Assignment #7

In the past twenty-four hours music has definitely played a role in my interactions with other people. I know that whenever I hear a song that I know the words to, I always have to sing it. I work at HSBC Arena for the Sabres games, so last night during the intermissions and timeouts when they played a song that I know, I would sing it. When my friends at work hear the song and hear me singing they also start singing and we have fun and it makes us get through the night. When I am driving down the street and I can hear someone else’s music and bass, that really bothers me. I am not impressed by how sweet someone’s system sounds, I could care less actually. Yesterday I was in my car with my windows up, window defrosters on and my stereo on and I could still hear someone else’s music. It makes me mad that I can’t enjoy my music without the interruption of someone else. Usually I listen to my iPod in my car, but my car was being fixed yesterday, so I was using my dad’s car and didn’t have access to listening to my iPod and only had the radio. This made me aggravated while driving to school and work, because with my iPod I can listen to whatever song I want to, but with the radio I have no choice. Whenever I hear a song I don’t like I have to change the station and sometimes there are commercials and I can’t hear any music. These rides would have been much more enjoyable is I would’ve been able to listen to my iPod. Also, whenever I hear certain songs, they might remind me of an event that took place in my life where that song was played or something I watched where I heard that song. Whenever I hear the song Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond, I think of the movie Fever Pitch and whenever I hear the song Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphy’s, I think of the movie The Departed and when the Sabres have a power play at home Sabres games. I think that music definitely influences my mood. If I just got done listening to a depressing song, I probably don’t feel as happy as I would if I listened to a more upbeat song. When I played sports in high school, I always played music before games to pump me up and get me in the mood. Without my music I wasn’t as excited to play as I was when I listened to my pre-game playlist.