04/24/2005: "Music in my World"

Music is one of the essentials of living, right up there with books. It's probably one of the most overt emotional manipulators I can think of. I turned on the radio after dropping my daughter at school the other morning. I wasn't particularly down or upset about anything, but when Spriral Staircase singing More Today Than Yesterday came on--how can you NOT turn it up really loud and smile? It's an instant mood booster that brings back memories of shagging with my daughter at a beach restaurant on Tybee Island and keg parties on Friday afternoons at UGA. hehe

I used to require absolute quiet to write but in the last year or so, I've gotten to the point that I really need the music on when I'm writing. I know some writers put together sound tracks for particular books. I don't do that, but there always seems to be a selection of cd's that wind up staying in my cd player for the duration of a book. The down side to that is there are certain songs that just make you want to get up and dance-- Sting's Brand New Day, Steve Winwood's Spanish Dancer, DMB's Crash Into Me. Fun for me--pretty frightening for my neighbors. shocked

Embarrasing to admit that I got an MP3 player for Christmas and have only managed to download one cd onto it. The instructions that came with it are lousy and I'm lousy at following instructions--not a stellar combination. So, I run to the same cd every time I go out. I have a Pavolovian response now to DMB's Listener Supported, cd one. I hear it, I think I need to break into a run. wink Luckily, I have no pride and admitted my technological ineptness at the soccer fields yesterday. The 12-year old brother of one of my daughter's team mates is going to teach me how to use it at the next practice. Humiliating? Only a tad, but as I said, it's a good thing I have no pride. sleepy

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