<< July 3, 2006 >>
day 3

i remember back when i first started playing drums how much listening to music changed. all of the different drum sounds stood out in a way that i'd never noticed before, and it was kind of startling, maybe?

over the last two weeks i've experienced the same thing again, but this time with synthesizers and all of the fancy effects that make modern music. i can hear the reverbs and flanges and synth pads that were always there, but are now new again.

i wonder how this changes music. does it cheapen it, because i know that this sound is this plus this with this, or is it enriched, because these different effects mean something more specific, that can't be fully appreciated casually?

separately i've been going through 4 box sets of woody allen movies, and something curious has happened 3 or 4 times. i'll watch one movie, and think it was pretty good, and either later that day or the next, i'd watch another, and would be blown away at how much better the second one was.

i'm looking forward to seeing the boston fireworks tomorrow (for only the 3rd time in the 7 years i've lived here). i hope my friend phik is ready for adventures! SEXY ADVENTURES?