| May 4, 2002 Dear Elijah, It's weird for me to look back at where I came from. Here I am, a young woman whose twentieth birthday came not even four months after the world changing event now called September Eleventh. Such a world that nurtured me to this point. Very strange is it for me to watch VH1 specials about the music that accompanied my life. I don't really remember much of the Eighties in that respect. I think I pretty much listened to what my parents listened, with a bit of children's music thrown in for good measure. It's not until the early Nineties that the music scene became a part of my life. It's really easy to forget how long ago that was, and how different things were back then. I mean, the decade only ended less than two and a half years ago. But, in 1992 I was ten, just starting my life in double digits. The funniest thing? I really love grunge, and alternative for that matter, but I didn't really get Nirvana until after Kurt was already dead. Heh. I know I liked them, I remember loving the first two videos especially.... yet, when I think about, Unplugged In New York was the defining album in my fandom, and it didn't come out until after his suicide. I do that a lot. The time when music comes out is really irrelevant to me, I'm just as likely to have something from the seventies as my new interest-focusing band as one putting out music now. I may follow a band through their first album to the next and next in succession, or start with the latest and go backward, or go in no order at all. Like now, I've been listening to Millencolin's For Monkeys, System of a Down's self-titled album, and Iced Earth's Dark Saga the most recently, and none of those are particularly new albums. And none of them were purchased when they came out, but rather in retrospect. Last year was the year of Pink Floyd for me. Don't ask me why, I kind of liked them before then, but they didn't really become a part of me until then. Maybe I wasn't ready for them before, or maybe I just wasn't in the mood. So far, this year seems like it will be an Iced Earth and System of a Down year for me, but it's hard to tell. I started down the path of metal last year, when I first connected to Black Sabbath, and later Ozzy's solo work. This could become an Ozzy year too... if it truly infects me. So far I haven't given into the urge to buy his new album, though I most did several times. If I do, I could spent a lot of time devoted to him. Really, it couldn't be a better year for this, considering the Osbornes series has just been run. Hm. Wow, this entry has gotten of track, hasn't it? That'll happen.... (By the way, midway through writing this, I put System of a Down in my cd player... biased much?) Well anyway, I'm ending this for now before I go off on another tangent. Love, Des Back to my Diary |