track listing

vetiver – los pajaros del rio
time takes me so back – bill wells & maher shalal hash baz
friendly fires – skeleton boy (air france remix)
smog – cold blooded old times
papercuts – dead love
portland cello project – hungry liars ft. justin power
black moth super rainbow – smile the day after today
cougar – interracial dating
beth carvalho – dança de solidão
woods – the number

many of my favourite people are graduating next year when i’m not here, or have already graduated this year (like my sister!). i leave montreal having completed my major, with two years of study behind me and a year of study abroad ahead of me, so the next time i’m back i will only have graduation to look forward to. i guess i’ve said some farewells prematurely, but it feels like the right time to do so.

i recently came across this swedish company’s website, sommarnöjen, thanks to my continuous and undying love of small houses in remote landscapes (you might recall this post). unfortunately i do not understand swedish (yet…) but from what i could make of the information provided, sommarnöjen commissioned three of sweden’s best architectural firms to design and build a series of 15-square meter houses – 15-square meters because only then are building permits not required.

tableaus of human encounters, where memories are mixed with longing for those that have yet to be realized. slowly, the movement washes over our characters, forming a pattern of which they are unaware – they are all linked. the rain touches them all.

i was surfing the channels on tv the other day and happened to catch swedish choreographer pontus lidberg’s half-hour film entitled “the rain“. it’s like a modern, fantastically delicate remix of gene kelly’s singin’ in the rain sequence, only shot entirely in and around stockholm…

what i found especially neat (in addition to the beautiful choreography, of course) was the text in the film – drops of rain would hit the words at random spots and ‘blur’ them – i love these little details! unfortunately the film is not anywhere to be found online, but there is a short clip available on lidberg’s website.

will hopefully update in a bit :)