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I don't know what gets into me sometimes when it comes to various places I post my writing online. I'll be really gung-ho about something for a while and then forget all about it. Months or even years can go by before I dust things off and pop my head in again. Such is the case with this little music journal here.

Life over the past few years has found me transitioning a little bit. I've been discovering a lot of new things, cleaning house throughout my personal life, and rearranging my professional priorities. I even look different, having…

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I love how music can so easily be the sort of thing that can suit any mood, any state of mind, and any activity. I'm a very changeable sort of person. At any given point in my life, I seem to be a million different people all at once. Then there's the way I change over the years. I can look back even a few years into the past and see where many of my values and interests have shifted (or at least evolved) significantly. I'm never sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I realize that…

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It appears that a couple of people have actually started looking at this little journal on a regular basis, so it occurs to me I really ought to try writing in it a little more often. I've been around online, but feeling a bit under the weather. Therefore, I haven't been my energetic self to the same extent as usual.

As usual, I find that my taste in music almost always reflects what I've been doing and how I've been feeling. That said, I've been choosing more folksy, calming music than I typically do. Here's a little bit of…

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Naturally, as someone who has been a fan of Roxette ever since Look Sharp! came out in the late 80's, I pretty much pissed my pants when I first found out Marie and Per were planning on pairing up again and putting out some new material sometime in 2011.

I tried not to get my hopes up though. There are so many bands out there that talk about putting out a new album and then never do, so I secretly thought it might be too much to hope for. Then the release dates and the official confirmations started coming…

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My interest in popular music has really waxed and waned over the years according to what was popular. I've also never necessarily liked the same stuff everybody else liked until relatively recently when I developed a liking for people like Lady Gaga, Beyonce and others along those lines.

One of the few bands I've really consistently loved over the years is without a doubt Roxette. Not exactly The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, or any other group most people would probably name after making such a statement, I know, but there it is all the same. Yeah,…

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Like everybody else, I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Nicki Minaj for quite some time now. However, I actually had yet to hear any of her songs or see her videos. Nevertheless, I was really curious about her sound because the same circles that seem to like people along the lines of Lady Gaga or Ke$ha seem to like Nicki, too.

If you know anything about me and my ever-evolving musical tastes, then you already know that I've been exploring the somewhat alien world of pop lately and – much to the surprise of my formerly hipster-ish…

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So, I had such good intentions in regards to this little journal thingy on here when I first started using my Last FM account in earnest. It seemed like it would be kind of a neat-o place to stick notes on albums I listen to or review new music I discover, because I'm pretty sure my regular readers at my usual blogs could care less. Then I wind up writing one whole entry and forgetting all about it until almost a year later. Typical me!

I've certainly been listening to a lot of pop music these days, which is…

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I guess I should actually consider writing in this little journal thingy a little more often, since I actually do use this site quite a bit. It would actually kind of be a neat place to put things like album reviews, thoughts on music, and so forth. That type of thing rarely if ever fits into the mix very well at any of my "real" blogs.

I suppose lately I've been embracing pop music a little more readily than I have in the past. When it comes to non-classical and non-operatic music, I tend to be someone who sticks…