Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

Yo!

First up, I added a music player in the upper right page of the blog. Until I figure out how to add a fancy one it'll just play the one track I put up there. I'm a big believer in listening to an entire song, not just a minute and switching it. If the artist thought you should only listen to it for a minute it wouldn't be 4. So if you have the time, take it, listen to the whole song, and appreciate it!

The first song is the chill wave genre song. The artist is Washed Out and the song is called Feel It All Around. The artists name is Ernest Greene. He has an interesting story with some of it found here. There isn't an actual artist produced video, but this is a cool video to go with the song.



The second song I just found the other day while watching a skimboarding video. The artist is Two Door Cinema Club, song is called What You Know. This is the only song I've heard from the them.

It was 1999 and I was in 6th grade when we first had AOL. Some 7th grade girls from the neighborhood showed me how to set my screen name up. They came up with corcor829. Yeah, I hung out with older chicks. I was having a blast illegally downloading copyrighted music from the wonderful sharing program called Napster. It was at that point and when I was given my first portable cd player that I really started getting into music. I realize I'm somewhat of a hypocrite as I don't play any real instruments, but some of you know my Guitar Hero, hand/object-on-anything-close-by drumming (Missy's favorite), or vocal skillz. There are many different genres I could name that I enjoy, but I usually listen to alternative rock, conscious hip-hop, oldies, indie, and lately some schtuff I listen to on my way to the beach called chill wave. I'll make sure to keep it original, different, and if need be, a explicit lyrics warning on the player. The potty mouth lyrics warning is especially for Nicholas L., because he has no idea what a,s,b, and f bombs are.

One time, I was driving with a friend listening to a random mix cd. I happened to have a lengthy story for each song about where I got it. I'll admit, it does sound really boring now that I actually see what I did in words, but they said that it was interesting enough to make a book out of it. I was like, "Seriously, you really think that Cory Michael Zedler would take free time to do anything that was highly related to school work?"

The other evening, Lauren creepily peered into my room as I watched Seinfeld and requested that we go to IHOP, so we did. After monching down our food and suffering through my chocolate deprived, milked-down chocolate milk, we talked about music. To be brutally honest (and no offense), I don't remember exactly what she said about it, but my point is that for me music always takes me back to previous places; like where I first listened to the song or where I listened to that song most.

So for those who want to get involved and make things here more interesting, post up a comment about music in general, what you like, what it is/does for you, etc.!

Alright, second up, I have to go to the store now because I'm out of candy, ice cream, and broccoli. Guess which one I lied about?