Picked up a couple new cds on an impulse buy yesterday along with a dvd. Which cds you ask? Well, hmv had their 2 for 25 deal going on so I decided to pick up Death Cab’s new cd “plans” and The Constantine’s “Shine a Light. I listened to Death Cab in bed last night but seeing as I was drunk it was rather hard keep track of what I was hearing; I’m just listening to it now. Haven’t checked out The Constantines yet but I’ll be sure to report back on how they are. The dvd was also a Death Cab For Cutie thing. It’s called “Drive Well, Sleep Carefully” and I would recommend it to anyone into music documentaries.
It’s strange how you can tell people’s personalities by the music they listen to. Of course you can’t just lump one group of people into a certain category because they listen to one type of music, but I do find that there is a certain symmetry between the moods of certain genres of music and the general attitudes of how the people that listen to those genres look at life. I’d have to say indie rockers are my favorite types of people. Not that I’ve had the fortune of being friends with too many people that are into it, one of the draw back coming from a small town, but the mentality of those types of people I find are more in line with where I am at this point in my life.
I want to be a Death Cab For Cutie type guy. There is something dark about their music in the sense of those porno mags you keep under your bed and yet at the same time light and organic. Not as much now, but still a bit, I’ve tended to be into the dark corners of music that express the seemingly inescapable, yet pathetically weak, aspects of the human psyche. Actually, it’s not even that I’m not still into it, but I just want to be more easily drawn to a song like “The New Year” than a song like Scatter the Ashes’ “Caesura”. Both songs are great in their own right, but one has a much different outlook on life.
It’s kind of the chicken and the egg thing. Does the mood inside your heart and head draw you to the music first or does the music define what you get to feel and in doing so create a cycle of emotion that is particularly difficult to escape?
It’s strange how you can tell people’s personalities by the music they listen to. Of course you can’t just lump one group of people into a certain category because they listen to one type of music, but I do find that there is a certain symmetry between the moods of certain genres of music and the general attitudes of how the people that listen to those genres look at life. I’d have to say indie rockers are my favorite types of people. Not that I’ve had the fortune of being friends with too many people that are into it, one of the draw back coming from a small town, but the mentality of those types of people I find are more in line with where I am at this point in my life.
I want to be a Death Cab For Cutie type guy. There is something dark about their music in the sense of those porno mags you keep under your bed and yet at the same time light and organic. Not as much now, but still a bit, I’ve tended to be into the dark corners of music that express the seemingly inescapable, yet pathetically weak, aspects of the human psyche. Actually, it’s not even that I’m not still into it, but I just want to be more easily drawn to a song like “The New Year” than a song like Scatter the Ashes’ “Caesura”. Both songs are great in their own right, but one has a much different outlook on life.
It’s kind of the chicken and the egg thing. Does the mood inside your heart and head draw you to the music first or does the music define what you get to feel and in doing so create a cycle of emotion that is particularly difficult to escape?
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