a hit in the U.S., counting views at 12.2 million on YouTube. However, the Old Spice body wash that “your man could smell like” isn’t selling half as well.

Jul 19

The objective: this backpack… It’s gonna rock.
God bless Vans.

The objective: this backpack… It’s gonna rock.

God bless Vans.