Mic Check
As I was finishing the 29x365 project, I became aware of several of its participants starting a new 365 concept...this one even more appealing to me. One of the few things I love more than writing is music...so a writing project about music that has influenced and moved me is a marriage akin to those old Reese's commercials with everyone screaming about getting their chocolate in your peanut butter and vice-versa. (Personally, I think that was a vague sexual allusion, but I'm a freak.)
The idea here is to write a daily entry on a song that I'm familiar with and why. It could be something I simply love...it could be tied to a specific person I've known, a time, a place, a feeling. Music is quite possibly the greatest form of human expression and few people could (or should) say that it doesn't touch them in some way on a daily basis.
I can't promise a post a day. I'll try, but life occasionally gets hectic and I occasionally get lazy. Whenever possible, I'm going to include some album (or single) art or stock band photo. Said images are the property of whoever took or distributed them, naturally. I just like the idea of sprucing up the entries a bit.
I know musical taste is intensely subjective, but I encourage anyone to seek out these songs and just give them a listen for yourself. You never know when you'll find your new favorite song. My "genre" is somewhat difficult to define as I can find gold in any kind of music. Generally speaking, I refrain from country and rap/R&B, but there are always exceptions. I own well over 200 CDs (possibly another 100 burned CDs) and my computer is currently holding just shy of 513 hours of musical goodness. I often put WMP on random and just let the music flow. I listen to music at work, bringing in CDs and listening to online resources like Launchcast, Pandora and "local" station CD101. If I could pipe music into my head 24/7, I probably would.
That's enough rambling...on to the tunes!
John
The idea here is to write a daily entry on a song that I'm familiar with and why. It could be something I simply love...it could be tied to a specific person I've known, a time, a place, a feeling. Music is quite possibly the greatest form of human expression and few people could (or should) say that it doesn't touch them in some way on a daily basis.
I can't promise a post a day. I'll try, but life occasionally gets hectic and I occasionally get lazy. Whenever possible, I'm going to include some album (or single) art or stock band photo. Said images are the property of whoever took or distributed them, naturally. I just like the idea of sprucing up the entries a bit.
I know musical taste is intensely subjective, but I encourage anyone to seek out these songs and just give them a listen for yourself. You never know when you'll find your new favorite song. My "genre" is somewhat difficult to define as I can find gold in any kind of music. Generally speaking, I refrain from country and rap/R&B, but there are always exceptions. I own well over 200 CDs (possibly another 100 burned CDs) and my computer is currently holding just shy of 513 hours of musical goodness. I often put WMP on random and just let the music flow. I listen to music at work, bringing in CDs and listening to online resources like Launchcast, Pandora and "local" station CD101. If I could pipe music into my head 24/7, I probably would.
That's enough rambling...on to the tunes!
John
posted by MightyMartian at
6:50 PM
1 Comments:
Welcome.
Funny you should say about piping music into your head, almost daily I'll wake up and an audio track will be playing. Most of the time it's a song I know but once in a while it will be completely unknown to my conscious mind. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm a freak of the musicial kind.
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