Her.

It was confirmed last night that if I ever had an extraordinary love story, Spike Jonze would need to direct it. The trailer for the sci-fi rom-com was released yesterday and I am desperate to see the finish product. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson's voice as the digital girlfriend of Joaquin, named Samantha. Joaquin's awkwardness and need to have a relationship with anything really sets up a true romance with Samantha. This type of desperation and love reminds me of Lars and the Real Girl, where overtime these "characters" begin to take human form.

Spike Jonze is also an extremely talented director and makes this film look so unbelievably gorgeous. He has also teamed up with Arcade Fire again (see: The Suburbs). Arcade Fire will score the film, along with releasing a new album in October, with Her following after on November 20.

Watch below and keep your ears open for the adorable quote at the end about falling in love:

Stay With Us

Happy Wednesday. I made a promise to myself to update my blog each and every day. While this post will be short and sweet with a feel-good song, I will have a post to follow up tonight.

Since moving to the West Village, I have been walking everywhere and taking in everything that the city has to offer. Although I go back and forth on loving and hating the city sometimes, once I'm walking through all the neighbors and taking in the rich personality, it becomes clear that I am seriously in love. Living in a city let's me walk everywhere I would like, which means I have the time to listen to new music and rely on the old. Below is the song that will accompany me on my walk to work today and I suggest adding it to your commute playlist as well.

The band is Seoul from Montreal. The band keeps their music hush-hush and describe it as "blue, breathless, gentle and absolute." (Blue?) Anyways, listen to Stay With Us below and download it.

Green walls, waffles, and doing you.

I have always been the person who moves fast - when I get what I want, I want same-day delivery. For instance, I graduated from college on May 19, moved home May 20, and started my first job May 21. Two weeks ago, I saw an apartment and scraped up my bank account to get it and tomorrow I will be moving in.

There a three facts (at least) that accompany this move that leave me with a pit in my stomach. 

Tomorrow I will no longer call the room I spent my angsty teenage years in. Everything will have been moved out and all that will be left are my favorite green walls I used to sing and dance around in pretending I was the next Florence Welsh.  The room that has been my safe haven since I can remember. The one with the perfect view of woods and a tree with a branch meant to sit and read a book on. It's the fact of not be able to go back to my green room and stare at that branch while singing and dancing.  

It's also the fact of not seeing my parents each day when I schlep through the door at 9 pm and greet me with such positivity it makes me feel like Wheaties would make a box out of me. It's also missing the little things like mom buying me my favorite whole wheat waffles and new salad dressings to try. 

It's also about being terrified of trading in the familiar for the unknown and doing it by myself as the new girl. College defined the person I was for a while - it planned out four years of my life, it planned who my friends were going to be and planned out who I could be after four years with my friends. Now everything is left up to me and, you know what, it's scary and it fills my body with anxiety. But it's exciting and it's change and it's a test of everything I have done in the past four years. 

So while I sit on this train scared about what is to come, I keep in mind the three more facts:

1. Where ever you are and as long as you are happy, there will always be a big green room to dance and sing in but you have to paint the wall green and you have to know the song. 

2. Eventually you will have to buy your own waffles so you might as while cheer yourself on while you do it. 

3. You can have your green walls and waffles but it's no fun sitting with them wishing you had become what you wanted. 

A Nice Reminder.

"Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else, but just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes."

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  The Winter of the Air 

Is that you, Mister Sun?

I have a lot to update you all on! Firstly, how sweet is it to feel the sun again? While sitting in the grass yesterday, I got a few kisses from the sun. Now my hair is a bit lighter and my skin is bit darker. Lawn chairs, tanned skin and summer drinks always remind me of good music. During the warm months, I can't help but tap into some hip hop and tons of remixes. Below are some of my favorite songs right now.

P.S. 

My schedule has been super busy lately. This week I have created a new blog, called Marketing Shenanigans. Originally, this started as a mandatory assignment for a class but as turned into a larger part of my life. What the Mountains Said to the City will always be my primary, close-to-home blog. However, if you want more detailed things of my life as a student and social media account manager head over to Marketing Shenanigans.  

Lena Dunham for Rachel Antonoff

As you may know from previous blog posts, I have been in complete awe over Lena Dunham ever since Tiny Furniture. Of course, I love Girls even with all the nudity. I find it admirable that a woman can have such ease with nudity -- it says a lot about her confidence. Anyways, Lena teamed up with fashion designer, Rachel Antonoff, for her latest fashion concept video. Lena's younger sister stars in the whimsical, Wes-Anderson-like film that is filled with gorgeous shots and fashion.

What do you think?

I'll Try Anything Once.

Last week was a lot. A lot happened with friendships, school and work, and it all left me exhausted. But, as hard as it was going through it, I am glad these specific incidents happened when they did. Each incident contained secret messages of who I am as an individual, what I want in life, and how I need to work a little harder. 

This week I am going to take each of the lessons I learned and implement them into my daily life. With all the changes about to come my way, I don't want to fill my time with things I don't feel a hundred percent positive about and ease my mind with things that are shaping up to be positive things. 

I hope you all do this as well.

Happy Easter.