From Michael Upton Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 10:29
From Michael Upton Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 10:29
>I use music to manipulate my moods. Not like a drug, though, more like the >way an activity cures boredom. If I want to change my mood, enhance it, or >in any way alter it, I know _exactly_ what cd I should put on to achieve the >desired effect. And I like this. Among so many other things, I like how >music has become an aid to my emotional health. Well, I gotta say you sound damn lucky. So often I find that I can't match my mood with music at all. I'll stand there flicking through my tunes, going "duh", and nothing will seem quite right. It'd be nice and heroic to say that's why I write my own stuff, but not normally. >Do other people have similar experiences with this music that we all claim >to love so much as I do? Hey, uh, no one makes claims to love this music just by being on a mailing list! I've been on several mailing lists because I thought the topic was interesting, but not something that absolutely rocked my world. > I'm honestly very curious about other people's > personal experiences and motivations with this >music. How the hell does it > make you _FEEL_? Sometimes when I hear music that really grabs me I get a tingling rush than reminds me most of doing things like standing on the very edge of a building, looking down 6 floors at the street below. I guess it's kinda like an adrenalin rush, but it's a huge bursting feeling that makes me want to laugh and cry and wet myself. I normally go with the first of the three. :-) There's lots of fairly bonkers shit that does this to me, and often it makes me want to boogie at the same time, but, yeah, as I suspect with quite a few people on here who post, it's the other feelings the music brings out that do it for me. When I want to dance, it's more likely to be soul or reggae than IDM stuff. Michael Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com