Dead.

 Dead.

 Dead.

There are dead people on my I-Tunes. They made good music, but now they are dead. Oh well. Just my luck anyway. Figures.

I didn't grow up listening to awesome music (well, with the exception of Bruce Springsteen- Dad's secret indulgence). I had to listen to the James Dobson, Dr. Laura and the occasional Ricky Travis. As a young adult, I've had to find all of this music by myself. It's been fun. I DJ'ed at the college radio station in college and discovered a ton of fun music that way. I learned to appreciate blue grass and hung out with guys who wore really tight jeans, pumas and dyed black hair. I'll tell you what's not fun though: Finding music you like, wikipedia'ing it, and then finding out the people are dead. Jeff Buckley- dead, Eva Cassidy- Dead. Wikipedia has proclaimed it to be so. Sad.

And then there's the phenomenon of finding out that these people who you were told were bad people actually made some really great music, and maybe weren't so bad after all. Queen- Died of AIDS because he's gay. Jim Morrison- Bad, Bad, BAD, BAD! (Moms hair stands on end, her face becomes distorted and you back up rreeaaalll ssslllooooww....) Turns out Queen and the Doors made some really awesome music. And Jim Morrison was hot! Too bad he's dead.

So the search continues. I can't keep up with the independent music scene anymore. There are too many bands, and 98% of the stuff is shit that you have to wade through to find the 2% that's incredible. So now I rely on XM. I can't listen to the FM radio, it's shit too. I can't stand the new rock that's coming out- most of it is talentless, disgusting crap. It's all about marketing yourself; it's not really about music. Not that it was all about music back then, or that it's all about music in the independent scene, but it sure seems it was *more* about music. Or at least less about selling yourself as a product that you created out of your former self.

Dead People on my I-Tunes. Thank you for the music, even if you are rotting corpses.