So if what they say is true...
I am listening to Nine Inch Nails. What album you ask? Pretty Hate Machine. I love this album. I love NIN. IN grade nine they were my favorite band. I haven't heard this album since I was in grade 10. It's amazing how listening to a cd, a simple phase of music, can bring back such incredible memories. As I listen to this ablum I memories of a cold Calgary winter are shoved into my head. Memories of grade nine, watching the video for "Head like a hole" for the first time, when I fell in love with Trent Reznor's music. No I haven't listened to NIN for a really long time. Actually, to tell you the truth listening to this ablum kind of makes me sad... though I cannot exactly pinpoint the reason why. Music, it's a wonderful thing. It can stir up so many feelings within your soul. Listening to one song can change your entire life. You know what band changed my life? Green Day. The first time I heard them in Grade 7 their happy, poppy punk appealed so much to a shy, lonely me. I rushed right out and bought "Dookie" after seeing the video for longview the first time. Oh how cute I thought Billie Joe was, and still is. Oh how I loved his green hair, which actually inspired me to put Green streaks in my hair in grade 9 which I suffered much grief for. OH how I hated all the "Hey, did you know your hair is green?" as if I woke up one morning to find I had been visited by the hair die fairy, or "What's that in your hair? IT looks kind of green" like some strange fungus was growing on my head. It's all because of that one band, and my brother's friend Jesse (from Wiggum), who had blue hair in grade 10 that I discovered how beautiful technicolor hair is, so much that I sitll die my hair every color of the rainbow today, three years later. It is all because of one tape that I started listening to bands like Rancid, and The Offspring. It's all because of one band that I decided to start going to shows with my brother back when I was in grade nine and he still went to shows. Music. It's such a pwerful thing. Don't take it for granted, because three chords can change the entire course of your life.
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