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Day 2: Wednesday, 3/4/15: On Musical Taste

Back in the Totem Room. Sales guys are busy running around getting ready for a training session so I’m not going to bother them at the moment trying to set up elsewhere.

I woke up again last night with 2 migraines - one at 3 AM, and the next at 6:30. I spent so much time away from screens yesterday… who can say it’s helping, given those results. Fortunately the massage I had relieved a lot of tension in my neck for better flexibility and pain relief, at least.

Pretty sure Allison Krauss or someone similar is singing this version of “Down to the River to Pray,” a song I recognize only from O Brother Where Art Thou (a great movie if you haven’t seen it.) Now something ska and kind of jazzy plays… no clue what that is. Oboe, bongo-like drums, plucked bass guitar, a female voice I could best describe as generic. The beat’s kind of boring.

How can I judge music, even when it comes from the best sound systems ever. It’s like being handed the best car on the market, the one you’ve dreamed of owning since you were a kid, with a moonroof and heated leather seats and fast transmission and OnStar or whatever the kids are into these days… But it’s a gross, matte mustard color. Eww.

I guess that’s where taste comes into play. No matter how one can delve into the structure of sound and its quality, one’s still gonna like violin over electric guitar. Opinions will still be formed.

Luckily we can easily change whatever comes from our speakers. Some days I’m tempted to come in here and play sleepy, meditative tracks of crickets and dark train whistles. Good thing I can play anything in this room!

And now Soolos takes the liberty of playing freeform jazz. Surprisingly, I don’t want to change it.

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