Desciende sobre mí esta inestable y maldita sensación de no poder pensar sino en ese aquél que hace un mes desconfiaba que existiera en este mundo, en esta vida.

Some thoughts on classical music

When I was a kid I used to hear my mom listening to classical music and I always thought that it was the lamest, most boring thing in the world. She would go on an on with her boring minuets, symphonies and orchestras while all I wanted to hear was the Humpty Dumpty and Mary had a little lamb hits. As my mom was never cool in my opinion, I just grew up with the concept that Classical music meant Old peoples music. The only good thing it had was the Fantasia Video on VHS.

Then I grew up and started the music exploration by myself: Rock music has been my answer since. It's my journey, wherever it leads me to. And I love the journey.

A few years ago I started digging Classical music after someone told me that if Mozart was contemporary he would be a heavy metal composer. Following that thought, I wondered what was the link between Mozart and my young, rebellious soul.

Now let me tell you something:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a sick fuck.

I don't really adhere to the heavy metal theory, but he sure wasn't right in the head.
He was definitely not the soft and snob composer I thought all my life he was. He was an obscure, twisted, maniatic genie of complexity. The way he could even think of so many layers of sound for one piece would make Syd Barrett go home cry to his mother. I can not imagine all the things that were going on in his grey matter while composing, it's a mistery that hits my head hard in my lack of music skills.

Tchaikovsky, Bach, Wagner, Schubert, Rajmáninov and all those motherfuckers are a whole new dimension on what was happening in the world, and its amazing when you start discovering all those places that actually made our past as humans so weird and un-understandable. WTF was going on in the medieval era? Bach, for example. Beethoven.

Classical music is just everything that music means. We took it and converted it in millions of different styles and roads, but it is here where you appreciate infinity and eternity as the boundaries of the human brain.

Every time I hear classical music it lets my head so drained that I have to turn to rock & roll for some peace of mind.

Thank you, my uncool mother.
Thank you, guy who introduced me to Mozart.
Thank you, history, for being so full of everything.

Quote del día: "I mean, what's the point of living here in Colombia if you're not going to get drunk every night?" By Yogui's mate.