in the spirit of its title, i am once again posting stills from my favourite film since last year; reprise is still so beautiful to me, maybe even more so than before, and it helped me learn how to count to 10 in norwegian :-)

as of late, i have been patiently awaiting email replies from the billions of housing ads that i applied to in the past few days.  it’s a little frustrating, to say the least, but swedish housing vocabulary  is now set like concrete in my mind – which means i’m learning something. huzzah! i also (finally) bought my air tickets today and will be flying to sweden in the last week of august. increased levels of excitement and anxiousness are starting to wash over me like a high tide by the docks… and then there’s my twentieth birthday in exactly a week. no more teenagerdom for me!

anyways, happy fourth of july and may all your weekends be swell!

track listing

smog – teenage spaceship
the penguin cafe orchestra – penguin cafe single
ali farka touré & ry cooder – ai du
bachelorette – a lifetime
patrick watson – man like you
no. 9 – after it
kouz-1 – le rêve de l’hippocampe
laroca – home
bad rabbit – sea green sea
bowerbirds – crooked lust

happy canada day!!!

in celebration, i present you with the much delayed june mixtape. nothing particularly canadian about these artists, per se (okay maybe except for mr. patrick watson), but the idea of cultural diversity is definitely there!

with next month’s mixtape, there will be a slight change to the format in that the mixtape will become more than just a set of songs; the change will strive to weave together the aural and the visual, opening the music to a wider range of artistic and creative interpretations. i won’t give any more hints but each monthly project will feature a special guest, so keep on the lookout :) also, a new ten minutes is finally up! life is keeping me very busy (checking lund housing websites like there’s no tomorrow) but i actually am loving every minute of it.

villa 1 designed by powerhouse company

i love the fluidity of lines within the otherwise rigid horizon-straddling build of this home. the choice of building materials is also very well suited to the environment (the forests of holland)… organic and complimentary to everything around it.

this weekend i went down to seattle to attend bill callahan’s concert at the triple door. he was as i had expected him to be – a natural poet down to the tips of his toes (he took his boots off after the second song or so and went barefoot). at some point there was a weird sound coming from above the stage so he paused for a brief moment and said of the noise, “there’s men with whips galloping towards us from beyond the horizon”. effortless.

http://www.wtwta.com/media/wildthingstrailer.flv

is anybody else as excited as i am for this movie? and by movie i mean every aspect of production involved – the story, the cinematography, the visual effects, the acting, the soundtrack, even the kiddish font type – october 16th could not come any sooner!