DAY 01: THE LIGHTBULB

You know how Julie Powell changed her life by cooking everything on Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking? Well, mine is sort of like that as well. I think. While I won’t be using my chopping board and use butter to make my life all better like Julie or Julia, I will however take a similar journey but of course without the help of any kitchen utensils.

If Julie or Julia is to french cuisine, “JE” would be to music. See the analogy there? lol. I have the same amount of passion these two ladies have for their food as with my music. Now, I don’t want to sound like I know how to play because I don’t. I don’t have a degree in music either to give you professor like comments about a song or an album. but what I do best is to appreciate. Sometimes in life, it’s best to be a spectator and trust me, this is the place to be if God did not bless you with the talent to give people an eargasm.

I knew back then when I was little that I have this special relationship with music from the time my father handed me my first cassette tape. From then on, I went to discover the music that I like, recorded them when I was in high school when it's played on the radio and If my dad gave me a decent allowance then I’d buy the whole album.(This was back in 98′ so yes, cassette tapes and cd’s.) Through the years I developed my own "palette" or preference however you wanna call it. And it is a desired taste that I continuously like.

I marveled at the album covers, stared at the drawings and illustrations on the cover sleeves and realized early on that musicians are not just singers but painters and poets. I found out that albums are like books that have stories in it. 

One record album is also similar to a collection of fashion pieces and if they don’t go together then it’s not a good! I want you to think of an album you like or a collection on a fashion show or Picasso’s Blue Period and it will make you realize that artists in general, be it: visual arts, music, fashion etc. all do the same ground work. I see one magical spectrum.

But times have changed. Music is marketed very differently now. Cassette tapes and CD's are now considered extinct. We can download on single song in itunes and we forget the collective beauty of an album. I plan to revive the old school.

See, there’s a reason why a rainbow is a spectrum and I think it’s symbolic to “enlightenment” and I want that right now in my life. And so today, May 18,2014, I declare my 1001 journey. I will listen to all of the albums on the book and I will keep a diary of it and keep tabs of my thoughts. Let’s see where this will take me.