Mood: A-Musical

Music is and has been an integral part of my growing years. From the emergence of bubble gum pop and the excessive influx of boybands, to the ruminating rock craze followed closely by the flooding of the market with punk rock and hip hop.

For example, i have 1200 songs in my Zen Touch and counting (since oct 2004 only siah), and i am proud to proclaim that i know EACH AND EVERY ONE of these songs. I find it very disgusting when people cram their MP3 players with entire downloaded albums and all sorts of crap songs they dont know and won't appreciate. Every album i collect , i insist on listening to for one intensive week, liking and at least knowing every song and enjoying (or hating) it to its maximum capacitance.

Also, my preferred form of music is hip hop, with RnB coming in a close second, and pop (personally defined as anything on the radio) coming in third. Of course, my mainstream-ness has garnered many criticisms from shallow hals who enjoy punk rock and the (dis)likes of assinine 'music' :P (disclaimer: doesn't apply to all who said my music sucks, btw). Rap music is NOT crap music. There are other genres that i like, but also those i particulary detest (read: punk, techno, jazz, trance) although i'll admit they DO occasionally spawn a nice track.

BEP and Missy Elliott paved the way for my Hip Hopsession. This further evolved to include artistes such as Snoop Dogg and Kanye, with producers the Neptunes and Lil Jon. This all stems from my irresistable cravings for songs with strong beats and bass ever since my humble beginnings during the bubble-pop era (check out Dream's "She Loves You Not"). I hope this genre will stay forever etched in my life, as i have learned to love and enjoy the rappers and artistes themselves, their lyrics, styles and idiosyncracies.

I believe that mainstream radio is the variety show for a plethora musicks. If artistes think that their song is the best of their work and genre, most listener-friendly, most likeable, most likely to rake in the requests and propel the figures in their bank accounts, the higher the chance is that they release it as a single. This logic in itself forms the basis for my liking of radio hits. From The Killers' alternative indie/rock thing "Mr Brightside" to the vastly differing Hip Pop Missy Elliott's "Work It", radio offers its best to the listeners.

Singles are like the tip of the iceberg, enticing the listener to researh further and to purchase the available CD/LP to discover what lays hidden beneath. Usually, its majestic and admirable. Other times, one must head back to HMV fuming about the piece of crap that sunk his Titanic...

Finally, if everyone insists on diverging from the mainstream, doesn't that make mainstream radio a class an taste of its own?

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Pardon the emo (not music style, silly) and philo, am making like an exhaust and venting...

In lighter news, brought Nubi to the vet where he got his cocktail of jabs and a clean bill of health, albeit the exponentially increasing rate of hairloss... Also went and plotted some straight-line graph of "time in seconds" (y-axis) against "1/bloody long" in "1/s" to calculate the exact time and the constant required when waiting for the bus to arrive (x was the number of buses available to take at that particular stop O.o). For all the other crazies out there, teh gradient should be negative and in some sort of curve without intersects.

Went to the gym today siah! All pumped up and good to go liaos... Did 4 reps of 10 hamstring thingies at 40kg, 10 quad curls at 70kg, countless lifts and weighted 'chest expanders' (not boob jobs, btw).

Amazed at remembering... Never Let You Go - 3 Doors Down