Weird

A couple of minutes back I was browsing on orkut and saw Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sitting there on the corner of the webpage. I decided to give the two great artists a visit. I wonder still how I was introduced to them and all the other artists I listen to…well I have a weird, rather unconventional taste for music. You don’t expect a 18 year old guy to listen to the likes of The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Queen and Billy Joel, do you?
So how did I start? The credit seems to go to my aunt, whom I frequently call AC, and one of my best friends Rohit. I started off with music on my aunt’s music collection I shared it completely with Rohit, whose frequency of thought matches with mine a lot.  So the  both  of  us  started listening to those 1500 songs a lot and then we would share our observations and tastes with each other. More often than not, we would want to share the same song and we would end up listening to it for hours at a time. Something similar happened to That Thing You Do by The Wonders.
another intriguing story takes me back to Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh. Seven of us friends saddled up and left with our fellow school mates to this crud land as we came to call it later (crud signifying shit).  One evening in Pachmarhi, I felt the happiness surround me and I still carry a mental picture of that moment with me all the time. The sun was about to set when Abhishek(another one of my crazy friends), Rohit and I, sat on a bench next to a lake and had a couple of earphones buried in our ears. The song was a piano solo by Yanni called In the Morning Light. I still go and listen to that song when I am reminded of everyone in Delhi.
Funny, eh, how music can affect your life so much that you cannot live without it for even a week! Hell, my face is not worthy of expressing what I feel, believe me I carry a straight emotionless face whatever be the situation, but I vent out all the emotion once I let go of my hands on black and white…
So be it. Don’t expect me to let go of my keyboard for quite a while now…that goes specially for those who hate my taste of music and what I play…

~ by Ankit Bhatia on February 16, 2008.