Music

According to our friends over at Wiki: Music is an art form in which the medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".

To me, music rates up there with food and water, maybe even air. I try to surround myself with music as often as I can and sleep with my stereo on every night. It started out as an escape from my world. Songs would allow me to enter their world - the worlds created by my song selection. The worlds that were better than mine, worse than mine, and different from mine; worlds that were full of the emotions I wanted and needed. I still think music fulfills some of these deepest needs and ultimately makes me feel better; a sort of self-prescribed dosage of Paxil if you will.

Music has the ability to make me laugh, to make me cry, to wake me up, to put me to sleep, to make me happy and make me sad, to move me and stop me in my tracks, it has been there when no one else was and is present when I’m with all my friends, it has taken my breath and helped me breathe, it has filled me with love and been there when I lost love. Music has never failed me and so I shall continue to listen.

I love all types of music, but most often find myself listening to alternative rock, country, 80’s, and folk. Anything acoustic gets me – it just seems so real.

Creating a top 10 list proved to be more challenging than I expected. So many artists are incredible in their own way, but the following are ones I have either seen in concert or never tire of listening to:

Cartel
Counting Crows
The Cure
Damien Rice
Death Cab for Cutie
Indigo Girls
Lifehouse
Midnight Oil
Train
Vertical Horizon

To A Friend

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I shall forget you presently, my dear"

I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away,
And we are done forever; by and by
I shall forget you, as I said, but now,
If you entreat me with your loveliest lie
I will protest you with my favorite vow.
I would indeed that love were longer-lived,
And vows were not so brittle as they are,
But so it is, and nature has contrived
To struggle on without a break thus far,
Whether or not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.

Edit: To the PA friend. I'm sorry if you thought this was harsh, it was not intended to be. I think it was recieved exactly as it was intended. Nevertheless, the following might be more approriate and fitting.

....

If you wait for me then Ill come for you
Although I’ve traveled far
I always hold a place for you in my heart
If you think of me, if you miss me once in awhile
Then Ill return to you
Ill return and fill that space in your heart

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
Ill find my way back to you
If you’ll be waiting
If you dream of me like I dream of you
In a place that’s warm and dark
In a place where I can feel the beating of your heart

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
Ill find my way back to you
If you’ll be waiting
I’ve longed for you and I have desired
To see your face your smile
To be with you wherever you are

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
Ill find my way back to you
If you’ll be waiting
I’ve longed for you and I have desired
To see your face, your smile
To be with you wherever you are

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
Ill find my way back to you
Please say you’ll be waiting

Together again
It would feel so good to be
In your arms
Where all my journeys end
If you can make a promise if its one that you can keep, I vow to come for you
If you wait for me and say you’ll hold
A place for me in your heart.