Music speaks the words of our souls. Why else would we quote relatively famous quotes in our profiles and statuses if it wasn't the case. There's nothing more original in expressing your self/thoughts/beliefs/opinions/originality than writing a lyric to your fav song.
I diverge. I am a bit of a music snob. But really, I do listen to music way before it drops because I'm basically a music producer, but in reality I stalk hypem and elbo.ws to be super indie and hipster. I listen to an array of tunes, but I like obscure beats and sounds. Unorthodox instruments in harmonious cacophony is my fav. Sweet Disposition really sticks out of my head even though it actually doesn't follow my previous description. In general, I like songs that are pretty slow. I'm a big fan of DCFC and Iron and Wine right now. Very sit-in-my-room-in-the-dark-all-by-myself music. As you can imagine, it's music to get you no more motivated than conjuring enough power to start crying and sulking in the fact that you COMPLETELY relate to the song even though in reality, none of the events in the song ever happened in your life. Oh Ben Gibbard, your lyrics speak pages of my biography (a fictional work) !
Most of you (all 3 of you who read this blog. Myself included) if not all, know I have successfully done a marathon. 26.2 miles of "WHY DID I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!?!!" Most runners prepare in many ways. Most, if not all, train and eat healthy. I trained... kinda. when I wasn't too tired. And I ate healthily, and unhealthily when I felt like it. Most runners carboload the night before. But since my diet already consists of 95% of carbohydrates, this didn't prose as a problem for me. I stretched kinda (you know when you wake up?) and I was good. But you know what made me great? The fact that I made the bombdiggidiest playlist. I borrowed my friends iPod and had to go through the excruciating pain of downloading anything onto my elderly computer. It has had a good run, but functions mostly on lots of positive thinking, patient coercing, love and medicare, like most old people. Anyways, among the tangle of technology my playlist ended up organizing itself in alphabetical order. Which was stupid. It also mixed two playlists together. One playlist was for downtime and the other sounds were pump me up song. UGHHHH I was outraged but mostly, I was annoyed that I figured this out so late. It didn't matter, all that mattered that one song was on the pump it list, and it was. Usher - DJ got me falling in love. Let me elaborate. Pump up music must be the trashiest of music. It must have a strong fast bass beat and the lyrics must involve the least amount of human intelligence as possible. In running music, the theme for song lyrics in a song is "less is more". This is inversely proportionally to eardrum-blowingly loud beats. So when I saw that New Boyz - You're a Jerk was followed closely by Lil Jon's Freeze with the Usher kicker. There was a lot of repeats. It made me want to run because I would save those sounds for the run, and it was good incentive to run faster because in your mind, you were thinking "MY GAWD, if i don't finish within these songs, I'm going to have to listen to Rhianna." Towards the end of my marathon, the only thing that kept me going with Usher. So, Usher, thanks.
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