// PLASTIC BEACH //

I dunno, it's funny but every single day of summer is wondrous. It's everything you want. Whether it be nighttime Steak-n-Shake runs, swimming for hours listening to Surfer Blood, spending the afternoon listening to Kanye and painting palm trees, or laying in the sun on the boat at sunset listening to Beach House's Bloom. 

The summer mentality has overtaken me. I feel at my leisure, easygoing, yet filled with an indescribable ambition. Everything seems so attainable during summer. The only valid thing in my mind is summer and summer alone and soaking up every last sun drenched, Surfer Blood, cropped Hawaiian shirt filled minute of it. 

I believe going to Chicago this week with my bro's will give me a certain energy.

xxx,

Rachel

// all summer //

Right now I am just soaking up these dreamy summer days and long, perfect nights. 

They are filled with so much good music shared with my bro's, my button down shirts always knotted, perfect hot sunshine, and dreams of Pitchfork festival in July. 

xxx,

Rachel

// summer mentality //

"I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses...We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves."

-Zelda Fitzgerald

It's time. It is freaking time. Let the most perfect 80's summer imaginable begin! Cheers, kids!

xxx,

Rachel

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