I’ve always thought of music as a deeply personal adventure: everyone’s tastes differ; everyone has deeply hidden guilty pleasures *coughjustintimberlakecough*; and everyone has strong emotional attachments to certain songs. Music evokes many, many memories for me, particularly about novels I was reading at the same time as I was deeply listening to a particular band or album. <\/p>\n
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“<\/span>My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”<\/strong> Mika<\/strong> – Life in Cartoon Motion | Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind<\/strong> The list goes on and on and is sure to continue to grow ever larger as life trundles on. So, when I saw this neat iTunes application on another blog I read (John Davison<\/a>, former Editorial Director of Ziff Davis’ Gaming Division, and all around awesome dude) I thought it would be a fun way to let my readers get to know me just a little better.<\/p>\n \nLaugh if you want (Rick Springfield); scratch your head at all the obscure hip-hop (Jedi Knights Circle, Braille, Aura, Sweatshop Union); or drop a comment if you notice that we have some similar tastes! <\/p>\n “<\/span>After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”<\/strong> The quote in the title is courtesy of J.K. Rowling!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve always thought of music as a deeply personal adventure: everyone’s tastes differ; everyone has deeply hidden guilty pleasures *coughjustintimberlakecough*; and everyone has strong emotional attachments to certain songs. Music evokes many, many memories for me, particularly about novels I was reading at the same time as I was deeply listening to a particular band… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)<\/em>
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\nFor instance:<\/p>\n
\nThe Offspring<\/strong> – Ignition | Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time<\/strong> (the early novels…)
\nJohn Mayer<\/strong> | Terry Brooks’ Magic Kingdom of Ladover Series<\/strong>
\nJedi Knights Circle<\/strong> – Space Explorers | Terry Brooks’ Running with the Demon<\/strong> (if anyone knows of JKC, they get major brownie points!)<\/p>\n
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\nRight now my life is in the capable hands of a singer\/songwriter named Josh Ritter<\/strong> (no relation to the late John Ritter) who my brother so kindly introduced me to! Check him out!<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963), “Music at Night”, 1931<\/em><\/p>\n