Mmmm yes Chicago in the summertime. Please let it come soon. Watch and be happy. Post title from I Love It by Icona Pop. You know you love this song.
Penny Swag from Brian Beckwith on Vimeo.
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Slowly dear ask would you dance with me
This video. Wow. Just wow.
Roshambo from FreePeople on Vimeo.
Post title from Part One by Band of Horses.Rivers 'til I reach you
Thoughts on life:
1. HAPPY 2013! Last year was amazing, so we'll see if this one can beat it.
4. Here is a little video about the United States from a French perspective. So true. Ok I understand it is in French, but at least we can all agree that he is attractive and the French language sounds beautiful. Oof. I'm gonna miss them attractive French boys.
Post title from The Head and the Heart, Rivers and Roads.
1. HAPPY 2013! Last year was amazing, so we'll see if this one can beat it.
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman
2. After nine countries spanning eight languages later, I will be arriving back in the US tomorrow. Yay? Yay! I have been in Europe for five months, and my dad has been here for two weeks. He has more bags than I do. I don't want to judge or anything.4. Here is a little video about the United States from a French perspective. So true. Ok I understand it is in French, but at least we can all agree that he is attractive and the French language sounds beautiful. Oof. I'm gonna miss them attractive French boys.
Post title from The Head and the Heart, Rivers and Roads.
J’essaie de trouver l’équilibre
I arrived in Paris last week! We survived the last three weeks of backpacking still friends with each other and with most of our things intact. This was the first time I had traveled without my parents for such an extended amount of time, and it was so much fun to see another side of traveling: staying in hostels, avoiding taxis, eating cheaply, meeting strange people, and experiencing how different the night life is. I want to go back and relive it.
Post title from La terre est ronde by Orelsan.
I almost forgot I could unpack my things until my host mother showed me my closet. It is nice to feel settled, even though I can barely understand anything that is going on around me. Dinners with my host family are a little bit of a struggle, but they have been so patient with my housemate and me. I was really ashamed of my accent at the beginning; I hated how easily people can peg me as an American. But I traveled to Normandy with my orientation program yesterday, and now I'm realizing that being an American in Paris isn't such a bad thing after all.
Is my life in Paris like the video below? Why yes: everyone smiles, people help me with directions when I'm lost, the metro is never crowded, and of course I have met a cute French boy.
False: no one smiles, no one helps an American tourist, the metro is always crowded, and I'm still working on meeting a cute French boy.
I smiled at the gardener when I left my apartment the first morning, he gave me a weird look.
Post title from La terre est ronde by Orelsan.
What secrets do your bones hold?
Abuela, how did you pray before someone told you who your god should be?
How did you hold the earth in your hands and thank her for its fecundity?
Did the sea wash away your sadness?
How did you humble yourself before your architect?
Did your lower yourself to your knees or rock to the rhythm of ocean waves like I do?
Grandma, how did you pray ?
Some say faith is for the weak or small minded, but I search for your faith everywhere,
I need it to reassemble myself whole from these shards of Chicago ice and island breezes
So I can rewrite the songs of your silence and pain,
Your lonely fists broken toothed smile and burdens into a medley of mantras.
- Faith Like Yours by Mayda del Valle
I love Descendancy and To All the Boys I've Loved Before. I've been listening to these on repeat. Some people are so so talented.
I need it to reassemble myself whole from these shards of Chicago ice and island breezes
So I can rewrite the songs of your silence and pain,
Your lonely fists broken toothed smile and burdens into a medley of mantras.
- Faith Like Yours by Mayda del Valle
I love Descendancy and To All the Boys I've Loved Before. I've been listening to these on repeat. Some people are so so talented.
The further out you look, the further out you'll be
springtime from Olivia Rae James on Vimeo.
This may be my favorite video ever. Can I please be her? I posted her photography earlier, when she traveled in Europe for a year. Also check out how adorable she and her boyfriend are. Sigh. The post title comes from the song in the video, The Next Time Around by Little Joy.
Have a lovely weekend! I shall be moving into my first apartment tomorrow! Ooh ooh.
We accept the love we think we deserve
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is now a movie. They captured one of my favorite lines from the book perfectly in the trailer. I think it's gonna be good.
We'll brave this storm and come out new
My friend showed me this lovely project. This girl took a one second video for every day of her life in 2011, through sickness and health. I love it. Please check out Everyday Musings and An Apple a Day as well... really do it. Their year overviews are beautiful. (post title from Make it Gold by Ohbijou)
2011 from hey_rabbit on Vimeo.
2011 from hey_rabbit on Vimeo.
Watching telly, drinking wine
Happy holidays! If your holidays have been anything like mine, the idea of getting up and celebrating New Year's Eve sounds exhausting. Moving off that spot on the couch and putting on something semi decent? Oof, sounds like hard work. Depending on how fancy your party plans are that night, here are some outfit ideas... from casual to classy. (I would choose the first outfit for myself... with a winter coat of course. Imagining that outfit with the Chicago wind makes me hyperventilate.)
These lovely outfits are from Tulip Louise, Le Blog de Betty, Atlantic-Pacific, and This Time Tomorrow. Blog title from Who'd Have Known by Lily Allen.
and finally a lovely message from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the New Years :)
These lovely outfits are from Tulip Louise, Le Blog de Betty, Atlantic-Pacific, and This Time Tomorrow. Blog title from Who'd Have Known by Lily Allen.
and finally a lovely message from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the New Years :)
London style
All moved in! I feel a little discombobulated as classes haven't started yet, and I am just floating around campus. As nerdy as this may sound, I cannot wait to start some of my classes, particularly my English ones. Speaking of English.... check out this cool video of fashion throughout the years in London (nice segway eh?). Ugh I so love style from the 1940s :)
Your life is your life
I love this commercial and the poem by Charles Bukowski (The Laughing Heart). Yeah I know, they are just trying to sell you jeans, but it's working on me, and their jeans are great. Check out this one too, my other fav.
That little black dress
This is such a cool video. One black dress, so many cute outfits. I especially love the second outfit. I found it via HelloGiggles.
I'll take you home if you don't leave me at the front door
I really could live in this coffee shop. It is the only place I can make myself update this on a regular basis and get my favorite breakfast (after listening for a good five minutes about the barista's terrible morning of having his bike seat stolen... just give me the coffee man, just kidding he really was lovely...)
On a happy note, i love this proposal video so much. I don't know what my favorite part is: the literal shaking of the hands to match the lyrics, the i heart you t shirts, or the awkward oops i forgot your bag at the end.
On a happy note, i love this proposal video so much. I don't know what my favorite part is: the literal shaking of the hands to match the lyrics, the i heart you t shirts, or the awkward oops i forgot your bag at the end.
Chuck the deuce up
So you know that previous post about the perfect morning? Well it got even better... I'm talkin free tickets to the Art Institute and then Chick-Fil-A for dinner. You heard me right, the most amazing chicken biscuit has hit Chi-town. Is it sad that a fast food place makes my night? I think not. Oh and I cannot forget that my best friend from home came to visit, best weekend ever!! And she is super cool, and you should check out her blog.
I now should mention that if you ever happen to see me riding the bus to work, I am not listening to something profound on my ipod. Most likely I'm secretly jamming to Super Bass or something by Taylor Swift.... awkward, the truth is out. I need happy music to get into the customer service mood that Gap requires. If you've met me, you know this takes a lot of energy from me :) To be honest, Sufjan and Chopin don't quite do it in these situations.
Everybody seems to be staring in one direction
This is such a cool video and song. The woman who made this taught my sister art at Wash U. (Que Sera, Sera (Is Print Dead?) from ksup22 on Vimeo)
This is a song for anyone who can't get out of bed
Blue Skies by Noah and the Whale. I love this song and this music video :)
Sufjan...
I am an idiot! Sufjan Stevens is going on tour (finally) and Chicago tickets are already sold out. Who wouldn't want to hear "Chicago" live in Chicago?! Silly, silly me for not buying them earlier. Not to worry, I vow to see him live at least once before I die. I really could listen to his songs for hours. How can someone be so talented? and so darn beautiful too! I take it as a personal honor that his most famous song is about a city I'll be moving to next month. Oh Sufjan!
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