facts.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that some the following facts are, in fact, opinions of the respective blogger.


number one:



Despite my avoidance of all the hype for Spike Jonze's new flick I somehow had stumbled upon a track of the song featured in Ca Va Cool's fall mixtape (cleverly titled Fall Be Kind.)

The soundtrack for Where The Wilds Things Are is fantastic.

It's one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a long time. YYY's Karen O (ex-girlfriend of Jonze) wrote and did the vocals for these original songs and man, it's good! The songs are fun and accessible, and more importantly, musically interesting. The instrumentation of guitar, the interesting percussion and the ambient backdrop from the movie create a spacious and quirky atmosphere in my ears.

It's received some criticism. But I like listening to it while I create things and also in the mornings when I am getting ready.

Hidaway's gotta be one of the best tracks.

number two:




In other exciting discoveries, the Vanier Institute of the Family has recently discovered that divorce is losing its appeal! In Canada, at least. People say all the time that half of marriages end in divorce these days. Which is mostly true in the States, where 44% of marriages end in divorce, and in Quebec, where the number is as high as 48%.

(Only) 38% of married couples in Canada will divorce by their 30th anniversary.

According to the study divorce rates peaked in the 1980s and since the '90s the numbers have stayed the same. This has also been affected by falling marriage rates due to cohabitation where the breakups of these unions aren't captured in divorce stats. (Which may mean that "couple dissolution" has actually increased.)

It's just kind of cool to know.

(I know where I'm going to be (...and stay) married.

... just kidding.)



number three:




My last fact for the post is that documentary Food Inc. is pretty dang interesting and also kind of disturbing.

It's one of those things everyone needs to watch.

While there were some pretty horrific scenes of the actual production of food, what was more appalling was the impact on our society, humanity, values and health of an industry we know almost nothing about.

Essentially an obsession with efficiency, profit and technological advancements seems to have been a huge factor in the diminishing quality of our food. It's become an industry about doing things with as little effort as possible for the maximum amount of profit.

There's so much to it. You just gotta watch it.





but, okay, my last fact is that lining gloves with fleece has proved to be not as overwhelming a task as I had previously thought. My hand-knit gloves are pretty much done and I am excited to have super warm hands!