Dear LiveJournal… Mood: Apathetic
Serina was running in circles around me in gym class singing emo songs (I’ll take a wild guess and say Chiodos). Which kinda influenced me to blog it, because I’m emo/scene like that.
Anyways. I love mayor Mike Bloomberg. Very wise man. He decided to ban regular milk in New York City schools. Yes, that’s right, I noticed that this Tuesday when there was only chocolate fat-free milk left. Being so naive, I let it slide and thought that maybe they ran out of regular milk for a day. I couldn’t forgive myself for making such a simple judgement about it after I found out next day what REALLY happened. In an explanation provided to me by a lunch lady, Bloomberg banned it due to kids getting obese. Great thinking asshole. Doesn’t he realize that the obese kids drink the fat-free chocolate milk already? Of course, let’s completely ignore the fact that the school fries and chicken patties consist of 98% fat. However, now that regular milk is banned, where are soccer players like Paul supposed to get their daily amount of natural fats in order to build their muscles and be sexy? I should start bringing in a bar of butter to school to make up for all the lost fats due to drinking fat-free milk.
Now that I got through with that, today after Taco Bell I magically pulled out a name for my future indie twee pop band. After hearing how Alex pronounced the word “chips” with his Eastern-European accent, I decided that the band’s name will be “Cheeps” (pronounced: chips with two e’s). A spark of genius.
Is the letter “Y” considered a vowel?
^My deep thought of the day.
My “emo rebelion against society” of the week: Apparently Capitalism was not intended to work properly in Brooklyn. Or to put it in other words, how can there be about three hundred different companies of the same market and no competition whatsoever? Or to put it even simpler, Real Estate agents are total dickslaps. Every single one of them.

yeah…

peace

I was browsing Flickr with this cool tool I found on digg called Flickr Leech, looking at the pictures of Vilnius, Lithuania. I have come across a “Pancake Day” celebration pictures, which kinda brought me back memories (although funny how in English they call it Pancake Day). The funniest part, however, is how they (the tourists, I’m assuming) described it:
“A Lithuanian celebration of the end of winter (ha!). People dress up like gypsies and eat pancakes and dance around a burning witch. Good times.”

Well while Salem witch trials have successfully come to an end a while ago, in Europe we still burn witches, so if you dislike your neighbor, you can accuse them of witchcraft and if you prove it in court, we will burn her at the end of winter while dancing around her and eating pancakes. That’s how life is in Europe.

That description really gave me a good laugh.

So I just got my 100% daily value of Radiohead and I started to feel kinda deep about all this music nutrition stuff. Music is a great thing, and I think many of you will agree that it is as necessary for our survival as food. Honestly, I bet most of you had the kinds of thoughs like “If there was no music, I’d probably die.”
Well in order for our bodies to properly develop, we need to follow some kind of diet for our nutrition. The control over the amount and diversity of food intake is especially important during child/teenager development, as I read in various psychological articles. My belief is that the same thing there is with music. We need to balance out or musical nutrition in order for out music taste to develop to be healthy. This way we can’t just stick to three bands to listen to the entire time. Not only the band, we need diversity in genres too. Of course, the music diet varies from person to person and the diet suggestion that I’m going to give you does not necessarily fit every person.
In music there are always certain bands that require a lot of intake. For example, The Beatles or Radiohead are as cruicial in people’s music taste as “Bread, Cereal, Rice and Pasta” group in Nutrition Pyramid. We all need to consume quite an amount of bands/artists such as Bowie, Dylan or Queen. We can’t, however, only stick to classic rock, due to the fact that our music diets needs diversity. A daily consumption of Trip-Hop or Britpop is really necessary to keep a well-balanced diet.
Some people tell me “Metallica/Megadeth/Slayer are too heavy for me.” Well that doesn’t mean we should ignore those bands. A monthly intake some good old school British heavy metal or thrash is a great way to ensure the healthy diversity in your music diet.
I remember about a year ago I was completely boycotting any music released after all the 90’s grunge era came to mainstream. That, however, was a very unwise and unhealthy decision for my music taste. As much as our taste needs that groovin’ 70s and rockin’ 80s stuff, we can’t survive without consuming any modern indie music. To ensure an even greater diversity in our diets, we have to try and find some good grunge bands that will appeal pleasing to our ears. I have succeeded in doing so thanks to Blind Melon.
To complete our music diet pyramid, we need the very top, which contains the music that our bodies still need for survival, however the intake should be in very small amounts (”Oils and Fats” group in Food Pyramid). As much as you want to argue with me, we all need some *Nsync or Savage Garden for a comlete healthy music diet. However, we have to be very careful with the “Pop music” consumption, because overdose on that can lead to a complete destruction in our music nutrition. A healthy amount would reach from 1 to 3 Pop songs a month.
So here, you have a basic guide to music diet necessary for proper development of your musical taste. As I mentioned before, this does not apply to all people. However, this kind of diet is very recommended for teenagers’ development, which, if properly applied, can lead to a healthy musical taste throughout your life. And always remember not to be afraid to try something new, because diversity is the greatest step to a healthy musical diet.