My YM name was never public and now even the fandomish one that I had isn't working for various adium reasons so I need to refriend people with the other one, which I need to get around to doing.
I think music has a lot to do with having people around you who will pull you along. I'm lucky because my best friend C is a punk rocker and a big music listener, and then my friend D works at a major music label and gives me the benefit of his gratis. So I have these two guys who spend just about all of their time thinking about music—likely the way that you think about books—and since they know what I like they tell me what to buy or get me things. C's been my music sensei since we were in junior high and turned me on to so many bands, like the Cure and the Smiths. But the urban stuff has been my own discovery (not a lot of it on the radio in Maine in the 80s) so I find I'm very hit and miss there.
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I think music has a lot to do with having people around you who will pull you along. I'm lucky because my best friend C is a punk rocker and a big music listener, and then my friend D works at a major music label and gives me the benefit of his gratis. So I have these two guys who spend just about all of their time thinking about music—likely the way that you think about books—and since they know what I like they tell me what to buy or get me things. C's been my music sensei since we were in junior high and turned me on to so many bands, like the Cure and the Smiths. But the urban stuff has been my own discovery (not a lot of it on the radio in Maine in the 80s) so I find I'm very hit and miss there.