We try to listen to music while we sit around the house, instead of watching TV like your Mother & I do a lot. So I put on the 50s or 60s station on the XM sometimes, or a CD or maybe some of my talk radio during your dinner, or when we think we've been watching too much TV with you around. I have a set of musicians and hosts I prefer, and I hope for two things at once while we listen and dance and eat and hopefully make wonderful memories for you; I hope that you will love the stuff I turn you onto like I do the stuff my Dad played for me. I also pray you will be your own person and go out into the world and find you own musical path to follow.
I tend to stick to pretty basic fare, especially with you still being so young. So I steer clear of anything that might make you upset with loud bangs and heavy chords. So that leaves me with some nice, even songs by groups/ people like the Beatles, Wilco and Ben Folds. And when we are listening to talk it's pretty much the big orange guy - Tony Kornheiser, Howard Stern (the "clean" stuff), and baseball games or sports talk.
In your first 8 months it was baseball, and just about every time I gave you a bath and put you down for bed we had a Washington Nationals baseball game on in the background. Hehehehe. On one hand, I hope it settles into your little ear and finds a home - something you and Daddy can share forever. On the other hand, I just wanted to listen.
Same goes for the other things I have on when we're together. Not sure how your mother is influencing you in this department, but I hope it's not that popular junk like Brittany Spears or Nickleback.
So at some point, when you're a teenager or maybe sooner, you're going to blossom into a discerning listener, and I hope that no matter what it is that pleases you, you follow it. Whether it's a capella, or guitar rock, or symphony or country, or... no that's it. That's all I want you to be into. So as long as it's one of those, we're good. Thanks.
Whatever it is, I love you and want you to be true to what you like.
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