I’ve spent the past four years of my life at Seattle University studying books, and reading analysis on modernism and post-modernism in music, art and literature. But really, I mostly drank, partied, experimented with drugs, and went to an enormous amount of concerts in and around Seattle (sometimes simultaneously) but some would say that the experience I acquired through those activites would provide much better skills than what any classroom would provide; and those people would be correct. Yes, the classroom is important and imperative in terms gaining tools to use in life, but it’s the real experience that one has outside of the classroom that provides the content in which those tools can be applied. So in the spirit of using both academic and real world experience, I have decided to waste more post-graduate time and start up a blog about the thing I enjoy most: music. Not just reviews and thoughts on the newest pop sensation but also why I think people react to music in certain ways. This has always been a question I wanted to dive into ever since I started to play in a punk band in high school. Parents would cringe at our shows, mostly because we played our instruments horribly but also because they didn’t understand it.
“Why are they so angry?”
“What’s with the screaming?”
“Why do their friends jump up and down, throwing fists at each other?”
And then a question came back at me: “Why do I do it?”
“What makes screaming lyrics more attractive than singing them?”
“Why do we write about loneliness and anger with smiles on our faces?”
I still write music but now in softer more folk like context than my teenage years and the same questions come back to me: “Why do I do it?” “What makes singing lyrics more attractive than screaming them?” “Why do I write about love, and relationships with a melancholy look on my face?” The motive to explore these questions and others is innate and yet unknown to myself.
I guess it’s time to figure it out.
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