affective

"...music can be almost, if not more affective then words."

there's a non-musician blogger out there who said that on her blog. someone asked me my opinion on the statement.

i blathered on a bit about the difference between "affective" and "effective" and which i thought this writer meant (the latter).

then i stated that "music is most definitely and inherently (almost by definition!) more affective than words."

and i went on.

"of course, it depends on what your objectives are. words and music have very different purposes. one could put them all in one giant umbrella category called 'expression,' but that is where that cohorting ends and it is very blah and i don't like it. some things you NEED words for. other things you MUST NOT use words for. sometimes music is in order, and at others, not."

all that having been said (were you wondering if i was going to make a point?), that is why i have added a link where you can listen to camobunny's theme song du jour. it, along with the color of my camo/background, ought to give you a better idea of where i'm coming from when the things i write alone cannot.

ignore it if you'd like. there are plenty of reasons to do that. be thankful i didn't just make the music play automatically in the background. oh yeah, and the file host is rather unreliable too, sometimes cutting the song short.

but if you listen, you just may understand.