We are so excited to tell you that the official music video for Monster Rally’s “Orchids” premiered yesterday over on SPIN! Check out the full article here. The video was directed by Albert Cook and Kaya Purohit (my boyfriend and lovely friend, respectively). It also features dancers: Rakhi Varma, Monica Maluste, Avni Vachhani, Manali Mehta and Swati Sikaria.
Download Return to Paradise for free at: http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/
(image via here)
It’s Friday! The weekend in a mere hours away and I’m ready to resume a life of leisure. It’s been a minute since we’ve played a little music over here and I thought it high time to get back to some sounds. Hope you’re picking up what I’m throwing down. Tootles.
F: This is your birthday week, what are your plans?!
L: Well, first off, thank you so much for yesterday’s post – and thank you to everyone who wrote such nice things!! I feel so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life and I hope that each of you feels as loved as you all made me feel yesterday. As for plans, Dad was in town over the weekend, I had a wonderful birthday dinner earlier in the week and saw some friends last night. Mom’s coming into town tonight. It’s been a pretty fabulous week!
F: What is your most memorable birthday?
L: This one, I suppose, because I haven’t yet put it in the past! Last year’s birthday was pretty cool too. I woke up in Paris (after having met up with you guys in Turkey!) and flew back to NYC on my birthday. I didn’t tell anyone I was coming back into town, took the book I was reading at the time (Shantaram) to sit at the bar of one of my favorite restaurants, ate delicious food, drank prosecco and was in bed by about 7 p.m. It was great!
F: If you had 3 months off with no housing commitments, etc., where would you go and what would you do?
L: Three months feels short for the purpose of this question, so I’m going to take a year. I would spend the first three months in southeast Asia visiting Jo. Then I would come back and hang out in New York for the next three months (I hope to god these are warm months!). Then maybe I’d drive cross country and hang out with you guys on the west coast for as long as I wanted before deciding on my next destination.
F: Do you have any resolutions for your next year?
L: I want to get more back to yoga & stay focused on prioritizing the things I most value.
F: Can we see a picture from your birthday?
L: How about three?
Birthday pumpkin pie topped with pumpkin seeds!
Friends at the end of the night!
Broke out the red boots for a little flare
When I asked Lauren’s friends and family what they loved about her, here is what they had to say:
Her maturity and shyness
She is the one person in my life who will accept me for whatever I am, that puts no pressure on me, and trusts me. She is so calming. Also, awkward but awesome.
Her sense of right and wrong and her practice
Her sweetness
Her self assuredness. And her empathy for almost anyone else’s struggles in life.
Her grace
Her ability to make anyone feel comfortable. And also, she shows up. She’s one of the most loyal people I know.
Her sense of humor (so many people’s response)
Her smile
Her spirit
Her sense of adventure
Her willingness to be spontaneous
Her kind and sensitive and caring soul
Her ability to kindly and gently offer another perspective that I might not always be open to
Her ever and continued presence in my life
Her love of kids
I love when she has a straight face and then thinks something is funny and gets the cutest inside joke smile. Also, watch out for her puns. She will slay you!
Her style
Her HIGH-LARIOUS sense of humor
and quite simply, her.
I love that she always has a great story to tell.
I love her always calm demeanor, can do attitude and kind heart.
She’s secretly the biggest badass I know. She’s not afraid to put herself out there. Her adventurous spirit, her accepting and loyal friendship, her ridiculously amazing and often self deprecating sense of humor, her imitation-worthy fashion sense. Her drive to constantly live a better, more wholesome life. She is an everyday inspiration on how I can live my own life more fully.
I love how beautiful she is.
How inspiring she is.
Her spontaneity, deep thinking and unique and awesome sense of humor. Her sense of style is also enviable.
Her ability to meet anyone and get to know them without judgement
That she is the best listener I’ve ever met and always gives thoughtful responses, even to the most self-indulgent comments/questions!
That she is a smartass, like me!
Her wicked sense of humor- especially expressed while on the dance floor 🙂
Happy Birthday, Lauren. I couldn’t have dreamt of a better sister.
Farrell’s Noteworthy posts are always some of my favorites to read. Today I was looking for something on my phone and came upon the following note I wrote a couple of months ago (absent two exclamation points I feel reveal more than I’m really comfortable with here – a fine and crazy line, I know!). It’s always a funny thing to look back on your own notes; I’m often really surprised that I wrote them myself.
How to be creative in a practical way
Entrepreneurship
Tech
Collab[orative] fund: resonates Creative
class and collab Econ
How to use technology to promote
social good
Utilizing resources that already exist
rather than creating new ones
Hey homies! Here are this weeks pictures:
Farrell – Los Angeles, CA
I wouldn’t call this weekend completely melancholy, however I might describe it as reflective. There were some ups and downs and I spent a lot of time by myself. Here are some of my favorite moments:
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Lauren – New York, NY
It’s feeling cold and dark in NYC these days – not exactly my favorite transition but knowing a Thanksgiving California trip is in my near future is a definite plus.
Picked up a few new reads (this & this) at the book store on Saturday
Had a lovely Sunday brunch at Lafayette with my dad!
Made this warm red cabbage salad as my addition to a Scorpio potluck party!
Late afternoon in my hood
I am spending the day and night with this guy today. Spending time with him feels like exactly what I need. No one else could do.
(image via here)
three’s company
we never looked quite like this
but the spirit is the same
and often (more so with age)
the we is me
and the spirit is three
that’s how things have come to be
(image via here)
feel your feet on the floor | see your connection to the core | spiral down | slowly soar
replant yourself | before seeking more
The sunset on my run after work.
L: What’s your favorite item in your purse?
F: That is a hard question to answer but I would say, currently, it is Tata Harper’s Nutrient Complex. I apply it a couple times a day to my face and it really hydrates my situation. I recommend her line to everyone!
I love me some Gilly
Over the weekend I took a much desired trip out of the city to Storm King Art Center. I’d been wanting to check out this 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley for some time and was really psyched to finally get up there.
Storm King did not disappoint, nor did all of the autumnal colors. It is a stunning place and was such a nice day, complete with a little panorama play at the end:
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