Lifestyle: How Can You Afford Your Rock And Roll Lifestyle?

I wanted to wait to blog again until I had something more interesting to talk about than pissing and moaning over my love-life...and finally...I do...a lot.

I will start this preamble with this caveat, I have learned to love and enjoy one new thing after every long term relationship I have ever had. One taught me to like Antiquing, one how to dress fashionably, one how to hate Newfies, and my most recent, how to fall in love with music again...

I've always had music around, I know everyone says that...look on a dating site...90% of people put music as an interest, but having a favourite radio station or singing Britney Spears word for word hardly counts as a love of music. I mean more than a like, more than an appreciation, it's not just a hobby...to be cliche, it's a soundtrack to your life. I know musicians get this, that's why they become musicians, but for us few, who have the creativity, but not the dexterity, to become musicians...well...we have to find other ways.

I have friends who are 'in' to music. Brandon produces a quarterly report of his recommendations for new albums, giving his thoughts behind them. He and I are usually bang on with tastes...though mine go a little less mainstream than his. Others blog about it, critique venues and events, and give me the heads up on what is coming down the pipe for good tunes. Others were in a band when we went to University, and they played at "The Green House" almost every weekend...so I didn't just listen...I lived...

So...even with such a bad taste in my mouth for my previous life...the one thing I carried through is Music...and what do you do when you are in Toronto for a week, on a training course for work, while the biggest Indie Event of the year is going on (CMW)?...Well you go dumbass...you go enjoy it.

I was looking through the MusicFest schedule, and I could pick out about 14 bands that I had met personally over the last year and a half, and devised a way to see them all. It's been one hell of a week, and it's only really half over.

I guess, with each of life's trials, you learn something new about yourself...something you can add to the mix to define who you are. I'm a dabbler...I mingle and schmooze...operate in many different circles, jack of all trades, master of none...so am I as committed to the Indie music scene in Canada like some others that I know? Not even close...but I enjoy it...proud of it...proud to be part, in my own little way, of it...and I apply it to my life like the other lessons and tools I've collected along the way.