| Aisle 34 and 3/4: The Bargin Music Bin | ||
Well my mp3 player is on the fritz. Go fig. Perfectly timed too, I just managed to put on the new Streets album and then poof. It freazes up now and then, mainly when either Regina Spektor or Portishead pops on. Oh well, I'll send it back see if they can fix it or something.
Music tends to drive my life, more so than any of my other pasions. Sure I love film, I love photography and theater, hell I love ancient Egyptology but music is the link that binds them all. I go out to take some pictures I need to have some music playing in my ears to get my eyes set. Right before doing a play I need a combo of high intensity music and smooth booty jams to get me pumped and chilled. When I work on a paper it is imperative that I have the loudest possible music blasting or else the paper will drag and make little sense.
It ends up being a drug to me, music. I use it to pull myself out of a bad mood, or to intensify the bad mood. Also like just about every drug it has its less savory effects on me. Like I said it can intensify an emotion, so if I feel all love lorn and I happen to make the horrible decision to pop in the Cure's "Blood Flowers" (which by all acounts is a pretty bad album yet is a guilty pleasure to me) I'll be in a puddle of my own tears by the halfway point of the second song. There are also the songs that I associate with certain people that are (for one reason or another) no longer part of my life, now these songs can drag up nostalgia, anger, sadness, spitefull glee, it's really all a crap shoot.
When I had a radio show (basically from 2000 to 2005 in one form or another) I was in utter bliss as for two to three (some times more) hours I could construct a sound scape that could pin point a certain theme or mood. It wasn't just playing a couple songs I enjoyed listening to it was playing one song and linking it to the next song as smooth as possible. Some times the steps made no sense right away but when you listened to the whole show it would make perfect sense. How could I not play Kriss Kross after the Presidents of the United States? It just had to happen.
Currently I've got a rather sad song on by the Streets, called "Never Went to Church." It's off of the latest (It's hard to make an easy living). It's slow, remorseful and about the death of Mike's father. Like I said it's a sad song. However, it doesn't bring up thoughts of my Dad, rather it brings up thoughts of some one else (remaining nameless because why bother?). It's a kind of gental let down song, that while it is sad it has some bright moments to it. In the end Mike's spirits get lifted up a bit and for the most part I think my whole mucky feeling I've been having this past week has slowly disapated. I know there is nothing I can currently do to set things in my favor but such is life. You just have to keep going and find ways to be happy. Ok so as I wrote that another Streets song came on, "Stay Positive" had to skip that track so Fantmos' version of the theme from Night of the Hunter has replaced it, thankfully.
I'm off tonight to see the ever amusing Porto play in New York City. Going with two friends so it should be a gasser. It'll be a long ass night though and a long ass train ride home. Trains not my friend right now. Kind of tired of them, but they are a necesity I guess.
Still soon things will be changing rather quickly, who knows what it will be like next month.
2 comments:
what do you honestly have against trains?
Well... I have issues when I spend more time on the train than I do at the destination. Spending four hours on a train and only two hours in New York to say hi to some one is not fun for me.
That and metro north has some uncomfortable seats.
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