I know I said I’d be discussing “A New Earth” and I will be. But today is a good day to talk about music, I think. Occassionally, I find myself catching a new song, or at least one I haven’t heard on the radio and down I go on this trip through music as I try to discover as much as I an about this new artist. Not too many years ago I’d have had to go to a music store and buy a CD and hope I liked what I heard. Now with itunes, google, xm radio, pandora and all the other goodies out there, i never have to leave my desk to go wander down a musical road that leads me who knows where.
I particularly like any tool that can let me immediately get from listening to a song to itunes. Both Pandora and StarlightXM on my Mac give me that ability. With one click, I go from listening to a song to itunes to cha-ching! It’s mine. At this point I have to plug XM Radio and channel 51 – coffeehouse. True, they do have a limited playlist and I hear quite a few repeats, but they genre and artists are just what I need for a nice little diversion.
After all I haven’t just been wasting my time.
Good stuff. I’m a bit fanatical about music. For me, it must be spiritual and special and somehow a language given to us so that we could communicate after all our words quit working. So I often find myself moved by music. I also continue to be impressed and in awe of talented musicians. There have certainly been times that I have depended on music to “talk me down” from emotional edges when I’ve been wound tight or completely wired.
I can’t imagine a world without music. As a matter of fact there are few moments throughout the day that aren’t filled with music in my world. Even right now I’ve got earphones in and i’m tapping my foot to the beat.
I hope you find a song, artist or genre that speaks to you, that moves you, that means something when you hear it. I hope you hear a tune that you can’t help singing along with. Do it. At a stoplight, in a parking lot, in the shower, on Friday evening, after work, in your kitchen with a glass of wine in your hand. Then share it. Because great music is meant to be shared, or it would never get written. Here’s one for you to enjoy.