Friday, February 27, 2009

A survey

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My sister has entered into a competition at work to get her companies product out to the public. It is survey creating software online. Please answer this simple question. Thanks a ton and if you can add a quick question on your blog too that would be greatly appreciated.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Music, A Gateway to the Soul

Music is my life. It has become apparent that I just do better in life when I have music. I perform better in sports if I listen to music before I play. When I want to change my mood the best way to do that is through music. When I want to get frustrations out in a non destructive way it is through music.

Why does music have this profound effect? I think that the reasons are different in many cases for different people, but some principles are universal.

I am very much a lyric listener, meaning I pay attention to the lyrics and that affects in a big way if i like the song or not. For those who are like me in this sense find that the words are able to express how we feel in a way that we can't. It becomes an outlet for the feelings that are bottled up and can't be expressed any other way.

As for sports it takes the right kind of music to get me pumped and invigorated. I find that lyrics for this situation are not as important as the beat and rhythm. It gets the blood flowing and the heart beating. And more importantly it gets you in the right mind set for getting physical and working hard.

I have many playlists for the many different moods that I may be in. I have my basketball playlist, my I hate girls playlist, my girls are awesome playlist, my general frustration with life playlist, and a few more.

I also find great joy in performing music and even more from writing music. This way I can express the thoughts that I am having. Years after the fact I can find different things from what I initially tried to convey in songs i wrote. And that to me is really cool.