Music yay!

[katallison]

This is a posting of pure love for the fantabulous flambeau who sent me a big envelope all the way across the Atlantic with five count 'em five mix CDs, and a lovely letter containing songlists and explanation of choices. Handwritten! (My god, you know what, I can't even remember the last time I received a handwritten letter.) I have just begun dipping into the songs, and love everything I've heard so far, and am suffused with the sense of What wondrous life is this I lead, ripe apples drop about my head. And thank you so much Ms. flambeau! You're the top! You're Mahatma Gandhi! You're the top! You're Napoleon brandy! You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain, you're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're cellophane!)

I have discovered as well that working out *with* music is a very different and considerably less tedious experience than without, and have already begun contemplating various gym playlists I'll need to assemble; slow dense trancy stuff for weightlifting, boppy rhythmic peppy stuff for the elliptical. I'm still trying to figure out what music I actually like, which sounds kind of odd and ridiculous, but -- well, listening to music is so *different* from, say, reading. Within a few sentences I can quickly and ruthlessly shove a piece of writing into a mental slot: This is excellent; this is well-executed but not to my taste; this is kind of crappy but entertaining; this *reeks*. With music, on the other hand, I'm much more in a beginner's-mind situation, which is exhilirating in a way, but also bewildering. What *do* I like? Still figuring it out ...

Comments

[qe2.livejournal.com]

w00t! Music from Torch! yowza! yeep!

Hey, I still have a couple of discs for you - how would you like me to get them to you?

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Using music while exercising has proved crucial to my regular attendance at the gym. Strangely, music that most motivates me while on the elliptical trainer or treadmill (e.g. vintage Rolling Stones, Oysterband, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Lennie Kravitz) is not the music I would care to listen to at any other time (Sarah MacLaughlin, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tito Puente). Ah well. The mysteries of music, eh?

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

*pleased wiggle* You are so very welcome. Garbo's salary! And I'm glad to hear that you could apparently read my handwriting. :)

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Would you like some more mixes? Just tell me what you absolutely hate and refuse to listen to, and I'll take it from there. Er, avoiding those things, I mean, not putting them on the mix.