podling | Music of what is

The bus ride to work took forever, so I had lots of time to ponder this. Anyway, I'm annoyed because I don't have the cd I want to listen to at work with me. I really want to hear Together Alone by Crowded House at this very moment. It really is a fabulous album. It has an emotional resonance that is just beyond most other things. And this ties into something I was thinking about last night, about my favorite motto, the "happiness is a new cd" thing. Maybe it's that the songs I listen to are taken in... lately I've noticed that I know the lyrics to songs that I don't consciously remember really ever listening to. I mean, I know I heard them, but not often enough that I'd think that it'd have any kind of impact on me. And sometimes there are snatches of lyrics in my head, almost like memorized poetry, that will just pop into my head.

It's beyond the mood influencing versus mood creating question about music too. Sometimes when I'm listening to something, I feel enveloped by the music. I feel like it's inside, outside, all encompassing. It's like a harmonic vibration of life. And some cds lend themselves better to this than others, I suppose. But that's why happiness is a new cd. Because there's transcendence associated with it, there's dancing, there's all *kinds* of stuff. Yeah.