I’m back to La Vie Boston both geographically and blog-wise. Two days ago, my four-month-long stay in Australia and New Zealand sadly came to a close. My time there was a whirlwind of new friends, sturdy backpacks, good food, stunning beaches, and heaps of stories to bring back to my Boston life.
This blog is long overdue for an update.
1. “Go Outside” by Cults
2. ”Morning Sun” by Saloons
3. “For You” by Tin Sparrow
4. ”Don’t Wait” by The Duke Spirit
5. “Video Games” by Lana Del Ray
6. ”Nothing’s Gunna Be Undone” by Rainbow Arabia
7. “Welcome Home” by Radical Face
8. “VCR” covered by The Antlers [Original by The xx]
9. ”Bumper” by Cults
10. “Lights Out, Words Gone” by Bombay Bicycle Club
What are you listening to of late?
[Corrie Bond]
[Marie Claire]
Living in the same location for twenty years takes care of that whole “getting lost” thing. So it took three planes and 10,000 miles for me to actually experience the concept. It’s beginning to grow on me.
1. “Two Cousins” by Slow Club
2. “Dance Card” by Pepper Rabbit
3. “It’s Real” by Real Estate
4. ”Lonely Boy” by The Black Keys
5. ”Penobska Oakwalk” by Quilt
6. ”Do You Remember” by Ane Brun
7. ”Blood” by The Middle East
8. ”The Sweetest Thing” by Camera Obscura
9. ”Friend Crush” by Friends
10. “No Light, No Light” by Florence + the Machine
Happy listening.
1. .TAKING LIFE OUTSIDE.
2. .FUNNY WOMEN.
Inspired by my recent disagreement with this study.
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3. .ROOM-ENTERING STATEMENTS.
…and not of the fashion variety.
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4. .HELPING THE 99%.
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5. .GLOBETROTTING.
6. .AGATE STONES.
> stained glass.
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> windchimes.
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7. .HIS STYLE.
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8. .RING EXCESS.
Because I can never choose just one.
9. .OFF-ROADING.
…which pretty much describes the road trip my friends and I recently embarked upon around the south of New Zealand. Life-changing. Photography courtesy of Miss.Natalie.[Minus that bee-yoo-tiful bug.]
10. .AND WATERFALL HOUSES.
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“One should always be drunk. That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.
And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: ‘It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.’”
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I’ll admit I laughed aloud at this spoof on the now clichéd “quirky girl” movie character.
Check out the inexplicably beautiful Seed Cathedral exhibit built (and dismantled) in 2010.
And this movie dance scene montage. (Basically, the video equivalent of going straight to eating the frosting.)
Here’s an interesting photography subject: people in the privacy of their own rooms.
Girl Scout Cookies: a delicious infographic. I’m a Caramel deLite person myself.
Just in case you missed it, here’s the adorably positive “Say Something Nice” Improv Everywhere demonstration.
Amen, Zooey Deschanel. Amen.
