palace of winds

At the end of each year I like to put together a list of my songs-of-the-year. They tend to be heavily weighted toward what I was listening to at the end of the year, though, because, let’s face it, my memory’s not that great. Or they’re the playlist of whatever major crisis or joy I had that year. Which is totally fine, but I thought maybe this year I’d try to find at least one new song each month, and keep track of that. Sort of a little memory help, plus impetus to not just listen endlessly to all the songs I already know.

So, long story short (and you’ll have to forgive the rambling — I’ve been a little sick for a week and I am so out of it right now), my new-to-me January artist is Ingrid Michaelson, and the winning song is “Breakable”. I heard it first on The Current, and loved it enough to dig around in my purse while driving to fish out a receipt so I could scrawl a few key words on it, and then later rediscover this receipt and care enough to do a search for the song title and artist, and then cry to Bryce when it wasn’t available on YMJ. Six seconds later it was in my inbox, and that is the magic of Brycefu.

My little emo college soul would have loved this song so much. It’s totally the wrong time in my life for me to’ve made this discovery because even with the stress of making this move that I’m not a hundred percent sure I want to make I am kind of over the moon about life in general lately. Lately being the last year or two, really, so — I’m rambling. Hello out-of-it-ness. The point I am trying to make is that I love this song and I am very happy.