These photos are from a few weekends ago when we went to the Book Mill down in Montague, MA before we headed out to the Fleet Foxes show in East Holyoke, MA. The Book Mill is quite literally the neatest place ever and if I lived closer, I probably would frequent it nearly everyday. Its essentially an old mill on a river that was converted into a bookstore stuffed to the brim with used books. Heaven. There was a cafe attached which served some super scrumptious ham, gruyere cheese, and apple sandwich. YUM-O.
The concert afterwards was incredible, Fleet Foxes is definitely one of my favorite bands and to see them live was fantastical. The concert was held at Mountain Park which is an old trolley park and let me tell you, the place has the greatest charm. We saw Bon Iver there a couple months ago and it is so nice to spread out a blanket under the stars and listen to some of the most amazing music. I wish I could see every concert ever there!
Jeramy took these photos on our last day in Portland,Oregon a few weeks ago. There is this remnant of a wall in the Pearl District that just sits there and looks pretty so we decided to climb it and have a photo shoot.
Oh, right so did I mention I went to Oregon? Yeah, so that happened. We were there for 9 days to attend Musicfest Northwest and to just check out the city in general. We stayed at the swanky Hotel Modera in Downtown Portland and spent our time perusing vintage and record stores, sipped way too much Stumptown coffee, and went to venue after venue to see some amazing bands like Iron & Wine, The Antlers, and Band of Horses to name the more well known headliners. Some of my favorites to see were Talk Demonic and Explosions in the Sky. Jeramy brought me along to see my first Metal shows which was fun too. We even squeezed some time in to rent a car and drive out to the Bagby Hotsprings and see the crazy amazing forests. I'll probably do another post soon about the trip because there is just far too much to share in just one post. All in all, it is an amazing place and I'm pretty sure that living in Portland will be in my near future!
Its usually Jeramy's thing to blog reviews of music, but since this past weekend all we did was rock out to awesome jams at a tiny music fest called The Thing in the Spring, I could not resist doing a post about the music. Over the course of three days, we got to see a plethora of artists ranging from metal to experimental to folk. The shows mainly were held in the Peterborough Historical Society Hall, but some shows were held outside (one on top of the roof of the Toadstool Bookstore), and one at the local Harlow's Pub.
The weekend was kicked off by Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth who played for the first time with his new band Flowers and Cream. There was a wide variety of music to hear, but my favorites to see were a localish band called MMoss(its pronounced like the green stuff that grows on trees, but I like to refer to them as "Mah-moss"). They are like a 1960's psychadelic rock band who has a chick who plays the flute and the organ at the same time. Pretty rad.
MMoss at Harlow's Pub
Another fave to see was Cokeweed a band from Bar Harbor, ME. Although the female lead vocal shrugged me off when I complimented her on her amazing Rachel Comey boots, I still ended up buying their CD I enjoyed their set so much. They sound like She and Him, only less sweet and sugary and more coke and um....weed.
Last but not least, Giraffes?Giraffes! or was it Giraffes!Giraffes? Either way this duo from Northwestern, MA really know how to put on a show. Earplugs were a must as they math rocked their way through an upbeat and technical set.
It was a cool weekend especially since, the "music scene" in NH gets a bad reputation for not really exisiting, but it does, you just have to seek it out. I always thought I had to go to Bonnaroo or Coachella to see interesting bands that I would enjoy, but that is totally not the case in Peterborough! I cannot wait now to see the Show Before the Snow coming this late fall! Giraffes?Giraffes! at the Peterborough Historical Society
Hi! Fun things going on lately! Trips to Keene,NH, Northampton, MA, and Peterborough, NH have yielded many exciting adventures for Jeramy and I. We saw two shows (William Fitzsimmons at the Starving Artist and Kaki King at The Iron Horse). Side note, we got to meet William, epic beard and all, who upon introducing himself asked Jeramy and I if we had met him before! Obviously we had never met, but yeah I felt cool...perhaps he is a Rosemud Follower. Ha! Jeramy snagged me his signed set list too (p.s. read Jeramy's Blog Timbre Leaf if you were interested in hearing more about the show. You can listen to some of William's tracks there too.) We ate lots of yummy food including falafel and smoked turkey sandwiches with gouda cheese, apples, and walnuts (not in the same sitting to make things clear). There has been plenty of vegging out involved too. We watched The Graduate on Netflix as well as many Dr. Who episodes( Jeramy is succeeding in passing on his obsession with the British Sci Fi show onto me). I finally did my taxes and happily found out that I'm getting a healthy chunk of money back (maybe, just maybe I'll buy a super fancy camera with my refund...?) . And of course, to top off all this 'fun'ness we partook in probably my most favorite pastime--- we perused countless vintage and antique stores where I bought two new pretty springtime frocks. Hooray.
It sure has been a good time and with spring on its way (Yes, I actually spotted a few bulbs sprouting out of the ground proof that my snow shoveling days are numbered...who am I kidding, I don't shovel snow. I leave that to my Dad!) yeah uh so where was I? Oh yes, I do have some fun Boston excursions lined up, hopefully I'll have more to share coming soon!
Just dropping in to say Hi and Happy Holidays. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving too! Mine was good although I had to work in the evening, but I had plenty of time to spend with my family to cook and chow down beforehand.
These are some photos from an excursion down to Boston to go see a band I had never heard of called Man or Astroman? They are a psychedelic surf experimental band and were quite good. My friend Jeramy and I had a really good time, walking around the parks and checking out some record stores. Here is some photo documentation of the day's events:
I'm feeling like lately I have been more present on this blog, but not really.My mind has been completely elsewhere. The last month has been hard on me, no, post-graduation( so like the past year and a half) has been hard on me and I have been feeling immense pressure to "figure it all out" or have some "direction". Everybody has such high expectations for me and I feel like I will never be able to attain them. I'm a stubborn person and when people close to me, who care and sincerely have my best interest at heart push me towards something, I freeze up and don't budge. I suppose I need to just tune everybody out and focus on what I need and want out of life. I'm sick of living my life solely to please others and in return do not take care of myself and my needs.I'm not exactly sure where all of that rambling leaves me, but yeah I guess I just had to put it out there.Thanks for bearing with me.
Onto what I'm wearing. I picked up this gorgeous paisley dress at the Salvation Army awhile back and love it's crimson color. Plus paisley is like one of my fave prints ever.
Oh and you really must watch this video, besides the fact it is one of my favoritest songs in the entire world and has freaking Kermit the Frog puppets lipsynching to Queen's Under Pressure, it is truly inspiring and heartfelt video about homelessness.
I'm dog sitting Maddie while Ethan's Mom is touring Spain (lucky duck). Well, we went for a little walk in the woods today and I brought along the camera and my tripod.
I wanted some cozy socks since its rainy and wet outside, so I stole Ethan's old boyscout socks and his mom's duck boots for trudging through wet leaves.
Been listening to the debut album Broken Bells via NPR in its entirety . It is the brain child of The Shins front man James Mercer and Danger Mouse from Gnarls Barkley. Good stuff.
Ethan's cousin Ellie is the person behind the fabulous design blog Mint. She also has her own online shop, Hellotenfold where she sells her beautiful stationery. I was browsing her blog the other day and found this amazing stop-motion film by Angela Kohler & Ithyle Griffiths featuring Alison Sudol of A Fine Frenzy titled Lost Things. Alison wrote the song specifically for thisfilm and I could not be more smitten. for some reason, I find stop-motion really enchanting. It takes a lot of imagination and hard-work, that's for sure! Watch below & don't forget to check out Mint!
P.S. Just found out that She& Him's new video In the Sun premiered! This is their first single off Volume II due out March 23rd! Yay, love this video in all of its old school glory!
