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bedlamsbardSo I have a decent amount of music in a genre which can be loosely categorized as "indie pagan pseudo-Celtic folk," which I don't tend to play without headphones on. (Although let's be honest, I haven't been listening to much music this semester until fairly recently.) But today I was folding my laundry, and paused and went, "I would really like some background music, and I'm feeling that genre right now," so I put on that playlist. (Which is actually down in iTunes as "Heather Alexander," because it started out as an all-Heather Alexander playlist until pretty recently.) Quietly, door closed; my walls are thin enough that my roommates could almost certainly tell I was playing music and might be able to work out the words, though I'm not sure. One roommate is listening to her Japanese tapes, the other one is on the phone; I think the third one came back in while I was folding.
I don't tend to play this music without headphones because I'm afraid of offending one or more of my roommates, one of whom is very Christian (Methodist, I believe), and another of which was raised Christian and is getting back into it. But, you know, it's the last week of school, I wasn't blasting it, and they all know that I am Not Christian. (I'm not what Maryland thinks I am, as she's the one who said, "Oh, I thought you were anti-religion!"; Alaska knows I'm pagan but once told me to my face, "Your gods aren't real.") And most of my music isn't flagrantly anti-Christian, though I really wouldn't phrase it that way. (It might sound that way to someone who actually is Christian, though.) (I decided my one measure of restraint was to not play "Go Away Godboy." (Lyrics here.) I did forget that some of my other music also had some of the same tones, like this (lyrics) and this (no YouTube link, sorry). But I really wanted to listen to this song (lyrics), so I did.
I don't really have a point to this entry. On one level I keep feeling like it's a deliberately provocative act; maybe it just seems that way because I usually don't do it for a specific reason. On the other hand, why shouldn't I play the music I want to listen to? On another, would I be offended if one of my roommates decided to play overtly Christian music? (Which is not to say I don't have Christian pop on my computer; it kind of comes with the Narnia territory.)
*flaps hands* I don't know where I'm going with this. On the other hand, Her Majesty's Airship Corps also came up on that playlist, which is not pagan at all, and I just felt guilty because that one is louder than the rest of my music. (It is beautifully, amazingly steampunk. If you like that sort of thing, y'all should listen to it. It is a recruiting song for a dirigible air force!)
I don't tend to play this music without headphones because I'm afraid of offending one or more of my roommates, one of whom is very Christian (Methodist, I believe), and another of which was raised Christian and is getting back into it. But, you know, it's the last week of school, I wasn't blasting it, and they all know that I am Not Christian. (I'm not what Maryland thinks I am, as she's the one who said, "Oh, I thought you were anti-religion!"; Alaska knows I'm pagan but once told me to my face, "Your gods aren't real.") And most of my music isn't flagrantly anti-Christian, though I really wouldn't phrase it that way. (It might sound that way to someone who actually is Christian, though.) (I decided my one measure of restraint was to not play "Go Away Godboy." (Lyrics here.) I did forget that some of my other music also had some of the same tones, like this (lyrics) and this (no YouTube link, sorry). But I really wanted to listen to this song (lyrics), so I did.
I don't really have a point to this entry. On one level I keep feeling like it's a deliberately provocative act; maybe it just seems that way because I usually don't do it for a specific reason. On the other hand, why shouldn't I play the music I want to listen to? On another, would I be offended if one of my roommates decided to play overtly Christian music? (Which is not to say I don't have Christian pop on my computer; it kind of comes with the Narnia territory.)
*flaps hands* I don't know where I'm going with this. On the other hand, Her Majesty's Airship Corps also came up on that playlist, which is not pagan at all, and I just felt guilty because that one is louder than the rest of my music. (It is beautifully, amazingly steampunk. If you like that sort of thing, y'all should listen to it. It is a recruiting song for a dirigible air force!)