♬You Got the Music in You♬

"Talking to you is like a musical"- 宝貝

This is how my girlfriend feels, when we have conversations. It's actually funny that she is only just mentioning this now. Anybody who knows me, is quite aware of my obsession with music and all things musical. Seriously, if all of the music in the world were to just vanish one day, my body's natural response would be to stop breathing...that's a thing. I call it: losing the will to live.

Just earlier today, as she walked me to class, we were having a conversation about some potentially racists comments I made about the names of my professors (I like my professors a lot and nothing I was saying had any malicious intent, it's just the presentation could have been cleaner) and we got on the topic of our school's civility flag.

The civility flag signifies acceptance and community within the campus. So they claim. When an act of incivility, such as racist slurs, writing rude or derogatory things on the campus white boards, etc. the flag is lowered for five business days. A campus wide email is sent, informing faculty and staff about the incident that caused the flag to be lowered and lets everyone know that we are supposed to be a community and that kind of behavior is frowned upon, and all that jazz.

Well, when we were discussing my possibly offensive speech, and I brought up the civility flag, my girlfriend is serious about the discussion and I decide that it is perfect time to break out in song.

I often do this on a daily basis whether I'm alone or not. I don't usually sing out loud in public. It's a quieter type of singing, almost of is I'm singing along to the track (But I'm clearly not, because trust me if I'm singing, I know all of the words, all of the instrumental sounds, and every back up part. It's always a solo with me. Don't try to join in my concert...). Recently I've developed an "I don't give a f***" attitude and have been singing my new flavor of the week song like I wrote it myself.

Anyway, I sing a line from one of my favorites and she comes out of nowhere with "Talking to you is like a musical". I asked how that was true and she said it's because I'm always singing, even at that moment when we were having a serious conversation. I denied it of course be that is completely and utterly--okay, fine it's true. But, I like to thing I am quite tame most of the time. Like when I'm in class. There is so much potential for and old school slow jam music video.I won't lie, guys, I see my life through the eye of a music video director. She added that I also sometimes start dancing. Now, I deny this wholeheartedly because I am the farthest thing from a dancer, so I have to believe that I do not EVER dance...

In public. My house is another, more dangerous, story. Guys, me dancing, is like watching a fish out of water. That is actually a sad image if you think about it, because they are dying... Those fish out of water are dying. So if you think that image is funny, with the fish flopping around, with wide eyes because they don't have eyelids and can't blink and can only look at you, laughing at them dying, shame on you. But essentially that's me dancing: all over the place looking at my  family laughing at me because I know that there is no hope for my rhythm coordination. Don't judge me...

My point is, my girlfriend thing I'm a walking radio and I have to agree. I'm on my way to being a music connoisseur, guys. That would be awesome, to just be able to discuss musical genres and messages within songs (not on some crazy Illuminati type of thing, just "this is symbolic of his childhood when he first thought he was in love" sort of thing). But think she feels like shes having a conversation with the radio sometimes, because I am constantly singing. I'm sorry, but I can't help. Music flows within me.