Music is what feelings sound like.

 

Its really important for me to surround myself with people who inspire me. 

Three words that reflect how I always want my life to be:

PASSIONATE. INSPIRING. ADVENTUROUS.

All of those words can take on more than one meaning. 

And I sort of have this major crush on music. Take that however you want, but is there a job where I can just listen to music on end for hours? I would be most versatile. I could do this in a field, in a tree, on the floor, in my bed, walking down the street, on the bus, train, tram, plane.. 

Pretty much -music- is one of the most inspiring things I have in my life. Perhaps what I am often most passionate about too. Sort of saves me, you know? 

You could insert the world 'people' where I just wrote 'music', and the above comment would mean the same. People. Music. 

Combine them with nature and happy dwellings and thats pretty much the life. 

I love magic!

I am seeing Iron and Wine and Ingrid Michaelson LIVE. On separate days. and not for a couple months. BUT I just wanted it to be known. cause I am so excited. Like, SO excited! 

Now, leaving my giddy teenager behind..oh no, wait. I still have the giddy teenager thing cause last night Grace and I went to see Harry Potter dressed up way cool. I love Luna!

  

 

phots

Here are a few photos from the roadtrip to Denver.

Our tire blew on the freeway! (i was secretly freaked out as we hoped over three lanes in like, 50m to pull over on the side of the road) 

And we finally made it to Colorado!

This was inside the stadium at DCI. New experiences, lots of fun. 

Take me on a soul vacation

The Colorado trip was fantastic! I would recommend the place to anyone. I cant really recommend many states in the U.S cause I havent travelled extensively, nonetheless it was awsome. 

Awsome included the 8 hour drive with 5 people in our car (3 guys, 2 girls) and blowing a tyre on the freeway and spending the day at a water theme park and seeing Drum Corps International and driving through incredible canyons and much more..

Most importantly though, it was good to get away and be with my special friends. 

Photos will arrive later, but while I am recommending things; here is an Aussie artist i want to share with you. Pikelet. She opened for Sufjan Stevens when he was in Australia last year (and therefore kicked off the start of one of the most magical nights of my life). 

To hear her new stuff click here and to see the photo I took of her at the show click here :)

I also recently posted a couple of my Sufjan photos from that show onto my flickr!

Road trip!

I have been in all sorts of moods recently, the dominant being anxious and sort of panicky. 

and i dont even know why! its unsettling.

so a road trip to DENVER sounds brilliant right? yes.

and few of me and my buddies are going to do exactly that. 

Holga yolga

I kinda like film

This first one is at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in SLC, Utah

And the other two are from a while back when we went to the air show. 

Happy July 4th!

So, I may not be 'really' be American, but I am a dual citizen of the USA and Australia and got to sing the Star Spangled Banner for 2000 people on Saturday morning!

Julia and I warmed up at 6am for a 7am performance. That is very early. very. 

I tried to be patriotic even though I can tell you zilch about the history of Independence day, so we made these t-shirts. 

I am quite thrilled with how they turned out. 

Its a pity i had to spend 5.5 hours of the night at work and 2.5 of those hours cleaning machines in and out. Which almost caused me to miss the fireworks. Lucky I have this awsome friend Heidi who helped me through the night and we had this sort of amazing bonding time and I pretty much just appreciate her heaps and THANKYOU for everything :)

4th of July eve

I was kinda getting really pumped for my first July 4th with college friends ..

We already hit up the street stalls and carnival fun. 

And i got my face/eye painted!

Americans like fat books and thin women

I have a really cool job. 

Second hand book stores are the coolest. 

I especially like when my friends come visit me when Im working the quiet night shift and we talk the whole time on the comfy couch. Thanks guys!

I also really like when I get to alphabetize the cool shelves like the one that has all the old classics. Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Voltaire, The Penguin classics...  

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.  ~Walter Pater

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  ~Author Unknown

Les Français sont beaux

I am very into French music at the moment! The French always do it better when it comes to music and films.

If you are interested, some of the people Im listening to are:

Carla Bruni

  Coeur de Pirate

    Madeleine Peyroux

  Nouvelle Vague

Edith Piaf

{Elizabeth has started her journey to the land of Indonesia. She will be missed so much}

Something to live by..

Find infinite beauty in

every little thing.

- The Brothers Bloom

Magnifique.

You got me

Sometimes I feel like I should just dedicate my blog to my friends.

Usually their lives are more interesting than mine and I just bask in their wonderful company and am lucky enough to have them in my life. 

Living in this foreign land made me very anxious in January. But, I know it is right for me to be here.. which is weird because im not actually sure what im doing here. Nonetheless Im glad the Lord loves me enough to lead me to wonderful people who;

Inspire me, put up with me, watch The Nanny with me at 2am, peel my burnt back for me, make cookies for me, dont get mad when I get into bed at 3am every night, listen to my endless boy troubles, take me to big paddocks to take photos, sing me songs and play the guitar outside my apartment, take me to studio sets to be an extra on TV shows, give me free tickets to the opening night of their play, come visit me at work and pretty

much

love

me. 

Grace and I at the Manti pageant with more wonderful friends.

Tribute to Regina

I know everyone has blogged about her new album. But thank you Regina. Thank you for good music, good lyrics, good music video's and pretty red lips and pretty clothes. 

This is on repeat. 

"No one laughs at God when they see the one they love hand in hand with someone else and they hope that they're mistaken."

This is the story of my life. Story of my life. 

Story of my life. Help. 

The Achievement Canon

So, if you want to remember all the great little things that you and your roommates achieve, make an achievement canon. 

                      Others can read of your success' and you can always be reminded on a grizzly morning while eating breakfast, that sometimes we are really blessed :)

fried chicken.

Spring exams are over and now I can really get excited for summer! hippeeee

I already look like fried chicken because I went in the pool 3 times yesterday,

and have gone on adventures in the Canyon by foot, car and motorbike,

and have spent some time with some new friends and old friends and pretty much really really great people.

video made by Austin Dressman

Music and mayhem

Been keeping myself very busy lately. 

            Highlights include the Imagine Dragons concert at the Velour and also Location Location who I liked a lot.

For more pics visit my flickr page 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadforbreakfast/

Then off to the theatre to see Julia in 

Hello Dolly 

playing Irene Molloy. Fabulous work 

from Julia who looked stunning in all 

of her elaborate gowns and who sang 

like an angel. 

And how can I forget our random Black party. Let me just publicly state how much I love Black people. Particularly Africans. Just beautiful. 

Today's exciting adventure consisted of a harley ride into the canyon. Insane. Thank you Aric!

This is a gross post.

Is there anyone who has this horrid habit of biting their nails?

I was doing so good until; I watched a scary movie (bit my nails anxiously the whole time) 

and then as I sat in boredom last night in front of my computer. 

Lessons learned: Don't watch scary movies while being anti-nail biter and don't get bored.

One gross little thing I do like doing though, is peeling dead skin. I got burnt last weekend and its all shedding now. Its especially satisfying when you get a big sheet of it :D

Jason Isaacs.

I would kill to see this man on stage. 

Isn't he wonderful? Okay, he's my Dad's age, but.. 

I just love him

Theatre things.

Tonight was all about THE OPERA.     A Puccini and Mozart special. 

My voice teacher was in Mozart's The Impresario (which was quite hilarious), but I think I liked Puccini's Suor Angelica the mostest. Rachel Willis Sorenson is brilliant. 

In other news - I have found a London theatre study abroad program with BYU. oh my gosh. I have to go! But probably can't till I get some more classes under my belt. They follow the Royal National Theatre, the Globe theatre, West End productions and other smaller, imaginative stages in London. 

Can you imagine? Spending a whole semester in London of all beautiful and cultured places, studying the most recent theatre coming up on the West end and spending a fortune on musical theatre productions.. Then getting away from the harsh cold outside and living in cosy little cafe's that line the streets. Reading books, taking photographs of old architecture, living in a dream?!!

Wow. Love. Yes. Me. Soon.

Monday Music.

Last night I headed over to Salt Lake with a fun little group of friends to see A Camp.

She is BEAUTIFUL and they are WONDERFUL! Nina Persson (lead singer) was previously with The Cardigans but broke off to further her own work and hence formed A Camp with some other talented musicians. 

I am ordering you to listen to some of their music and notice the Rufus Wainwright similarities and sometimes a little touch of The Beatles.

Nina Persson; classy, classy lady. Oh P.S they are Swedish. Hott.  

Dig a Pony

More pretty adventures from last week via Alex's camera (my lens) and a cool fish-eye effect. 

Recent adventures in the land of Provo have led me to being an extra in a TV show (very fun! *horse laughter* is not easy to fake)

And recording a song with Alicia that we recently wrote

Chilling at the pool with Alyssa and eating J-Dawgs

Driving up to Provo Canyon, past Sundance and way up into whoop whoop!

Then tomorrow will bring me to some airshow of sorts. Dont know how long I will last, but sometimes you really just do things to be in the company of good friends. 

And sometimes you might think you really like someone ;) but then they suddenly decide that they don't want to really like you back. So you might sorta be sad for a day. But  ..its okay!

FHE.

We stole S204's gnome 'Gregory'. 

Gregory, meet 'Miles' he is our gnome. 

Then we stuck this ransom note on their apartment door :) Love, love.

flickr.com/redheadforbreakfast

I am kind of obsessed with my friends. I got some real keepers. 

My friend Alex and I had fun making friends with horses on Saturday. 

And Julia and I made cookies for a friend who celebrated his birthday. And we sang him a video. and ate way too much cookie dough.  

PS. I made this thing: flickr.com/redheadforbreakfast

turquoise nails.

In my head I romanticize and elaborate things

and i like to imagine the world looks like what it does through the lens of my holga. 

Jordan and I are inventing 'holgoggles'. Genius.