Musical Addictions

So we all know that feeling, the feeling of musical addiction. A song or two or a few come around and you are left powerless to resist the musical pheromones they emit. You (and me) play it over and over and over again and play nothing else until we eventually have over-listened to it. We then retire it into the pile of our previous musical crutches. It is subsequently replaced by some new music we listen to on repeat about 54 times a day. Give or take a few.

Such music reaches such prominence because it speaks to us on some level. It could be an excellent beat or the lyrics that seem to express almost exactly how you feel. Sometimes it is both. Either way, it creates an emotional high or an adrenaline rush in us. It like a drug. And like many drugs, the more you use it, the more your body becomes resistant to it until you eventually need to move onto something new.

For the past 2 days, the following two songs have been my drug. I encourage you to become addicted to them as well:

ADELE's "Rolling in the Deep"

Mumford & Sons' "I Gave You All"

I think they are both musically beautifully and emotionally relevant to my life and feelings. Yes, please enjoy that totally emo comment I just stated. Don't kerrrrr (translation: I don't care).

And on another subject, I am writing this while in my Ecology of Infectious Disease class. We have a guest speaker with an accent and thus I can't really understand her. She's talking about food-born illness.....or "Foot-borne" illness.... I am honestly not sure which. But she's nice, so I feel terrible for saying that. But whatevers man.

Also, I am seeing Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe on Saturday. You know you are jealous. I am just bummed they had to move the venue from a railroad museum (totally rad) to the dirt parking lot I parked my car in for free during the summer I took my MCAT class. Not WINNING.

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On another note, my dog Pavlo (Greek name: Pavalos) is the coolest thing ever. Come meet him.

Cheerio