Bally's Blurty

Musique
It's happened, like I was hoping it would.

The arrival of iTunes into my life has revitalised my love for music. Over the last couple of years I'd almost lost faith in it - some of my favourite artists released stuff that I didn't like, and the new things I was buying weren't that great either. So music started to lag behind books, films, videogames and TV in the time-occupying stakes.

The biggest problem, though, was that I'd lost the buzz. Songs that I used to love were no longer exciting me in the same way that they used to - if I put on Right Here, Right Now, f'r example, I'd know that I was putting the song on and so wouldn't get that little shiver of surprise that made me listen to it and concentrate on it. Well, iTunes fixes that right up.

I've made myself a playlist called "Happy", which currently features 36 songs. They're all songs that I won't skip and that I loved. Setting it to random means that the surprise element is back - I've got it going at the moment, and I've spent much of my time listening to it with goosebumps... this despite the fact I was sweating somewhat when I got back from today's jaunt to Crewe. Bought a tie.

Hope that, wherever you are and whatever you're doing, you're a little bit happier than you were this morning.

Current Mood: giddy
Current Music: Revtone - Love Movement (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)