here's how i'm workin' it today...

i'm in love with my yoga teacher. she is so retarded amazing. and knows exactly what i need... i was in tears in the first 15 minutes of class. all good things, ya know? here's what's happening today... make yours a good one too, oui?

i'm also hella inspired to find new music today... my yoga teacher played some amazing tunes today. so, here's what's happening in my class today...

1. raconte-moi une histoire - m83

2. how can you swallow so much sleep - bombay bicycle club

3. les champs-élysées - joe dassin

4. love endeavor - alice smith

5. radio - lana del rey

6. young blood - lynx

7. somebody that i used to know - walk off the earth

8. santa fe - beirut

9. sunshine - devotchka

10. stolen - dashboard confessional

11. no rest - dry the river

12 . i slept with bonhomme at the cbc - broken social scene

13. intro - the xx

14. when the night comes - dan auerbach

send me new tunes, please. and thank you. spread hope. xo

sweet nothing...

i am the worst worst worst at making decisions. well, most of the time. sometimes, when i'm feeling the need for control and i have already made a decision and then ask your opinion, i'm only asking to appear nice. but, really i just want what i want. oh, jeeze. see what i'm saying?

(i mean, how many times have i changed not only the appearance of this blog, and the name....????) shit. runs. deep. y'all.

every time i see a cute girl with cute hair that is different than mine, i think oh, i should do that. even if one looks like this:

and the next looks like this:

it's reasonable to have both, in the same day, riiiiight? (and not actually wear wigs like that one insane (not in a good way) dance teacher i had once. yikes!)

runs deep. or maybe, it's just that i like everything. equally. i hate having to pick one thing that i like better. i hate to make the other thing feel bad. unless, of course, i really love one thing more than the other. like the left. i generally prefer all things left. my left side, sitting on the left side of someone (maybe because tony guest hears better out of his left ear, so sitting on his left side means he'll always hear anything important or clever i might say) and how i can get my left battement soooo much higher than my right (high-kick, rockette style, fyi). oh, jeeze. seriously?

anywho. i forgot why i started posting on this lovely, sunny (!!!!) madonna-halftime-show day (apparently there will also be football... that's the one where they try and hit home runs, right?). 

oh, right... more proof of my ability to make non-decisions. my current favorite playlist... (i'll save the play counts and keep that as private information, it's a leeeeetle bit embarrassing).

1. devil town - tony lucca

2. you've got the love (little noise sessions) - florence + the machine 

3. all the sand in all the sea - devotchka

4. my girl (a capella) - the temptations

5. rainbow - oh land

6. your song - ellie goulding

7. gypsy rose - ben kweller

8. somebody that i used to know - walk off the earth

9. spoken love - k'naan

10. you're the one that i want - the lennings

11. heartlines (acoustic) - florence + the machine

12. first breath after coma - explosions in the sky

see... no overarching theme... nothing tying all these songs together... 'cept of course that i've listened to them an unreasonable amount of times. whoops.

images: what it looked like outside my apartment this morning (on madonna-halftime-show day) here, here. for the record, i tried that sienna miller short do. when i first got to grad school. b.a.d. choice. me and sienna miller are not twinsies. duh. oh, and tony guest is leaving today. sad face all around.

it's good for you... (slash, currently listening)

elated. that's how's it's gonna be today. which is the best, yes? my good friend KPA has an office next door to my workplace. she's the boss and has a gorgeous space where she is sitting all alone. sooooo, the gorgeous gal has offered me a little office where i can come on my breaks and do things... like this. write to all of you. it's so nice to be away from that boom boom music and all of the likes and umms. hooray.

i'm thinking it'll be a weekend of being good to ourselves. tonight, iyengar yoga with some goodies of pals. last night, sushi din din with JT. tomorrow crab dinner with m. all good shit.

and it's so necessary, you know? especially in this season. when we are always distracted and oh, it's the holidays seems to be an excuse for piss-poor behavior. i'm gonna stop using that excuse this year, and get down to business. i'm making it a season of change. renew. new opportunities. (i'll be writing more, so keep your eyes peeled). and i'm buckling down to the idea of actually writing for more than just myself. putting my fingers into the freelance world. perhaps something already brewing on that front. but, if you hear of anything, send it my way, would you? (i do, actually, know how to write un-emotionally... i know, can you believe it?)

back on track... change. doing the good stuff. i'm listening to some killer tunes. literally, looked up at myself in the bathroom mirror this morning and realized i had been dancing. dance. party. dancing. again. two days in a row. la roux, you're gettin' for me.

here's the playlist:
in for the kill - la roux
i wish i was a punk rocker - sandi thom
sun of a gun - oh land
your house is my world - apparat
lover to lover - florence + the machine
only you - joshua radin
two way street - kimbra
gary song - alice smith
perfection - oh land
bulletproof - la roux
get better - mates of state (from yesterday)
fool of me - me'shell ndegeocello
paper bag - fiona apple
sugar town - nancy sinatra
tom's diner (a cappella) - suzanne vega
maps (acoustic) - yeah yeah yeahs
let him fly - patty griffin

make wonderful things for yourself and your gang this weekend, and i'll catch you on the flip (unless i'm feeling feisty, which is probable... no, inevitable, and maybe i'll write more words (with loads of new lyrics to insert) at the weekend).

have you heard of her? brilliant, and it's where i got the images for today.

currently listening...

almost famous soundtrack... it's been a while my friend, but here we are again.

move me on to any black square, use me any time you want... just remember that the goal is for all of us to capture all we want.

having (yet another) clean-out/rearrange the apartment day. symbolic? yes. cathartic. def. get the shit out. allow space for the new stuff.

don't surround yourself with yourself, move on back two squares... send an instant karma to me, initial it with loving care...

enjoy your weekend. make room for things and stuff. 

words: yes, i've seen all good people. piccy from here.

currently listening...

the entire discography of:
ryan adams
devotchka
florence + the machine

all muddled into one big ass playlist.

genius.