They say that the music you play reflects your moods, if not your personal taste.

I am a child of the 70s and 80s and I love the music during those times. (Yes, children, I am OLD – chronologically speaking, hahaha.) There’s just so much memories when I hear those songs. I know my childhood wasn’t really the stuff made for fairy tales – much alone my teenage years. But now that it’s been decades since then, I have this tendency to romanticize them all. Maybe because whatever hurt or angst I felt then, I have either come to terms with it, or have just forgotten the hurt altogether. Age does that to a person.

Ok, enough rambling.

So what’s in my player?

I don’t just have oldie music in my mp3 player, tho. Which, btw, isn’t an iPod. I have the Zen Vision:M. Why? Because I’m the kind of person who always, always, ALWAYS chooses to get more bang for the buck. That, plus, I’m a cheapskate. Ha. Ha. Ha. But seriously, for the features my Vision:M has and for the price I got for it (which I have to say, I got on sale at Circuit City), it beats the iPod. Not that I don’t want an iPod. Just that… yeah, I’m a cheapskate.

Ok, I’m rambling again. Where was I? Oh, yeah. I always have some new artists on my player. I love Alicia Keys! That woman can write music. I got her latest CD from Starbucks. The barista, maybe due to boredom, let me listen to their own copy (while she yakked about how good it is) before I bought one from her. Not that I was doubting Alicia’s talent… I was just excited to hear right away what she has in that CD.

I also have Vanessa Carlton. Have you seen her mtv of “A Thousand Miles”? Gosh, that girl can play the piano! I’ve never learned to play the piano and I really, really envy anyone who could play it good. I loved that song that much that I made a video of my sister-in-law’s reunion with her high school classmates using this song as the background music.

And the Corrs. This group’s music is so fresh. I have their song “Breathless” on my ringtone when my hubbie phones me. Which reminds me, I have to get their latest CD next payday.

Oh, and I also have Maroon V. The major reason I love this group – Adam Levine! And what else do I have? Amy Winehouse, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Janet Jackson, Clazziquai Project, John Legend, John Meyer, Mandy Moore, Norah Jones, and so many more. I also have a lot of Filipino artists – Bamboo, Orange and Lemons, Rivermaya, Sitti Navarro, Up Dharma Down, 6 Cycle Mind. And these are just some of them. I have the usual here and there, one hit wonders, once seen and never heard of again.

I’m a lover of Jazz music. Fusion, Classic, Smooth, Latin. From Ella F. to Workshy.

I actually have a lot more – not as many as the others I’ve asked. But I’ve got abot 863 songs. Enough for me to forget that I have some songs that I didn’t remember I already have.

Does this give you an idea of who I am?