Improve Your Mood Right Away

In such conditions it is vital to do amazing you like and decrease your feelings. Below are a few steps to help you do so:

1. Listening to Music

One of the mainly immediate stress reducing method could be listening to your favorite songs. Music not only rests you down but as well acts as an immediate mood changer. It can charm you and redirect the mind from the thought that is on your mind.

2. Cup of Coffee/Tea

There are times you do not desire to sit down at home at what time you have had a atrocious battle with a friend/parents. You should directly step out for coffee or tea at your recommended hangout spot. Direction your thoughts to less issues can enhance your feelings.

3. Talk with your best friend

The time you are disappointed and your feelings is ruined, pick up the phone or run to your best buddy and release out your anger or sadness. This strategy will not only create your heart feel lighter but will also enhance your feelings rapidly. Friends confirm to be your best partners when in require.

4. Chocolate

Grab a bar of your recommended chocolate to convenience you off the strain and cause you to feel like a child all over again. Technically chocolate, specially dark chocolates is known to diminish the level of stress testosterone in our bodies producing into enhancement of your feelings instantly.

5. Bond with Nature

Taking a trip down the park or on the beach can immediately enhance your mind. Breathing clean fresh air and connection with components of nature can confirm to be totally calming for the body and mind. Real blossoms, wildlife, green lawn, the sea can be ideal partners to create a boring day energetic.

Derive joy out of little problems in life can help in re-energizing your feelings immediately and reducing you off all the stress. Doing amazing that you totally love and redirecting your mind from the stress point can confirm to be an ideal medicine to peacefulness and pleasure.

Fall Albums

Is anyone else excited???

'cause i'm in shoo-shoo-shoo sugar town

WILDFOX WHITE LABEL FALL '11: SUGAR


i am so inspired by this collection! here are just a few of my favorites.

THE MUSE

 

I GOT SOME TROUBLES BUT THEY WON'T LAST

I'M GONNA LAY RIGHT DOWN HERE ON THE GRASS

AND PRETTY SOON ALL MY TROUBLES WILL PASS

'CAUSE I'M IN 

SHOO-SHOO-SHOO,

SHOO-SHOO-SHOO,

SHOO-SHOO,

SHOO-SHOO,

SHOO-SHOO,

SUGAR TOWN

-- NANCY SINATRA

view the rest of the looks@ iheartwildfox

AFTER DARK, IN THE DAWN: a film by e.doan

AFTER DARK, IN THE DAWN from e r i c d o a n on Vimeo.


my boyfriend/roommate/eccentric enthusiast of fashion/creative mastermind (in his very ocd way), darling Eric Doan produced, filmed, and edited this eye candy motion editorial as a gift to me and our group of pals.
in february, Eric flew out seven of the girls to nyc to celebrate his 25th birthday, with a total of 11 of us cramped into a 500-square-foot apartment (with ONE bathroom), to spend time with one another and to shoot the scenes for the film. from prancing around in gowns in 20-degree weather on our rooftop, to rolling around in our apartment in our underwear, Eric was able to beautifully and artistically capture the core of each of our personalities.

albeit i was pretty camera shy, and slightly embarrassed of my own clip, i am still so proud to be a part of the video. and even thrilled to have this to look back on in 10 years, so i can say: dang. we looked damnnn cute.

love you E!

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE!

p.s. enjoy it! i know it's a little long but the music and editing and all the pretty people will make it worth your while.

p.p.s. link this or embed if you have your own blog!

thank you!

xx

A


what i was wearing:

skirt: american apparel
knit top: 3.1 phillip lim
shoes: alexander wang
belt: h&m

Drumming Song

I'm obsessed with this song by Florence and the Machine (Cosmic Love is my fave new song though). I even have it as my alarm ring tone and all. This is definitely what pop music should be like, Florence and Elly Jackson (La Roux).

Fantastically Fantastic

First Riverdance, 1995, Point Theater in Dublin

Everything and Nothing

I am seriously starting to question the effectiveness of going to bed purposely early to be able to study the next morning if I can't sleep. Bah.
Other than that, things have been quite interesting. We've been having friends over for the past month or so, and now my brother and hie family have gotten back from South Africa as well. Things here are never boring...and crowded! The darling nephew.

I've managed to develop a healthy obsession with electronica, electro-pop, new wave, trip-hop, or really anthing with a synthezier in it. My newest find is Isao Tomita. But my personal bests are probably Portishead and Depache Mode.





Some other great music I've been delving in is folk and all it's subsets. Older italian artists were pretty great at that.



Also, something I've found rather refreshing and inspiring are anime series from the '80. The five of us younger siblings have been having a great time re-viewing those cartoons we watched as lil' kids.
Our all-time favorite is Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac).

Taking off for now. Back soon. If this post doesn't keep you entertained till then, I really don't know what will.
Ciao!

THE GHOST WHO WALKS

mrs. jack white, karen elson, sings as if it's all she's born to do. with so much heart & soul, i consider her one of my favorite mellow musicians.

the ghost who walks, on repeat for today.

B-I-T-C-H

today's just one of those days.

the plastiscines make being a bitch look good, therefore today i will be one.

Mnozil Brass

Yesterday my family and I went to see such an amazing concert, I think we're still blown away.
Mnozil Brass are an Austrian septet comprised of 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, and 1 tuba. As posted other times on this blog, my brother is a musician, and of course we couldn't miss out. Never mind that it was totally grand and mind blowing. I mean, these guys entertain a crowd for two and a half hours, and never get a single note wrong.
They've got an amazing repertoire, ranging from classical to jazz, and throwing in some Michael Jackson in between.
Clap, clap, clap.
And they are UBER-funny....UBER.


Video included especially for Ozie(since I told the poor thing all about it and she feels like she missed out on the world, and I feel bad)

Marion Cotillard

This young woman has, in such a way that I didn't notice until it was obvious, become my favorite  actress in terms of style and elegance at the moment. 

It's reached the point that everything she wears, I just sorta stare for a few seconds and then go "wow" out loud. Every time that happens, my younger sister looks at me and says, "It's Marion Cotillard again right?"

The thing is, Marion just carries herself with such grace and pose and elegance she looks good even when she doesn't, and I can't help but admire that. Also, it's something that makes her absolutely attractive and beautiful.

One more thing, the woman channels (according to me), both in looks and fashion choices, something totally reminiscent of the stunning and graceful actresses of the silent movie era, another thing I'm currently obsessed with.

Was this sentence too long?

P.S. Combined to great clothes watching, I'm listening to Arrau play Chopin's Nocturne No. 20, and thing I just might die from and overload of beauty.

Boom! Slash! Splatter! (brain explosion...tough luck)

School's been my latest and greatest time consumer, like for real. Meaning I haven't actually thought up anything or found anything around that I'd consider blog-worthy. And pretty much, that's that.
On a side note, my mastery of the Portuguese language is developing, now I can read and make out MOST of a conversation. Yes I feel proud yes you might not care.
Speaking of which, I just got my highlight of the day. (like in this bloody moment, and you might not care about this either, so you could navigate away for today, this whole post interests no one but me)
Evanescence released a never-before-heard-B-side to help the victims of Haiti. It's called Together Again, and I'm listening to it right now, it's totally pretty.

Fun Stuff And Nostalgic Memories

My good friend Ozie Fish of the Moon and I have gotten into this habit of sending each other good music along with our many offlines and regular chat sittings. Our opinions (well actually just your's Oz...cus I like everything you sent me) don't always agree as to what is good and what is not....cough Depache Mode....cough....but we always enjoy looking into each other's tastes.
Anyway to get to the bottom of this, I just thought I'd share the songs I thought were nice with you. So go and treat yourself to some great music.

1. Portishead: Humming, Roads

2: Flyleaf: So I Thought, Uncle Bobbie

3: Depache Mode: Personal Jesus, Tainted Love, Enjoy The Silence

4: Skid Row: 18 And Life

5: Chopin: Nocturne no. 9

6: Antonin Dvorak: New World Symphony

7:Rachmainoff: Piano Concerto 3

8: Annie Lennox: Walking On Broken Glass, Money Can't Buy It

P.S. Fish....I miss you tons. I miss being crazy with you, exploring each other our likes and passions, making you just as much of a tennis freak as I am (which sucks now cus after I left that didn't last), showing you the way of FASHION and playing you to sleep on Amadeus Ludwing.
This IS 18 and Life Lady.

Just to listen to something awesome

Michael Jackson--Blood On The Dancefloor

Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle

The greatest tenor of all times wishing you a Merry Christmas.

Jorgen van Rijen

Definitely my favourite trombonist (okay fine, after Christian Lindberg, but he's so awesome it's like, obvious or something). Having brother as a trombonist, I know more than most people about this instrument, and especially how it sounds when he practices! It's always made me a bit sad how most people ignore this fantastic instrument (other classical musicians included), and I thought I should publicize it, in my own small way.
So anyway. Jorgen van Rijen. I'm telling you this guy is just wow! On every level.

Appropriate...just....appropriate.

Valentina Lisitsa

Valentina Lisitsa is a recent discovery for me, but I'm already enthusastic about her piano-playing. Okay, I admit that the very first video I saw of her, in which she was playing Fur Elise, I was slightly unsure of the correct opinion to entertain. She delivered a brilliant performance, no arguing that, the dynamics were marvelous, perfect legatos, and plenty of feeling. If I closed my eyes and just listened, than she delivered one of the best executions out there. But there was something with the way she sat, so hunched, moving so much, that bothered me. Hence the confusion.
Many Rachmainoff and some Beethoven concertos later, the scale tipped all the way and I became a huge fan. With a talent as huge as hers minor things like posture don't matter.
That woman has a handle on Rachmainoff like few other pianists. When she plays "Little Red Riding Hood", it's almost like the wolf is chasing you too. She's also absolutly great with Beethoven, but there she has Daniel Barenboim to contend with.
So if you don't know who she is, run here, like now, and pay attention.
This is the real shit.

Talk about Beauty

I really can't say much about this post, or you'll just get a very sentimental Esy going on an on about how much she loves this instrument. If you love it too, sit back and be awed with me, if you don't, sit back and be awed anyway.

To my Brother, yeah, he deserves it.

Well Ema, you passed both your exams, the one we were all freaked out about and the one I was sure you'd do great on (in fact you did). Anyway, bravo bravo! You're now an offically diplomated freak with a trombone! I'm sure you'll have a great career and remember to invite me over when you're the first trombone of the Berliner.