Sep 28, 2014
This is the original photo before I put galaxies all over it 😉 seriously. It was the most beautiful manmade thing I'd ever seen. 🙏 #starryeyedstef #sistinechapel #vatican #rome #Italy
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This is the original photo before I put galaxies all over it 😉 seriously. It was the most beautiful manmade thing I'd ever seen. 🙏 #starryeyedstef #sistinechapel #vatican #rome #Italy
This is a shot my fiancé grabbed of me in the Sistine Chapel before he got yelled at by a security guard 😉 #starryeyed #starryeyedstef #photocandy #sistinechapel #vatican #rome #Italy
Ellie Goulding - Lights - Only You
This is the last day of Ellie Goulding Week :o((((( But every day is Ellie Goulding day to me so it's gonna be okay ;o) Here we go! Lights
Lights is Ellie's most popular song in the US and spent over a year on the Hot 100 list. Ellie says that the song was inspired by her childhood fear of the dark. It's such a fun dance song but, like always, Ellie pairs the drum and bass with beautiful lyrics and a dreamy cosmic quality. Here's Ellie with a beautiful acoustic version of the song. And here is the music video. Only You
This is the final Ellie Goulding song of Ellie Goulding Week!!!!!! Only You is a hip, groovy song with lots of Ellie's beautiful voice as extra instrumentation (which I LOVE). The song is repetitive, yes, but we love what it's repeating so it never gets tired. Here is a 90 second cut she did for a fashion video for ASOS And here is the full song So that marks the end of Ellie Goulding Week! Sad face... But I'm leaving you with some extras because I just can never get enough of Ellie. Enjoy! Ellie Goulding - Guns & Horses Ellie Goulding & Angel Haze - Life Round Here - James Blake Cover Ellie Goulding - High For This - The Weeknd Cover
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed - You My Everything
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's celebrate with some Ellie Goulding!!!!
I'm posting about my two most favoritest Ellie songs of all time! One of them is super well known and the other is not quite so well known but equally as riiculous. Here's to my birthday! Starry Eyed Obviously, this is my favorite song of all time, since I have nicknamed myself Starry Eyed Stef on Twitter, Instagram, and here on Tumblr. I discovered Ellie Goulding when I came across this song on the KickAss soundtrack and was instantly obsessed. Ellie had this to say about the meaning of the song: "It's about letting go. As opposed to all the sad and depressing things I write about, I decided to write something about the joining together of people in some kind of euphoric state—be it at a festival, at a show or in a club. I wanted a song that would reach out to people of every background and every enjoyment, whether you enjoy a natural high, taking drugs, drinking or whatever. Because I'm essentially a pop artist I wanted to write a song that everyone can relate to." Here's my favorite remix of the song Here's my favorite live performance of the song And here's the music video Okay now onto.... You My Everything
When I heard this song for the first time I already felt familiar with it, like this had to be a remake of a song I'd known and loved all my life. That is how AMAZING this song is. I'm one of those people this song talks about so I really relate to the lyrics and the desparation of the music and it seems to run forward in some attempt to catch up to "You...my everything" Here it is... enjoy!
Ellie Goulding - Figure 8 - Tessellate
Day Two of Ellie Goulding Week! Here we go!
Figure 8 This song hits way to close to home. I swear Ellie was a fly on the wall during one of my heartbreaks, squeezed the broken pieces of my bitter, angry, hopeless, helpless heart onto a page and then made a song out of it. To see her perform this live is........well, she is basically a goddess so what else is there to say? Well, here she is a Lollapaooza in Brazil if you need proof(I ran 3:10-3:15 a few times from shock). If you're going through a breakup right now....You're welcome? And here is the music video.
Tessellate (ALT-J cover) This is one sexy, sexy song. And the video is probably Ellie's sexiest video so be prepared for that ;oP Actually, here is the really super awesome video to the ALT-J original, because I can't share Ellie's without sharing the original when it was equally as awesome as Ellie's remake. And here's Ellie's video.
ON BEING HUMAN Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal Huge Principles appear. The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of Arboreal life, how from earth's salty lap The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness Enacted by leaves' fall and rising sap; But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance Of sun from shadow where the trees begin, The blessed cool at every pore caressing us -An angel has no skin. They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it Drink the whole summer down into the breast. The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest. The tremor on the rippled pool of memory That from each smell in widening circles goes, The pleasure and the pang --can angels measure it? An angel has no nose. The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes On death, and why, they utterly know; but not The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries. The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves, Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges. —An angel has no nerves. Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be. Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior, This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares With living men some secrets in a privacy Forever ours, not theirs.
C.S. Lewis
FALLING STARS Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes--do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
Rainer Maria Rilke
CHILDHOOD It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood afternoons you knew that vanished so completely -and why? We're still reminded-: sometimes by a rain, but we can no longer say what it means; life was never again so filled with meeting, with reunion and with passing on as back then, when nothing happened to us except what happens to things and creatures: we lived their world as something human, and became filled to the brim with figures. And became as lonely as a sheperd and as overburdened by vast distances, and summoned and stirred as from far away, and slowly, like a long new thread, introduced into that picture-sequence where now having to go on bewilders us
Rainer Maria Rilke