Reason #1 - Music

The first question that anyone asks me whenever I tell them about my new undertaking is,Why?

Most of the time I reply with why not? But I will attempt to make it more clear. Although I am realizing more and more that I am an awful writer, just awful. Hopefully that will improve with every post. Since there are quite a few reasons and I don't have a lot of time right now I will break it up in to parts.

Alright so here goes. This is why I am going to Iceland.

REASON #1

Music. Yes music, first and foremost. Have you ever turned on the radio in America? Yeah, its pretty bad. I don't know about you but I can't stand it. Everyone has an opinion, but when one of the biggest songs in the world (besides Iceland :) ) has lyrics like

I'm talking about - everybody getting crunk, crunk
Boys trying to touch my junk, junk
Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
.

There is something wrong there. I don't know how else to say it. Iceland, so I hear, is a place where they have a genuine care for music in many forms, and they have a deep distaste for terrible music. Now again. Everyone has an opinion, but music is something that they just seem to care about. That is completely foreign to me. All my life I have been surrounded by people who don't care about music at all. To most people its just white noise on their car radios to keep them from falling asleep. Outside of just listening to it. The people at concerts are the same way. I have been to so many concerts where people will just talk and talk throughout the whole concert and occasionally yell out "WOOOOOOO". Yeah. People really do care here.

I play music in a metal band, so I am at shows almost every weekend. In the metal scene there is nothing but tough guy attitudes and assholes. They walk around staring every single person in the eyes trying to find someone that gives them a nasty look. Since the music is playing they have an excuse to beat the hell out of the guy (or girl) and not get in trouble, if anything they just get kicked out of the venue and to them, they have earned the utmost respect they deserve from everyone after a such a damn hard life lived in Fairfax Virginia....must be hard man, good thing you beat up that kid back there.


Don't get me wrong I love playing music. I love getting the crowd to move and sing along, but I can not stand going to the shows and being able to read every person like an open book. Not a single one is there for the music (or lack there of)

I could be completely wrong. Music and its scene could be completely the same over there. But I doubt it. It couldn't get worse than how it is here.