The Beat Of A Different Drum

Andy Bull - Dog ft. Lisa Mitchell, my latest new song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOe660BYjI&feature=related

I am home alone...

Husband is at meeting, check

Daughter is at sleepover, check

Dog is outside, check.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... so what is the obvious move to make, thing to shake, choice to take...

Crank up the music of course, chill out and consume the melodies, bop along to the tunes, get lost in the rhythm, dance to the beat of a different drum. I love my music. I love the good songs and even the bad songs, sometimes.

I am one of those crazy people who must listen to a new song over and over and over again, driving people mad, but embedding the song deep within my brain. Doing this though, makes me into one of those crazy people that blurt out lyrics, or part thereof, at random and sometimes inappropriate moments in time, singing to the songs playing only in my head. 

Sometimes, like tonight, I like to feel the music and to feel the music it must be loud. So the music is LOUD and I can feel the base hitting me as the songs are blaring out from the MP3 player connected to the stereo, thanks to my trusty mega speakers.  Yes I know, you would think I was a teenager the way I listen to music, but I can’t help it... music is my escape. . I can get ‘into’ music the way other people get ‘into’ books or movies.  I get lost in it and when I listen, there is nothing else. It consumes me and everything else is forgotten while the music is playing. Tonight there is nothing else and no one else, tonight, there is only me and my music.  

I like all kinds of music and most of the styles don’t mix at all, but that is what makes me ‘unique’. I like the boppy songs from the current top 40 charts like Pink’s ‘Perfect’ or even though Katy Perry’s lyrics are very bizarre, I do like ‘Firework’.  

I also like to listen to radio station Triple J because they are not main stream and play lots of independent artists, who unfortunately become main stream after all the airplay they get from Triple J. I found Angus and Julia Stone, Lisa Mitchell and countless others from that radio station. I mean, how could you not love, Big Jet Plane or Coin laundry?

I love classical music too.... my fav all time piece is Pachelbel – Canon in D major, which I am proud to say, I can play just over half of it on the piano (I only got to 2^nd grade in lessons). You should see me struggle to keep the tempo throughout the piece. My kids tell me I am quite the sight, I play until my fingers give up and can twinkle no more.

I also listen to movie soundtracks, but only the cool ones ... of course that is my opinion of cool, like Amelie- Comptine D' un Autre Ete is one of my classics.  Oh and I love European traditional music too, like Zorba the Greek and The Chicken Dance ... giggle.

 

I grew up listening to my mother’s music, so I kinda hate the Beetles and Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and most of the other 60’s music she refused to part with, but only because I could recite it all verbatim from as long as I can remember.

 

I can even listen to some blues tunes too, but it is not my favourite kind of music. There is one kind of music I can NOT tolerate at all. I do NOT consider country or western styles of music. That noise makes me twinge and I have to block my ears. I think that kind of ‘music’ is like vegemite, unless you grew up with it, you can’t eat it!

Well, I have done with moving to the groove tonight, the loudness of the music has given me a headache, which is my cue to depart... laters cool cats.