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Someone of my acquaintance asked me why I bother telling people what I am listening to on my blog. My first instinct was to be on the defensive and told her that it's my blog I can post what I want to, I mean it is the Idiosyncratic Hedonist, there is no particular topic that is a no-no for this blog. Later I thought about it, and the main reason is that I don't have people to discuss music with. Most of the people I hang out with do not like the kind of music I listen to. So here is where I come to tell strangers what I am listening to.
And this week, what's playing on repeat is Blue October's A Quiet Mind. Maybe I should start by saying that most of Blue October's songs are not easy to listen to. Apart from maybe Calling You and Fairy Tale, most of their songs will bring someone to tears. And this makes them one of my favourite bands of all time. Don't get me wrong, I like One Direction, The Wanted, Capital Cities and Nickelback (I see you rolling your eyes) like the next girl, but it is bands like Blue October that remind me that music is more than having a producer come up with the right beats and all you have to do is come up with lyrics that you think are suitable. With Blue October, you get the feeling that they carefully came up with the lyrics, and then sang with emotion, and you are left wondering if maybe they knew you, because these are the same words that you would have come up with.
With A Quiet Mind, I have to say that they didn't disappoint. And this is why: I always feel that my life is a cacophony of different things going on at the same time. I have what the Buddhists call a monkey mind, I am bombarded with different thoughts at any given moment in time, pulling me in different directions. If you are like me, then you realise that, a quiet mind is something you do not take for granted. I will fall in love with you if you have the ability to quiet my self induced anxiety and sometimes out of this world paranoia. It shouldn't come as a surprise then that the people I fall for are almost always soft spoken, those people who seem calm and collected, even if it's just an act. At this time though, there might not be a particular person who gives me a quiet mind, and maybe that's the reason why I stay up late daily because when normal people are asleep, the hedonist in me finds peace in the dead of the night, where the cacophony in my mind meets the silence that comes with the night, that's my favourite time of day. I am at peace, all the troubles of the day having been completely forgotten.
Favourite Lyrics
I call baby up. Leave me alone.
I am in pain but I won't let you band aid my wound.
I am mad at a stage where I can't seem to handle my own.
Can't even handle my...
Still hearing voices from front...from behind. They are the reason I choose when to live...how to die...when to cast...when to reel...when to buy...when to steal...and when to fiend for the friends that taught you being inappropriate will.
Give me a quiet mind,
And I, I'll love you
You give me a quiet mind
And I, I love you
You give me a quiet mind
And I, I love you
You give me a quiet mind
And I, I love you
Until the end.
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