Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Michael is juggling apples...


...and he just dropped some on the ground, oops!

At the moment I'm listening to Taylor Swift's live cover of Rihanna's "Umbrella".
That tells you a little bit about what kind of music I listen to. :)

I like female country singers who have a non-crooning voice [Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, etc.], and I like rap (but only the non-objectionable kind), and I like the Jonas Brothers. 

Yes, I did just say that.

I've been thinking a lot about why I like certain types of music, because I like almost everything.
The first thing is lyrics. If the lyrics are good I could care less how it sounds, because the message is amazing. 

Secondly, though, if a song sounds good, I enjoy listening to it. And, to my ears, for some reason, most music sounds good. I'm using 'sounds good' as a loose term here for 'sounds nice to me'. 

My favorite songs to listen to change from day to day, or week to week. Right now I'm really into Taylor Swift and Jesse McCartney, a few months ago you would've found me listening to Carrie Underwood or David Archuleta non-stop. And before that? Switchfoot all the way!

And now, at this very moment, I am listening to Demi Lovato. She's cool ;)

My brother likes to say that my taste in music, is that I have no taste in music. He's mostly right, I'm not too over-critical of the music I like.

There are pretty much two factors that would discourage me from listening to a song/artist: 'objectionable content' (swearing, sex, excessive drug references, etc.), OR lyrics I cannot hear...like screamo.

So, this post was kinda lame, but I don't know, I just wanted to try to explain. 

<3

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

'Reaching so hard my hands are hurting...'



what is it?
God is ∞.

I can't comprehend that.

I have lots of work to do today, and hopefully I'll be able to finish my to-do list and then some. But I just wanted to post...because I can, and because I like to think about stuff.

Sometimes I wonder whether because I like a lot of shallow things [Jonas Brothers & The Disney Channel, anyone?] it makes me seem like a shallow person. Or like I don't think.

I love thinking. I love turning a problem around in my head until I'm sick of it. Contemplation, of things simple or deep, important or inconsequential, is something I do often.

Speaking of The Jonas Brothers, next time I think I'll talk about my musical taste...or lack thereof ;)