wombat wagon. victor was trying to introduce me to punk music on the car ride home today. punk as defined by...well, i can't really define punk and i would do a great injustice to everyone by me trying to explain what punk was based on one conversation. i listened to some "newer" punk, not the ramones or the sex pistols but stuff like lagwagon, blink 182, no use for a name and........ the names aren't important. what was important was me trying to look into a different type of music. i am, as we all know, highly addicted to hip hop and hip hop related music. so i rarely stray from that except to reminisce over music from the past. so opening my ears and trying to hear a new genre of music for the first time was very interesting.



first off, i couldn't understand a thing they were saying. i couldn't decipher the lyrics. lots of screaming and weird enunciations. or no enunciations at all. i couldn't quite grasp what was going on or what the song was "about." then the music. i liked the beginnings of most songs, with the guitar, the bass, the drums going on. until the drums started just going nuts and the everything started going nuts and everything just turned into noise for me. most of what i was exposed to today was socal punk so that's more the style here, and all punk is apparently not fast. i was surprised at how melodic punk was. i'm not sure what i expected but i thought punk would be more akin to metal or something. but i heard melodies in the noise and i could kind of feel it. i wondered if this was the sort of feeling people who hear hip hop feel when they say "it's just noise."



the emotions from punk is way different though. it's just anger anger anger, thrash thrash thrash. i'm overgeneralizing here. but punk to me seemed to just rev you up, with no way to release it. i can't imagine what one would do with punk. you can't dance to it. you can't groove to it. you can nod your head and get all fury like. i guess that's what moshing is made for.



so i've been exposed to punk for a second. i learned something at the very least. i can't say i like it. or that i dislike it. but it's not "me." but that maybe because i haven't listened to it much. but with some music i'm just like "that's me." like old school funk. i need to find more of that stuff. get educated about it. because i really like it. so that is my mission.



i am also a firm believer that looking at a list of the music that somebody listens to can be very revealing and indicative of a person. it's not like movies or books because as was talked about, music can go straight to the emotion. you feel it or you don't. so by perusing a list of the music that someone listens to, you can get a grasp of who they are. i know it's dangerous to overgeneralize like this but isn't it true, when you talk to someone, and you find out that you have a common band that you love, you are inclined to like them even more? maybe because you assume that both of you relate to the music on some level that you can share. so music is life. but we knew that already.