By
Andy Jenkins on August 07th, 2009
I love music.
Queue up the right tune, and no matter what my mood is, it can get better.
I can (and have) spent whole days consumed by the exquisite synergies created by the feature called “Genius Playlists”, thoughtfully included in iTunes. Hours would pass without a single song skipped – just one great jam after another… The Stones, Skynrd, Zeppelin, The Crystal Method, Dire Straights, a little Metallica, some Cannonball Adderley, even a little Fat Boy Slim.
And then…
The music ends. The song usually concludes with an elongated sustain on a powerful major chord. Silence, then a different set of rhythms spin up to take its place and the next new song beings.
The metaphor of music is about as close as I can come to explaining why I left StomperNet. It’s not perfect – in fact, re-reading it again, it does moderately poor job explaining the tactical and strategic reasons that influenced my decision to leave.
But I think it might just capture the emotion perfectly.