31_days | Themes for July!

How's your summer so far?
Our themes this July come from a variety of sources...

1 - He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
2 - looking at monsters is a centuries-old ritual
3 - "You're an artist," he says.
4 - I'm coming up for air.
5 - any particular style, make, or cut
6 - unless the cameras love me
7 - unfettered and alive
8 - He said it'd be good experience.
9 - But then there are nights.
10 - You begin to gather your things.
11 - Brother, can you spare a dime?
12 - Sometimes you hear the bullets
13 - a dream of fireworks
14 - brick, and rivet, and lime
15 - Witnessed by no waking eye
16 - When the war came
17 - he told me many times "I love you."
18 - with ink stains on her fingers
19 - Careful what you carry
20 - too long at sea makes your eyes strange
21 - No one told you when to run / You missed the starting gun
22 - It was harder to learn to be free
23 - I awoke to an empty chair
24 - I don't see anybody that dear to me
25 - your body becomes a kind of historical document
26 - holding a bouquet of flowers
27 - people like me, with knives
28 - If inconvenient, come anyway.
29 - I love the sound of you walking away
30 - the memory cheats, the past is dead
31 - One must seize the reality of one's fate, and that's that.

---Annotations---
1 - William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
2 - Daniel Zalewski, "Show the Monster" in The New Yorker
3 - "Wisely, I Say, I Am A Bachelor" by

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6 - "Achilles Heel" by

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7 - Joni Mitchell, "A Free Man in Paris"
8 - a softer world
9 - "The Pearl Diver" by evil_whimsey
10 - Echo Bazaar
11 & 14 - Yip Harburg, "Brother, can you spare a dime" (a Depression-era song)
15 - The Decemberists, "The Island"
16 - The Decemberists, "When the War Came"
17 - text off an image from "Angel Hunt" by Oobayashi Megumi
19 - Steely Dan, "Kid Charlemagne"
20 - Laura Veirs, "Rialto"
21 - Pink Floyd, "Time"
22 - "Strange Language" by Brigdh
24 - Fleet Foxes, "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song"
25 - David Owen, "Scars" in The New Yorker
27 - a softer world
28 - yes, this is straight out of the first episode of the BBC Sherlock show
29 - Franz Ferdinand, "Walk Away"
30 - Chris O'Leary, essay on Imagine at Pushing Ahead of the Dame (a great blog if you like David Bowie)
31 - from a letter by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo