bach

i’m not a huge bach fan, but you simply can’t beat the sonatas and partitas for solo violin. i just started learning one (partita no. 3 in E major), and it’s, at the same time, fun to play and ridiculous hard. and it’s not even the hardest one. these works are just about the closest one can come to perfection in music, in my estimation. they’ve got everything: fast, slow; joyous, mournful; simple, profound. i can’t wait to meet this guy in heaven.

in other news, i think i’m going to cut my nearly shoulder-length hair back to this:

it’s time.