change the radio/i hate background music/turn it off or make it loud

It is apparently impossible for me to watch anything with subtitles this week. For the third time, I've tried watching KAGEMUSHA and for the third time, I've drifted off to sleep during it. I blame Barnes & Noble for making me super tired.

Also today figured out that pretty much everything I like is considered depressing or boring to others. Case in point: EYES WIDE SHUT. Another case in point- this cd we play at work that I absolutely love- EISLEY. It's really cool, pretty melodies, harmonies... I would say it's dreamy. It's almost shoegazing lush sorta music for the new millenium. Apparently they turn down the volume in the café when we play it. I literally had so many people giving me shit about playing it that I turned it off. What did they want to hear? Buddha-fucking-Bar. Plus, I was also told that another cd we played was depressing.... Emiliana Torrini (Icelandic/Italian how 'bout that). Here's a line from the song "Home alone and happy/nothing brings me down". It's a happy, summery song- it's called "NOTHING BRINGS ME DOWN" dammit!! But, it's a ballad, so this is what makes it so depressing- if there's no thumping of any kind it must be depressing, right? Yes, it's my continuing war vs. background music. I guess the thing is that most people think of music as candy, not nourishment. I'm all for candy- hello, I have every Kylie Minogue album- more than one version of a couple and there are days when I'm all Kylie all the time- but I guess that most people just want to put a cd in and just let it be, rather than actively listening to it and letting it move them. So another lesson learned is that much like all my navelgazing about things beyond my control & my inability to just let go & let things be, I'm apparently also overthinking popular entertainment.

and everyone who knows me and is reading this just went "DUH"

rick
in subject line: "On These Wheels Again" by Jules Shear from BETWEEN US
still with the: Kagemusha/Assassination Vacation