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outdoor dj sets, brunching outside with dogs, blunt rides, jumping off docks, rolled sleeves, biking around

sunglasses

Running around in a huge open field

Citronella candles

Shitty jobs

summer nights just make me wanna throw on a linen shirt, sit by a tiki torch and drink a nice gansett pilsner while listening to chris isaak

nothing better, except i live in southern new hampshire which is a giant swamp so this really isn't that possible due to the mosquitos

I've been building up a summer mood inspo album recently:





also summer nights remind me of night markets in Taiwan:

Can we talk about the ennui of summer or is it only positive vibes here.

Griminal reminded me of these feel good summer vibes:

More of my summer nights face

i love that sinatra song, just want to look like jfk and stroll down the beach with a sweetheart

this was last summer, during my stay on some island in ghana

last night's jam

is this the thread for that fuckin' europop song you've heard too many times



anyway, this song sounds like summer



and i'm lucky enough to mentally associate Brookes Brothers' self-titled album with bus rides across Germany and sitting in my 100% natural light room in lovely Düsseldorf

edit: why won't this video show up :(

This album:


The pre-chorus starting at 0:59 is what summer sounds like to me.

driving home from the beach

Something about that smell in the air this time of year. I graduated High School today and it's kind of scary and exciting and overwhelming starting a new huge chapter in my life going into the real world and wiping away the majority of the ties that I've created in the last 18 years. As an adolescent suburbanite I'm going to miss summers a whole lot and what they're synonymous with.

Dog walks down roads you've never been down before while still groggy because it's early and there's dew on the grass and fog in fields but soon it'll burn off and the mountains in the distance will be visible and people will be coming out of their houses to commute.

A black & mild sitting on the back of a car, breaking into barns just to look around, sticking your head out the backseat window going down rural roads.

Local concerts with scratchy blankets and packed sandwiches and cramped sedans parked on muddy grass and the altamont fair with shitty fair food and NDE rides and fireworks when it gets dark and dust on everything because if it's not muddy it's practically a dust storm in the parking lot and the animals shown off in the barns are pungent and not at all masked by the smell of ribbon fries and fried dough and strange meat products.

Camping when everything is damp and nothing goes according to plan but everything just happens to work out and getting drunk in folding camp chairs and sleeping in sweaty piles in a tangle of sleeping bags and making coffee in an aluminum campfire coffee maker in the morning with bedhead and old sweatshirts and plastic sandals.

Cape cod and trying to catch fish and calico crabs and giant buried horeshoe crabs at low tide just because they're so cool and walking as far out as possible in the early mornings when it looks like the tide is miles away and almost no one is on the beach yet except for old ladies on walks. Crab cakes with lemon and ambiguously sticky tablecloths made of artificial materials intended to be easily cleaned and fries with vinegar.

Hiking and fending off mosquitos and dad's old baseball caps and polarpure water purifier converting undrinkable water into barely drinkable water and hunks of cheap store brand cheddar on pitas. Old model digital cameras. Kayak blisters. Dogs in canoes.

Hanging out at several houses in the night air and walking in the middle of the road watching the sun rise in the morning and crashing after that.

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