3 is a nice number. A magic number, if you will

Oi it's not easy to reply in GERMAN, you know. *mutters* Hell I still haven't replied. Whose fault is that? *smiles sweetly at Arilda*

Aria: *coldly* Well, it isn't -my- fault you can't seem to keep your wits about you long enough to figure out my history.

I am wounded, darling. Absolutely. *mock swoons* Heh ok. I disagree. I mean, I grew up listening to oldies (especially the Carpenters and Richard Clayderman) but I absolutely detest Clayderman and I'm not too hot about oldies. I mean, they're nice and classic and all but they tend to make me fall asleep...no kick, no challenge.

I agree about what people around you/people you hold in high esteem listen to, though. Peer pressure, and part of ai4 wu1 ji2 wu1, which is a chinese idiom for liking the things about the person cos you like a person. Um. It sounds odd put that way but yeah.

I definitely agree with the last, though. Even though I still don't like classical. Gah. Oh I think my mom was talking more about the "perform well" part..cos supposedly singing the song, especially a well-known one, supposedly reminds the audience of how it originally sounded..

*mutters* There's something wrong with my cookies or something..

Well, that was only an educated guess. (and for some reason, it always ends up that Christofori's Dream starts playing whenever I do anything at this website. Its like a message from God, or something).

And as for what I perform, I play percussion in the school band. I'm pretty good at it, and I generally like at least one of the three songs we play for a contest (this year I like 4 of the songs we play, we just started playing a different set of three today, although I don't understand the reasoning behind that, since there are only 4 or so weeks of school left.)

I found the perfect theme song for a friend of mine, but then I forgot what it was... and I have 9 and a half hours of music on my playlist to sift through...

No kick eh... what would you define as 'kick' or 'challenge'? I mean, if you're just listening to music... what challenge is there to speak of?

There is. The feeling you get of someone reaching amazing notes with an amazing voice (like Gackt sometimes ) or in some way engaging you..that's what I call kick. Sometimes I find myself trying to just listen to the bass or one section of the music...it gives a whole interesting spin on the whole experience.

And, dear, -that- is the reason I turn the volume up when I listen to my mp3 player. It's not loud, it's sound surround Lets you hear a lot more things more clearly.

Lol out of 400+ songs..? The probability is, what -- ok ok I won't calculate it, we've enough of that during math, heh. You play percussion? That's really cool! I have a pretty bad sense of rhythm -- keep going faster/slower as I play, heh. Can't stick to one speed unless I have a metronome (which I hate) or someone to drum it/keep the rhythm. Ah well.

Ah I see... yeah I do that too. So does Maria, I think. She was raving the other day about some secondary school angklung group's SYF piece which had 5 or 6 layers of sound. And with angklung, that's quite a feat of coordination!