What R Musik?

                It’s hard to say for certain whom my favorite musical artist is, there are so many! I really love all types of music. I love jazz, hip hop, punk, folk punk, jam bands, and even dubstep or electronic music. But, for the sake of this blog post, I’ll get really specific.

                Andrew Bird is incredible. Before I begin, did you know his major in college was whistling? That’s like, automatically 5,000 points for Mr. Bird.

                His song “Hospital,” was featured in the indie movie project, “Norman,” released in 2010. I have not seen the movie unfortunately, but it looks really good. In fact, I know it’s good, because Andrew Bird wrote a lot of music for the movie.

                This song has really inspired me a lot. It’s instrumental and there are no lyrics to it, but never before have so many images come to my head when I listen to it. It’s like there’s been this idea bouncing around in there for so long, and I couldn’t organize it or solidify it until I heard this song.

                I plan to make a project out of this song for the remainder of the summer. I want to incorporate my friends and the feeling of being a young adult with no cares, like you’re a kid again in the midst of growing up and you’re absorbing every detail. You can appreciate it all more now because you can see that you’re childhood has to end at some point. I could go on.

                It’s a shorter song, and it’s slow paced. It gives me the feeling of a hazy dream or memory of being in the sun. The end of the song ends on a high note, a long strum of his violin. It leaves a feeling of hope in the future. As if the best is yet to come.

                It’s strange how you can get so much imagery from just hearing instruments work together like that. That’s why I respect Andrew Bird so much. This song makes you think. You have to dig to find out what it means to you.

                That sounds sappy and all, but it’s true! He makes my job so much easier by being so descriptive through his music. It’s like he painted a picture in my head.

Now it’s just a matter of getting these thoughts on a screen.  And this is how famous directors are made. Watch out Wes Anderson, I’m coming for you.

Oh! I might as well post the song on this blog, too. See what you can find.

Listen to these heady jams, bro.