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Why a music blog? Have you ever noticed how many people relate over music? The music we listen to is a window into our moods, our souls. Always temporal, evolving. One day it's the beat, the rhythm, the melody. Another day it's the lyrics. With it's ability to carry us away into another time and place, a cherished memory or a fantasy escape, music helps us transcend or endure the mundane. Music helps us make sense of painful experiences or confusing emotions, or safely, cathartically re-experience those feelings. And it has the transformative power to alter our mood for the better or worse. The kind of music we enjoy is a very personal thing, a matter of taste that cannot be imposed by another, but grows instead out of our own histories and sensibilities. And yet what pleasure to find others who like what you like -- you can share aural space with them without getting a headache or losing your mind. You can lead each other to discover new artists and genres. If you take the time to read all or the occasional entry, I hope you find a treat in this log of tunes.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
holy cow 275 hits, which may be modest by most standards, but... is someone actually reading this thing? this is good, but it means I need to be updating updating updating...
Johnny Cash's latest cd The Man Comes Around. As someone put it in another review, people can feel his authenticity in his songs. It's there and it's expressed so well. I have also been listening to a cd my friend Mark Riva just released, a cd of sophisticated international tunes layered on top of a steady techno beat. The songs are very lovely and you feel as if you must be lounging with the jetset. And at home, lately it's been random on the jukebox, so lots of country, soul from the 60's and 70's, and thankfully, Leonard Cohen. And then all that random stuff -- last night I heard some story being read, a kind of modern fairytale adventure? Turned out it was from a SXSW sampler I never really listened to. |
