box of rain

have you ever listened to a song that perfectly encapsulates your feelings of life and death and the universe and it just makes you feel okay inside because you know that there's this song and you can listen to it forever and ever and it's like your soul is being read aloud to you in a beautiful melody?
ME TOO. for me it is Box of Rain by the Grateful Dead, which I've loved basically my whole life and it's just so happy and wonderful and great. listen to it when you're happy, or sad, or mad, or not feeling anything at all. it's just perfect.

see u guys l8er

i've lost you

 whale dress: karma, sweater: UO, random socks, backpack: target, shoes: american apparel, flower power: tumblr

HEY YOU GUYS. I wore a sweater because it's windy outside and I love sweaters and I'm sick of short sleeves to be honest (not that I'm implying that I want fall to come, because for the love of all things good in life, please don't make me go back to school).

Sometimes I get really nostalgic and sad about growing up and how I'll never be the same as how I used to be. I'll miss not having to work, and not having to be so responsible about everything, and not having to make decisions all the time. At the same time, though, growing up has benefits as well:

• I can know myself better and be the person who I want to be.
• I won't have to go to school ever again after I graduate.
• I'll be independent and live life how I want to live it.
• I'll be able to learn what I want to learn, and grow as a person.
• I'll be able to adopt as many kitties as I want.

(now I'm kind of excited about life)

Today I took a walk outside in the glorious 75 degree weather and took some weird pictures through binoculars. I like them because they kind of look like cool planets in outer space:

Also dig this song: 

age of consent - new order

I'M IN LOVE

sing, autumn to may

I gotta say, I didn't feel very fierce today because I had a wicked stomach affliction that kept me in bed the whole time basically. I did watch Stand By Me which is like the best movie EVER oh my god I can't believe I'd never seen it before!! I CRIED MY EYES OUT.
AND LOOK AT THEIR ADORABLE OUTFITS. I SO WISH I WAS A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY FROM 1959.

 Stand By Me - 1986

So while I don't have a very interesting outfit to show, I did look back on some of my photos on my phone from earlier this year and I came across some from my 17th birthday that I took with my friend Peaches which I thought were pretty cute:

also I was listening to this song like all day:

Autumn to May - Peter, Paul and Mary

I've known this song for a while because my mom had it on vinyl from when she was a kid in the 60s and 70s and I just love it so much :( It's happy and sad at the same time and it's beautiful and I just love folk music. Peter, Paul and Mary are one of my favorite groups of all time. 

zombie

vintage 90s rayon dress ( (◡‿◡✿) ) and doc martins, yo
my nailz: 

SO REMEMBER HOW YESTERDAY I SAID I WAS FEELING VERY VAGUE AND WEIRD AND UNEMOTIONAL. well I had a wave of inspiration. I decided to rewatch Clueless last night which is like THE best movie ever and I just realized how much fun these teens were having. It makes me very happy to be A KID IN AMERICA, WOAH

And then there's this golden line where Elton says he lost his Cranberries cd which basically inspired my ~90z grunge~ mood today:

I've been rekindling my love for the cranberries over the past 12 hours and I'm just so infatuated with their sound and Dolores O'Riordan's magical voice. the lyrics are haunting and it's just SO BEAUTIFUL i'm in love okay don't question it.

ANYWAYZ I've hung out with a lot of friends lately. yesterday my friend audrey who is beautiful and magnificent came and picked me up in her li'l volkswagen and we went THRIFTING which was fabulous and I bought the dress that you see above along with some other stuff~. then my friend Izzy who is also wonderful and perfect and I rode our bikes around town and got burritos together and then some highly caffeinated beverages. We sat and stared at the water falls for like two hours and biked home and the weather was perfect and I love summer. And this morning me, audrey and my other glorious friend marisa (we've all known each other since kindergarten, awh) went to breakfast and i had a caramel roll that changed my outlook on the world 5EVR. 
So yeah right now I'm procrastinating practicing my violin and organizing my volunteer stuff that I have to do for *cough*college*cough* uggghhh. I should probs go to that right now. I'll probably make another post later tonight anyway!!!!!!!!! xoxo

some inspiration:

(tumblr, y'all)

all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

IT WAS RAINING THIS MORNING and it was wonderful but then I realized that I can't really go outside and do anything when it's raining so I put on my sunshiney dress from rewind and I immediately felt better. 

These last few months have been especially weird for me. I don't know. I feel sort of empty like something is missing and so I've been trying to be more creative and stuff. I deleted my tumblr a few weeks back and have been thrifting a lot and wearing more interesting outfits. Maybe I just feel so weird and nostalgic because these kids that I've grown up with and spent my whole life with have graduated and are going to college and I'm going to do that next year too and everything is going to change and nothing will ever be the same. It's weird, I feel very much like I'm in a movie from the 80s right now.

ANYWAYZ i've been thinking a lot about childhoods and nostalgia and the 1950s/60s/70s/80s and baseball and america and summers where you're a teenager and you're bored and all you can do is listen to the radio. Movies like The Sandlot and the virgin suicides, basically. And also Freaks and Geeks.

 Since I've been striving to do more things away from the internet I've been writing more in my journal and also painting weird-ass pictures on notecards to go with lyrics of my favorite songs: 

(I'm dumb)

Basically I've been having a great summer but I feel weird like I'm not in tune with everything; I'm more vague and disconnected than usual and I'm not going out and doing ~fun teen thingz~. I'm sort of stuck around my house a lot but I'm not really emotionally invested in anything at the moment which is weird because I always am. 

WHATEVER.

I'll leave y'all with some simon and garfunkel (my 2 fave boyz)

simon and garfunkel - america

ABOUT ME.

Hey guys. I'm Coco and I'm 17 years old, and I'm going to be a senior in high school this fall. I live in the lovely city of Minneapolis with my mom, dad, and older brother. My most striking features I suppose would be my height (5'11") and my gross, tangly curly annoying red hair.
This is me:

 I've played classical violin since I was 5 but I really enjoy rock & roll a lot more (I can attempt to play some guitar but really I only know like 7 chords; but I also play ukulele and a bit of piano as well.) I mainly love to listen to old music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I quite enjoy folk music, punk rock and everything in between, really.

 here is a playlist of just SOME of the songs that I consider to be some of my absolute favorites: 

Just What I Needed - the Cars

She's Not There - the Zombies

Starman - David Bowie

Half A Person - the Smiths

Kodachrome - Paul Simon

Lady, You Shot Me - Har Mar Superstar

Satellite of Love - Lou Reed

She's Got You - Patsy Cline

Rudie Can't Fail - the Clash

The Lovecats - the Cure

Sink To the Bottom - Fountains of Wayne

Autumn to May - Peter, Paul and Mary

I also really like to pretend like I know stuff about fashion and whatnot. Clothes are really fun for me but often I just like to dress up in jeans and a t-shirt and forget about it.

I would describe myself as someone who just wants to relax and be very calm and stress-free. I don't like big ordeals or drama. I try not to be antisocial and hate everyone but it's truly hard sometimes (I'm mostly kidding, I usually love people unless they're jerks). 

THAT'S BASICALLY IT. you basically now know everything about me!!!!!!!!!!!

see u l8er~

siamese dream

I NEED A BETTER CAMERA OK

~smashing pumpkins tee: urban outfitters, used skirt~ wheeeeeee

I had a really bad morning. I desperately wanted to take a shower but for some reason I'm last priority when it comes to the shower schedule and the WHOLE FAMILY is for some reason allowed to take one before me. This always happens and it sounds dumb but it is extremely frustrating. Now I have to wait for like an hour so the hot water can restore itself.
ANYWAY, I really like this skirt. It's very retro. And the smashing pumpkins rule. I am also wearing my Obama pin today as well (and along with not one but two david bowie pins, I just realized):

THE PIN FEATURES OBAMA'S DOG BO WHO IS ADORABLE AND I LOVE DOGS.

Anyways, yeah. 

So later today I think I will post a more detailed 'about me' post just to let any ~potential followers~ know a bit more about who I am and what I'm into at the moment. I've realized that things I post make a lot of sense to me, but out of context I might sound like a crazy person. basically, y'all need the full lowdown. I just said y'all.

♥the mamas and the papas♥

-`**(tumblr)**`-

I Will

a tree grows in brooklyn t-shirt from urban outfitters, given shorts, and converse, y'all
(I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  by Betty Smith and would recommend it to anyone!!)

Lately I've been listening to a lot of ~classic beatles~ tunez and I remember why everyone loves them so much, including myself. They're just timeless, fun rock and roll songs about love and happiness. Things just seem like they were simpler back then in the 60s and 70s. But that's probably not true and I'm just romanticizing different eras because I happen to like that kind of music better than today's music.
In other news, I've been thinking a lot about happiness and sadness and how you can be in a certain situation where you're completely pleased with how everything in your life is going but then you think about other people and how there's so much sadness and devastation in their lives. We all kind of live in little bubbles that separate us from anything beyond our world of communication. I keep forgetting how everyone else's lives are just as real as mine and equally as important and how when I pass someone on the street, they're probably going through problems similar or worse than my own. I really feel fortunate and grateful to have such a cushy and fun life and to be able to pursue my own interests and have all these awesome opportunities. I'm truly trying hard to put myself in other peoples' shoes and recognize that the world does not revolve around me and sometimes I can't get everything I want and yes, life is hard sometimes.

Today was so fun. I slept over at my best friend Peaches' house last night and we had icees and pizza and took a walk at 11:30 pm and it was hot out and we wore cute outfits and it was a really fun time.

aren't we cute?

Then today me and my older brother went to target and bought a bunch of junk food and watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and 'twas great! The rare times when we actually get along are actually so fun and he's awesome. even if we have completely different music tastes.

The heat is finally breaking and tomorrow should be just about perfect to take a walk around the lake.

Have some beatles-spiration: 

(I'm in love with them)

 

Please Please Me

tombstone blues

 IT'S TOO HOT TO WEAR MORE CLOTHES THAN THIS. I got the dress from Columbia and I made the flower crown. I was pretty inspired by combining black and colors and I love just being able to throw on this plain black comfy cool dress and then wear crazy shoes and a flower crown with it:

the fabulous tavi, of course

tumblr (or tumblah, as they say in britain, i suppose)

it's one of those long, hot, humid days of summer where all you can do is lay around and listen to bob dylan and think poetic thoughts about change and life and death and stuff. I guess I've come to realize that life is a certain amount of time that you get and you have to do something with it because really it could end at any time. wow that sounded depressing. I've also realized that change is inevitable and that it can sometimes be a good thing. For example, after listening to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 10 billion times, I guess listening to Highway 61 Revisited for a while couldn't hurt. 

a n y w a y,

CHECK OUT MY DANSKOS! they're iridescent and shiny and wooden and comfortable and wonderful. they put me well over 6 feet tall and I love it so much.

 

also check out the pins that I purchased at rewind the other day! 

 

~bob dylan, two david bowies, lou reed, the beatles, and the sex pistols~

Summer is so nice because I'll have days like today where I don't really do anything and I can just pursue whatever my heart desires and just have fun and be lazy and listen to records and take pictures and go to the lake and stuff. I never want summer to end.

enjoy some sparkly cacti: (tumblr)