Music Of The Night
People have asked me why I have such an affinity for music. Every year, hell every month I spend a small fortune on CD's and records. I have always loved music, and I guess it is linked to my insomnia. How? Well let me explain.
Growing up, our parents were pretty strict about our bed time. I mean they were pretty good about letting us stay up to a reasonable hour, and now and then they did make exceptions. I remember when I was young I liked Macgyver, but it was on after my bed time, but my parents always let me stay up late to see it. Anyways, bed time was set and if we wanted to read for a half hour we were aloud to, but then it was lights out.
Of course lights out doesn't mean you go to sleep right away. At least not for me. I always had trouble sleeping, sometimes I would be up for literaly a couple of days. Needless to say I survived on coffee. Now like I said my parents were strict about bed time and we were not aloud to have a TV in our rooms. We were aloud to have a radio though, and that proved to be my saving grace.
I used to keep the radio on the floor of my room. When I couldn't sleep I would plug in my head phones, and tune into any station. I listened to a huge variety of music. Everything from classic rock, to early alternitive, to house. My favorites, down to this day, are alternitive rock, like Nirvana, Rights of Spring, Smashing Pumpkins, and so forth. I also listened to a lot of live to air shows from different clubs. House music was still in its underground stage, and you could only hear it on these live to air shows. House has had a profound effect on my life.
Over time, music begain to be more than just nice songs. It became a soothing balm, a comfort in the night. Many nights I would fall asleep with the head phones on, I still do it today. Music has touched me in a way I never thought. I live through it. Without music in my life I think I would go mad. There is always a song that speaks to you, when your depressed, angry, happy, disapointed, whatever you feel, there is a song that reflects that emotion. In a way it's like never being alone.
Growing up, our parents were pretty strict about our bed time. I mean they were pretty good about letting us stay up to a reasonable hour, and now and then they did make exceptions. I remember when I was young I liked Macgyver, but it was on after my bed time, but my parents always let me stay up late to see it. Anyways, bed time was set and if we wanted to read for a half hour we were aloud to, but then it was lights out.
Of course lights out doesn't mean you go to sleep right away. At least not for me. I always had trouble sleeping, sometimes I would be up for literaly a couple of days. Needless to say I survived on coffee. Now like I said my parents were strict about bed time and we were not aloud to have a TV in our rooms. We were aloud to have a radio though, and that proved to be my saving grace.
I used to keep the radio on the floor of my room. When I couldn't sleep I would plug in my head phones, and tune into any station. I listened to a huge variety of music. Everything from classic rock, to early alternitive, to house. My favorites, down to this day, are alternitive rock, like Nirvana, Rights of Spring, Smashing Pumpkins, and so forth. I also listened to a lot of live to air shows from different clubs. House music was still in its underground stage, and you could only hear it on these live to air shows. House has had a profound effect on my life.
Over time, music begain to be more than just nice songs. It became a soothing balm, a comfort in the night. Many nights I would fall asleep with the head phones on, I still do it today. Music has touched me in a way I never thought. I live through it. Without music in my life I think I would go mad. There is always a song that speaks to you, when your depressed, angry, happy, disapointed, whatever you feel, there is a song that reflects that emotion. In a way it's like never being alone.
posted by The Cube at 5:13 AM
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