So I suck at writing on this thing over summer apparently…oh well, I’ve been insanely busy with work and my volunteer stuff. Heres what’s good…
1. Forever Young
2. Lighthouse, soon to be tattoo #2
3. Cape Cod for two days with mama!
4. MGMT- Kids
5. Nosferatu dances to Lady Gaga
6. Back to my loves in SF August 29th
7. Applying for Semester at Sea (and crossing fingers about getting in!)
8. 500 Days of Summer, such a good movie!
9. Ptown!
10. KISSES XOXO
As summer begins here on the east coast, I think its high time to take another look at the things that I adore at this point in time, the last update on this being the end of March!
Sometime this summer while I am on this coast I will be going down the cape, hopefully to Provincetown, one of my favorite places ever!
Sailboats! Since I am soon to be getting a tattoo of this one!
True Blood, an HBO show about vampires set in Louisiana, a little tacky and such but so addicting, the second season just started!
One of the best things about being back east for a little while is my glorious reunion with my best friend of many years, she goes to school in Chicago now and so we don’t get to see each other unless we are both back home.
I FINALLY saw “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and fell in love, I want to go to Barcelona now! Its an awesome movie that I highly recommend.
The school year came to a close, I did well maintaining my GPA at 3.25 and I feel rather proud of this. I got an apartment, still in the Tenderloin, with my best friend and for certain soul mate, Michelle. The beginning of June brought me back to the east coast, and here I will be for an unknown period of time. Life is currently uneventful, time is being spent with friends and family and relaxing, as well as many late nights writing and thinking and sketching. However that is not to say that I do not have goals for my summer…I plan to read 20 books by August 1st, go back to yoga, successfully learn to drive a manual transmission car, learn to cook at least five new things, make considerable progress on the writing of my book, practice the piano, and perhaps some more things will come up as time passes.
The image of the sailboat I am having tattooed
My mother sent me this picture of my house in Massachusetts, let me tell you, I don’t miss the snow one bit!
I have music playing, almost always, while I’m working, while I’m driving, while I’m making art, and there are always certain songs that give off certain feelings. It seems like there are only songs I’ll listen to during the coldest days of winter when it snows, and since tonight is the first snow of the year (that I’ve been in Massachusetts for) I’m sharing with you my playlist of “wintery” songs.
1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) by The Arcade Fire
This song starts out with the lines “And if the snow buries my, my neighbourhood.”, I mean really, what could be a more fitting way to start a playlist about winter! Plus the song has an overall cold mellow feel, the same that you (or at least I) get on cold grey winter sundays.2. New Year by Death Cab for Cutie
The classic Death Cab for Cutie song that pretty much everyone knows at this point, Ben’s mellow vocals ring out lines about ringing in the new year.3. The Winter Song by Eisley
This womans voice is beautiful, very chilly in my opinion plus the first few lines of the song go “The Winter Song/Walking home with the/Snow it is falling down”, enough said.4. Early Winter by Gwen Stefani
I love Gwen, and I don’t care what anyone says! I love her songs and her voice and her hair and everything. I even own a pair of shoes from her Harajuku line at Royal Elastics! Uh but anyways, the song, it just really projects that cold chilly sort of lonely but not necessarily bad feeling I get from the cold.5. Through the Backyards by Au Revoir Simone
A friend of mine described the noise in the song as snow falling and said that the vocals sounded like they would warm you up after being out in the snow.6. 20 Years of Snow by Regina Spektor
Regina has a chilly voice to begin with, then top it off with lyrics of boys who are “dying breeds” and daughters who are “20 years of snow” and you have one very winter feeling tune.7. Run by Snow Patrol
There is just something about this song, his voice just sounds cold, like he’s standing in the snow and you can see his breath, I think this is just one of those songs that I end up liking a lot sometimes and that time usually is winter so I associate them, but it does make me think of someone telling them that even through the coldest winter they are still there with you.8. I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkle
The songs setting is winter, “A winter’s day, In a deep and dark December” to be exact while “Gazing from my window, To the streets below, On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow”.9. Hazy Shade Of Winter by Simon and Garfunkle
Yes, another S&G song, I couldn’t help it…you can’t not include this classic, “the sky is a hazy shade of winter” you can’t deny it.10. Cold Water by Damien Rice
Searching for yourself in the cold…sounds pretty darn wintery to me.
All my bags are packed I’m ready to go…next time I’ll be blogging to you from San Francisco!
So until then, the Ramones say it pretty good…
“Well I’m going out west where I belongWhen I walk and They walk I Twist and They Twist
I Shimmy and They Shimmy I fly and They fly
We’re out there having fun in the warm California sun”