Making notes

Reading the diaries of Alan Bennet has made me note that it's often the little things that pop into your head that make interesting reading as well as larger issues like the one mentioned in the previous post. So I will endeavour to articulate a thought I had now in the hope that it will be readable and that maybe some of you will sympathise with it.

I frequently have the experience of listening to the start of a piece of music and immediately I start bopping my head or tapping my feet only to realise a few seconds later that it's a tune I loathe and that feeling of "ooh this song" is brought on by a subconcious recognition of a despised tune. One I get frequently at the moment is the new song by James Blunt. Like many others I hate James Blunt on principle (though I'm not entirely sure what the principle is!) but the opening riff on the new record is very catchy and it takes a while to clock on to the fact that I don't actually want to listen to this song!!

I do think it is an interesting phenomenon (well a slight oddity at least) that I should, on recognition of a piece of music, immediately think I like it. Perhaps it shows my character, always willing to give the benefit of the doubt - but then since I have a more or less written law forbidding myself to listen to Atomic Kitten for more than 10 seconds under any circumstances I'm not entirely sure that's it!! Maybe it shows that hated tunes get more ingrained on the mind than loved ones, or maybe it just shows that I'm picky about music and I get muddled sometimes - who knows. There are no answers today, only thoughts and questions.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

Word of the post: Mottled - noun

2.	a diversifying spot or blotch of color.