“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”~~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Sometimes music is all a person has in life. Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t going to be an “emo” or “gothy” post. In reality, at one point in your life, you feel completely alone and cling to your music for relief. I know several of my friends and I have felt like that a lot in the past year.

That being said, certain songs during your life stay with you. Sometimes they bring pleasant memories, and sometimes the melody can be haunting. People have argued with me over the fact that there is no soundtrack to your life. I can’t accept that thought; music is meant to become part of you, to share the most important milestones in your life.

To test this theory, though, let’s play a little game. Think back to your first love… Remember when it was fresh, new, and you were sure it was going to last forever. Did you have a song? Maybe, not… but lets say a song from that time frame comes on the radio, are you transported back to the that time? Do you relive it a little? Then you and the first love break up, your heart is broken and you decide you will never feel complete again. What song was constantly on repeat? For me, it was Third Eye Blind’s How’s it Gonna Be. For those who are married, I’m sure that you could tell me what the 1st dance song was at your wedding. The same could be said for the 1st time you had sex, made love, had your brains fucked out while listening to music.

Naturally this applies more than just to relationships. School dances, concerts, the pissed off anthem, and the sing-a-long car rides. One of my favorite music memories though is the silly times with friends. I use to have a friend that would hang out with me next to the highway and we’d belt out songs from our favorite bands while cars drove by. Every time I hear one of those songs I can see us sitting on the hill singing the horrid renditions of it. And, while we are no longer friends it reminds me of why she was an important person in my life.

So, my darling readers, these memories are only one of the thousands of reasons why music, no matter who wrote and performed it, belongs to us. I hope you all have a soundtrack to your life, and I hope it grows more and more every day.

Until next time, when this damn song isn’t stuck in my head,
autumn

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“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything”~~Floyd Dell

I suppose I should start off this entry by apologizing for the lack of updates. Life seemed to catch up with us here at beshameless. You know what life gets like this time of year, graduations, weddings, cross country road trips, vacation to foriegn lands, and moving. One or more of those is the reason for my lack of updates, and as for the guys… well, they might fall into that category or maybe they are just uber slackers.

But needless to say I’ve been out of touch, and while I’ve watched the news and read articles I haven’t done anything more than that. My muse was definitely on vacation and I have nothing witty to say about current events. It seems that I’ve been an uber slacker too.

However, there are a couple things that I did want to mention. We’ve become sellouts and joined the ranks at Myspace.  I guess you can call it selling out, although I prefer the term shameless self-promotion. You can find us at BeShameless on Myspace. You should go and add us as friends, because at the moment that I’m writing this, Tom is our only friend. And, that my dear readers make us look like major losers.

Also, I just want to tell you to expect real updates soon. I have an idea spinning around in my head, and I think Ethan is doing some research on a topic as well.

Until next time, when I’ll really entertain you,
autumn

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