Music and Mood

It's no secret that music effects mood.

I'll listen to happy giddy music, and I feel like going about the day happy and carefree. In fact, I feel like talking a walk in the park in a sunny day.

If I listen to really aggressive music, I feel like room-clearing a house with a .45 in my hand. It tends to give me an intense focus -- tunnel-vision, if you will.

Lately, my music that I listen to has been Japanese pop music. Yes, J-pop tends to put me in a good mood and makes me rather productive. There's some really good stuff out there, like Bonnie Pink and the Indigo. What really helps is that I don't understand a lick of what they are singing about. To me, its like instrumental soundtrack music. If this stuff were sung in english, I'd probably feel inclined to try to follow the words and the next thing you know, I'm distracted from what I need to do.

On that same token it's also why I may listen to movie soundtrack music too. If your life was a movie, then surely there's a soundtrack to it. =)