Music Meme

Poor me. Amy McWeasel claimed I’d respond to the challenge of answering this Music Meme. While not a challenge to most, I’ll admit, it will be to me. It could take me all day. Okay, here’s the truth of the matter…I think I articulated it rather well when speaking with AM about it and will use the same mental construct to explain…I don’t so much like music. Well, that’s not true, I can really like music in a particular setting, at a particular time, with a completely perfect piece of music. I have very little tolerance for music that fails to fit my mood RIGHT NOW, that coaxes me to think of things other than I’m thinking without it, that demands too much of my attention.—that basically gets in my way. It is for these reasons that I prefer silence. I know, GASP. But it’s true. I likened it to a sense of smell. Imagine the most beautiful smell that you’ve ever experienced and then imagine you’re standing next to someone that has never had that sense. I’m the gal next to you that doesn’t get your ohhhhing and ahhhhing. I’m a little jealous of you’re experience, but I just don’t have it in me…the music bug, that is. I like quiet. I like thinking without something external badgering me.

This issue was almost a deal-breaker for me and my friend SK. He’s a love-ah of music in a big way. Walking around without music to fill his head makes him incredibly uncomfortable. Music, regardless, of intensity, soothes my friend. Without it, he gets overwhelmed with the minutia of thoughts and aggressively bored with the void that is silence.

I have to admit that my friend has done better to accommodate my need for silence than me, his need for music, but it’s a process, right? I try to buy him CDs that grate on me so that he knows he’s loved in all of his musical audacity and he tries to be quiet while I’m conducting such important work as loading the dishwasher on Sunday morning.

That’s not to say that we still don’t bicker about it on occasion, but at least we know it’s a thorn and we’re gently trying to extract it.

Onto the meme. –I must admit, I feel better now that my secret is out. Thanks AM, very cathartic.

1. Total amount of music files on your computer? Big Daddy could answer this as we share the computer and I have no clue. I bet if you added his music up, it’d be a lot and I may have a few albums worth.
2. The last CD you bought? I haven’t bought a CD in years, I usually request that SK purchase them for me…I think Alicia Keys was in the last batch of requests.
3. The last song that you listened to before reading this? Barry Manilow “I Made It Through The Rain”…yeah, I know, not a good sign.
4. Name 5 songs that you listen to often or that mean a lot to you.
1. Rubberband Man, the Spinners LOVE IT
2. I Say A Little Prayer, Aretha
3. Rumors, some song on that album, I know not which, Fleetwood Mac
4. One of Prince’s song, I know not which.
5. Mother, Mother, I don’t remember the artist…she’s great though.
5. Who will take up the reigns of the meme? Maybe Feanor and Poppy? Dunno.