A backseat kiss

A Summer Playlist

All of the noise, all of the heat.

Cold Shoulders - Gold Motel

Violet - Thao With The Get Down Stay Down

Let The Record Go - The Mynabirds

Movements - Rend Collective Experiment

She Moves In Her Own Way - The Kooks

Saw You First - Givers 

We Bought A Zoo - Jonsi

When I'm Sixty-Four - The Beatles

Cape Town - The Young Veins

Blow Away - A Fine Frenzy

In The Sun - She & Him

Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

Tongue Tied - Grouplove

MFEO Part 1: Made For Each Other - Jack's Mannequin

Daylight - Matt & Kim

We're On The Run - Gold Motel

Quotes from the Lesser-Known: Part 8

'What inspired you to pursue art?' 

'Things that inspired me or pushed me into pursuing art would have to be my passion for it, and shamelessly quoting here (and also defeating the purpose of this interview): 'Most of the time, I have all these thoughts bouncing around in my head... but with a brush in my hand, the world gets kinda quiet.' - Allie, The Notebook. Mainly, I think that if something makes me happy, I should just go ahead & do it. Nothing beats being happy.'

Megan T. 15

Art student

Fast & Free

Summer is here!

The days are longer and hotter, and the summer dresses and tank tops are back. I'm eating more ice-cream than ever and meeting friends for brunches and buying flowers for the Beatrix Potter vase, even thought they wilt every two days because of the heat. I listen to the Beach Boys & The Young Veins all day, because even music is seasonal. Wayne & Libby Huirau from Parachute band has come and gone, and it was a fabulous weekend of fun and learning and music, and appreciating our brief brush with fame (well, sort of).

I watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy and felt a little bit sick inside. It came out last Friday and I was in the office, sobbing like a whale in the studio during lunch hour over Lexie Grey's VERY untimely death (and Mark crying and saying We're going to get married... we are meant to be. TOO MANY EMOTIONS). Shonda Rhimes has made me emotionally damaged for life. She seems to be very very fond of killing off my favourite TV surgeons and leaving the crazed fan base in agony with her cliffhanger season finales. Recall: Hospital shoot-outs, roving buses and people getting hit by them, cancerous melanomas, unexplained absences from multiple episodes etc etc. I know, I know, it's just TV! I tell that to myself every time I watch an episode, but it's not that easy, is it? 


Speaking of TV, Parks and Recreation renewed for season 5! Kristen Wiig has left SNL. Ted's wife still unknown (it better not be that asshat, Victoria). 

Work has been good so far. Tomorrow is Breakfast Birthday Party Day & that means waking up an hour earlier to make savoury pancakes for seven people. Last week, while cataloguing our music database, I stumbled upon a fabulous Christian Band, Rend Collective Experiment, a combination of Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe. They are creative and inspiring, and best of all, they are in love with Jesus :)

And yes, USA for Bethel School of Worship! I cannot wait! Hello, California! I am blessed beyond words.

This post is a little self-indulgent... I won't do it again for a long time, I promise. It's been an interesting couple of weeks, and if I don't write it down, I forget!

Quotes from the Lesser-Known: Part 7

'What does the word 'love' mean to you?' 

'Love is... I don't really know. I'm only 19. All I know is that love happens to us everyday of our lives.' 

'So you're saying it's possible to fall in love with just... anyone?' 

'Not anyone. Anything. Sometimes, I fall in love with a book. I fall in love with the scent of lavender. Or the colour orange. Sometimes I walk the streets, and for a while I believe that I'm falling in love with the stranger walking three feet in front of me.' 

'Isn't that strange, that we 'fall' in love?' 

'Yes, it is strange, this notion of falling. Then again, we are always falling. But unlike most things, when we fall in love, we don't fall into endless oblivion but into the comfort of a mug of tea, an illustrated novel, or a warm pair of arms.'

Conversations 
(with my mind)

Spaces

How I dream

of a house made of books

Where we could burrow into the pages

with words
curling around us like fire

How I dream

of a house made of clouds

where we could paint each other

 in shades
of cream & blue & roses

How I dream

of a house somewhere

where it would be just you and I

dancing around the kitchen

knocking over the sugar pot

and how

we would laugh and laugh

and keep on going

stars on our rustic kitchen floor

How I dream

of a house somewhere

of a home somewhere

Quotes from the Lesser-Known: Part 6

'What is photography to you?' 

'I think it's an extension of what I see. I try to focus on things that people find mundane, or things that people will not take a second look at. It's a way for me to say that there are things that are important and beautiful around us, and we need to slow down a little bit... slow down a little to appreciate the environment, and the people around us.' 

'That's incredible. How do you think photography can change the world?' 

'Wow. I've never thought of this before. (laughs) Well... photography is a powerful medium because it's so visual... When a good photograph goes viral around the world, it gets so many people talking. In the right shot, the right time and the right context, photography impacts people with its significance. It makes people rethink their values, and what they believe in.' 

August L.

Singer-songwriter, thespian & photographer.