This is the opening post for this blog so I may as well present a mission statement - both with this song and with the wall of text below.
I am a Music geek - It's a card carrying title that I wear like a badge of honor. I can state random facts about bands and eras without batting an eyelid. I can answer questions on Spicks and Specks that leave the participants struggling. I have my mp3 collection intricately organized by genre, band name and era. I like having my music in my Winamp browser arranged chronologically to note the evolution of taste and seeing how various acts have come and gone.
The truth is I love music in all forms. There is no such thing as genre, era or any type of classification: There is only good and bad. Thus, in my 8650+ strong mp3 collection (!) rock, metal, pop, rap and techno share file space with classical pieces, celtic folk, anime music and video game music. I base my musical tastes purely on anything that sounds awesome. And in some cases, such music can be found anywhere - it's just waiting to be found. Indeed through expanding one's tastes and thinking outside the box can reveal some buried treasure. What I find particularly sweet at times is finding a gem in a place where one originally wouldn't thought of to look. Indeed there have been several cases where something has found it's way into my mp3 collection only to be discovered weeks, even months, later.
Music is my friend: It keeps me company during long train rides and it comes with me for a drive in the car. It tells me what I want to hear when i need it and is always there to provide a hand of reassurance.
Music is my cushion: During difficult times, I can listen to music and it makes such a difference. It provides comfort in troubled times, happiness when i need smile, and a shot in the arm when all looks hopeless.
Music is my voice: Such is my diverse taste in music that I can find anything to be used to express my current state of mood. That being said, it is not unusual for my to make a playlist or disc made up of songs to establish a theme or a mood. Indeed I form a playlist/disc with the care and precision that I've got the act of forming a playlist/disc down to a science.
Music is a communicator: As well as being my voice, as stated above, it can be used to enhance an idea. It can be used in order to get me into a frame of mind when embarking on a creative venture. Sometimes it can even make a difference when words fail. After all it is universal language. Anyone can be intrigued by something new through hearing it by chance at the traffic lights from someone else's car. Indeed, I think success in music is measured by someone hearing something new, thinking 'What's this?' and taking steps to find out what they just heard was.
I don't want to be without a supply of music: As I found out last week, being with an mp3 player without earphones is like losing an arm. And being stuck in a car listening to something the driver chose, much to your chagrin, is torturous. After all, when all else is lost, music still remains, like a friend who's been with you for many years and never lets you down.
So to warp this up, I love my music with a passion. I love hearing it, finding new forms of it and sharing that love by getting people into something I find awesome (and hoping they like it).
Not unlike this essay.
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