How are we doing?

I'm Jake. I'm a 22 year-old male from Seattle, and will confess, I am a music-holic.

As with everyone, I have my musical fallbacks (Armor for Sleep, Copeland, Coheed, etc.), but in the grand scheme of my musical universe, my tastes change so dramatically from month to month, hell, even from day to day, that I now try to keep my library as concise as possible.

Now, concise is a relative term. You may ask:

“Concise for whom, Jake?”

Well?

Let’s break this down; I have roughly 550 songs in my iTunes library. SO for someone like, let’s say….. My mother, who has listened to the same Kenny Loggins CD for the past 11 years, my collection of songs would seem overwhelming and downright scary. BUT for a 22 year old that works behind a desk for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, I consider this light.

I like to pretend my iTunes is some bazaar Ferris wheel that has a different band in each car. But, like a Ferris wheel, there is ultimately an end to the ride, and no matter how many shiny tickets a band has, everyone reaches the bottom and has to get the eff off. I also like to pretend I’m the toothless chain-smoking carnie that happens to be running the Ferris wheel, but that has nothing to do with music.

This new way of discovering music began when (and I know everyone has gone through this) I lost my first playlist on Windows Media Player. Back around the turn of the century, when music meant so much more, when instead of downloading an entire album in less than 10 minutes, it took you hours to download one song! The two songs I missed the most? Blood Hound Gang - The Bad Touch, and Papa Roach - Last Resort of course, I can't believe you had to ask.

But, as music became easier to find/get, the loss of an entire library has become trivial. It allows me the opportunity to start again organically. Like a good book that a friend recommends, I can finally get to those bands who I never gave a chance. It feels nice to break through something that I once held so close to my heart (my music opinion) that sometimes it was impossible to tell the two apart, or conversely I am slowly losing my mind. Either way, my iPod is jam packed with rockin' tunes.

Moving on, I used to be in a band named "From Aphony". We toured around for a while and had a good time; we also played a lot locally which was a blast. However, the classic saying is true: “People change”. Unfortunately in our case, we all changed, then flew to LA to play a kick-ass rock show, only to be fucked in the ass by a panel of “judges” comprised of shiny black yard-waste bags, filled to brim with spare pig remains, who also happen to be dressed like they will be attending a funeral after they judge this little "....how do you say it again? Rock and Roll? You don't say! I've worked in this business for 40 years, and haven't heard a humming-bird's heart beat worth of it" show. Anywho, that’s a story for another day. I finally quit From Aphony, and it turns out the other guys were done too, so we called it quits.

SO to wrap things up, you now know a bit more about me. I'm not quite sure what I will bring to this website, because I don't enjoy reviewing albums, and I am scared of the scene, so I’ll just have to test the waters of rants-ville, and see how that works out.

Keep it real Interwebz.