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Frozen orange juice kicked out of the cup

Montréal, t’es tellement froide!

January 15, 2012 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Montreal has been a mixed bag of tricks this season. So far, for the most part, it’s been a slightly warmer winter, but there have been pockets of biting cold- like the past couple days. At the moment it’s -17C and feels like -27C with the wind chill. When I eventually did wrap myself up enough to go outside, I ran into sights like the photo above. You know it’s cold when… In honour of the weather, we’re going to […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, French, Indie, Pop, Rock, Soundtrack • Tags: indie, Montreal, music, photography, Rock, winter

Obsessed with 2011

January 3, 2012 by snapshotsandneedledrops

NEW ADDITIONS TO SNAPSHOTS AND NEEDLE DROPS! A few of you have stumbled across the new pages, can anyone else find what’s new on the site? I spent New Year’s Day with my good friend Jess. The two of us live pretty far apart so we only manage a visit about once a year. We were reminiscing about road trip a couple years ago when we became obsessed with the, then new, Taylor Swift hit “Love Story.” We didn’t know the words […]

Categories: Acoustic, Alternative, Canadian, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Jazz, Lists, New Wave, Pop, R&B, Rap, Rock, Soul, Soundtrack, Unsigned • Tags: 2011, best of, guilty pleasures, music, photography, photos, review

An Indie Pickup

December 17, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

This song is a little indie-style pick-me-up for all of you currently studying for exams- as well as those just coming out of them. I don’t know if you’re like me, but after writing my last exam, my brain would always take a few days to really understand that the whole ordeal was over. All that prep work and it’s done in three lightning-fast hours? This song always makes me think of road trips to the beach. “Lust for Life” […]

Categories: Alternative, Indie, Lo-fi, Pop, Rock • Tags: colour, Girls, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock

To the Giver of Cookie Dough

December 8, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

So I have this amazing friend Liane who is known, internationally, for her amazing cookies. Her ginger ones are my favourite, but it’s her chocolate chip that have become the stuff of legend. Regardless of the flavour, she always leaves a portion of cookie dough specifically so I can eat it raw. Did I mention she was amazing? This girl also has fantastic music taste. She’s currently finishing her final essays of the semester and preparing to jet set across the […]

Categories: Alternative, Electronic, Experimental, Indie, Pop • Tags: electronic, experimental, indie, lights, Montreal, music, Oh Land, photography, pop

“There’s no lions!”

December 5, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

One morning I was having breakfast with my good friend Phil, and we were discussing the mental benefits of going for a run. He talked about how his brain seems to figure stuff out while he’s jogging only to pop up later like “hey! While you were running- we were working, and we figured some stuff out for ya!” My favourite line to come out of this conversation was when he told me he always thinks his brain is confused […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Indie, Pop, Rock • Tags: alternative, Canadian, Glasgow, Hey Rosetta, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock, Scotland

Looking through a snowy window at Montreal

“Worse than….”

November 23, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Last night I arrived home from my 10 day trip in Paris and Scotland. It turns out I was just in time! I woke up at 6:30 this morning to find it had been snowing all night. It’s a magical day, that first day of snow. The world is all of sudden a completely different landscape- granted it is a landscape you’ll be tired of in five months- but for now, coupled with the newly strung Christmas lights around the […]

Categories: Covers, Dance, Pop, Soundtrack • Tags: bakewells, Canada, dance, girls aloud, jump, Love Actually, Montreal, music, photography, pop, snow, Soundtracks, winter

Bordeaux & Paris

November 18, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Paris is the only city in the world I feel I could walk out into the street in broad daylight wearing this shade, Bordeaux, of lipstick. It’s strangely empowering, I was struttin’ all day. As a thank you to my gracious Parisienne host, GB, I’m embedding one of her favourite songs. Enjoy. “Elle me dit” par Mika

Categories: Dance, Electronic, French, Pop • Tags: blonde, dance, electric, France, french, lipstick, Mika, music, Paris, photography, pop

Paris, je t’aime

November 15, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Fun fact: it is impossible to take a bad photo of Paris between the hours of 5pm and 7pm. This city is so freaking gorgeous. I should really just rename this blog “Paris Shots and Needle Drops” because that might be all get from me for awhile. I’m giving you some vintage Feist. This song was used on the Paris, je t’aime soundtrack- something I had not thought about when I titled this post. For those who haven’t checked out […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, French, Indie, Pop, Rock, Soundtrack • Tags: Eiffel Tower, Feist, France, music, Paris, Paris je t'aime, photography, soundtrack, sunset

Carved pumpkins, wolf, jack-o-latern, Liverpool, LFC

Happy 90s Halloween

October 31, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

My close friends would be able to tell you that Halloween is not a favourite holiday of mine. Halloween was so much better in the 90s when I was a kid. The costume barely mattered because you had to put a coat on anyway and you got to run around your neighbourhood with friends getting candy. As an added bonus, I grew up in a small town, so every time my friends and I went to a house that we […]

Categories: 90s, Covers, Pop, Rock, Soundtrack • Tags: 90s, Canada, carved pumpkins, covers, halloween, jack-o-lanterns, LFC, Liverpool Football Club, memories, music, photography, pop, pumpkins, Rock, Soundtracks, Sugar Ray, wolf

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