Oh My God; A Mission Statement

About four months ago I found myself dancing barefoot in an empty apartment to Ida Maria’s wonderfully blatant single "Oh My God". I could go into details about why I found myself in this place. I could spend an hour telling you about how, at the time, I was struggling financially, how I had someone I trusted and cared for lie to me and hurt me. I could write about how I was confused about life, how I had no idea the direction I was going in, or if I was going in a direction at all. But the point of this isn’t the why’s of the situation, the point is the situation itself. The bottom line is that there was a moment four months ago where I felt my world falling apart and instead of drinking myself into oblivion, or doing some mind numbing drug, I cried hysterically and danced around an empty room to a song that said exactly all the things that I couldn’t seem to put into words. This is what this blog is about. The idea that music is some of our drugs of choice. That when things are falling to pieces around us we put on the song or the album that makes it okay. The song that says, “Yeah, fuck everything. It’s okay to cry.” That when love hits us we make a playlist or mix tape to describe just how wonderful it is, because our words just aren’t enough. Why Apothecary Of Sound? Because the record store is my drugstore. I don’t need a prescription to make the pain go away, I just need to know that somewhere there’s someone singing about what I’m feeling. That this thing I can’t describe has already been put down on paper by someone else, someone who knows all about the joy or the pain or the insanity that is pulsing through me at that moment. This is why I decided it was time for me to share my love of music, to write a blog about what I hear and what it means to me. Because music is the drug that everyone can take, no prescription required. It’s an idea that proves that we’re never alone, because somewhere someone is listening to the same song you are and maybe they’re even feeling the same things. Music is the string that can connect us, show us what it’s like to be human, to feel and relate. That’s why I love music, that’s why I want to write about it, and that’s why I chose Apothecary Of Sound to be the name of this little experiment. Because it sums up why I love music. It can heal us, get us high, take us low, let us explore everything we’re feeling in four minutes of sound and lyrics. Music is the drug. Welcome to my Apothecary Of Sound.