Although I know I should really get used to this kind of weather, today is really only the second or third day since I got here where it has really rained. As in, more than a drizzle or a light rain. It's one of those days when the fog comes in around Arthur's Seat and the wind starts endangering everyone's umbrellas, and where I just want to curl up in an easy chair with some hot chocolate and watch movies all day.
Alas - I have to do laundry at some point today, and should probably try and get some of the online reading done for my lectures. I should also probably go to the Travel Fair they're having at the IFSA-Butler Scotland office today, but I honestly don't feel like walking the couple of miles to and from in the rain.
However - in addition to my laundry and coursework, I feel like an afternoon of staying in, watching episodes of Robin Hood (the most recent BBC TV series), and eating leftover pizza from the IFSA dinner last night is a GREAT idea. And since I really only seem able to communicate through other people's music, I will share with you all the music that I've been listening to recently that I think really encapsulates the experience of a rainy day in Edinburgh.
A RAINY DAY IN EDINBURGH
1. Postcards from Far Away - Coldplay
2. Dead and Lovely - Tom Waits
3. The Tree - Blitzen Trapper, with Alela Diane
4. Race You Back Home - Elizabeth & the Catapult
5. Not in Nottingham (from Disney's Robin Hood) - Mumford & Sons
6. Wide-Eyed, Legless - Laura Veirs
7. June Hymn - The Decemberists
8. Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys
9. Interstate Love Song [Acoustic] - Stone Temple Pilots
10. In Our Talons - Bowerbirds
11. Rambling Man - Laura Marling

I haven't listened to the music yet cause I'm sitting in Charleston in a tropical depression...but this photo captures it all. awesome...
ReplyDeleteI love your playlists lots and lots. Given that most of the east coast is currently also drowning, listening to this perfectly suits my current location in a big squishy chair with tea and a book.
ReplyDeleteLove the slightly off-center vanishing point, contrasts are interesting too - fluffy white clouds, slick black stones. I can see you walking down this street with your little lime green umbrella ...
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