humanity

I've been meaning to write this entry for a few days. Its kind of something I always think about, and figured I'd might as well put into words.

I love the concept of individual people. How every single person has so many layers, and how no two people are exactly the same. How everyone sees and feels everything in a different way. We all have likes and dislikes and emotions and everything that makes us human. Everyone has something that they are passionate about, even if they haven't discovered it yet. Like how I live and breathe my writing, and some people live and breathe their sports or other hobbies. And how everyone has a different color that they just love, or music that just speaks to them. I always think about that, especially with music. What is it about trance that I love so much? Well I love it, I can't even explain it, because to me its just the best thing ever, but to people like my dad for instance, it couldn't be more annoying. I can't understand people who like country, but there are people who just love country, probably just as much as I love trance.

In some cases its a question of nature or nurture. I like reading, so does that mean its in my genes? But liking music isn't really in your genes. A lot of time it depends on your culture and your age group. To my grandpa everything on the radio isn't music, it's just noise, and I can't imagine what he'd think of my trance and techno.

But this isn't even about music. It's just about our individuality as a human race. We are the only animal with such a wide variety of likes and dislikes, when it comes to everything. We're attracted to different people and colors and settings that goes beyond basic survival instinct. I mean, though I don't know how I'd live without it, I wouldn't actually die if someone didn't let me write.

I think its one of the reasons why i like writing so much. Writing stories I mean. I love creating the characters, mostly my main characters, because I can create someone with all of the depth, all of the layers, as every human being. I can show what makes them happy, what irks them, how they talk, every little idiosyncracy. I just like creating humans.

We're all so unique. It's really true. And its amazing that we all have these different souls. It can't be genetics or what we're brought up with. It must be something more. I don't think this is something that science can explain. I guess I'm a romantic, but I just love this idea of humanity.

bands that broke up that really should NOT HAVE

This is in no particular order or anything whatsoever. Just a bunch of bands I wish didn't break up.

Panic at the Disco (I know technically the band still exists but it's not the same)

Metro Station

The Medic Droid

The Beatles

Led Zeppelin (Well I know it wasn't really their fault but I still lament that they did have to break up at all :( )

youtube wars

Have you ever been in the mood for one type of music? I go through that ALL the time. Most of the time all I want to listen to is techno, but SOMETIMES I'll be craving my TSwift or the Veronicas. Or even classical. Yes, I love classical music. Actually, one of my favorite songs is Clair de Lune by Debussy, and very sadly I don't have it on my ipod, so I decided to look it up on youtube.

Well well well. Oh youtube. Oh youtube users. You couldn't possibly just leave a beautiful song like Clair de Lune alone, could you? You just HAD to come in and bring up Twilight. How Twilight and Justin Bieber end up in every single youtube video in some form is BEYOND ME. Oh, you know what I'm talking about. "Thumbs up if this is better than Twilight" or "obviously those 600 people who pressed thumbs down were listening to Justin Beiber." The usual.

But Twilight was brought up in Clair de Lune for a very different reason. See, I hadn't remembered that apparently in the first book or movie or whatever, Edward or Bella, can't remember which, brought up Clair de Lune. So obviously all the Twihards went and looked it up on youtube and became obsessed over it because it is AWESOME. And that made all those people like myself, who knew Clair de Lune and Debussy before Twilight, very angry. They were all, "I KNEW THIS BEFORE THAT CRAPPY MOVIE CAME OUT" and "YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LIKE THIS BECAUSE YOU HEARD OF IT FROM TWILIGHT." Really guys?

Okay, I get that you want to let everyone know that you knew about this before Twilight, but come on! You're worrying about the wrong thing! You should be happy that so many people now can appreciate this music, instead of being all pissed because it now has a connection to Twilight! If you really thought about it, you'd be ECSTATIC. Now people can finally see the awesomeness that is Debussy and this song! In what other circumstance would thousands (or millions?) of preteen girls love classical music like this? I can't think of any, unless you are really special (like me!).

The same goes for Yiruma, who is a modern composer/pianist, and also has created some really beautiful songs. One of these songs is called River Flows in You. It is a really breathtaking song, so one day, some Twilight fan decided that it would be the perfect Bella's Lullaby. And it stuck. So now all of these girls consider River Flows in You to be the perfect alternative to the Bella's Lullaby in the movie. And then what happened? All of these fans of Yiruma got mad, and started bashing Twilight. What else is new?

To these people I have the same thing to say to what I said to the Debussy people. Get over it. You should be happy that these girls can appreciate good music. Because it is really great music. No matter where you heard it from.