It’s a simple question, but I never have a clear answer for it. I can tell you my favourite color, season, movie, or book, but when I’m asked what my favourite kind of music, there’s no short and concise response.

If I had to pick a genre I would have to say Electronica. It’s broad enough to include most of the music I like to listen to on a daily basis. For example: techno, house, trance, industrial, electro, drum n bass, breakbeat, and sub-genres within those genres.

My parents and older siblings have been a big influence as well, which is why I love classical music and random songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A few examples are songs from The Monkees, The Beatles, Billy Holiday, Harry Belafonte, and Abba.

My musical education began since I was in my mother’s womb. She plays guitar (and several instruments). My parents would play classical music, Abba, Mocedades, Maria Bethania, samba, old salsa musica etc. And when I was little my older sister would listen to Madonna, Erasure, REM, Pet Shop Boys, U2, etc. while my brother subjected me to Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Guns n Roses, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Poison, and other hair bands. Growing up in the early nineties I loved techno and pop music, and by the year 2000 I listened to bands like Korn, Slipknot, Kittie, and other alternative rock bands switching between numetal and more melodic rock like Matchbox 20 or Green Day. It’s hard to say, I listen to whatever pleases my ears. I never liked metal, the harshest music I ever listened to was Mushroomhead, Skinlab, and Devildriver when I was a freshman in high school. Then I went back to my techno/trance roots and started listening to progressive trance and dance and experimented with goth music to see what that was about since I always tend to be pretty morbid. I found a few songs that I liked in J-rock, gothic or symphonic metal, but I never really got into it. When I found Industrial/EBM I was impressed that it combined what I liked about rock and electronica together. I listen to everything I have mentioned before whenever the mood calls for it just like I’ve always done. From Gwen Stefani to Adema to Handel to Captain Jack, and Combichrist to Alanis Morisette. I mix it up every now and then. So, what is my favourite kind of music? Whatever pleases my ears. I have an open mind although there are few types of music that don’t sit well with me like country, bachata, tejano, cumbia, reggaeton, jazz, etc. and The Mars Volta. I can’t stand them. But oh well. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

“There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of immortality becomes momentarily unbearable.” – Lestat

In every generation there are those who seek the fabled fountain of youth, whether by magic, alchemy, journeys, or science. Eternal beauty, if only such a thing were possible. But if you really had the chance to live forever, would you? I used to think I would.

When I was in high school I became a bit obsessed with vampire lore. I role played, read vampire books, watched movies, researched, etc. It’s all so silly to me now. Death is not a taboo in my family. I’ve been to so many funerals I lost count in my tween years. My mother is a reverend so I went to a number of stranger’s funerals when I was in junior high. Open casket funerals are the classic tradition so I’ve seen my share of adorned corpses.

Although the idea of growing old and withering away can be pretty scary, I’d like to think that living a lifetime with someone you love is the best thing that life has to offer. Humans experience different stages in life just like every other living being. As we grow we look back and forth and compare times, the older you get the less you seem to blend in with the present times. Last century the difference between decades was so great that it’s hard to imagine what lies ahead for the current century.

There is evidence that some humans lived well over 300 years. But I’m pretty sure change was much slower then. They probably cooked, ate, slept, and worked the same way for centuries, only worrying about weather, disease, and war. It would be almost impossible to achieve that kind of lifespan now without the hell of modern science.

The only way for humans to live longer is to evolve from the primitive state we still find ourselves in. I read and watch the news everyday and I’m appaled at humanity in general. Why would I want to suffer more of this crap? It shames me to belong to the same species.

Being a vampire might not be all it’s cracked up to be.

In the local news a transexual was murdered and the killers are still at large. 2 of her best friends were interviewed and they’re also transexual. The words ‘hate crime’ are being used to describe the list of recent murders of people that show homosexual tendencies. South Park has an episode about hate crime that I recommend watching. When it comes to beating people up or killing them, there’s always hate involved, so a hate crime is just a statement of the obvious. The reason for killing someone shouldn’t be separated by race or prejudice. That sort of thing should be resolved in court. If a person kills someone because he was gay, that’s prejudice and not a good reason for killing therefore should be punished. But if a person kills someone that is gay and was sodomizing his little brother, well that’s different. The motive for killing was to save a loved one. The law is meant to protect but more often than not, it’s manipulated to hurt the ones that need the protection.

One of the things that make me wonder is the stories of many gay and transexuals. Some say they always felt like a woman or a man since they were born. I think society has a lot to do with it too. Boys shouldn’t play with dolls and girls shouldn’t play wrestling etc. The typical gender stereotypes. To me, boys and girls should be free to discover what things they like because when they get older they’ll start to sexually mature. When society imposes restrictions, many feel repressed and often act out. If a boy likes to dress up in girl clothes, he should. All my childhood I was called a tom boy because I liked to dress in boyish clothes. I still like men’s clothing over women’s clothes sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I’m a butch. I think people should forget the labels and just do whatever makes them happy as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

I’m a girl because I was born a girl but I feel like an alien. That doesn’t make me an alien, and no amount of surgery and hormones will change that.

I’ve read the reports done on lab rats trying to prove that there’s a ‘gay gene’. Genes shouldn’t matter, being an alcobolic can be genetic but you can choose not be, and even if you have no history of alcoholism in your family, you can be an alcoholic. It’s a matter of preference and circumstance.

Society teaches you to follow a majority but there’re always people that don’t fit the mold. Being gay, jealous, or pigheaded can be genetic or circumstancial, but the truth is people should be true to themselves. You don’t need a label to fit in. Keep an open mind and respect people for what they are, no matter how different.