Update For January 2006

Happy New Year Everyone!

This month I haven’t done that much as usual; I haven’t even done hardly any work on my book for ages although I’ve done some research. I am currently working on a mini art project involving photographs of all the things that I’ve bought for the last 3 years.

For my book I see myself as an investigative journalist dishing the dirt on how music is marketed and sold to its listeners. Also I am looking at the psychological reasons for taste and taste relating to personality. The 1st chapter which will probably end up as an intro is all about me and how my musical tastes have evolved and why they were so. The following extract is from this chapter and is about how my tastes have changed;

For some reason now I listen to mostly American music for some unknown reason. I only listen to a couple of British bands. Back in the 1990’s I listened to British music almost exclusively. It might be due to the way that I access new music these days as I usually come across music via free downloads from record company and band websites. Back in the day I used to get to hear new music on British radio which played a lot of British music. But now I tend to listen to my cds or music on my computer instead. This is also due to me not reading NME so I am not interested in any of their over hyped crap anymore. These changes in how I access new music has also made it so that I don’t really listen to brand new music as a lot of the stuff I am into is quite old now. I also listen to a wider variety of music as I can now download different bands which helps broaden the horizons.


CURRENT LISTENING:
The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
Yo La Tengo – Prisoners of Love (Matador)
Bright Eyes – Lifted (Wichita)