listen to music more often; use it to make me jollier; find out what kind of music I really like

Cheesy title or what – Pandora, Last.fm and Deezer have been tutoring me in all things musical. I’m officially a child of the internet generation. Trouble is, at work it’s extremely appealing to listen to the radio and all the lame chit chat that comes along with it rather than discovering new things.

Things to do…
Gigs. Go to them.
Pandora etc. Listen. Listen hard.
At home chill out with music rather than internetting or tv-ing.
Look up exciting club nights and go to them.
Get the chaps to make me mix cds.

-Lunachicks
-Bloc Party

I kind of drifted through the 1980s…I was in school and having babies and I lost my connection with music. I still listened to the radio in the car, until it broke when I left the sun roof open when I took my grandmother to see Fahrenheit 911 and it stormed while we were in the theater. After that..there was only silence in the car and mostly at work. I like silence. But I like music too.

I’ve been buying CDS and listening to them in my new car. I had my son load up my IPOD and he introduces me to this new type of folk music that he likes.

This is pretty fun, but I think I want to work on it just a little more!

I grew up with lots of it, and not just standard stuff. My dad played Slim Whitman and the Statlers. My mom played Handel and Mozart. My siblings sing opera. My tastes are broad. My life has soundtrack music—stuff that, if it’s playing, my kids know what I’m up to because the music tells them. I know what to put on if I need to work hard, feel good, psych myself up, disperse energy, or deal with upsetting circumstances.

My CD collection includes the Gardiner recording of Handel’s Messiah, three John Denver albums, Five for Fighting, Starland Vocal Band (whose one hit was crap but whose other songs are incredible), Julie Andrews, Andrea Bocelli, Ladysmith, Soweto Gospel Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Billy Joel, Simon and Garfunkel, Simon without Garfunkel, the Barra MacNiels, a Stray Cats CD, the soundtracks from Sarafina and The First Wives’ Club, Neil Diamond’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, two CDs featuring my siblings (one mostly operatic duets between John and Leslie, the other a musical soundtrack featuring Leslie), the Air Supply album on which Jed plays “Once”...So many different kinds of music. Most of them aren’t widely popular, and some are even kind of hokey to most people, but I love what I love.

This is going very well. I am really enjoying the music. It’s been years since music has been so integrated in my life.

One word: iTunes!

Well now that I have my iPod this goal can be achieved…I can listen to such much more music on a daily basis…Great day in the mornin’!

And I’ve come to find…I really have a sweet spot for cheesy 90’s music…sigh...I can’t help it….

I listened to music most of the day. It can be distracting to me and it’s difficult to turn it off when I need to be on the phone.

I have found a new love for lyrics. I am starting to collect my favorites on printed pages and enjoy them for thier sheer poetry. Some are country, some are pop, some are rock. They all have very deep meaning to me. That’s important.

When it comes to music, I like things from across the charts. My favorite song has to go to American Pie by Don McLean. I do not know why, but this song gets me every time—it’s just so good. The best feeling in the world is singing this with friends either while out camping or while cruising by in a car. For some reason, when I imagine myself living a full life, I see myself on my deathbed, weakly singing this song, and I never say the last word (died) but just fall silent, and a single tear rolls down my cheek. I don’t know why I picture this, maybe I’m weird, maybe this song just strikes me as the essence of life. Another VERY good song is Aeternal by Paul Oakenfold. I originally heard it in Requiem for a Dream, and this one riff plays again and again throughout this song in a very chilling, rough way. The riff seems to pick at one’s nerves and delve deeper and deeper with each iteration, I cannot fully explain what makes it so good in my mind, but I really like it.