The Sound of Music

I love music. I don't think you're going to find a human being alive who doesn't like music, but I LOVE music. I listen to it at least a few hours a day, whether it's on my computer while I surf the internet, on my iPod at the gym, on the radio at work.

Whenever we switch radio stations at work it somehow freshens up the day a little bit. It makes all the difference in the world to the people I work with too. They need to know ahead of time if I'm going to be crying out "that's my jam" and turning up the radio every time "Poker Face" comes on (ironically or not - I'm still not sure myself) or silently pumping my first and singing along with Rod Stewart/New Radicals/Mariah Carey on the best of the 80s/90s/today station.

I sometimes fancy myself a bit of a music snob but there is no way that can be 100% accurate for a few reasons.

1) I just can't get in to the supposedly really "cool" bands that all the hipster kids are supposed to like these days like Animal Collective and the like. Don't get me wrong, I love some of these bands like Beirut but in general I don't pass the "cool" test. A real indie hipster douchebag would scoff at me in a heartbeat.

2) They would probably have a heart attack too, for how much I manage to enjoy me some Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, etc. I love trashy songs on the radio! I even kinda like that new Souljah Boy song, "Kiss Me Through the Phone". If I was attempting to be a cool music snob, well, I'm failing miserably.

3) Also, most cool kids don't like the bands I like as much as I like them. Some might acknowledge that The Killers have a few good singles, but I looooove them. So there's that.

Did you know iTunes counts all the times you've played your songs? Most people don't notice or care and lose all of their play counts whenever they switch computers or if you have autosync on your iPod. Not me, I keep those playcounts guarded and try to keep them at all costs. Right now the play counts I have have survived two Mac computers and one dead logic board, which caused an entire reboot of my system. I was able to save the files with my external hard drive (back up your files, kids! bad things can happen!) and keep the play counts by downloading a hack off a website which somehow pulled the play count information from the data files on my iPod and imported them in to iTunes. There were many dorky silent fistpumps on the day this past summer when that was successfully completed.

My most played song of all time? If you really know me, you shouldn't be surprised at all... "This Modern Love" by Bloc Party, which actually is my all-time favorite song (!!) at somewhere around 225 plays (the next closest is somewhere around 180).

Oh, if only I had any talent in my body whatsoever... who knows.