adam + tara

Common Ground?

Although we both love music it has been an extreme challenge finding common ground.  Our music collections are yin and yang and we both kiss our chains and point skyward when we find an artist we both like.  Today, we both were watching TV and the commercial came on with Felix Da Housecat’s rework of Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman”.  She liked it because of the repetitive piano line (I think) and I of course dug electronic dance music in popular culture.  You see, although EDM is a passion, I really do not care whether it is mainstream or non mainstream, liked or not liked by anyone but me.  In 31 years I’ve listened to every genre of recorded music, seen concerts in dive bars and world famous concert halls, and after all the thousands of dollars spent I settled on good old Deeeetroit techno.  Tara, in her drive to be a young professional, chose a really interesting variety of guitar based boy bands.  While I really like to introduce everyone I can to my favorite music it is very difficult to just immerse anyone into techno (especially someone who does not find it socially acceptable).  It takes a lot of time that I usually equate to dipping your toe in a frigid pool as opposed to a bold plunge.  So the point here is that we found just a tiny bit of common ground today and while I cannot say when it might come again it is certainly worth mentioning.