Musings of Mary Jane: soundtrack to your life

Sunday, September 21, 2008

soundtrack to your life

Labels: dancing, mgmt, Music, rave, smoking, teenage, UW Madison, weed, Wisconsin 0 comments

im lying in bed, chilling out to mgmt. its captivating, it draws my mind in totally. it relates to my life, i feel the meaning. tonight my friend and i smoked and went on an adventure down to state st, (downtown area with shops and restaurants and lots of people on the weekend). we didn't know whether to visene our dry glassy eyes but in the end was too lazy. so we were walking along the sidewalk feeling the energy, thinking about where we wanted to get food (haha typical i know), and i suddenly had the urge to listen to my ipod. i wanted music. but at the same time i wanted to be more connected to the outside world, like i wanted to continue having a conversation with my friend. we suddenly started having a silly/entertaining/sci-fi conversation about how it would be sweet if you could inject a certain chip that allowed you to have a soundtrack for you life, like music in your mind whenever you wanted. a built in mp3 player if you would.

sometimes i feel thats not even so crazy. music is going to become so accessible, and so personalized, and so integrated into our lives we are going to be so connected to music. even now wbenever i walk to class i listen to my ipod. i do a lot of walking in the day walking to class, and the whole time im listening to my music. im drawn into this musical world, its entertaining, it makes me think and feel. which is why i am big into music, i love new music that makes me feel good. anyway i am so excited for technology to catch up with my want for music.

i remember reading about silent raves that happen in NYC and London. When around 100s of people gather and rock out to their ipods. it reminds me of commercials for energy drinks or vitamin water or some other things. i can tell why it is good advertising. advertising is finally catching up on the benefits of using good music. has anyone else noticed so many good songs are in commercials? and then they become huge. movies have also started using pretty good music. and good music is helpful overall, so im all for it.