Music is my Life

So i got this text earlier this week from Danielle that reminded me why i do, what i do. Why i listen to what i listen to sort of moment. So, i guess i should start by saying, if it weren't for Schola, i don't think i would have ever spoken more that five words to Danielle Fazio. Not for any reason aside from we're just two very different people. But here's reason number one. Choir brings the weirdest of people together. The mix of social circles that room has seen is amazing. What's even better about though is that, we've never divided the room or choir according to social norms applied outside those four walls. It's not even Danielle either. In life outside that room i don't think i would know john. Like wow, right? Anyway, Danielle's party was friday. I got her jewelry, but it's not here, so i made her a mix cd. If i remember correctly the cd started with imogen heap, went to dear & the headlights, snow patrol, killswitch engage, kamelot, deftones, and ended with choir music. The whole thing was hit & miss, she'd either love it or hate it. She texted me saturday, odly enough while i was in the middle of a conversation about art & it's place today. Anyway, the text read something to effect of "i totally love it. thanks" I sat there TOTALLY awestruck. This girl. With her coach purse. Her itallian tan. Her cute little VW Bug. Perfect outfits everyday. She just texted me "i love it" To Killswitch. Deftones. Kamelot. Opeth. What?! I told her i think i've cried to every song on that cd and Cherry Waves is the song for me & john. She said she felt nice getting that insight into my life. I seriously was like, "wow, really? really?"


Metal is beautiful. It's deep. You sort of need to look for it. It's not like other music where the beauty is laid out for you in simple & sweet chords with their "iloveyoujesus" lyrics. There are no sweet cliches. There are no pictures painted of beautiful love scenes or the average teenage scenes of concerts & summer's first love. None of that. Metal is more mature almost in a sense. It's deeper subjects. Tool, if you've ever wandered across their lyrics, you'll find some crazy philosophical thoughts within their stoner named songs. "Rosetta Stoned." You learn another language in more than one way with that song. Metal is high energy. You see & feel the emotion & energy just reverberate through the speakers & it just gets to you. While metal is kind of scary at some points, the scariest are actually the sweetest & most provocative & serious. They are songs about love & loss, religion, death, heartache, stories of what we wish we were and how we hate who are. Which is deeper than any romeo & juliet love song i've come across that you find in pop music.

Basically, i'm glad to find how universal metal is. When given to the right kind of people, it does amazing things. I'm glad to see Danielle is sart enough & artistic & deep enough to find metal's beauty & relevance to her own world. I really do hope to see her with the gang at the next blackened skies show. I feel really good about my music collection when i've introduced the last person i would ever think to enjoy metal into this genre & to find they really do like it. Like i just feel good & i'm proud to take her to the next show & show her off as the newest edition to our metal group. Mind you, i don't see her hitting up slaughter or spazzing when the new cd comes out, but the fact that she enjoys even the tamest of the tame makes me feel fantastic & validated in our music. <3 It's funny, because i thought casey, with all of his ap classes would sit there & really love & understand metal. Oh how i was wrong. (: I'm glad at least Danielle is smart enough, deep enough, whatever to understand metal. And that right there is why she's too good for Casey (:


God, i could go on about music forever, but i won't!!