Month: May 2020

PLAYLIST NO. 6: “QUARANTINE”
Home / 4-24-2020 / 35mm Pentax

it’s a strange time right now… we’re working from home, practicing social distancing and trying not to eat everything in our kitchens before noon (it’s hard living with your own personal baker). music has been good company to me during this time, so i’ve created a playlist of some of my favorite tunes to be released in quarantine. xx

you can listen to my quarantine playlist here.

  1. “hope we meet again” – laura marling
  2. “in a good way” – faye webster
  3. “heavy balloon” – fiona apple
  4. “on the floor” – perfume genius
  5. “where you belong” – little dragon
  6. “inside friend” – leon bridges feat. john mayer
  7. “nightrider” – tom misch, yussef dayes
  8. “simmer” – hayley williams
  9. “devotion” – margaret glaspy
  10. “there must be more than blood” – car seat headrest
  11. “jesus christ 2005 god bless america” – the 1975
  12. “exist for love” – aurora
  13. “burlap string” – courtney marie andrews
  14. “forced convalescence” – bright eyes
  15. “strange girl” – laura marling
  16. “spotlight” – jessie ware
  17. “let it rain” – paco versailles
  18. “i see you” – phoebe bridgers
  19. “temple” – thao & the get down stay down
  20. “what she said” – mosss
  21. “without you” – perfume genius
  22. “easy tiger” – flyte
  23. “(what’s so funny’bout) peace, love and understanding?”- sharon van etten, josh homme
  24. “sucker” – madeline kenney
  25. “paper thin” – lianne la havas
  26. “bless me” – moses sumney
  27. “all these instruments” – nick hakim
  28. “love in mine” – big thief
  29. “for you” – laura marling

A BIRTHDAY DINNER.

over the weekend, we celebrated a friend’s birthday with a proper italian dinner- think lady and the tramp, under the tuscan sun, the godfather… courtney told me to leave the candelabra at home. we ordered pasta, pizza and sfincione from felix and baked a cake for our performance of “happy birthday”. it was the best way to celebrate… with food, company and my terrible italian accent. buon compleanno dana!

ollie, checking on the pappardelle.

HAPPY WORLD BAKING DAY!

happy world baking day! for me, baking means spending quality time with my sister. i’m not a natural born baker… it takes effort, patience and then more patience. i really only enjoy baking when i’m baking with my sister. it’s so special to be able to share such sweet memories over the whisking, piping, burning and tasting of all of our creations. to me, she will always be my Star Baker.

LIVE, AT THE LARGO.

back in november, before social distancing, quarantine and zoom became a regular part of my vocabulary, i almost spent a stupid amount of money bought a last minute plane ticket to san francisco to see jenny slate on tour (emphasis on the almost). i didn’t buy the plane ticket. i remember it so clearly. mercury was in retrograde… “how could you remember that” you ask? because on that day i had locked myself out of my bathroom when up until that point, i had no idea my bathroom even had a lock! but of course, on a morning when i had hit snooze one too many times and needed to get ready fast, i woke up to a locked bathroom *RETROGRADE*. it was on that same day that i had seen that funny gal, jenny slate was going to be stopping in san fran for her book tour and she had a few tickets left for her show that coming weekend… on impulse, i thought to myself “buy the ticket, book the travel and pack your bags.” but as my conscience would have it, i started second guessing myself. “it’s too much money. it’s too last minute. it’s only for one night.” and then i read this article on manrepeller.

“For you, Aries, the stars predict a month that enters with a bang. Venus in Sagittarius at the start of the month has you itching to get out of town. This is the time to embark on a grand adventure.”

A GRAND ADVENTURE. could this sign BE any more obvious?! so i scoured the internet for last minute deals on flights to san francisco. i texted a friend telling him that i might be coming to town and to clear his calendar because i’ll be in san fran for one night and one night only! but then my conscience, my sweet, level headed, logical conscience told me to sleep on it and make a decision in the morning. so i did and when i woke up, my bathroom door was not locked and the flights to san fran unsold. i won’t bore you with the internal back and forth of “should i? i shouldn’t.” that i tortured myself with but you know how this ends, i went against my horoscope, i didn’t buy the plane ticket and i didn’t get to see jenny slate.

so why am i telling you this? because last night, i was supposed to see jenny slate live, at the largo. i had made plans with a friend, bought the tickets and waited patiently for our “girl’s night out” with jenny slate. if i’m being honest, i’m more upset about missing this than i am my own birthday! i don’t really know why i felt the need to write this… i think i just needed to vent or share the slight regret i’m feeling for not buying that DAMN PLANE TICKET. either way, i’ll be listeng to largo by fiona apple for the next few days to sulk.