The Charging Sky

{these pictures are from last 4th of July because this year's kinda sucked...i guess its the recession?}

I meant to post yesterday, but I just got finished transferring all my photos, itunes and documents into my new computer, which is time-consuming to say the least. Any who here is my 4th of July playlist. Its very Americana, borderline country music - in an indie sort of way. Happy Day July 5th lol!

1. The Box – Johnny Flynn

2. Long Way Home – Mates of State

3. A Burden – Horse Feathers

4. The Charging Sky – Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins

5. Just Traveling Though – The Thrills

6. Easy – Deer Tick

7. Got Me – She & Him

8. Leap – The Cave Singers

9. Lonely Goat - Angus and Julia Stone

10. Flame - Buxton

What did y'all do for the 4th - American readers? I celebrated with my best friends and our families :)

The Diana Diaries

Recently I have gotten my rolls of film from my Diana F+ camera developed. I must say that I am very pleased with all of them. Film is such a great medium to use because you never know just how it will come out. With the Diana camera, which based on a toy camera from the 70's, you can layer several shots on one frame, like I did with the one above. Taken in San Francisco, I took a picture of the Painted Ladies, didn't roll the film and then took a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge on top of it. Getting these rolls developed makes me feel like a kid on Christmas morning and each shot is so precious because you only get 12 to a roll. I love it - many more to come :)

Tres cute

I am in love with the Marc Jacobs Resort 2011 collection. I am swooning over the hats that cover the eyes, the 60's style dresses, the trench coats and the plethroa of polka dots! The girl who I imagine wearing these clothes is a heroine from a vintage French children's book who solves mysteries and always saves the day. Too fun :)

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Show Me Your Teeth

Yes, that is Mother Monster (aka Lady Gaga) sporting vampire grillz. She would.

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As the whole world knows, Twilight Saga: Eclipse is coming out, and with a new movie comes a new fabulous soundtrack. I was disappointed with the teenypunkness on the first Twilight soundtrack, but after they hired a new music supervisor the music on these past two installments has been just splendid. New Moon was fantastic and Eclipse is even better. Vampire weekend, Florence + the Machine and Sia are all on the same CD AND singing all new songs. It makes me so happy.

Still, it's fun to make up my own soundtrack to the movie, so here is the Modern Marie Eclipse Soundtrack:

1. Teeth – Lady Gaga
2. Howl – Florence + The Machine
3. Bella – Angus and Julia Stone
4. Wicked Blood – Sea Wolf
5. Mt. Washington – Emily Wells
6. Blood On the Snow – Horse Feathers
7. My Boy Builds Coffins – Florence + The Machine
8. Bleeding – Animal Collective
9. Warm Blood - Seabear
10. Monster – Lady Gaga

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You Can Bring Me Flowers

I love when I come home from work and my mom puts fresh flowers from our yard in a pretty little vase for me in my room :) It makes a day all that much better.

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Somewhere

The woman behind the inspiration for my blog has a new movie coming out.

Yes, Sophia Coppola, who directed Marie Antoinette has a new film coming out! The trailer looks very promising. It looks like it will be visually appealing, though all her films tend to be. Looks like it will be a tearjerker too. See for yourself:

The soundtrack will be amazing no doubt. The songs used in the trailer are "Love Like A Sunset, Pt.2" by Phoenix and "I'll Try Anything Once" by Julian Casablancas.

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E Salsa!

I love Latin/salsa/tango Spanish sounding music! In fact, my love for that kind of music even inspired my fiesta themed birthday party last year. If I were ever to throw a fiesta themed party again (which I'm positive I will), then I would play these songs:

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1. Mas Que Nada – Sergio Mendes
2. Waters of March – Anya Marina
3. Habanera – Kate Nash
4. Tropicalia - Beck
5. Heart it All Before – Emiliana Torrini
6. Purple Skivvy – Angus and Julia Stone
7. Sexi Plexi – Jack Johnson
8. Hey Mama – Black Eyed Peas
9. Gorrion – Juan Serrano
10. Say Hey (I Love You) – Michael Franti and Spearhead

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California Coast

Driving along the coast of California is undoubtedly the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. My pictures do it no justice.

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Also I am thinking of getting a Nikon D3000 Camera- do any of you use one? Love it? Hate it? Is a Canon better?

Fairytale Ending

{a cake i made for a friend's daughter's 2nd b'day - princess themed}

This week's playlist is inspired by something I love - Fairy tales! Harps, chimes, harpsichord, etc make all these songs Princess ready:

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1. Running – No Doubt
2. I’m Not Calling You A Liar - Florence + the Machine
3. Candyland - CocoRosie
4. Golden Brown – Alexi Murdoch
5. Walking On A Dream - Gary Go
6. Loch Raven – Animal Collective
7. Night Swimmer – Beth Jeans Houghton
8. Jynweythek Ylow – Aphex Twin
9. Cuddle Fuddle – Passion Pit
10. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (ACOUSTIC) – Florence + the Machine

Yosemite National Park

Here are my pictures from our little 2 day trip to Yosemite National Park in Northern California. The huge mountains, redwoods and waterfalls were so majestic, it took my break away. Tres beautiful! I took some in black in white in honor of Ansel Adams, who took many of his famous photographs there.