Would somehow help me in my life-long ambition
March 26, 2007The bond between me and my brothers (better put: between the world/reality/everything and my brothers) has never been all that good. Maybe when we were very young, but all the shit that happened after that kind of obscures my view on my pre-teenage years.
Anyway, because of who and what my brothers were, I always tried extremely hard at being totally unlike them. This meant general things like in fact going to school, not picking up smoking, not terrorising the rest of the family, not stealing from my parents and brothers, not going to juvenile mental institutions prison, you know, the whole nine yards. Being a teenager in one of the richest countries with one of the best schooling systems in the world, with the best parents you can ever wish for, in a fairly wealthy and very loving family is, like, hard.
I also avoided very specific things. For years, I tried me very best to steer away from the music my brothers would listen to. Now, when it comes to my oldest brother, that’s not very difficult, but when it comes to my middle brother, that was kind of actually difficult. He has a very, very, very decent taste in music. Still, I never even glanced at the bands or artists he listened to, because in my fragile little mind (yeah right) I had constructed this warped idea that not listening to the same music would somehow help me in my life-long ambition of not becoming like my brothers.
Not too long ago, I broke this nonsense thought by diving into the world of The Cardigans, which, as regular readers of my blog (do they exist?) will know, was a fairly big success. Today, I did the same thing. I bought Bjork’s “Postal”, and I’m loving it. As I love the 10E worth of Jelly Beans I bought.
There goes the relative safety of my teenage mind.
Music has nothing to do with character, so you should not avoid specific kinds of music. It just has to do with personal taste. JBQ listens to heavy metal for example (Iron Maiden, Metallica etc), he even looks like a heavy metal guy with his long hair, and yet, he is the most sweet person in the world. We listen to a lot of alternative rock in the last few years too. And yet, we don’t smoke at all and we don’t drink frequently.
Comment by Eugenia — March 26, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
While it’s generally not good to generalize people based on their musical taste, it is a legitimate grounds for suspicion, in my opinion. I’m generally highly suspect of a person who claims his/her favourite “artist” is something like Britney Spears. Though, I won’t make any conclusive judgment, because, unfortunately there is at least _1_ highly intelligent person I know who does.
Eugenia, your husband has an excellent taste in music. Well, as far as the Iron Maiden goes. Compared to 90% of metal bands, they’re lyrics are intelligent. Hell, they give most bands, metal or not, a serious run for their money. Even though the first three albums were a bit cheekier, they never indulged in pointless love ballads, stupid songs about sex, drugs, life on the road, etc.
is a very powerful song combined with instruments.
Comment by Andrew — March 26, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
So, your brothers are in jail ?
Comment by mikesum32 — March 27, 2007 @ 7:46 am
Frequent readers do exist. They even exist on my blog, as I noticed looking at the stats. But they never post.
Anywho. I agree with Eugenia: music has got nothing to do with charachter. I can see why you somehow came up with the link (in your twisted, little mind :P) between your brothers and yourself, but don’t beat yourself over the head with it if you like the same music. But since we’re talking about Bjork and the Cardigans and beating yourself over the head, I really think you should do that last thing anyway.
Love ya, dude.
Comment by Levi — March 27, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
You must do by your self everthing to get your ambitions alive.
Comment by farzolea — October 27, 2008 @ 10:19 pm