a duchess nonethelesss

2016-07-31T16:55:00.001-04:00

slow down
chips calipso

the a-team

2015-10-14T15:19:00.002-04:00

another perfect tiny-ish home. i love wooden a-frame houses. i also love the design and layout of this one.

source:cabinobsession

music lovers

2015-07-11T00:41:00.002-04:00

film: the music lovers (1970) - tchaikovsky piano concerto + one epic sequence

kaleidoscope

2015-02-04T00:47:00.001-05:00

enough with the poetry. let's space out together.

Since You Asked

2015-02-04T00:21:00.003-05:00

the first 2 stanzas:

Since You Asked

for a friend who asked
to be in a poem

Since you asked, let's make it dinner
at your house - a celebration
for no reason, which is always
the best occasion. Are you worried
there won't be enough space, enough food?

But in a poem we can do anything we want.
Look how easy it is to add on rooms, to multiply
the wine and chickens. And while we're at it
let's take those trees that died last winter
and bring them back to life.

-Lawrence Raab
What We Don't Know About Eachother (1993)

i wrote a haiku

2015-02-04T00:10:00.004-05:00

unpredictable.
yet predictable, like the seasons.
always to return.

beating

2014-04-14T16:32:00.001-04:00

its midnight.

the beat of drums course through your veins.

your being.

mimicking the tide of hearts

the one the only

2014-01-25T17:37:00.002-05:00

things are gonna be good.

birds of a feather

2014-01-25T17:34:00.002-05:00

underwater

2014-01-25T17:01:00.004-05:00

sweet little nova scotian summer home

2014-01-19T09:01:00.000-05:00

while browsing real-estate listings in nova scotia...what a dream! someone please buy this cottage...and then invite me for tea! for me, it's the kitchen that did it.

cycloid

2014-01-18T11:08:00.001-05:00

the greatest swing to ever live

2014-01-02T17:40:00.001-05:00

in this moment, when the air is -33 outside, i wish i was her, rocking that sweet mexican style tunic and running around barefoot on that lush green grass.

that dude.

2013-03-11T02:11:00.001-04:00

diamond rings - runaway love

5 seconds - twin shadow

jams

2013-03-11T02:07:00.000-04:00

a few songs i'm jamming to lately...

2013-03-11T01:50:00.003-04:00

the little white dress

2013-03-03T23:12:00.001-05:00

it seems that people are getting married or engaged left right and centre! so maybe this will be a post of interest to some gals [and guys!] out there.

i was browsing the web and came across this sweet little website for 'vintage' dresses called for her and for him. although not real vintage, the dresses are actually hand sewn from scratch once ordered, and are available in a nice variety of vintage style dresses as well as more contemporary. now it's primarily for wedding wear [with a small everyday wear section], however there are so many cute dresses that it would be great for cocktail parties or other more formal events! or just for those days when you feel like putting on a pretty dress! also, when available in whites, i think a lot of them would make sweet little wedding dresses as well!

what's really cool is that the dresses are done in a pretty timely manor and seem to be ultimately customizable: colours, hemlines etc, AND for a fantastic price...all are less than $200.

FOR HER AND FOR HIM

here are a few that i would dress not only my bridesmaids in, but myself too!

a canadian playlist

2013-02-04T03:51:00.005-05:00

a small mix cd i put together for a lovely friend in mexico featuring some of my favourite bands and 100% pure canadian talent. many of these bands hail from the eastern provinces of canada - extra special.

fill your ears with joy. 1. 2. 3. GO!

wintersleep - weighty ghost
twin shadow - castles in the snow
willie stratton - november
timber timbre - black water
sunset rubdown - us ones in between
said the whale - the light is you
purity ring - lofticries
owen pallett - the cn tower belongs to the dead
joel plaskett emergency - happen now
james phillips & mike dixon - jellyroll soul
humans - horizon
human highway - the sound
gypsophilia - agricola & sarah
feist - graveyard
crystal castles - not in love ft. robert smith
constantines & feist - islands in the stream
classified - the maritimes
chad vangaalen - clinically dead
caribou - irene
bruce peninsula - shutters
broken social scene - i'm still your fag
bedouin soundclash - until we burn in the sun
arcade fire - sprawl II
yukon blond - water

english national ballet

2013-02-04T03:11:00.005-05:00

rebranding of the english national ballet with vivienne westwood. wow.

black betty

2013-01-06T21:45:00.001-05:00

on a black, navy blue and leather high lately...well, like always i suppose. these shall be arriving on my doorstep in no time!

pixiemarket

aldo

zara

band of skulls - death by diamond & pearls

hinterland - icarus

2013-01-01T16:32:00.001-05:00

2012-12-30T23:02:00.001-05:00

2012-12-28T15:53:00.002-05:00

i must have this loungey gigantic totoro pillow!

ritmo cubano

2012-12-11T22:36:00.004-05:00

gathered, mixed, with a pinch of spice, ready to serve - a great 51 minute long compilation of digitized cuban vinyl by cj plus.

"...digitized by a music producer and a vintage vinyl collector of 2nd or 3rd generation. the mix is put together using a collection of vinyl produced in cuba between 1960 and 1980 and brought to a friendly country of USSR,namely the port of odessa, by the soviet navy marines of the time." music sent to me, and russian sub text translated for me by a lovely ukrainian girl named sasha.

C.J. Plus - Ritmo Cubano Vol. 2 (Vinyl Only compilat.) by C.J. Plus on Mixcloud

purity ring

2012-12-09T18:37:00.003-05:00

i've posted a few things here about the incredible canadian duo purity ring.

finally they have a video for "lofticries". a little peice of me just died and went to music video nirvana. and i am still in shock that i have seen this performed live, about 5 feet away from my face [ya i was a crowd-pusher, certainly worth being that asshole!] just one of those songs that gets under your skin in the very best of ways.