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--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 02 Feb 2009, 19:05 ---
In person, you're relatively quiet when the subject of music comes up, because nobody really knows what you're talking about whenever you get excited about something.  However, constant reinforcement from a variety of sources that you have specifically sought out for the sake of sharing thoughts about music (aka the internet) has you convinced that when you get excited about music, you have a better reason to than anyone else.  You're usually right, but this approach hasn't really quite yet coalesced into any kind of defined taste per se, and in between this, your enthusiasm for the music you listen to, and the fact that most of the talking you do about music is on the internet, you haven't found anyone yet who you can hang out with and just listen to music to with.  Since music is such a large part of your life, you sometimes despair of ever finding a close music buddy, and perhaps an abnormally large proportion of what you look for in a partner has to do with their musical tastes.

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this describes me perfectly even though it was written for alex c.
except i don't really date people based on musical preference because if i did, i'd end up with someone like tommy. but i would secretly like to have a boyfriend who appreciates the fall at least.

GreyGabe:
Onewheelwizzard, you are really good at this! Except for the second part of the pot thing (I'm actually too paranoid even to try it...), you have it spot on. How are you doing this? I find it slightly unnerving.

onewheelwizzard:
My secret is that I only do it with people whose musical taste reminds me of either myself or someone I know.  Then I zero in on precisely what it is about that person I know (or myself) that makes me like those bands, and extrapolate on that.

For instance, you listen to ISIS, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Lacuna Coil, so you like really intense/distorted rock (hence secret desire to mosh), but you also listen to Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Porcupine Tree (which screams "nerd," and therefore, "probably physically fragile" and "not friends with lots of girls but good friends with a few").  The part about the paranoia/annoyance regarding weed comes from the fact that you DON'T listen to music with a heavy bottom end or a heavy psychedelic influence, which you inevitably would by now if you liked getting high.

I draw all these conclusions from comparing you to myself, a friend I had in the first couple years of college, and guys who wear shirts with prog-rock bands on them (you are not one of them, they are usually bigger than you and have long hair and possibly neckbeards).  At least one or two of your friends in high school probably have/had bad acne and probably wear/wore button-down shirts with airbrushed artwork of dragons (or maybe even anime characters) on them.  Those are the ones now wearing prog-rock t-shirts, and you went a different direction and you probably wear dark solid colors almost exclusively.

MrBlu:

--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 02 Feb 2009, 19:26 ---You probably grew up in a house with a bunch of people who liked music that was cool enough for you to keep around.  Music that successfully replicates the feeling you got from the cool music you listened to growing up is now your favorite.  You're a little bit stuck in the past this way, but the idea that non-retro new music can also be cool has just recently started to grow on you and you've gotten a taste for stuff that you're pretty sure is underappreciated.  Most of the music you like is stuff that makes you think that not only are the musicians you listen to talented, but they also have very good taste in music themselves.

The chances of finding someone in your life who actually listens to all the same stuff you do are virtually insignificant, but the chances that you make new friends based on the fact that you listen to one or two certain specific bands are much higher than they are for anyone else you know ... and it seems to be a different band every time you make a new friend.

You're probably more likely to be interested in DJing than making music with instruments, but if you get into one you'll inevitably get into the other.

Nobody would ever be able to tell what you listen to from the way you dress.

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Well screw me running.

The only thing you left out is specifically which family members. Oh, hey, I'm not unique.

Ballard:
Someone do me!

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