Music

     When I was around 18 or 19 years old, I discovered an insane amount of love I never realized I had for the Beatles. For some reason, their music really made everything awesome and I started really noticing it playing everywhere. The obsession started when I bought a "Best of the Beatles" album, which had a lot of their most popular songs, and I added them all to my mp3 player and literally listened to them on loop until I knew all the songs. I wanted to write about a lot of special things here, and music is definitely up there with tabletop gaming and altogether abnormality.
     I think a big thing that kind of shaped me as a person is the fact that I grew up around music. When my siblings and I were really young, like in the 2-10 age range, Mom had an old record player and a lot of music from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. I was only 2 or so, but one of the things I remember clearly was the music that always played when I was that young.
    The thing is, I bought the Beatles album, and it made a very clear and perfect memory surface. I was listening to the normal ones, like Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, and Across the Universe, and then Come Together came on, and I had to pause the CD for a second, because I was singing along and couldn't remember hearing the song before. I tried to figure out when and where I heard this song, and it hit me. I wasn't even old enough to sit at the table without a high chair yet, but I was in the kitchen and my mom was dancing around listening to Come Together, singing to me and cooking. I specifically remember "I know you, you know me..one thing I can tell you is you got to be free."
      I think it's cool how one of my first memories is of a band that I didn't even remember hearing until after I listened to it again over a decade later. The human brain is cool like that. I think that's probably why listening to the Beatles and other old bands like that is a kind of carefree and fun thing for me to do when I want to calm down after a Hard Day's Night.