Music

I like music that has unexpected key changes, intense base lines... music that soars and resonates. I'm a sucker for metal band power ballads, for instance. I was raised early on to appreciate many different genres, and got a lot of classical and classic rock under my belt, in particular.
The music that stays in heavy rotation tends to really emotionally resonate. If I'm listening to music for background, it needs to be light and frippery and low in volume. If you take one of these frippery songs and blast it, I go into shutdown mode. If you take one of my heavy emotional songs and blast it, particularly if I'm not expecting it (like "Uninvited" the other day at work), I had to find a solitary place for a moment to experience the song, and hoped that I wouldn't get pried away by interaction or a task. Now I've been listening to it a lot throughout the day.

Whoops, tense issues there. Can't be bothered to go back and parse that out, because this blog is mostly about writing the stream of thoughts in my head and not obsessively editing for grammar. I still had to make that disclaimer, though. :)

Ah yes, music. I can enjoy happy stuff, but it still tends to have the unexpected key changes and nice beats. 70s era disco diva songs are surprisingly fertile (and gay) grounds. Donna Summer's cover of MacArthur Park is a good example there, as is Dancing Queen by Abba. I can get away with liking stuff like this in public because i'm a big queer-bo and so are most of my friends and many of my co-workers.

(I just got completely distracted by a 2006 performance of MacArthur Park by Donna Summer on youtube. Really, gonna finish this entry some time tonight.)

Or maybe not. Another day.