Music and the gods
I do so envy those people who have come up with music playlists for their gods. It always seemed like a really good idea, but try as I might I've just not been able to do it myself.
I thought for a while it was just the sort of music that I liked, which is generally not what most other people would consider spiritual - and of course what other people consider spiritual I'd consider unbearable (or at best white noise). :-P I have pretty narrow and specific tastes, I know it and I'm not ashamed of it (apparently many people feel I should be), and my tolerance for music other than what I like is generally pretty low, unless its one of those things I can mentally push into the background and not notice but there isn't much of that.
But, well, a while back Sannion had posted his Hermes playlist (I'm too lazy to go back through his journal and look for it, if you want to see find it yourselves :-P) and for once there were actually songs I liked on that list (and it was pretty cool that it was Hermes of course), but until it was pointed out to me I wouldn't have thought to make the connection between them.
I just might not be as into music as other people are, don't listen to it the same way, I don't know. But, sadly, that's a project I've pretty much given up on. Guess I'll have to keep listening to music as a completely non spiritual enterainment/drowning out the sound of my obnoxious fellow man thing.
Last time he was here, Dominic brought me the new albums of a few bands we both like. First new music I've seen in ... well, since Dominic was living with me. Everything around here is fucking rap (gods I hate rap, and I hate people that like rap, more than any other genre its fans seem determined to share it with you whether you like it or not) and the closest thing there is to a metal station is...well, they play My Chemical Romance (if you don't know who they are, good for you; if you do know who they are and don't see the problem with them being played on a station that proports to be metal, get off my friends list). I've been completely cut off from the music scene, not able to find anything new and exciting.
Even if I may not get as into it as other people often seem to be, I do miss having new music to listen to. Most people also seem to find new music through friends but that has never been a luxury I've had, Dominic has been the first who liked any music I liked and I don't expect that to repeat itself any time soon (that's really the only benefit to sharing taste with friends that I regret having, other than that I don't mind music being less a social more a private and personal sort of thing for me, something I take into myself instead of project outward onto and with others). Have to figure out some way around that all that. Renee had shown me the web site Pandora at one point and I keep meaning to go back to that and spend some time playing around on it and see what I can dig up.
Until then, must find other devotional activities/projects.
I thought for a while it was just the sort of music that I liked, which is generally not what most other people would consider spiritual - and of course what other people consider spiritual I'd consider unbearable (or at best white noise). :-P I have pretty narrow and specific tastes, I know it and I'm not ashamed of it (apparently many people feel I should be), and my tolerance for music other than what I like is generally pretty low, unless its one of those things I can mentally push into the background and not notice but there isn't much of that.
But, well, a while back Sannion had posted his Hermes playlist (I'm too lazy to go back through his journal and look for it, if you want to see find it yourselves :-P) and for once there were actually songs I liked on that list (and it was pretty cool that it was Hermes of course), but until it was pointed out to me I wouldn't have thought to make the connection between them.
I just might not be as into music as other people are, don't listen to it the same way, I don't know. But, sadly, that's a project I've pretty much given up on. Guess I'll have to keep listening to music as a completely non spiritual enterainment/drowning out the sound of my obnoxious fellow man thing.
Last time he was here, Dominic brought me the new albums of a few bands we both like. First new music I've seen in ... well, since Dominic was living with me. Everything around here is fucking rap (gods I hate rap, and I hate people that like rap, more than any other genre its fans seem determined to share it with you whether you like it or not) and the closest thing there is to a metal station is...well, they play My Chemical Romance (if you don't know who they are, good for you; if you do know who they are and don't see the problem with them being played on a station that proports to be metal, get off my friends list). I've been completely cut off from the music scene, not able to find anything new and exciting.
Even if I may not get as into it as other people often seem to be, I do miss having new music to listen to. Most people also seem to find new music through friends but that has never been a luxury I've had, Dominic has been the first who liked any music I liked and I don't expect that to repeat itself any time soon (that's really the only benefit to sharing taste with friends that I regret having, other than that I don't mind music being less a social more a private and personal sort of thing for me, something I take into myself instead of project outward onto and with others). Have to figure out some way around that all that. Renee had shown me the web site Pandora at one point and I keep meaning to go back to that and spend some time playing around on it and see what I can dig up.
Until then, must find other devotional activities/projects.