Music is a Philosophy.

I first discovered Visual Audio Sensory Theatre (VAST) when I moved from Montreal to Toronto in my teens. Maybe that's why I have a soft spot for this band's music. I found them at a very impressionable time in my life.

If you read the lyrics of this debut album, you may think they're a Christian band, but I believe they're actually more spiritual instead of Bible thumper bands like Collective Soul and Jars of Clay. Exploring where all music comes from is important to self discovery - how far you've come and where you will go.

Listening to Black Metal will help you address what you're afraid of. It will make you feel unsettled, maybe, or draw out some unresolved anguish. I can only listen to it for a few minutes at a time. It makes me feel too anxious to listen to it any longer.

Maybe listening to Chris De Burgh will remind you of that one song your mom would always put the needle too when she was vaccuming your house when you were a kid. It drove you crazy then, but now you kind of like it (though you would never admit to it.) Then you'll wonder whatever happened to vinyl? Oh right, cassettes.... Then you'll recall winding your cassettes with pencils when the tape spun out coz of your crappy boombox eating it.

Listening to Grunge will make you relaxed; you'll remember all those days listening to Hole or Soundgarden while smoking up behind your high school during English class.

Good feelings will come, memories too. And you'll wonder where all those good memories and feelings went... how they changed, how you grew and what is good now.

Music is a philosophy. It's my creed and it's a drug I'll forever push.