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I’m going to go all touchy-feely for a moment and talk about music.

I love music.

Unfortunately I have a tendancy to overplay particular songs and bands and use up their usefulness. It just happens that way.

I have broad tastes. I don’t think I can say I ‘hate’ a particular band or genre. I’ve have friends that can’t stand certain bands (cough Creed cough) and I can understand why. It’s about emotional connection. Certain things happened when you were listening to something or it was someone else’s favourite music and the music is associated with these emotions.

The only type of music I don’t like is non-melodious music (Sonic Youth I’m looking at you even though I have 22 of your albums) and you can argue whether this is music anyway.

I have emotional ties to a few pieces of music, but not that many. Most of my appreciation for music is just listening to it, predicting the harmonies, feeling the story.

I like a lot of music, some of my current favourites are (in no particular order): Slipknot, Breaking Benjamin, Salmonella Dub, Cornerstone Roots, Peeping Tom, Doro, Insane Clown Posse, Mattias “IA” Eklundh, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, System Of A Down, Natasha Bedingfield, Fischerspooner, Kora, Katchafire, God Is An Astronaut, Ladytron, Aether, Ani DiFranco, Aphex Twin, Bass Camp, Bjork, Massive Attack, Portishead, Candlebox.

What really gets me is that if I listen to a song enough I will eventually really like it. At work I picked up Aether, God Is An Astronaut and Peeping Tom through this ‘music’ osmosis.

I’m not sure where I was going with this, but I didn’t get there. Unfortunately I don’t have any more to say at this time. Perhaps tomorrow.