New motto: I no longer believe in the existence of bad music, there exist only music that I don’t like yet.

With the right conditioning we can grow to enjoy any sort of sounds, so our musical taste is merely representative of our current state of mind.  People ask me why I have so much music on my Ipod, I must not even listen to half of it.  It’s true, there must be thousands of songs on my Ipod that I haven’t listened to once. I haven’t listened to these songs because I haven’t been in the right mindset, when the time comes for that genre or band then they will be right there at my fingertips (literally).  Let us praise Steve Jobs for the invention of the 120 gig ipod classic.  Without it, we might be forced to discriminate between our music.  What a wonderful analogy- lack of space leads to discrimination…

It’s 2 in the morning, sleep deprivation gets me philosophical.  My sincerest apologies.

So I’m going away to camp for 6 weeks and I’m sure to be back with some new music of all of y’alls.  

Since i haven’t posted in a while here are some random selections across the genres:

Reel Big Fish is a great ska-punk band. Their music is upbeat, their lyrics are amusing, their style is varied.  Here’s a song.  They really shine in their live performances and their live album,  quaintly titled “Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album”, is easily one of my all time favorite live albums.  A great example of this (for those of you who are not yet convinced by my enthusiasm) is their live performance of their song “Suburban Rhythm” where they perform the simple song in about 10 different genres.  They also do a great cover of “Take On Me” by A-ha.

Maximum the Hormone is a Japanese hardcore band which I’ve grown fond of if only for the fact that they somewhat pull of what they’re trying to do.  This one’s my favorite.

If you like rap/hip hop then you’ve probably already listened to Eminem’s new album and realized that its pretty bad (I mean that you are not and will never be in the right state of mind to appreciate it).  Check out the Canadian rapper Classified, he has tons of albums and pretty much every song is good.  This one was pretty popular recently and got Class some recognition.  

Out of those three bands/Classifieds you should be able to find something you like

I no longer believe in the existence of bad music, there exist only music that I don’t like yet…and some really terrible music.

My motto is hereby rebuked.

Enjoy your summer :) 

Oh, and check out my Deviantart page, i posted some poetry and a bunch of light painting pictures i did recently.