Just a Bit on Music

 My favorite song right now is "Rivers and Roads" by The Head and the Heart. The first time I heard it was the last time I got to see my best friend before she moved to Arkansas. Typically, while in the car, I am the one to determine what music we listen to. This is mainly because she's preoccupied with driving, but this was the last time I was to see her so I let her choose the songs. She asked me if I knew this band and I said, "No". After I heard it I couldn't stop singing it. Then in the car with Jason one day, we were listening to some alternate rock station and they played it, and I just remembered Shannon, and how she and this song meant so much to me.

My taste in music has gone all over the place. The only time I could enjoy country music is in the summer time, on the way to the lake, and with the sun beating down through the rolled down windows. I am just now starting to get back into some harder music, I say "starting to get back into" because I used to listen to death punk metal and screamo, but now I just enjoy more rock based music. For example A Day To Remember is a great band because they have faster and louder songs to listen to on the highway but also slow acoustic songs for just relaxing. I also went through an old school rap phase, so if there's ever a game of trivia and a topic is "90's Rap Songs" you better hope I'm on your team. I still am a sucker for a good R&B song here and there, but not too often, Right now I'm at a happy medium of all music. I'll enjoy a classical symphony and I'll enjoy a massive guitar riff, whatever music is on is my kind of music.  Some music that I’m listening to right now is:

Gooey by Glass Animals

Beware the Dog by the Griswolds

I’m Only Joking by Kongos

Sad by Maroon 5

Johnny I Hardly Knew You by The Dropkick Murphy’s

If I’m James Dean then you’re Audrey Hepburn by Sleeping with Sirens

Always by Blink 182

Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers

A world without music sounds worse than a world without coffee, and that’s very bad. Honestly, I’ve made so many decisions because I listened to a song that made me feel a certain way. If the world didn’t have music many decisions made by people (ex. getting over someone, falling in love with someone, forgiving someone) wouldn’t be put into action, because it was that one song that motivated them to do so.  A world without music would be expressionless and dull. I wouldn’t have my friends from choir, and I’d be an entirely different person, however I’m not exactly sure if it would be a good different or bad different.

Music is poetry, just sung instead of read out loud. The songs meaning and feel determines on the band and how they portray the words in the poem.

To Build a Home

by

The Cinematic Orchestra

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.

And I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree as old as me
Branches were sewn by the color of green
Ground had arose and passed its knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
Held on as tightly as you held onto me
Held on as tightly as you held onto me......

And I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

I went out to Walmart and bought a pack of sheets that hold CD’s, one sheet holds like 8 disks a page, and they were three hole punched, so I put them in a binder. I’m planning on using the hundred blank CD’s we have at my house to make playlists of music I like; I also plan on making CD’s that I’ve been suggested to listen to.