Re: Know when the holidays have officially arrived?

I am a huge fan of *most every* kind of music, Herb. But I also take music as a spiritual journey/connection, and so I have limits to what I want to put into my cranium. That offends some people but that is okay, as I said that I also have very bizarre and eclectic tastes that are hardly mainstream in many instances.

I love Sarah Vaughn and many of the old jazz divas. I like many of the newer torch singers, as well.

I love SOME forms of opera and am a huge fan of classical music and also most every other form of music except hip hop and rap -- it's just not my thing. I can appreciate certain forms of metal and hardcore, and I like much of the new indie music that is out today.

I can do without Brittney and Christina or Mariah, am not big on Garth Brooks or any of the "cookie cutter country" stars that all look and sound the same.

Corporate music of any shape, size or description is not my cup of tea.

I tend to the eclectic and the melodic. The bigger the melodies and harmonies, the more I am probably going to like it.

But there are just some people that I do not want to listen to. It is less a style thing than a person thing.

After all, I even have a few hip hop and rap artists that I will listen to, and it is my least likely musical form.

I just don't really like glorifying violence against women or other human beings and so the people that tend to the gangster thing and the mafia thing, etc., are not likely to score high on my list of people that I am going to "grant my rapidly turning time clock" to burning up its limited minutes, thank you.

But again, that's just me. Others live in a different world and that's what makes people so interesting.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

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