Hey Hey My My - Things I've Learned
There's this game that I love to play when I am home alone listening to the mp3 collection on random.
I like to identify the song within the first few bars of music. If i do say so myself, i'm surprisingly good at it. There's a lot of music on my computer that i am not really that familiar with; i download things to check them out, or get songs from my pals, or drunken freaks download stuff when I am not loooking...you know how it goes.
Anyway, i get really excited by the fact that i can recognize an artist by their style rather than by recognizing a song. I've been developing this skill slowly over several years since returning to the coast. I remember when i lived in Winnipeg, probably sometime in 1998, talking about music with a friend of mine. She said that she felt music but her boyfriend listened to music with a far more technical ear. Her boyfriend was a total music geek who owned an awesome used record store in Osborne Village. Anyway. I was definitely in her camp, I thought that technical listening detracted from the actual experience.
Oh, what a fool was I!!!!!!
I had no idea, NONE about the depth that the technical ear actually had. Woah. What a life-changing experience to develop one.
Work tonight was awesome. It was laid back and not intense, good peeps were working, good peeps got my back. Glad that work is not a stressor anymore. Let's hope it lasts.
Completely cocked up the day studying-wise. I slept in and things went downhill from there. I am off to la la land now, up at daybreak and nose-deep in the muck until 5pm. Oh god I still have a lot to learn....
posted by ces @ 12:10 AM
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I met a guy once and on our first date, as we were driving to the movie theatre I commented on the song on the radio saying 'oh this must be the new song by so and so'... and he said he wouldn't know, he wasn't that into music, just listened to whatever was on the radio. I knew it was doomed and I should have told him we might as well just get this over with right now and take me home. My friends laughed when I told them I knew it wouldn't work out with so and so because he wasn't into music.
However, I hung in there for a couple weeks... but it went exactly as I suspected. He had no spark, no joie de vivre, no vida loca. BOR-ING.
I am so with you on that one, Maxx. I probably can't even name five songs that are on rotation on the radio right now.
Being into music, on some level beyond "background noise" is a definite must for me. It makes my blood run faster.
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