Im 24 and listen to music pretty regualary. I love to play sports, smoke green and drankkk....Real rap> everything. Eminem, Jay-Z, TI, Common, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, 50 Cent, Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, D12, Big Sean, J Cole, Drake, Ludacris, Outkast, Bun B... just to name a few.. and classic rock is also on my mind. Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Eagles, Doors, Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Pink Floyd... just to name some of my favorites.

"Do you ever wish you could quote music? I always wonder what to write in the little boxes that say “about me” and “description” etc. on the various online portals of communication that, as a teenager*, I inevitably manage. I usually end up typing a few words, deleting them, and staring at that little flickering vertical line that seems to mock my futile attempts to accurately portray myself in a few (preferably very witty and clever) sentences. Needless to say, I most often end up with a dry, uninspiring, incredibly generic little paragraph that outlines some arbitrary details about myself that happen to pop into my mind at the time. I feel that the only way I could ever accurately represent myself would be through music. I wish there were a way to “write” a piece of a song into that little box. I do not mean typing a lyric that I like, or putting a song on some player to share my music tastes with others, but isolating a single, unique collection of sounds from a piece of music and somehow manipulating the letters on my keyboard to make the reader hear it. As bizarre and absurd as it may seem, it’s a notion that I cannot seem to forget. Maybe the particular music is a short clip from a piece I’ve always known and liked, maybe it’s just a riff from an anonymous song I heard on the radio or in a friend’s car, but either way some things I hear just stick with me, and no matter how many times I listen to that old standby, no matter if I never hear that mystery song again, that individual progression of notes and chords seems to explain me perfectly. I’m not sure why I am so convinced that twenty seconds of noise can flawlessly and precisely encompass every aspect of myself-every joy and disappointment, every memory and aspiration, every opinion, secret, success, pride, and mistake-but I remain convinced. To say that every person who would listen to those twenty seconds would know me would be to exaggerate the extent of my belief; I merely feel that in some way that particular sequence of tones describes me, captures a part of myself that I do not know how to put into words: a part of myself that, maybe, I don’t really understand. Perhaps I am the only person who identifies with a floating melody or haunting progression which seems to hold in it the very soul of it’s listener-but I suspect not. I suspect that there are many of us for whom a little tune seems to own our fears, flaws, future, first kiss. I wish desperately to replace these words with music, in the hope that anyone who should stumble across my thoughts would first have the chance to get to know me a little bit, if only for twenty seconds or so." My first entry from my (oft neglected) blog, written before I discovered 8tracks. Maybe now you folks will get to know me a little bit, if only for 8 tracks or so. *Again, this was written some time ago, but I didn't want to edit it for something as inessential to the message as my age...

James. No, Jimmy. 21. Violist. Music lover (duh). Hopeless Romantic. Student. Neurotic but also lazy and untidy. Broad tastes in music. In a LDR

"In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde

I have the most eclectic taste in music you can find, yet my heart will always be with classic rock; the rest are just affairs; and my love for The Beatles is a little scary. I like to play any instrument I can get my hands on and have jam sessions with the tribe. The world is too beautiful to go unseen, and I do not plan on letting it go to waste. I kind of just make it up as I go along and that's the way I plan on keeping it.

Music is feeling you can hear.

i get by on beauty and art

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laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun