Music

I have a few words to say about music:
It's amazing how small fluctuations in air pressure can move a person to tears. Or cause their heart to skip a beat as a tune pauses for a half second longer before plunging on. Music is a wonderful way to relax. It refreshes your head: a sauna of the mind. It can influence and enhance your writing and thoughts (I'm currently listening to the soulful, eccentric music of Kenna), and provides a nice buffer for when there's nothing to talk about. Sometimes, however, music can be harmful. When you're trying to program, do math, or trying to accomplish a very complex task, music can be very distracting. Your mind splits between the music and the task, and you don't accomplish what you wanted to do, nor do justice to the music. It amazes me how often people listen to music when they are doing complex tasks. I wonder how much they lose by listening to music. Perhaps they lose hours and hours of work. Or, maybe they lose nothing. It depends on if their minds are similar to mine.

Gum and Rain

I saw this quote on my pack of Dentyne gum today:

"Tall people may be taller, but the rain also hits them first"

I really don't understand why this quote is supposed to be inspirational, because even though the rain may hit the taller person first, it still hits the shorter person! In the end, both people are equally wet. Plus, the rain hits the taller person maybe a few milliseconds before the shorter person, which in human time really isn't a noticeable amount.

I wish Dentyne would put something more inspirational on their gum wrappers, like

"Every artist was once an amateur"(Emerson), or

"The power of imagination makes us infinite"(Muir).

Answer to Opposites

The two pictures I posted below represented youth and old age. And that's it.

Good Music

Listen to Kenna. His story is a good one. He rose to stardom within the music world; anyone who knew anything about music loved him. The only problem was that the general public didn't like him. For some reason, his music wasn't Britney Spears or Linkin Park enough to succeed. Listen to his music and try to find out. I personally think it might be because his music is difficult to classify: it's almost too quirky for most people to like. It doesn't quite appeal to the hip-hoppers, the rockers, or the alternative people. It's my kind of music, it doesn't really fit in anywhere. Maybe that's why I like it.

Opposites

I took these photos at the barbecue at my friends beach house on the 4th of July. Can you guess why I think these two pictures are opposites? I'll give you a hint: each one represents how I view something.