moosiclovers

Everyday I wake up as someone new and it is arguable that we all do. We wake up in a new place of space and time and a different frame of mind, even if it is only slightly different, everyday. So are we not different people, and is that okay in a world where society generally expects us to be the same everyday?

Wake up, get dressed in your typical work attire, drink coffee, eat one of the three things that you typically eat for breakfast, get in your car and travel to work to be at the same place at the same time, day after day and try to behave normal. Is this madness or is this sanity?

To me this system is counter intuitive but I do have a different brain that I have come to find out does not function like a normal persons (whatever that means). So personally this life style is slightly maddening to me and it takes me many various external controls and grounding exercises to put myself on this line. But this post is not about grounding or fitting into a box, it is about exploring…exploring all the different people within you and me.

So you might be asking what does this have to do with music? Music helps me cope with the million different people living inside of me. Let me illustrate…

One day I wake up….

“…as a Japanese anime geek, blending all my favorite anime characters, my hair pin straight and up in two horizontal buns, dressed in vivid colors and animated drawings…inspired by vibrant imagery in movies like Akira, Paprika and Howl’s Moving Castle…I get ready to music that inspires vibrancy and imagery like Hiatus Kaiyote.”

“….as a raging alcoholic, inspired by rural life in Michigan, who wants to drink at the bar all day, dance in boots on wooden floors toppling over all the bar stools, and drinking myself into a black hole of oblivion to take away the pain of being alive….so I fill space up with the bluegrass jams of The Devil Makes Three or bluesy tunes of Lead Belly to sing to my soul.”

“…dirty from the grime of the inner city and the sweat from being up all night dancing to electronic house music….moved by Movement and Detroit’s electronic scene so I throw on Ellen Allien and Nicolas Jarr to get down and dirty.”

“…as a driven female environmental scientist, inspired by Gloria Steinem, eager to stick it to the man, burn my bra, and never shave again…hey lets go back to the 60’s with classics from Buffalo Springfield and Jefferson Airplane.”

“…as a Indian women with roots stretching across physical boundaries, like Anoushka Shankar, I need spice, color, flavor, and the traditions of my roots. I go for the Indian raga and throw on Anoushka or Ravi Shankar or the classics of Mohammed Rafi or Kishore Kumar.”

“…as a cool, classy American women, with stylings of Lana Del Rey… I see the world in shades of blue, amorous in nature, dressed in black, slightly suggestive, attire with a cocktail in hand, contemplating sending a drink to the handsome stranger across the bar…with the backdrop of the sweet tunes of Miles Davis.”

“…a hormonal teenager, friends with Kurt Cobain, ridden with angst and rage…pissed off at society for trying to shove me in a square when I am obviously a circle, screw it give me the grunge…Nirvana, Incubus or Rage Against the Machine.”

“….as a nature enthusiast, I see the world with the poetry of Rachel Carson…an avid birder, spent the day hiking around Michigan, working in the garden and eating healthy food…to end my day around the campfire as I gaze at the stars with Elephant Revival or Greensky Bluegrass enjoying the natural sounds of acoustic resonance.”

“…lonely as Eleanor Rigby, feeling the void growing in the shadows which is about to consume me whole, the world grows colorless and everything is a shade of gray…so I put on Gary Joules and he understands my melancholic attitude.”

and the list goes on and on and on….everyday someone new…different shade of color, different light, different face, different smile, different music.

So let me ask you…which came first the chicken or the egg?

Do all your different people listen to different music…or does all your different music create different people within you?

I am not sure which came first for me but I think the various music cultures at least helped me crystallize all the different people inside of me.

I began discussing this a little bit in an older post, asking “if you are what you eat, are you what you listen to?” and I may delve deeper into some of these topics later on.

Feel free to share with me your array of personalities and the music that gets you groovin. Much love. – A