i usually don’t experience my extreme cases of wanderlust until summertime, but for whatever reason, it’s arrived early and all i want to do is fly south for the winter. or north. or any direction really, ha. it’s really quite unruly when this said wanderlust hits because all i can think about is how great it would be to be climbing trees or building forts or bombing down hills on long boards. or playing music barefooted out of the back of old pick up trucks or laying in open fields with no where to go. or laughing in the middle of empty forests or eating watermelons picked right from the watermelon patch or just lying in a foreign room in a foreign place doing nothing at all but just existing, which sometimes can be foreign in and of itself. and i love every second of it. all of this extra energy makes me want to create everything and do everything and i always end up surprising myself in the end with what i had no idea i could even do. wanderlust in full effect.

well, it’s that time again.. time to look back on another year gone by, time to wish for certain moments to come back or certain ones to be forgotten; to somehow relive those times that seemed too good to be real and to quietly erase the ones that make the heart ache just a little.

but as i think back on the kind of year i’ve managed to have, i’m pretty blown away by all of the pure and utter amazingness that’s come my way.  from the incredible people i’ve met and become close to, to the things i’ve somehow managed to accomplish, i’d say it’s been one of the best years i can remember in a looong time.  

musically speaking, i can hardly believe that it was just a mere eleven months ago that i played my very first show ever with the amazing mutual benefit and holy spirits (r.i.p.) on our mini tour up the coast.  it’s been an incredible hurricane of awesome since then.  as i started to write it all down, i couldn’t help but feel a massive amount of thankfulness for being able to experience what i have, and for the people who made it all possible.  how in the HELL did i manage to- 

-play my first show ever
-collaborate with over TEN amazing and beautiful musicians on various projects/tracks
-release my first ever (and very homemade) ‘album’
-play an unofficial showcase at SXSW
-play in the amazing first annual goldrush music fest
-play in FMLY fest (which is today!)
-go on tour with chrome sparks <3
-play at CMJ with chrome sparks in NYC
-release my first ever 7” vinyl thru the amazing JAXART
-release a second 7” vinyl thru the amazing turntable kitchen pairings box 
-learn more than i ever thought possible

seriously.  i truly could not have asked for a better year.  and more than anything, i’ve met and come to love so so many amazing and talented people along the way who i truly consider some of the best humans i know.  so thank you all for ruling so hard at life and for making me better at what i love doing.  

now if i could just get a job or figure out a way to get paid doing all the above things enough to sustain living.. haha, there’s always next year, right? :D

lovebombs to you all.  and here’s to yet another hell of year ahead..