GOOD MORNIN' BITCHES!
WOKE UP FEELING ELATED THIS MORNING, DUE TO JACOBS WINNING THE FIGHT THE WAY I PREDICTED IT TO GO DOWN LAST NIGHT. IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF BRILLIANT. I THOUGHT THAT JACOBS WOULD INITIALLY COME OUT AND ATTEMPT TO BOX, AND THROW THE HEAT LATER, BUT, THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. JACOBS THRU A STRAIGHT RIGHT WITH BAD INTENTIONS, AND ONCE THAT LANDED, HE SWARMED QUILLIN. SOME PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE REF UNFAIRLY STOPPED THE FIGHT, BUT, I BELIEVE HE ACTING ON THE BEST INTEREST OF THE FIGHTER'S HEALTH. THERE'S TALK OF A REMATCH, BUT, I REALLY DON'T WANT OR NEED TO SEE A REMATCH.
I ALSO WOKE UP THIS MORNING THINKING ABOUT MUSIC. HOW IMPORTANT MUSIC IS. WHAT MUSIC DOES TO US. MUSIC IS SOMETIMES THE CENTER OF OUR LIVES, BUT, WE DON'T REALIZE IT. IN THE MOVIE, "HERE COMES THE BOOM", KEVIN JAMES PLAYS A SCHOOL TEACHER ATTEMPTING TO SAVE THE SCHOOLS MUSIC PROGRAM, BY FIGHTING IN MMA. IN THE MOVIE THERE'S A VERY POIGNANT QUOTE ABOUT MUSIC, AND IT IS: "WITHOUT MUSIC, LIFE WOULD BE A MISTAKE" - friedrich nietzsche. THIS IS PROFOUNDLY TRUE. HOW MANY TIMES HAS MUSIC MOVED YOU? CAUSED YOU TO FEEL A CERTAIN WAY? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD MUSIC AND CONSIDERED IT TO BE MOOD ALTERING, OR EVEN LIFE CHANGING? THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT MUSIC, IS THAT THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT, YOU CAN LITERALLY BE SWALLOWED UP BY IT. WE IMMERSE OURSELVES IN MUSIC, HOPING TO IDENTIFY WHAT WE FEEL WITH, A CERTAIN SONG OR ALBUM. IT IS HARD TO EXPRESS, THE FEELINGS WE HAVE WITHIN US SOMETIMES, AND A SONG HAS A WAY OF GIVING US A PERSONAL AUDIENCE THAT KNOWS EXACTLY HOW WE FEEL, AND WE FEEL UNDERSTOOD. IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER, WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IT IS EITHER. MUSIC WITHOUT WORDS, OR MUSIC THAT IS FULL OF WORDS, WE CAN FIND SOMETHING THAT WE IDENTIFY WITH. WHY? BECAUSE MUSIC COMES FROM WITHIN. MUSIC IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, THAT GOES BEYOND WORDS. IT'S ALMOST LIKE POETRY, POETRY IS SIMPLY WORDS, BUT WORDS IN A WAY, THAT SOUND SO MUCH BETTER THAN IF YOU SIMPLY JUST SAID HOW YOU FEEL. MUSIC IS ART FOR THE EARS.
BEING, APART OF MAKING MUSIC IS SOMETHING SPECIAL. LEARNING HOW TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, SING, OR RAP, IS A GREAT THING. THOSE WHO HAVE A NATURAL TALENT FOR THOSE THINGS, DO WONDROUS THINGS IN MUSIC. EVEN THOSE, WHO LEARN, AND DEVELOP A DEEP LOVE FOR WHAT THEY DO MUSICALLY, GO ON TO MAKE AUDIBLE MAGIC. I'VE KNOWN QUITE A FEW MUSICALLY TALENTED PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS, AND IT IS ALWAYS IMPRESSIVE TO ME, BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH A DEEP AFFINITY FOR MUSIC. MUSIC CAN HIT THE RIGHT SPOT SOMETIMES, FROM AN AMPED RAP SONG, TO A GROOVY JAZZ TRACK, TO AN SYMPHONIC INSTRUMENTAL THAT IS GRAND SWEEPING. I FIND MYSELF IN MUSIC, OFTEN. I AM AFFECTED BY MUSIC, IT CHANGES MY MOOD, AND CHANGES THE WAY I THINK AS WELL. I LOVE MUSIC, FOR THAT REASON. I HAVE PUT MY HEADPHONES ON AND LET THE MUSIC CARRY ME TO DIFFERENT PLACES, AND I FEEL WONDERFUL. SOMETIMES, THE MUSIC MAKES ME ANGRY, OR AGGITATED, WHEN I LISTEN TO SOMETHING AGGRESSIVE, BUT, THAT IS THE INTENTION AND I USE THAT. I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, TO BE APART OF MUSIC THRU HIP HOP, AND I CONTINUOUSLY FEEL LUCKY I HAD THE CHANCE TO DO SO, BECAUSE IT INCLUDES ME IN A WHOLE CATEGORY OF PEOPLE I LOOK UP TO AND GET INSPIRED BY. I DON'T THINK I WAS GREAT, I THINK I BORDERLINE SUCKED, BUT THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT THOUGHT I WAS OK, SO I GUESS THAT'S GOOD. SOME PEOPLE IDENTIFY WITH WHAT I'VE SAID, AND I GUESS, THAT MEANT THE MOST.
MUSIC IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF OUR EXISTENCE, A SERIES OF SOUNDS ON THE OUTSIDE OF OUR BODIES, THAT IS MEANT TO BOTH EXPRESS AND EFFECT US ON THE INSIDE. IT CONNECTS US. IT REMINDS US, THAT NO MATTER HOW DIFFERENT, WE ARE ESSENTIALLY, THE SAME. - 925