making rain

rain is love. a time for cooing while locked in the room, lazing on bed, under the sheets with someone (bodily or mentally only), with a view of the pouring rain from the window. the wind romancing the leaves and the rain leading the beat, while we, in the room drink in the spectacle and mimic the age-old rhythm of making rain, making love.

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here's a subtle, moving song that was beautifully sang for a lesbian couple, specifically for Shamim.

after swaying to the song, today, Leonie is my New York. who's yours?




Shamim Sarif (September 24, 1969) is a novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage. Her roots inspired her to write her award-winning debut novel, The World Unseen, which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality,[1] which she later adapted into a film starring Lisa Ray, shown at the London Film Festival in 2007.[2] She is the recipient of three Best Director awards for The World Unseen film - from the South African Film and Television Awards, The Phoenix Film Festival and the Clip (Tampa) Festival. The novel won the Pendleton May First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. She next wrote and directed "I can't think straight".

She lives in London with her partner Hanan and her two children.[1]


Leonie Casanova is a London-based singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Zambia to an Italian father and Zambian mother, and schooled in Swaziland, England and the USA where she studied Economics and French Literature before working on Wall Street.

Leonie's colourful and almost "nomadic" background has deeply informed her approach to song-writing and what to her is the intrinsic and essential story-telling element of this process. She is a smart and sensitive lyricist and vocalist and manages to cross and fuse genres and musical "textures" fluidly.