My music is different

First, I would like to tell a cute little anecdote: I was on Itunes, as I often am on a Tuesday evening, and looking at an imix for some Christian music. I came upon a clip of Saviour by Skillet. I played the thirty second sound bite, and just as I was remembering where I'd heard this song before, Robbie, my sweet parakeet who loves to listen to song clips and reacts to them according to how much he likes them, freaked out and tried to fly away! If he'd have succeeded, I'd have been impressed, as he was in his cage at the time. He succeeded in spreading feathers about the computer desk. So, I've learned just now that Skillet scares my bird.

Robbie seems to like Jeremy Camp, though. And he usually seems happy to hear Barlow Girl. He even liked the Krystal Meyers clips I played.

Anyway, I came to a realization tonight that my secular music sounds absolutely nothiing like my Christian music. My secular tends to be very mellow, and happy sounding. Such as, my newest secular purchase was Corinne Bailey Rae, quite good and mellow. Imagine Norah Jone mixed with Joss Stone, or something like that. I also have an affinity for what I call Guys and Guitars: John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Josh Kelley (and yes, I do realize all their names start with the letter J), but I don't like any of them well enough to buy all or their CDs, just select songs. But for Christian music, I've got stuff like Relient K (when they actually sound Christian...) Barlow Girl, Jeremy Camp, and now I'm looking for more stuff like that.

Actually, I've just mentally defeated my own point, by remembering that some of my favorite Christian music is Jadon Lavik, Out of Edens Hymns CD, and I adore Barlow Girl's slower worship songs. And some of my secular is pretty up there. I can't name any right now, but I do like a few songs with more electric guitar than substance (a few things by Skye Sweetnam come to mind). I just don't tend to buy the secular "hard" stuff. (Really, nothing I listen to is all that hard)

Well, there I go, I've just made this post null and void, except for the cute bird story. I have once again proven that I have nothing to talk about except my "kids" who happen to have fur and feathers. Dear heavens, I'm one of those moms! Just kidding. Hey, wanna hear about the cute things my cats have been doing?!?! Oh dear, I have cats. Not just cat... singular, but CATS plural! I'm a cat lady, but I'm in my 20s! AAAAAHH!

I'm ok, now.

Till next I write!
If you last that long.