modern music and the carnival of the animals

Modern Music
by Junkmenudo

This paper will prove conclusively that.... nothing.  I was wrong...

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Modern music is loud and virtually omnipresent.  That's because music is essentially sound, and sound, like rats and snakes, can slide up and around and down and into your bedroom!

Not mine, thank you.

Sound doesn't care.

The huge music festival going on in my town (?) 4 miles from me is quite audible in my house.
Lucky me.  Tickets cost hundreds. 
I guess the sound just hops down into the creek bed and floats upstream, happy to be in the park today.  
But what is the cost of this omnipresent snake-rat?

I don't know.  I just have to face the fact that I'm old now, and all the music I hear coming out of speakers large and small is in fact noise (since I am the ultimate arbiter of such things, being old and wise).   I should be grateful I can still hear, right?

My two dogs' have different music preferences.  Music coming out of speakers is mostly a non-entity to both of them.  They seem not to hear it.   As for live music:  the ornery, cagey one loves cello and piano. Clearly loves them, even played less than well.    The neurotic one (bad family of origin issues) seems to love the fiddle.  He sings along, especially to double-stops.  His singing sounds like deep distress, but in that way it is superior to much of the singing I hear in speakers.
Especially, the chick singers almost all suck.   No, it's all the singers.   (Do something!)
The reaction of both dogs to live trombone was to head for the doggy door at great speed, collide there like Laurel and Hardy, and then quickly reach the most distant corner of the yard.

My dogs don't like bones.   The ornery one will kill a rat, maybe even a snake.

What's Better?

uranus or neptune
fickle people or dogs
snot or jazz
superintendants or lieutenant colonels
big big boxes of doritos or a lack of muscular coordination
sex or gender
filibuster or dave and buster
nasty nasty residue or the presidency
fisticuffs or ice cream scoopers
forks or spoons
going forward or turning around
having a vasectomy reversal or a gig
42 or 4,566
sending missals into the stratosphere or sending missiles into your neighborhood
Good Friday or Yom Kippur
mexican food or vomit
stories about you that are true or stories about you that aren't true
friendly neighborhood leaders or sophistication
stopping or continuing
feet or yards
gas or liquid
gas or electricity
gas or poo
gas or bummer
gas or gals
gals or ALS
ALS or BPE
answers or questions