the grapevine beat.

(nunca - trails and ways)

feels like summer.

i feel like i shouldn’t be surprised but i still was. 

(man on fire - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros)

(liars - the other side of mt. heart attack)

leading up to this day, i may or may not have been experiencing some anxiety around turning 25. 25! aren’t you supposed to have your shit together by this point? what even is an adult and at what point do you start calling yourself one? i don’t have these answers - sometimes i feel “ahead” and sometimes i feel “behind”. but i think, at the very least, i figured out some surefire ways to avoid finding myself on the kitchen floor with a lot of pie, waiting for the day to pass. here’s what you gotta do:

1. spend the day before your birthday with the friends who’ve known you longest because they’ll listen to your quarter-life crisis anxieties but then they’ll also tell you you’re an idiot and make you laugh.

2. hang out with a 2 yr old who makes you things and lets you hold her hand.

3. approach midnight on the eve of your birth alone in the car belting out songs to the One who can always be found, who is always by your side.

4. have a mom who gives you 25 mini presents every 25 minutes. (this one might be tricky, mine’s pretty cool)

yup.

Artist: Shad
Album: Besides
Released: 2011
Download: http://shadk.bandcamp.com/track/shad-besides

(further on down the road - taj mahal with jack johnson)

thought of you, cait!

brokemogul:

“Feel The Love” by Rudimental feat. John Newman

Posted by Ry.

“…likeness was achieved with a combination of live footage, wire framing and CGI projected onto a special foil, some special voice-over work was employed as well.” 

sick. 

meet henry.

this is an excerpt from the documentary, ‘Alive Inside’, which examines the ability of music to awaken memories in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke

william fitzsimmons.

thisisthehope:

delicious remix. 

(via beautythings)

elementofhiphoprevolution:

Bill Withers -Ain’t No Sunshine 

(james vincent mcmorrow - we don’t eat) 

always.

fruitjuiceandlaugh:

Sam Cooke - You Send Me
some oldie’s is always good ;)

(via youngfolksociety)

midnightmartinis:

john coltrane at the guggenheim, 1960 - by william claxton

(via lovehugsandhiphopsoul)