My Favorite Things #1: Good Music

1. I love good music. It can be anything from acoustic pop from the Midwest to bossa nova sung by a Portuguese-speaking Japanese girl to mad crazy lyrics laid down by hardcore bangers from Inglewood, but good music is what elevates sound from noise to living-beat-juice for your heart. I'm sure I will get down into detailed reviews of my favorite artists and albums in the future, but this MFT (My Favorite Things) will focus purely on the art form that is a defining and irreplaceable force in my life.

Music is everywhere for me; whether my laptop is playing iTunes, or the radio playing in my car, or my iPod blasting in my ears, or I'm walking in silence, but a soft whistle is blowing through my lips, my life has an inescapable soundtrack. Even the silence defines me, because the absence of music reveals a certain mental state that I may be in at that given moment.

Good music, like a good book, can immediately transport me from the present to somewhere more beautiful, peaceful, exciting, relaxing, dangerous, and exhilirating. It makes me believe that though the world is ugly and full of mean people who don't care, there is a chance for life and hope to exist. I want to live in that world, and music makes that world possible for me to live towards. "Thank you for the music, this song I'm singing..."