Music truly is the soundtrack of life. Every significant memory in my life has a song or album attached to it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Music is what keeps me sane through the workday and what makes rush hour in the car remotely tolerable.

My rating scale is simple. A 5 star album is a perfect album. Every song is enjoyable and I've developed some sort of emotional attachment to the material as well. A 3 star album is average. I can't listen to the whole album all the way through anymore, but rather pick and choose select tracks at certain times. Everything up, down, around, and in between is a shade of gray....and shades of gray are what make people so damn interesting.