Thank God for Music!
Life would be depressing without music wouldn't it?
I can surely say it would.
Yes, this is one of those posts... Shield your eyes and close the browser window if you can't stand reading on. This post could very well be a load of crap. It's just me yapping, so you can miss this.
As creator of One Tree Hill, Mark Schwann has mentioned, "music nowadays are the soundtracks to teenagers' lives"... or something similar, at least that's what i remember him saying. I disagree. It is WAY more than that. Music doesn't only serve as a soundtrack (at times, not always), it also serves as a potion, and though seldom, a poison.
I see music mainly as a trip, a holiday, a break from all the craziness, a breath, release from it all. Music helps me get away. Music, as i've mentioned, is my one and only drug. Why did i feel the sudden urge to type up this post? Cos i was (and still am, as i'm typing) listening to The Fountain soundtrack, I was on the last track to be exact---Together We Will Live Forever (this is played when the credits are rolling at the end of the film)---it is one of the best soundtracks ever, from what i've heard so far, that is, in my 20 years on planet earth. Note i said ONE of the best, not the best. Maybe it's just cos i miss the sound of the piano, is this a sign? A sign that i do miss home? Or just that i miss the piano? Not that i play much. But it seems fitting, because i did grow up with piano music, since i can remember, every time i'm in and around the house, it accompanies me... It greets me when i wake up, accompanies me whilst i'm in the toilet, as i'm watching television, when i'm daydreaming. It's everywhere! It's in the walls!!! OOOoooo....
Isn't it amazing what music can do? It brings back memories, like a photograph, like a line from a movie, like a smell, like a face... It also purports thought of the future---will life always be like this? Will i ever feel the same way i feel about this song in the near future? Will my taste in music change? Will this artist ever produce anything better? Would it match up or disappoint? What'll go first as i learn to be a real adult? My music? My personality? My thoughts on life? My appearance? Is there a way to capture this moment? No, there isn't, it will only exist in my memory starting from now on. And my way back to this lovely memory would be through this song.
Music... It makes you feel a certain way, depending on the build up of a trance track, the guitar riffs in a rock tune, the pitch, tone and energy of the vocalist, the beat of the drums, the chorus around the corner... everything!
English is not THE universal language, say it with me now, MUSIC IS!!! Music is THE universal language.
To further my point on music as a potion, an album, an artist, even a single track, could save you from depression, heartache, sorrow, dejection, loneliness, whatever! the list goes on... If it doesn't save you, then at least it speaks what you feel and joins you in your pain and suffering. Going too low here? Am i making you blue? Haha... Music has certainly helped me through the darker days, the storms that lie beneath the flesh and bone, later disappearing faintly but steadily as music pours in to suppress its deathly powers.
There is a higher note to this... Hang on. Music also elevates a situation, or more importantly, your mood, this is its "potion" function we're still on. If you wake up on the right side of bed, and you listen to the appropriate music, it lifts you, you feel high, you gain perspective, you feel good, you stay there, half-suspended in the air of the music, until the day is over, or at least the happy hours are over when something unexpectedly ruins your mood.
Anyhow, i think i've given so far, a reasonable argument on my point about how music is actually a potion. Conversely, almost like everything around us, it can also be a poison if used incorrectly.
If, like the example i gave earlier, a person is feeling down, lonely and depressed, the wrong music can drive the person to the edge of a sheer drop, and as the ground cracks beneath the weight of mankind resting on the shoulders of the person whose body rests its weight (and the weight of mankind/the world/civilization/the planet, you get the picture) on his/her feet, it sets off the crumble, the physical and mental "crumbling ceremony". It can drive one to madness or even ehemmm, dare i say the "S" word? No, i wouldn't. But it has happened. It's kind of ironic and paradoxical yet poetically beautiful in certain respects when you think of this in conjunction with the words of Mark Schwann i mentioned in the beginning paragraph of this post. It's not just the soundtrack to "our" lives, but also the soundtrack to "our" deaths.
Music is also poison in a different case, whereby one prefers to hide behind earphones/headphones than to exchange thoughts with fellow beings of the earth. It gets you comfortable, but sometimes too comfortable, soooo comfortable that you sit in your own private, porcelain bubble, unwilling to mix the broken pieces of porcelain (once you break your silence) with the outside air, and other beings with porcelain bubbles, even though you remember that you once felt ready and because you hesitated, you lost your confidence, confidence that was brought upon you by the music. It's the cycle, and you're stuck in it. You become desolate, drowned by your loneliness and inability to communicate, preferring to stick to your own thoughts, emotions and music, your comfy couch--- the security of the music that has formed your porcelain bubble. Music can also inhibit productivity in almost any and every area, including school work, brain activity (not for me, but maybe for some people, music makes me think), social engagements, etc. Need i say more?
With that note, I leave you with this: Like knowledge, music, when "applied" at the right moment, timed and suited perfectly, will send you on "the road to awe" (The Fountain, 2006). This quote seems highly appropriate seeing as the final track on The Fountain soundtrack inspired this little case of verbal diarrhea.
It is now the end of the soundtrack (for the second time), and i think it's best if i leave it here. It is not 1:16am. Back to reality for a second, tomorrow will be my first off-day since i started working more than a week ago on Monday. I finally get a bit of time to myself, get to catch up on my reading, indulge in music and movies, and most importantly, SLEEP IN!! Yay!! I wonder what time i'll wake up tomorrow. Haha... I have to work on Saturday :( But for now i'm living by the day, the next three days to be exact.
Last words i promise, here's what i'm listening to at this moment in time:
-The Fountain Soundtrack (original musical score by Clint Mansell)
-28 Weeks Later Soundtrack (original musical score by John Murphy)
-300 Soundtrack (original musical score by Tyler Bates)
-Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack (original musical score by Danny Elfman)
-The Black Dahlia Soundtrack (original musical score by Mark Isham)
-Crash Soundtrack (original musical score by Mark Isham)
-Imagine Me & You Soundtrack (original musical score by Alex Heffes)
-Music by bands like: Anberlin (introduced to me by Daniel), The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Flyleaf (introduced to me by Daniel), Kamelot (also Daniel), KYO (Daniel), The Grates.
-Trance/Electronica by: BT, Faultline, Orbital, Gabriel and Dresden, Tiesto, and the Ministry of Sound Sessions Four CDs (all Daniel, i've never listened to trance before now).
-Music by: KT Tunstall, Sara Bareilles, Imogen Heap.
Movies i've seen recently that i recommend to people of the earth that are above 18:
-The Fountain
-Saving Face
-The Rules of Attraction
-28 Weeks Later
-Knocked Up
-The Machinist
-Apocalypto
-Blood Diamond
-Breaking and Entering
-Gosford Park
-The Die Hard Trilogy
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Just for the record, i'm not drunk, nor am i stoned. Just felt like sharing the inner workings of my mind, i felt..... inspired by the music. There we go. I'm done. Now you can get on with your day and i can go to bed.
Thanks for reading and thanks for caring!
I can surely say it would.
Yes, this is one of those posts... Shield your eyes and close the browser window if you can't stand reading on. This post could very well be a load of crap. It's just me yapping, so you can miss this.
As creator of One Tree Hill, Mark Schwann has mentioned, "music nowadays are the soundtracks to teenagers' lives"... or something similar, at least that's what i remember him saying. I disagree. It is WAY more than that. Music doesn't only serve as a soundtrack (at times, not always), it also serves as a potion, and though seldom, a poison.
I see music mainly as a trip, a holiday, a break from all the craziness, a breath, release from it all. Music helps me get away. Music, as i've mentioned, is my one and only drug. Why did i feel the sudden urge to type up this post? Cos i was (and still am, as i'm typing) listening to The Fountain soundtrack, I was on the last track to be exact---Together We Will Live Forever (this is played when the credits are rolling at the end of the film)---it is one of the best soundtracks ever, from what i've heard so far, that is, in my 20 years on planet earth. Note i said ONE of the best, not the best. Maybe it's just cos i miss the sound of the piano, is this a sign? A sign that i do miss home? Or just that i miss the piano? Not that i play much. But it seems fitting, because i did grow up with piano music, since i can remember, every time i'm in and around the house, it accompanies me... It greets me when i wake up, accompanies me whilst i'm in the toilet, as i'm watching television, when i'm daydreaming. It's everywhere! It's in the walls!!! OOOoooo....
Isn't it amazing what music can do? It brings back memories, like a photograph, like a line from a movie, like a smell, like a face... It also purports thought of the future---will life always be like this? Will i ever feel the same way i feel about this song in the near future? Will my taste in music change? Will this artist ever produce anything better? Would it match up or disappoint? What'll go first as i learn to be a real adult? My music? My personality? My thoughts on life? My appearance? Is there a way to capture this moment? No, there isn't, it will only exist in my memory starting from now on. And my way back to this lovely memory would be through this song.
Music... It makes you feel a certain way, depending on the build up of a trance track, the guitar riffs in a rock tune, the pitch, tone and energy of the vocalist, the beat of the drums, the chorus around the corner... everything!
English is not THE universal language, say it with me now, MUSIC IS!!! Music is THE universal language.
To further my point on music as a potion, an album, an artist, even a single track, could save you from depression, heartache, sorrow, dejection, loneliness, whatever! the list goes on... If it doesn't save you, then at least it speaks what you feel and joins you in your pain and suffering. Going too low here? Am i making you blue? Haha... Music has certainly helped me through the darker days, the storms that lie beneath the flesh and bone, later disappearing faintly but steadily as music pours in to suppress its deathly powers.
There is a higher note to this... Hang on. Music also elevates a situation, or more importantly, your mood, this is its "potion" function we're still on. If you wake up on the right side of bed, and you listen to the appropriate music, it lifts you, you feel high, you gain perspective, you feel good, you stay there, half-suspended in the air of the music, until the day is over, or at least the happy hours are over when something unexpectedly ruins your mood.
Anyhow, i think i've given so far, a reasonable argument on my point about how music is actually a potion. Conversely, almost like everything around us, it can also be a poison if used incorrectly.
If, like the example i gave earlier, a person is feeling down, lonely and depressed, the wrong music can drive the person to the edge of a sheer drop, and as the ground cracks beneath the weight of mankind resting on the shoulders of the person whose body rests its weight (and the weight of mankind/the world/civilization/the planet, you get the picture) on his/her feet, it sets off the crumble, the physical and mental "crumbling ceremony". It can drive one to madness or even ehemmm, dare i say the "S" word? No, i wouldn't. But it has happened. It's kind of ironic and paradoxical yet poetically beautiful in certain respects when you think of this in conjunction with the words of Mark Schwann i mentioned in the beginning paragraph of this post. It's not just the soundtrack to "our" lives, but also the soundtrack to "our" deaths.
Music is also poison in a different case, whereby one prefers to hide behind earphones/headphones than to exchange thoughts with fellow beings of the earth. It gets you comfortable, but sometimes too comfortable, soooo comfortable that you sit in your own private, porcelain bubble, unwilling to mix the broken pieces of porcelain (once you break your silence) with the outside air, and other beings with porcelain bubbles, even though you remember that you once felt ready and because you hesitated, you lost your confidence, confidence that was brought upon you by the music. It's the cycle, and you're stuck in it. You become desolate, drowned by your loneliness and inability to communicate, preferring to stick to your own thoughts, emotions and music, your comfy couch--- the security of the music that has formed your porcelain bubble. Music can also inhibit productivity in almost any and every area, including school work, brain activity (not for me, but maybe for some people, music makes me think), social engagements, etc. Need i say more?
With that note, I leave you with this: Like knowledge, music, when "applied" at the right moment, timed and suited perfectly, will send you on "the road to awe" (The Fountain, 2006). This quote seems highly appropriate seeing as the final track on The Fountain soundtrack inspired this little case of verbal diarrhea.
It is now the end of the soundtrack (for the second time), and i think it's best if i leave it here. It is not 1:16am. Back to reality for a second, tomorrow will be my first off-day since i started working more than a week ago on Monday. I finally get a bit of time to myself, get to catch up on my reading, indulge in music and movies, and most importantly, SLEEP IN!! Yay!! I wonder what time i'll wake up tomorrow. Haha... I have to work on Saturday :( But for now i'm living by the day, the next three days to be exact.
Last words i promise, here's what i'm listening to at this moment in time:
-The Fountain Soundtrack (original musical score by Clint Mansell)
-28 Weeks Later Soundtrack (original musical score by John Murphy)
-300 Soundtrack (original musical score by Tyler Bates)
-Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack (original musical score by Danny Elfman)
-The Black Dahlia Soundtrack (original musical score by Mark Isham)
-Crash Soundtrack (original musical score by Mark Isham)
-Imagine Me & You Soundtrack (original musical score by Alex Heffes)
-Music by bands like: Anberlin (introduced to me by Daniel), The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Flyleaf (introduced to me by Daniel), Kamelot (also Daniel), KYO (Daniel), The Grates.
-Trance/Electronica by: BT, Faultline, Orbital, Gabriel and Dresden, Tiesto, and the Ministry of Sound Sessions Four CDs (all Daniel, i've never listened to trance before now).
-Music by: KT Tunstall, Sara Bareilles, Imogen Heap.
Movies i've seen recently that i recommend to people of the earth that are above 18:
-The Fountain
-Saving Face
-The Rules of Attraction
-28 Weeks Later
-Knocked Up
-The Machinist
-Apocalypto
-Blood Diamond
-Breaking and Entering
-Gosford Park
-The Die Hard Trilogy
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Just for the record, i'm not drunk, nor am i stoned. Just felt like sharing the inner workings of my mind, i felt..... inspired by the music. There we go. I'm done. Now you can get on with your day and i can go to bed.
Thanks for reading and thanks for caring!
posted by My life in Brisbane, if you care... at 7/11/2007 12:30:00 AM
1 Comments:
Wow girl...you are listening to one too many soundtracks..while you're at it..try Transformers Soundtrack..tons of nice songs from HIM, Smashing Pumpkins (Yes!!they're back), The Used etc etc..
Rock on girl..and take care..haven't seen you online in a while..hope you're doing well there..send you my pic of "IT" when you're on some day..
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