2008 Woodie Awards
Pack of Pop: An Entertainment Blog
"What is music for, if it is not to subvert all your expectations and blow your mind every once in a while." ~ Dawson's Creek
Casey Tolfree, Online Editor
Issue date: 10/18/06Section: Editor Columns
I had every intention of finding the perfect quote for this blog from a book, just to complete my cheese-fest that was the last two weeks. However, as I was watching Dawson's Creek on TBS one morning I heard this line and just knew I had to use it. It embodies everything that music is; at least for me.
I'm going to start this blog off by telling a little story. Just the other night I was catching some late-night Wendy's with a long time friend from high school and, as usual, our conversation turned towards John Mayer. His new CD has been in circulation in our CD players before Continuum was even released and his music just speaks so clearly to us. Talking about music for us and the effect it has on our every day life is extraordinary.
Without music, we feel trapped inside a world of silence that we don't relate to. Music is not only an outlet-- it's a way to live. It's life lessons and the quarter life crisis and going with the flow and not trying to stall the inevitable growing-up process. All of this comes, for us, from one man's music, words and thoughts.
We sit in the car and debate music. We talk about meanings, tones, variations. We relate everything to life and how his CDs have followed us through the years. We talk about how Continuum is definitely a fall CD and how Dashboard Confessional's Dusk and Summer defined our summers. I couldn't believably write the conversations we have into a story. It doesn't seem real and yet every time we hang out I sit next to him amazed at how music can make you feel everything and nothing all at once.
Picking lines from songs to explain the significance of music is really hard. I almost don't want to do it, but I must. To pick the lines, I looked around my room and at all the quotes, and my eyes immediately rested at a sheet of paper that got me through this summer. I made a soundtrack to my summer at my job. It had 11 songs, one for each week. I'm not going to give you all of them here; I'll just provide a few examples of lines that have become my personal mottos.
I'm going to start this blog off by telling a little story. Just the other night I was catching some late-night Wendy's with a long time friend from high school and, as usual, our conversation turned towards John Mayer. His new CD has been in circulation in our CD players before Continuum was even released and his music just speaks so clearly to us. Talking about music for us and the effect it has on our every day life is extraordinary.
Without music, we feel trapped inside a world of silence that we don't relate to. Music is not only an outlet-- it's a way to live. It's life lessons and the quarter life crisis and going with the flow and not trying to stall the inevitable growing-up process. All of this comes, for us, from one man's music, words and thoughts.
We sit in the car and debate music. We talk about meanings, tones, variations. We relate everything to life and how his CDs have followed us through the years. We talk about how Continuum is definitely a fall CD and how Dashboard Confessional's Dusk and Summer defined our summers. I couldn't believably write the conversations we have into a story. It doesn't seem real and yet every time we hang out I sit next to him amazed at how music can make you feel everything and nothing all at once.
Picking lines from songs to explain the significance of music is really hard. I almost don't want to do it, but I must. To pick the lines, I looked around my room and at all the quotes, and my eyes immediately rested at a sheet of paper that got me through this summer. I made a soundtrack to my summer at my job. It had 11 songs, one for each week. I'm not going to give you all of them here; I'll just provide a few examples of lines that have become my personal mottos.
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