Listen and read

This post is a suggestions post.

First, listen to this:

Think cello/electronica/minimalist fusion. She's a cellist who created her own genre out of a reaction to her own crippling performance anxiety (something I think a lot of us can relate to). She created a studio in the woods and basically improvises until she creates a passage she likes, which she then records and loops. This allows her to improvise along with looped passages of her own playing. Its like playing chamber music with yourself. Brilliant. Needless to say, the album is fantastic and emotive. A great work of classical crossover.

Second, read this:

The first  chapter is titled "People's Protective Bubbles Are Ok." For those reading this blog who know me well, you can imagine that I became obsessed with this book as soon as I saw that chapter. The book is a series of chapters that are the author's musings on life and living in a city. Misha Glouberman talked, his partner, Sheila Heti, typed. It's a delightful book, rather series of connected essays (my favorite type of reading). If you're living in a city and would like honest, yet uplifting, thoughts on city-life, read this book. 

That is all.