I like music. Lots of music

Driving in the car one day my mother says "I'm always surprised by your choice of music. I always expect you to be listening to something loud and crazy"...I had on Mumford and Sons at the time. I agree, there was a time that all my music was "loud and crazy". I guess I've toned it down in my old age, to a degree. I mean, come on, I used to listen to the Sex Pistols for Christ's sake. My own mother knows this is not my typical music. But I have to admit, I've gotten exposed to a lot of different music over time and I like it. Sure, Jason Mraz sounds nothing like Kurt Cobain, but even I don't think everything I listen to has to have that same raw aggressiveness that the early 90's had. Or the electric drum beats of the 80's. I've think I've been overexposing myself to new music. Almost like a challenge for me to like it... new music. Like it was wrong of me to still have Depeche Mode or Duran Duran on my iPod. Then one day I realized, why can't I still listen to all my old fav's? Heck, my mom and cousins still listen to "oldies", so why can't I listen to my "oldies". Those were some of the best times I had. Sleeping out all night in front of the record store before they started that whole wristband bullshit! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE! It was an amazing experience. I didn't do drugs or drink, I just liked being there. Me, my friend Viv and a hundred other crazy people out there for one goal, floor seats. In the morning my dad would come to the record store with chorizo burritos and hot chocolate for me and Viv. I felt so special, but it was probably an excuse to make sure we were ok. I don't blame him if it was, but I didn't think of it that way. My parents would always take us to these concerts and I mean all over the place. Man I lived for those concerts. The first concert was Rick Springfield at the Great Western Form. We were 15 years old and from then on it was concert after concert. Depeche Mode at the Rosebowl, Social Distortion at the Paladium, The Ramons at the Reseda Country Club, B-52's at Irving Medows. I even made my way on stage at an OMD concert and did the famous 80's dance with the singer before being escorted out by security. Once I started to drive, there was nowhere I wouldn't go. A few of my friends and I even went up to San Francisco for a Tibetan Freedom concert at Golden Gate Park where Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, and Red Hot Chili Peppers played, to name a few. Ahhhh, music festival. Been to plenty of those, including the first Coachella Festival, Weenie Roasts, and Lollapaloozas. Yup, those were some fun times, which is why I still connect so much with those bands and those songs. I don't dislike all new music, but I'm very selective about it. I mean, I really have to like it. So blending my music is not a crime, like I made it out to be in my own head. I've got my old stand by's back on the iPod and I still love going to concerts. Old bands and new, I'm there.