I think I'm "growing up" a little with regards to my music tastes. By that, I mean I'm becoming like one of those old people who listens to the music of their growing up years way too much. Don't get me wrong, I'm still listening to plenty of modern music -- it's just, I'm slowly starting to "rediscover" tons of music from lets say anywhere from between middle school years through early-to-mid-college years (which I guess would only be a few years ago), and I fall into an almost instant hypnotization from it...Which I guess is a realization that saying you hate someone's taste in music is kind of dumb. I mean even I listen to some of the stuff I like and go, "Why do I like this? This is awful."

We aren't always enthralled by certain songs because of the musicality of them. Sometimes, the song takes us down memory lane -- be it to a specific experience, a specific time period when you first heard the song a lot, a specific person -- whatever. It's tough to hate on someone's taste in music if the main reason they like it is because of the trip it takes them on when they hear it (and maybe they aren't even aware that's why they like the song).

So I think if someone tells me to listen to a song they like and then they ask what I thought of it, if I don't particularly like the song, rather than saying so, a better response to their question is asking them, "where does this song take you?"


In other notes, since my last blog received zero comments, I'm gonna assume that y'all were bored by it and want more poker talk in my blogs. So, here you go, I present a hand played between me and Stoxpoker pro, doughnutz, in "poker-conversation" format:



doughnutz: posts small blind $25
DpRHoops: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [7d Td]
juuuiice: folds
u920147: folds
PapaWarbucks: raises $50 to $100
"I have the button and an alright hand, RAISE!"

doughnutz: raises $50 to $150
"Oh yeah? I'm sick of him raising every single button, THREE BETS!"

DpRHoops: folds
PapaWarbucks: raises $50 to $200
"He 3-bets me every single hand stop that, I REALLY have something this time. Please please please get fooled. CAP!"

Betting is capped
doughnutz: calls $50

*** FLOP *** [4c 2h 5c]
doughnutz: checks

PapaWarbucks: bets $50
"I have to continue to pretend like I have something. Shit I wish the board texture was a little different."

doughnutz: calls $50
"He's pretending like he has something I'm never, ever, ever folding the pot is a gajillion to one and I still have two cards of my own."

*** TURN *** [4c 2h 5c] [Ks]
doughnutz: checks

PapaWarbucks: checks
"OK I believe you I don't think you are going to fold the turn and this board sucks for continuing to try to get you to fold and you're crazy and will checkraise that turn a lot, even without a king."

*** RIVER *** [4c 2h 5c Ks] [Tc]
doughnutz: bets $100
"ahaha I got him now, he's got ace high and he never folds!"

PapaWarbucks: raises $100 to $200
"ahaha I got him now, he's got ace high and he never folds!"

doughnutz: calls $100
"Crap. He might just be stupid enough to try to bluff me, doesn't he know I never fold?"

*** SHOW DOWN ***
PapaWarbucks: shows [7d Td] (a pair of Tens)
"ahaha i got him good! Valuetown!"

doughnutz (small blind) mucked [7h 7s]
"stupid luckbox donkey..."

PapaWarbucks collected $948 from pot
"Limit hold em is fun!"



Another cheesy 90s song I like a lot:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGMii43ftzY&NR=1