`Perceive`

Simple. I want to be somehow happy - no, not grumpy nor grouchy. Just happy. No joke and don't freak out for this is unusual. 

It's not simple... not like what others thought that it's simply the music and nothing more... like that you jive into the latest trend and go to the next.

Real love of music is a devotion - not singing the newest song and what's hot suddenly changing beats when it's no longer what everybody listens to. And there are so much more than knowing what you're listening to, singing by heart... and looking forward to sticking to it. There are pre-requisites.

I recon a lot would disagree, probably because they don't do the things I'm about to say.

I met this guy, Francis. He's annoying and overly self righteous for a sixteen year-old know it all. For the record, he posts lectures about bands, the roots and everything else. He would make you look pathetic for a beginner and nonetheless a jerk if you knew it all. I hated him for once and learned to appreciate him for now, but not always.

I thought, isn't it just the music? The love of it, and I meant the real love of it? Do I really have to know other genres than what I wanted to listen to?

Answer is yes, there were certain pre-requisites.

Loving rock music is more than singing rock songs but knowing them by heart, and I have always believed you must know the roots. You can't love what you never knew. But then I was jamming with three bands last night, trust me I'm still halfway dizzy up to now. They sounded like nerds talking about the beginnings and all... considering that one was alternative, the other was ska and the other, sort of... greyhounds style (i dunno the genre). I knew a lot but missed the important facts and ended up with a stare.

No, you must not know how all things started. How did rock form, who started when and where...
you must know... just for the record you don't run blind missing a lot of things in life. Truth is... it's pure knowledge I suppose.

Real rockheads are stupid. Some may have died on drugs while writing their songs, consider literature. Lisa Loeb is a math genius, and more of them knew more than GMack's CEO.

They say rockers were the outcasts, plainly stupid and dirty. Come to think about it...you have no idea at all...