Take this...

Last night, I accidentally left my music on. I believe sometime in the middle of the night I experienced what people call, "half awake, half asleep" sensation. Have you ever listened to a piece of music and felt your body pulsate as if you felt every beat in your veins and the blood flow through them as if your heart is in perfect tempo with every sound that comes out of your computer's speakers???? Yeah, what I felt last night was pretty much what I described times eh let's say ten. We are constantly so aware of our surroundings that we cannot stop for one second and focus on one minuscule, meaningless, satisfying, waste of time of something.

I have also developed an interest in the concept of sleep. I don't understand how people talk in their sleep either I should do some research on that. I wonder if sleep talking occurs during REM sleep cycle. Somehow I highly would disagree with that because it would make more sense to sleep talk when one is in the beginning stages. Anyways.... back to music.

I do not understand how every artist does not strive to do that to their listeners. Music has become such an institutionalized commodity. Most artists care about making money and selling albums. They produce music where they know is in high demand and will sell. What happened to being daring and doing what you love?

In the writing class, we organized a workshop that was focused around how to integrate quotes into your essat correctly and effectively. In order to make it fun we related it to music. We came up with three terms; the biters, commercial rappers, and the innovators. The idea was to show kids the correct way to introduce a quote, stating the quote and explaining what it was about and how it related to their paper. So, the example we had for commercial rapper was P.Diddy and the song that he took from the Police. He is the commercial rapper because he takes a song which is already popular and spits it back out in the same form with little or no personality added. He knows that when people listen to that song, they will think to themselves, "I know this song, it's from that band Police". Diddy is doing what is popular not something that is his own material. He does this so often that I do not even know what is his own material. Did I mention that he is a terrible dancer? He has no coordination. Enough about him. I should bash Avril Lavinge or someone. There is so many of them I do not know where to start.

But now imagine a song like All That Could Have Been by nine inch nails... There is so much emotion, personality, originality, passion, love, hate, despair, regret.... You feel all those and then some when he is playing the piano and every time he opens his mouth. You feel the rhythm of it all over your body... What else can I say. He says it all. That is how music should be...

Promise.