music

it's often said that love makes the world go round.  i think it's music.  love is a hit or miss thing.  you don't always have it.  well, you might have it and just not feel it.  music is always there.  and it doesn't have to be a song on the radio.  it can be the hum of your dryer, a tinkling of a wind chime, a bird chirping outside.  music is everywhere.  you just have to listen.  that is sort of the theme for the movie August Rush.  might be why it is one of my favorite movies.

music has sustained me through some of my darkest hours.  music makes me feel alive.  it is in my soul.  i can appreciate so many forms or genres of music if only for the art form itself.  of course i listen to mostly hard rock.  it really lights a fire under me.  i do listen to other forms but that is what calls to me.

there is nothing like live music.  watching the band or artist in their element.  yes, i wish i were a drummer in a rock band, that's what i wanna be when i grow up.  maybe in my next life.  being at a concert is the best high i can think of.  i have been to concerts of bands i didn't really care for, but just watching the artist was moving enough that i enjoyed the show.

it amazes mark that i know the words to so many songs.  i have been listening to music for as long as i can remember.  when i was little i would take the radio into the bathroom with me and sing til way after the water was cold.  having an older brother who had eclectic tastes in music broadened my horizons at an early age.  i knew way before anyone else that Bruce Springstein wrote Blinded by the Light.  and to this day i prefer his version of Santa Clause is Coming to Town.  am i a big bruce fan?  not really.  don't even have one of his albums.  but my brother probably has every one of them.

the machine i put together at work has a pump.  when the pump starts working it makes a "whoop" sound.  as I wait for the process to take place, i dance to the whooping.  i have dubbed that the tasti dance.  i tell my trainees that is beautiful music, as it is the sound of money.  now everyone learns the tasti dance.  just because i heard the "music".

i hope i never lose my hearing.  that would be a tragedy.  my sould would lose itself because i would lose the music.