Loud Pipes

Sometimes I think about strange quirks I have, and I wonder if other people have these secret quirks or if it's just me. I like to generalize some of them and just guess that other people do the same things, but I can't be sure.

For example:

I think it's funny how people play music on their iPods as if the rest of the world could hear it. Again, by people, I mean that I do it and I am really just curious as to whether or not others do it too. I was thinking about this during lunch just now, at the pizza place right across the street from my work.

A kind of cute boy walked into the pizza place midway through my meal, and I changed my music. I had been listening to relatively girly music, and then I switched to a more relaxed and cool Ratatat. Or, when I'm in the elevator with a bunch of suits and I look like a ruffian gamine, I sometimes switch my music to classical or jazz or some worldly genre, as if they could hear what was "Now Playing" on my iPod. Perhaps visually, I look one way and that's how they perceive (read: judge) me, so I want to appeal to their perceptions of me aurally.

I don't know why I do it. I know it doesn't work. Even blasting my music through my ear buds won't do the trick. And it's not quite the same feeling as creating the "Soundtrack to your Life", because I don't necessarily pick music that would fit the scene. I pick music, mostly, that I think a person looking at me would least expect. When I'm alone, it's more of a mood thing than a soundtrack thing, though I do have my soundtrack moments.

What a fucking generation this is that these kind of thoughts and actions actually have an effect on me/my life. Sixty years ago, no one ever thought these things. There was no technology to justify having such feelings.

It rather reminds me of silent discos, where everyone is listening to the same music on headphones, so they are all dancing to the same beats at the same time, but it's all silent outside of the headsets.

Maybe my life is just one big silent disco, but I'm the only one with the headphones.


In other news, my dear Ashley is in a music video for a very talented musician:























She's in the baby blue with a headband. Here's the link to the video of "Buriedfed" by Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.

Enjoy.