Day: May 30, 2016

victoriousvocabulary:

METROPOLIS 

[noun] 

1. any large, busy city. 

2. the chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region. 

3. a central or principal place, as of some activity. 

4. the mother city or parent state of a colony, especially of an ancient Greek colony. 

5. the chief see of an ecclesiastical province.

Etymology: from Middle English < Late Latin mētropolis < Greek mētrópolis, “a mother state or city”, equivalent to mētro-, combining form of mḗtēr, “mother" + pólis, “city”.

[Liam Wong]

becrandolph:

sure as hell {listen} » He pressed his fingers against his lips, the powder of his blue gloves coating his mouth as he stared horrified at the blood streaked along the grass. The body lay mangled, arms twisted high to the sky, praising God even in death, while her eyes were peeled open, looking towards the sun for eternity. His stomach churned as the wind rustled her matted hair and disturbed the thorn crown glued to her head with her own blood.

1. OLD TIME RELIGION – parker millsap /// 2. ARSONIST’S LULLABY (HOZIER COVER) – michael wesely /// 3. HERON BLUE – sun kill moon /// 4. ELI – bosnian rainbows /// 5. SONS AND DAUGHTERS – american spirit /// 6. PRETTY POLLY – vandeveer /// 7. IN OUR TALONS – bowerbirds /// 8. HIGHWAY 9 – barnaby bright  /// 9. ALL MY TEARS – ane brun /// 10. GET RIGHT CHURCH  – ben miller band /// 11. BAD THINGS  – rayland baxter /// 12. GRAVES – whiskey shivers /// 13. FINGERS TO THE BONE – brown bird /// 14. MUDDY WATER – lucette /// 15. FILTHY DIRTY SOUTH – rising appalachia /// 16. BLACK DOG SIN – joshua burnside /// 17. WRECKS – lonesome shack /// 18. LOST BOYS (PAPER BIRD COVER) – rosaline barlowe