life + links

I'm not quite sure how to follow a post like that last one. It's true, it's a pretty crazy story. Life is happening, and if you're curious about an update about me, well, I am in the middle of working through some thoughts of figuring out what I really want, what I need, and who I am. Those are pretty important things to our lives, I reckon.

Perhaps on a more surface level I have some small yet potentially slightly interesting things to share.

I am really excited for Born Ruffians' album, Say It, to drop in June. They've released a single, Sole Brother, and man it is good. I like their music to begin with, and it's great to see them sticking with the awesomeness that works, but also to see them going in a different direction.


Sole Brother - Born Ruffians


Isn't it fun? It just makes me want to turn the lights off and shake my hips.
(Yes, that is a reference to the Unicorns' Tuff Luff.)

I'm also growing out my hair. (I buzzed it in September.) It's in an in-between stage. I found some shots of Tegan and Sara doing a photoshoot with Spin magazine. I've always thought they had pretty good hair but I am especially liking their latest look.

photo by Darren Ankenman

I also have been listening to the soundtrack that accompanied a book I began reading in Québec, but never finished, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Ma Vie Avec Mozart, (My Life with Mozart). Schmitt's book is a memoir and homage to Mozart; how his music helped to transform him throughout his life, throughout emotional and artistic trials. It's a great soundtrack.

My last link to share is this video. It is the opening track of the album. I've never been an opera girl but this aria, from The Marriage of Figaro, is absolutely beautiful, breathtaking, exquisite. Best listened to on full speakers. Mozart is great to study and do work to.


Ahh, life.