her rabid glow is like braille to the night

something about music.

music is a big part of my life. i have serious problems with silence. in my apartment, if it's not music it's radio coming from the speakers. it's always something. i'm a quiet-o-phobic. a noise polluter. i'm not sure what it is about music that makes it so important to me, but i think it's got something to do with the connection music-mood. music amplifies the mood and sometimes turns it around. music makes life seem more important, makes it matter more. and because i often try to match music to my mood, what i listen to varies a lot with time, but there are some bands i always come back to. two of them are interpol and mojave 3. interpol has high cred with the indie crowd, but mojave 3 is probably seen as a band that hasn't really contributed anything special. they are not my favorite bands, but for some reasons i've chosen them for my first music segment on the internet.

interpol. the mood interpol's music conveys can best be described as 'big city angst', which is close to what i feel sometimes. it makes me think of driving (and no, i don't have a license) in the dark or walking in the city in the dark and seeing all the lights. it's the beauty of sadness that so many artists and bands try to express, but almost exclusively fail. (side note: i like this beauty a lot, which is likely the reason i have such a soft spot for male depressing singer-songwriters as well). i'm currently listening to their song 'leif erikson' on repeat and it's not often i listen to songs on repeat. i'd say it's the third time it's happened, but i may be forgetting a song or two.

mojave 3. the mood mojave 3's music conveys can best be described as 'tired in the sunshine'. it's perfect for sunny days when you're too tired to do anything, which is a kind of day that comes along quite often. it's the music of having slept way too few hours and sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee and just staring. no stress, nothing that needs to be done, except finish that cup of coffee and brew another one. they're also insanely depressing at times, such as in the song 'she broke you so softly', which is possibly my favorite break-up song.

so there you have it. interpol and mojave 3 are two important parts of the soundtrack of my life. i'm not sure what you should do with this information, but that's the way it is.